Sentences with phrase «coal reserve»

I was astonished at the numerous thick layers of coal revealed by the drill cores — it was seemingly endless and the geos calculated the total coal reserve (reserve used inappropriately by me) revealed by this exploration effort contained many times the known documented reserve in Australia.

The base has a total coal reserve of 18.6 gigatons and a total planned annual coal mining capacity of 140 million tons.

So, over the years we have seen an extraordinary range of figures for Britain's coal reserve / resource.

How reliable are coal reserve numbers?

Global coal reserve data are of poor quality, but seem to be biased towards the high side.

If we do not begin implementing new energy sources now, what is going to happen to our society when we have exhausted every last coal reserve?

Without export terminals, much of the Powder River Basin's coal reserves will stay in the ground.

What's really killing earnings and standing in the way of developing new coal reserves are plunging commodity prices that have left many producers stranded with high cost structures that are no longer commercially viable.

According to S&P, coal is poised to see a shrinking share of the world's power generation market, which could lead to some coal reserves becoming stranded assets.

We have the second-most coal reserves in the world.

In order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companies.

The U.S. has 250 years of coal reserves at the rate we're using it now.

«If the impact of these cuts is to mean the U.S. burns gas faster, and then goes back to burning its coal reserves in 2030, arguably it will make the problem worse,» he said.

What the country does have is large coal reserves, and methanol can be manufactured quite easily by gasifying coal.

Because, under the guise of offering a «clean» technique for unlocking the energy from coal reserves, engineers are actually concocting a way to increase massively the amount of coal the world can get its hands on.

Instead, the consortium favours better use of Ukraine's large coal reserves, renovation of existing power plants, and improvements in energy efficiency.

And there's little doubt that it's needed, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: developing countries like China and India will burn their coal reserves to power industry and alleviate poverty so developing cleaner ways to use it will be a global imperative.

Mountaintop removal is just what it sounds like: Explosives are used to blast away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves that power companies want for producing electricity.

Industry advocates brag that the United States, which has 27 percent of all known coal reserves, is «the Saudi Arabia of coal,» with enough to burn for the next 180 years at the current rate of use.

But the United States still holds the largest share of proved coal reserves at 27.6 percent, followed by Russia, China, Australia and India.

The numbers aren't perfect — they don't fully reflect the recent surge in unconventional energy sources like shale gas, and they don't accurately reflect coal reserves, which are subject to less stringent reporting requirements than oil and gas.

Our results suggest that, globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused from 2010 to 2050 in order to meet the target of 2 °C.

If current coal reserves are burned on a time scale short compared to time scales for carbon storage, then CO2 concentrations will go over 400 ppm rather easily.

The key claim is that most alleged coal reserves can not be profitably recovered under existing or potential technologies.

In a speech before the World Coal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.

In all three of the following studies that Iâ $ ™ m about to link, conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Watch Group and the United States Geological Survey, labor productivity is perceived as a strong marker of the economic recoverability of remaining coal reserves.

First of all, coal reserves in the two areas that provide over 70 % of the nation's coal....

In this case, the protagonist is a real - life policeman from Ordos, the Inner Mongolian nowheresville transformed in a Dubai - in - the - Gobi thanks to its coal reserves.

Reservas de carvão no mundo (Coal reserves in the world).

Canada has almost 4 % of the total coal reserves in the world.

But as Congress considers billions of dollars in aid for projects to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from coal, and to build coal - fired plants that would capture their own carbon emissions, the study said that estimates of coal reserves were unreliable.

With 10 % of the world's coal reserves sitting under Montana and a proposal that could lead to Montana serving as a coal colony for Asia, the stakes are high.

Ike, I thought the majority of the world's minable coal reserves were laid down during the Carboniferous?

Here's a solution: All the sovereign States with gas, oil, and coal reserves, can use their sovereign power to simply clamp down on production, driving FF prices higher, and achieve the Nirvana New Energy Future as rapidly as is physically possible.

«9 Based on the IEO2006 reference case forecast for coal consumption, and assuming that world coal consumption would continue to increase at a rate of 2.0 percent per year after 2030, current estimated recoverable world coal reserves would last for about 70 years.»

It's not surprising that India, despite big domestic coal reserves, is shopping in the United States for new coal sources to feed its climb toward electrification, industrialization, and prosperity.

The white rot fungi are now believed to have been a major influence in limiting coal reserves, as they could break dead trees down before they could be turned into coal.

The United States, with the world's largest coal reserves, continued to churn out the most carbon - intensive fuel, producing 1 billion tons of coal from its mines in 2012.

As of 2013, the world has ~ 1,000 Billion short tons a mine price would be no more than $ 5 per short ton, so we are looking at a cost of ~ $ 5 Trillion to sequester the remaining known coal reserves.

In this regards, the country is poised to shift towards an increased reliance upon its indigenous coal reserves to fuel its development in the 2010 - 2050 time frame.

Coal reserves, however, push humanity past the budget.

Shell applies the logic of a carbon budget to its analysis of remaining oil, gas, and coal reserves.

Average Recovery Percentage (coal): The percentage of coal that can be recovered from known coal reserves at reporting mines, weight averaged for all mines in the reported geographic area.

Both China and India, as we all know, are counting on their vast coal reserves to fuel their long - awaited growth.

The latest climate science has confirmed that most coal reserves are «unburnable» if the world's leaders are to keep the — already insufficient — promises they have made under the UNFCCC.

Certainly, the timing of such announcement was made more palatable on news that coal reserves in China have hit new highs after a summer of coal supply shortages that saw blackouts in various Chinese cities.

Lignite and other low - rank coals make up half the world's coal reserves, but not many American power plants use them.

Additionally, Excel had an estimated 500 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves.

To stay below that threshold, Citigroup estimates that one - third of oil reserves, half of natural gas reserves, and 80 per cent of coal reserves need to stay in the ground.

Burning coal, for example, also produces copious quantities of greenhouse gasses (even with «clean coal» technologies) and our coal reserves are decidedly less limited than our oil reserves.