Sentences with phrase «coal reserves at»

The total coal reserves at Mengdong are 68.4 gigatons, and it has a total mining capacity of 520 million tons.

Recoverable coal reserves at producing mines represent the quantity of coal that can be recovered (i.e. mined) from existing coal reserves at producing mines.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

At present rates of use the accessible reserves of both coal and oil will be consumed within a single generation.

If we look to the future, our energy reserves used at our current rates will last us perhaps another 50 — 60 years for oil and gas, and coal another 100 years.

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.

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The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

«Total recoverable reserves of coal around the world are estimated at 1,001 billion tons — enough to last approximately 180 years at current consumption levels»

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 plCoal 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 plcoal 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 plcoal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.

An article in the latest issue of The Economist explores whether acknowledgement that some fossil fuel stocks are unburnable means companies with big coal or oil reserves are overvalued, at least on long time horizons.

«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.»

There is a raging battle today about the size of fossil fuel reserves and resources, with «peakists» claiming that we are already at or near peak production of both oil and coal because the amounts of economically recoverable fuels in the ground are more limited than the fossil fuel industry has admitted.

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.

Shareholder action can be an effective tool to make small reforms at a company — such as pressuring Apple to institute better labour practices at the factories it works with in China — but it won't achieve the fundamental changes to the business model of the fossil fuel industry needed: keeping their coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground.

At present, the energy needed to facilitate this rapidly growing economy is derived primarily from coal and other fossil fuels, of which China has significant national reserves.

Meanwhile, natural gas, at 20 % of global fossil fuel reserves, offers the largest - scale, economic - without - subsidies substitute for either coal or oil.

Per memory (and you are much closer) most British coal mines were operating at a loss in 1984, so what they were producing was not economic reserves.

Natural gas reserves have been put at 100 years and the US is the Middle East of coal.

Moreover, even in countries that do have coal reserves — such as India and South Africa — there is no «regulatory compact» of the kind that led the US and most other developed nations to provide electricity at affordable rates to poor and rural areas via the principle of universal service.

The miners lost and the coal industry was savagely reduced Nobody at that period claimed there was a shortage of coal reserves in the UK.

While vast global coal reserves make this question more neutral with regard to carbon per se, it a more complete socio - politico - economic experiment nonetheless to examine how good we have been at steering the oceanliner of energy policy with regard to foreign oil in the United States, obviously a more simple problem than all fossil fuels together.

The authors drew on available data to establish global reserves at 1,294 billion barrels of oil, 192 trillion cubic metres of gas, 728 Gt of hard coal and 276 Gt of lignite.

Also in 1979, British Coal estimated «coal in place» at 190 billion tonnes, of which about 45 billion tonnes might eventually be shown to be a reserve, a figure that has been taken to indicate that there is enough coal for the next 300 years at the prevailing rate of minCoal estimated «coal in place» at 190 billion tonnes, of which about 45 billion tonnes might eventually be shown to be a reserve, a figure that has been taken to indicate that there is enough coal for the next 300 years at the prevailing rate of mincoal in place» at 190 billion tonnes, of which about 45 billion tonnes might eventually be shown to be a reserve, a figure that has been taken to indicate that there is enough coal for the next 300 years at the prevailing rate of mincoal for the next 300 years at the prevailing rate of mining.

Recoverable Coal Reserves and Average Recovery Percentage at Producing Underground Coal Mines by State and Mining Method

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

Recoverable Coal Reserves and Average Recovery Percentage at Producing U.S. Mines by Mine Production Range and Mine Type

He's also called for increased extraction of oil, coal, and natural gas reserves at a time when climate leaders are seeking to limit emissions by transitioning to renewable forms of energy.

In this first look at the reporting landscape of fossil fuel reserves, it is apparent extractive companies do not present the full picture of risks that some coal, oil and gas reserves may not be combusted.

Of those US reserves, a 1975 USGS assessment of coal resources in the US found Alaskan recoverable reserves (5.3 billion tons) to be about 3 % of the total US recoverable reserves at the time (192 billion tons)...

At current rates of use, we have only enough petroleum reserves (counting tar sands and shale) for about a century, and sufficient coal for about 300 years.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

The Leigh Creek coal reserves that supply the power stations at Port Augusta are expected to run out around 2017.

First, while our reliance on petroleum is significantly supply - limited, in fact the dominant component of the problem going forward is the coal reserves, which can supply the world's energy demands at the present rate for some centuries.

Vast quantities of coal — proven to exist — remain in the ground — but not included on the reserve tally because they are not economically recoverable at current prices — in part due to the availability of oil and natural gas.

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Instead of the current estimate of recoverable reserves for Wyoming, these projections use the estimates of coal resources in the Powder River Basin recently published by the US Geological Survey (Luupens et al. 2008), calculated to be recoverable at a cost of $ 20, $ 30 and $ 40 per short ton (30.8, 54.0 and 61.1 billion tonnes, respectively).

If you quantify the CO2 available from published reserve estimates of oil NG and coal, and you use realistic estimates of production rates, you have just enough CO2 to give you that doubling, so we are looking at, worst case, 0.7 degrees C additional warming in this century.

In at least one major producing region — Europe, the largest coal producing region worldwide up to 1990 — reserves actually declined.

If you compare this «climate limit» of 2.05 GtCeq with the various reserve estimates, you find that even with the most conservative fossil fuel reserve estimates, we can just afford to burn all the oil and gas that's there but only if we do not burn a single gram of coal at the same time.

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.

A ton of subbituminous coal from Montana (reserves estimated at 100 billion tons) contains between 8000 and 11000 btus per pound so I use 22 million btus per ton.

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 coal reserves in the US are sufficient for delivering power for at least a century and potentially much, much longer.

«Keep it in the Ground» has been a rallying cry for groups working to fight climate change, after researchers calculated that at least a third of known oil reserves, half of gas reserves and 80 percent of coal reserves should not be burned to prevent an average global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius.