Sentences with phrase «coal usage takes»

While this might not be great news for the coal industry, the decrease in coal usage takes a load off the environment.

Not exact matches

Taking capacity factors into consideration and using the above data on land usage, to replace the energy from all 274 gigawatts of coal - fired capacity that the United States currently has with wind power would require a land area consisting of almost the entire state of Washington — over 12 times the land area that the coal - fired units require.

While many in the media have sounded the death knell for coal as a power fuel source, and in the very long - term I think coal usage will gradually diminish, it will take years — perhaps even decades — for coal to be relegated to an insignificant role in power generation, but I am convinced it will occur.