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Many of the three billion people who do not have electricity would now have had it, saving many additional fatalities per year (not included in the number I gave previously which was only for replacing coal generation with nuclear generation).

«With increasing shale gas fracking and many countries» interest in displacing coal generation with natural gas due to the lower greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas use seems well poised to grow,» the report states.

Not exact matches

With appreciation for MidAmerican's recent investments in renewable generation, coal - burning plants continue to create liabilities.

The walls are of concrete block with a high content of fly ash, a waste product of coal - fired electric power generation that can be recycled as a replacement for portland cement.

The region with the highest growth rate in coal use in the IEA outlook period is in Southeast Asia, where Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia and Philippines among others plan to underpin their power generation with new coal power plants.

When operational with CO2 capture, the coal plant will have an emissions profile similar to that of natural gas, a first in power generation.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

For the coal system, the study estimates the toxicity associated with air pollutants emitted during power generation, as well as toxic chemical releases during the coal - mining process from acid - mine drainage and coal - ash impoundment.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last yWith coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last ywith 35.4 percent in the same period last year.

The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost - effective way, by replacing coal - fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.

It's a start, but pales in comparison with the impact of three planned coal - fired power stations with a combined generation of 1650 megawatts.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

But the $ 1 target would enable solar to compete without subsidies with new generation from any source, including coal boilers.

As the two investors explained their plan, Schrag grew increasingly excited: They had come up with a breakthrough in clean - coal power generation that just might work.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

«Together, international energy trade and strategic siting can enable African countries to pursue «no - regrets» wind and solar that can compete with conventional generation technologies like coal and hydropower,» Wu said.

Currently, India produces about 201 gigawatts of power, with more than half of its electricity generation coming from coal.

With nearly 900 billion tons of reserves, coal power remains an integral part of today's energy mix that includes renewables as well as gas power generation.

«The leadership shown by Alberta's government to replace two - thirds of existing coal - fired electricity generation capacity with renewable energy will greatly help the province in achieving its ambitious climate change objectives,» adds Hornung.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

For generations, the people of Britain heated their homes and fueled their stoves with coal gas.

We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.

(With additional increases due to additional coal generation.)

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

«The suggestion that coal utilization for electricity generation can be equated with the systematic extermination of European Jewry is both repellant and preposterous» Mr. Naasz wrote.

The decline in the United States has mainly been due to market forces shifting electricity generation from coal to abundant and cheaper natural gas, along with environmental regulations built around the traditional basket of pollutants that even conservatives agreed were worth restricting.

It seems to me that instead of putting efforts into restricting coal use in the third world, the efforts would be better spent on methods to encourage R&D to reduce the cost of cleaner energy generation to be competitive with coal.

This could provide a way to continue to use coal and natural gas for power generation with reduced emissions, an 80 to 90 % cut according to your link.

With coal, the plants are cheap to build, the coal is cheap to mine, and a «natural monopoly» system of electricity generation and distribution helps lock out any renewable competition, leading to further economic advantages over renewables.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

From what I've read, those who've tried to do this show the hybrid coming out ahead even with a 100 % coal generation, and much better given the current generating mix.

It examines questions about the safety and costs of nuclear power relative to coal and other choices for electricity generation, along with the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and emissions of greenhouse gases relative to other energy sources.

Imagine trying to get coal usage for electric power generation cut when the roads are filled with plug - in SUVs.

To name two instances, in the «clean» USA, there are tens of thousands of asthma cases annually which are exacerbated by particulates from transport and power generation (much associated with coal - powered thermal generation plants).

The third item should be a realistic plan to replace current coal - fired generation with wind and solar.

Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth (along with health costs if they are dirty plants, of course).

A cogent piece on coal, and I'm entirely sympathetic to the points you make, with the exception of your claim that it's meaningless for our generation to pick a number.

There are several dozen other countries investing in next - generation nuclear technologies (along with things like renewables, shale gas, coal - to - gas, etc.) to power rapidly growing demand.

Research reveals that displacing coal with wood for power generation can make climate change worse for decades or more.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

CO2 emissions from coal - fired generation were up both in the RGGI region and nationally in the first half of 2013, compared with 2012 levels, which indicates that the new RGGI cap could become more binding in the future.

In this page I will deal mainly with the burning of Australian coal for power generation, called thermal coal; the burning of high - grade coal, called metallurgical coal, while not generally so polluting does add to the problem.

According to the recent UCS report, Ripe for Retirement: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Coal Fleet, Michigan has one of the nation's most economically vulnerable fleets of coal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatCoal Fleet, Michigan has one of the nation's most economically vulnerable fleets of coal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatcoal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatcoal generation.

To make this ambitious cut, the first priority is to replace all coal - and oil - fired electricity generation with renewable sources.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»