Sentences with phrase «coal piles»

Additional coal capacity was unavailable due to frozen coal piles.

A relatively low - cost solution would be to simply require railroad companies to cover train cars carrying coal and electricity generation companies to cover coal piles.

In a recent study, Nicholas Muller and I uncovered a source of air pollution from coal that has not received much policy scrutiny: the storage and handling of coal piles.

But I would note Lahey did not come up with the dutch oven trick — it's been around for awhile and Elizabeth David in her famous «English Bread and Yeast Cookery» talks about how the English used to bake in overturned flower pots, with coals piled outside.

A lack of medical care leaves your population hurting, but can you really spend the time researching better healthcare at the expense of learning how to build a coal thumper since the nearby coal piles are running dangerously low?

Coal piles behind a yurt in Gobi, Mongolia.

Energy Innovation has some ideas for the grid beyond cost recovery for coal piles.

For example, after hurricane Harvey, NRG had to run some Texas coal plants on natural gas after coal piles flooded.

But in order to further level the playing field in the electricity market, Raney said he would also like to see more coal piled up outside of power plants:

Most recently during Hurricane Harvey, coal piles in Texas were so soaked with water that they were unable to be transported to the boiler at coal plants, forcing those plants to switch to burning natural gas.

It writes that baseload coal and nuclear plants are «able to operate in all types of weather,» ignoring the weather events that have frozen on - site coal piles or forced nuclear plants offline.

We found that wind blowing over uncovered coal piles at U.S. power plants plus gaseous emissions from the piles significantly increased concentrations of airborne fine particulates within 25 miles of these plants.

However, based on the significant levels of local air pollution from coal storage and handling that we have documented in our study, we believe that policymakers should at least explore the costs and benefits of requiring coal piles to be covered.

That emphasis would appear to focus on reliability problems with natural gas power plants, and leave out studies of frozen coal piles or other weather - related reliability problems at plants served by other fuels.

More than a quarter of JI carbon credits went to projects to staunch the spontaneous ignition of coal piles, mostly in Ukraine.

Outside his office window at UW - Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences are the grain elevators and coal piles that define the city's inner harbor.

You think everything is good, until you walk away and the coal pile catches on fire.»

You think everything is good, until you walk away and the coal pile catches on fire.»

He slogged through the good, the bad and the blah, reviewing hundreds of corporate websites: «Amid the coal pile that is the state of corporate blogging today, I did manage to find a few diamonds that don't bore to tears with pronouncements, promotions and product announcements (the Killer P's).