Sentences with phrase «coal research in»

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So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

A portion of the Hobet 21 coal mine in West Virginia shows the effects of mountaintop - removal mining, which, new research shows, causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year.

Robert Finkelman, a former USGS coordinator of coal quality who oversaw research on uranium in fly ash in the 1990s, says that for the average person the by - product accounts for a miniscule amount of background radiation, probably less than 0.1 percent of total background radiation exposure.

Based on its research, EPRI concludes that capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from coal plants would be technically feasible by 2020, and it assumes that new regulations would be in place to support that strategy.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

A report by six members of the U.K. House of Lords says that the proposed Global Apollo Programme «would commit to spend at least 0.02 % of gross domestic product on energy research so that renewable technologies — principally wind and solar — become cheaper than coal in 10 years.»

Policymakers and the energy industry have been looking to natural gas in recent years as a more climate friendly fuel with half the greenhouse gas emissions of coal, but EPA research is casting doubt on that plan

Not so fast, says Harry Gray of the California Institute of Technology: he's predicting at least 10 more years of research and development in order to make solar energy competitive with coal.

In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state - owned power company China Huaneng and Washington - based Summit Power Group agreed to share information on clean coal power generation technology.

«Number games» «It's necessary for the Chinese central government to consolidate the muddled statistical situation of the coal industry by getting figures through in - depth and sophisticated researching and analyzing work,» Tu said.

The parent compounds involved in this research are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, formed naturally as the result of almost any type of combustion, from a wood stove to an automobile engine, cigarette or a coal - fired power plant.

Research on coal burning in China offers powerful evidence of air pollution's effect on public health

Sills in Siberia's Tunguska Basin, where Muirhead's team carries out most of its research, likely pushed their way through limestone, coal, clastic rocks and evaporates.

Jiang of the Energy Research Institute said that in 2014, for example, China burned less coal in total.

But a new analysis led by Michael Pahle of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany shows that when the German government issued permits in 2005, its allocation rules encouraged a «dash for coal».

When those minerals are burned in the presence of coal, research found they easily and quickly converted to these unusual titanium suboxide nanoparticles.

Confusion in Perry's assessment of the climate and energy nexus extends to his energy plan, which says that «we must continue to invest in clean coal technology through research and development tax incentives.»

A 2009 research paper published in the journal Energy Procedia predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come from coal.

It's in the «best interest and prosperity of future generations» to deploy clean coal technology by 2015, she said, but she added that «early research has shown us this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.»

Governments that sign on to the proposed Global Apollo Programme, described in a report released today, would commit to spend at least 0.02 % of gross domestic product on energy research so that renewable technologies — principally wind and solar — become cheaper than coal in 10 years.

The research also found that fracking operations in shale rock generally had their furthest detected microseismic events at greater distances than those in coal and sandstone rocks.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

«That increase is not a surprise to scientists,» said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans, with the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. «The evidence is conclusive that the strong growth of global CO2 emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas is driving the acceleration.»

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

It has expertise in areas related to nuclear weapons — uranium enrichment, laser and radiation technology — and world - class research on making oil from coal.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

Natural deposits of helium gas — best known for its use in party balloons — could help aid the safe production of shale or coal gas, research suggests.

«The coal industry is desperately looking for positives, but most appear to come from their own PR campaigns claiming that coal is the solution to energy poverty or that coal is amazing,» James Leaton, head of research at the nonprofit Carbon Tracker Initiative, said of the industry's ongoing slide in the online journal World Finance.

Southern Research scientists are focusing on the development of a plasma - based process to recover these strategically important elements from post-combustion ash originating from bituminous coal mined in the Eastern U.S..

Southern Research's project to recover REEs from coal fly ash stands in stark contrast to conventional mining techniques.

To support its research into the recovery of REEs from coal and coal byproducts, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in December 2015 awarded the Birmingham - based organization $ 1 million in Phase 1 funding for the project.

With financial backing from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Southern Research formed The Prosperity Fund in 2017 to accelerate small business growth and job creation in four Alabama counties hurt by the coal industry's downward spiral.

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China's shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)-- DE-FOA-0000981 — on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil - Spec jet fuel production using coal - to - liquid (CTL) fuel technologies.

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.

A Dec. 11 article in The New York Times, «China's Emissions Pledges Are Undercut by Boom in Coal Projects Abroad,» cited the research of Phillip Hannam MPA «15, a doctoral candidate in the Woodrow Wilson School's Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP).

Professor Clement, who at that time was heavily involved in industrial chemistry research for powering steam engines, wanted to calculate the maximum amount of energy that one kilogram of coal could provide.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Besides the possibility of our applying a similar process to the bituminous coal and tars made therefrom, in this country, the research on hydrogenation has been extended by one of the great oil companies of the United States which at great expense has learned how the method can be so modified as to apply to petroleum hydrocarbons.