Sentences with phrase «coal production only»

The estimates for the first and last weeks in a year include estimated coal production only for the days that occurred in the year.

Not exact matches

Global production grew only 2 %, as the Obama administration announced strict new rules limiting carbon emissions by coal plants.

The annual growth rate for coal production varied between 1.2 and 1.9 per cent per annum throughout the period from the 1560s to 1800, with only limited variation.

Mine job losses are only a symptom of plummeting coal production.

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

That's not the only methodological issue: their study also undercounts subsidies to oil, gas, and coal production, relying on an estimate of $ 23 billion in production subsidies instead of the more than $ 70 billion we've identified in G20 countries alone.

During much of the second half of the 19th century, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) was able to maintain a monopoly on coal production because it controlled the only means of transportation into the Western territories.

Also, coal gasification converts only a portion of the coal carbon to methane; to my knowledge, approximately 1/2 of the carbon ends up being emitted as CO2, which is not the result of energy production but rather a byproduct of making the gas that will be used to make the energy.

With domestic production of oil, gas and uranium far below peaks, coal has been promoted by elected officials and energy experts as the only bright spot in the national fuel supply picture.

I wrote this yesterday, and I repeat it here — coal production, CTL included, is only feasible because the true costs of coal production are not being passed on to the industry and its customers.

Much of global coal production is used in the country in which it was produced; only around 15 % of hard coal production is destined for the international coal market.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

The scale of the increase, which only includes major mines, reflects Beijing's aim to put 860 million tonnes of new coal production capacity into operation over the five years to 2015, more than the entire annual output of India.

Substituting wind, solar, and other low - density energy sources for coal, oil, and natural gas therefore hurts the poor not only by raising energy (and all other) prices but also by reducing food production.

Only 15 percent of production are exported, 85 percent of produced coal are consumed domestically....

However, the projected development beyond 2020 is only compatible with the IEA alternative policy scenario in which coal production is constrained by climate policy measures while the IEA reference scenario assumes further increasing coal consumption (and production) until at least 2030.

Out of the top 120 companies planning new coal power stations, only about half have a coal share of power production above 30 %.

Central and South American coal production was small compared to other continents, accounting for only 1 % of global production in 2010, most of which was in Colombia (83 %).

As a consequence, we estimate that increased renewable energy production will take shares only from coal.

The Middle East was the only region without any noteworthy coal reserves, accounting for only 0.02 % of global production.

When potential supply is compared to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2016 Reference Case for PRB coal production, which does not constrain warming to 2 °C, total business as usual (BAU) supply is provided by existing leases until 2031, with production from new leases only being required thereafter.

Assuming that 10 % of world coal production can be diverted to CTL, the contribution to liquid fuel supply will be limited to only a few mega barrels per day.

We also note that there are tremendous leadership opportunities for these countries to demonstrate that moving beyond oil, coal, and gas — both demand and production — is not only possible, but can be done while protecting workers, communities, and economies.

The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.

Rare in the U.S., it comprises only 0.2 % of total coal production.

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However, a Chinese government report recently found that only a tiny fraction of Chinese cities fully complied with pollution standards in 2013, while approving the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013, according to a Reuters report.

Already this year, the balance of electricity production will be 71 % natural gas, 25 % -27 % coal, and 2 % renewable energy, with the economy transitioning to using coal only for emergency and backup purposes by 2030.

Obviously switching from coal to gas would be sensible as can be seen from the US, which is the only developed country that has managed a «worthwhile» reduction in CO2 emissions brought about its exploitation of its shale gas reserves and switching energy production away from coal to the newly sourced gas.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

The only windfall from federal fossil fuel production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.

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By comparison, all of the coal produced worldwide in more than two centuries of coal production through to 2005 was only 287 billion tonnes, an amount exceeded by even the low projection of 2006 — 2050 production.

These two areas — China and Wyoming, which provided 46 per cent of world coal production in 2007 and 77 per cent of the increase in world coal production from 2000 to 2007 — have only 35 — 45 years of production at current rates of production and levels of reserves.

But coal mined underground in 2007 amounted to only 319 million tonnes, 31 per cent of US production.

These two considerations are not the only ones determining the future of world coal production.

But the EPA projects that if the House's version of the climate bill passes, natural gas production will increase only by 1 % from 2015 to 2025, while coal generation would be unchanged.

The oil sands, even in the worst case (assuming constant production rates of coal, gas and conventional oil, with accelerated bitumen production), will only contribute a small proportion, about 3 %, to fossil - fuel emissions over this century.

While fuel cells still have some substantive CO2 emissions, they are only 45 % that of coal generation and 47 % the amount emitted from the production of energy using fossil fuels.

80 % workmen still toil in underground mines to produce only 10 % coal at the world's largest producer which is slated to cross 500 million tonnes production in 2014 - 15.