Sentences with phrase «coal production based»

Not exact matches

The construction - based company diversified during the 1950s, moving into coal production and, later, oil and gas, and railroad equipment manufacturing and servicing.

The blockchain center for the production of cheap electricity will be launched in Australia on the basis of the Redbank coal power station closed in the Hunter Valley.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

According to GBI, China's increase in coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

A simple top - down analysis, based on global scale changes in carbon dioxide and methane, provides some insight into the potential impact of U.S. shale gas production and displacement of coal on global climate.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

The country is increasing steel production and has 78 gigawatts of new coal - based plants currently under construction.

As a result, China has sensibly halted the production of biofuels derived from grain - based feedstock and most (but not all) of its originally proposed coal liquefaction projects.

«Production is expected to decrease in all coal - producing regions in 2015, with the largest decline on a percentage basis occurring in the Appalachian region,» according to the Department of Energy.

This production and reserve base allows Murray Energy to provide electric utility customers with low cost, reliable, and high quality coal supplies.

A few months later, TXU Corp., a Dallas - based energy company, announced plans to double its power production by building eight coal - fired units.

There are currently more than 130 new coal plants proposed across the U.S., and Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 66 percent increase in coal - based power production and a 43 percent increase in CO2 emissions by 2030.

Moreover, oil and hard coal production are reported on a worldwide basis.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Subtitle C: Coal and Related Programs -(Sec. 431) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary to implement a financial assistance program to facilitate production and generation of coal - based power through the deployment of clean coal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requiremeCoal and Related Programs -(Sec. 431) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary to implement a financial assistance program to facilitate production and generation of coal - based power through the deployment of clean coal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requiremecoal - based power through the deployment of clean coal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requiremecoal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requirements.

For example, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced an intention to analyze whether it might set a «budget» for how much coal to make available for production on federal lands based on a «a declining schedule consistent with the United States» climate goals and commitments and market demand».

Although it is a lower polluting fuel, it still contributes ~ 40 % of coal's CO2 production on a MWHr basis.

Example: 80 % of China's electrical energy production is based upon burning coal.

Part of the money - $ 150 million - comes from fees based on U.S. coal production.

As can be seen by the figure, solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.

Will economics (e.g., new solar power cheaper than coal power) and trade (most - of - the world international agreement on tariffs based on CO2 production) drive the US too to a lower - carbon future despite Trump?

At the heart of it all is whether you just consider smokestack emissions — on which basis natural gas is about 50 % cleaner than coal — or include all the emissions from the entire national gas production and distribution process.