Sentences with phrase «coal reserves»

What is usually missing from estimates of coal reserves is a rigorous appreciation of how changes in economics (both prices and costs) and technology could affect reserve estimates.

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

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.

More than 80 per cent of the world's known coal reserves need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change, according to new research.

Despite major improvements in coal mining technology over the past half century, world coal reserves have not increased by significant amounts.

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

And the actual possible contribution of remaining coal reserves to global warming could be less than half a degree?

Success will require that up to 80 % of proven oil, gas, and coal reserves not be consumed.

My suspicion is that no one in a geological survey ever lost her job for being optimistic about coal reserves Could these projections be improved?

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.

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?

This time was marked by the rapid growth of vegetation that has left us with huge coal reserves.

The diagram below illustrates how this compares to Australian coal reserves and resources.

Yet there are several major distinctions among coal reserves, the two primary ones being coal rank and mining method.

The first and foremost conclusion from this investigation is that data quality of coal reserves and resources is poor, both on global and national levels.

It is important to note that with or without the credits, the decline in Virginia coal production was predicted by numerous analysts because over two - thirds of recoverable coal reserves in Virginia have already been mined.»

EIA conducts an annual survey, form EIA - 7A, «Annual Survey of Coal Production and Preparation,» to gather and report the quantity of recoverable coal reserves at producing mines.

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

Much like the business case for Canadian bitumen, the appeal of Australia's vast coal reserves lies in the country's close proximity to a huge market.

The 998 billion tons of recoverable coal reserves estimated by the Energy Information Administration are equal to about 4,417 BBOE (billion barrels of oil equivalent).

Although often portrayed as the savior which will allow us to continue exploiting our relatively abundant coal reserves without increasing global warming until something comes along to win the day, a new study to be published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control gives us another reason to believe that carbon sequestration isn't quite yet ready for prime time.

This report examines (1) the number of tracts leased, along with the trends in associated coal production and revenues generated since 1990; (2) BLM's implementation of the process to estimate fair market value for coal leases; (3) the extent to which BLM considers coal exports and domestic coal reserve estimates when estimating fair market value; and (4) the extent to which BLM communicates information on federal coal lease sales to the public.

In fact, the presence of one of the largest coal reserves on Earth was precisely the reason President Clinton created Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

In the late 1990s the USGS also published a CD with graphic assessments of US coal reserves status, by region.

Right now, we have the chance to quit coal for good and keep remaining U.S. coal reserves in the ground.

«No one's looking for new coal reserves,» said Robert Godby, a professor of energy economics at the University of Wyoming.

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

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.

He also gives UK coal reserves in the early 1960s as 6000 million tons, boreholes and searches find several times annual production in each year.

This new analysis from the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds that the current coal reserves earmarked for the South African market,...

EIA annually estimates recoverable coal reserves by adjusting the DRB to reflect accessibility and recovery rates in mining.

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.

Nevertheless, Australian listed companies spent an estimated AU$ 6 billion on finding and developing more coal reserves, it is revealed.

By 2050, 75 — 85 % of current Chinese coal reserves (including all the published additions to reserves by 2050) will have been produced.

The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.

One question: If a map of United States coal reserves did not align so much with the map of battleground states, would Mr. McCain be in coal - boosting mode now?

Limiting warming to 2 °C is official policy of the Australian government, yet plans are being made to open up one of the biggest coal reserves in the world in the Galilee Basin.

Future Chinese production is dominated by the amount of coal reserves China has, and can add by 2050.

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.

We expanded our business in the 1990s and 2000s by purchasing additional high quality coal reserves strategically located near customers and convenient and low cost modes of transportation in Northern Appalachia, the Illinois Basin, and in Utah.

On the one hand, the state is believed to hold one - fourth of the nation's total demonstrated coal reserves and is a net supplier of fossil fuels to the rest of the United States.