Sentences with phrase «continued coal use»

Between 1966 and 1974, the Sierra Club started to favor coal over nuclear, even though prominent nuclear advocates like Oak Ridge National Lab's Alvin Weinberg were warning the world of the threat of global warming from continued coal use.

At the same time, the evidence for large - scale public health costs from continued coal use is there.

Not exact matches

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S. coal - fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007 — a trend that is expected to continue.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

If liquefied coal powered the world's vehicles, produced its heating, and generated its electricity, Earth would warm 2º Celsius (3.6 º Fahrenheit) by 2042, three years sooner than if society continued to use oil.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

China continues to see its emissions rise due largely to heavy coal use, which will increase the risks associated with climate change.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

If I understand MARodger and the the Myhrvold - Caldiera paper correctly, approximately 1 TW of coal is used globally to generate electricity, which if continued to be used unabated, will be responsible for approximately 0.325 deg C in 100 years.

This paper appears to state that if we continue to use all of the coal - fired generation in the world (1 TWe), it will result in 0.3 degree mean temperature increase in 100 years.

Positive can continue to dominate due to aspects related to psychological handling, and more heat has been shown to increase conflict potential, increased disruptions means increased rebuilding efforts, by all means (using wood and coal for burning if someone lacks technological advancements).

India announced its leadership in an ambitious «solar alliance» that undoubtedly is meant to help blunt opposition to its continued demand (an appropriate one, to my mind) to increase its use of coal, albeit more efficiently and cleanly than in the past.

Given the facts about global warming, that seems to be exactly what continuing to burn coal will do, as long as we use existing technologies that mean that burning goal contributes to, and will accelerate, climate change.

This could provide a way to continue to use coal and natural gas for power generation with reduced emissions, an 80 to 90 % cut according to your link.

Because make fuel from CO2 means to continue to dig coal and oil and use huge amount of energy from nuclear, these make this idea lose advantage much.

I gather that these may include existing obsolescent coal power station sites so that the steam turbines thereon can continue to be used.

China is going gangbusters on renewables (in addition to coal) and on shifting to more efficient coal use (and continuing with nuclear and, of course, gas).

The short - term blip does not undermine the general trend of continued upward trend in coal deployment in China's power sector, which represents a growing share of China's energy use].

They also recommended prompt investment in projects aimed at capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from power plants on a large scale — something that many energy experts say has to happen because coal will continue being used as a fuel for decades.

If the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn.

China already exceeds the U.S. in coal use, and they continue to steadily ramp up.

«With coal quickly disappearing in the UK and other fossil fuel use mostly flat, emissions have continued their steady decline.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

The American Lung Association believes that the U.S. should not continue to expand its coal - fired generating capacity because of the extensive scope of health risks associated with the use of coal and the disproportionate impact on local communities.

So we shall soon see what the real climate sensitivity is, as the resultant CO2 levels of production from those who have NO INTENTION of slowing down their coal and oil consumption, continue to ramp up their use of fossil fuels.

China's climate pledge suggests that coal will continue to be central to its energy solutions albeit through efficiencies, the use of new coal technologies and CCS.

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

While the government has an ambitious programme to ramp its use of renewables, including solar energy, it has also vowed to continue expanding its use of coal.

The industrial site that has and continues to produce countless iconic Kodak products over the past century enjoyed another historical milestone when it officially said farewell to using coal to fuel its onsite power plant.

In the real world people will continue to use the world's oil, gas and coal resources.

Poland signed the Paris Agreement along with the rest of the European Union last October, but only after gaining concessions allowing its coal use to continue.

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In a rebuff to coal, oil and gas companies, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank climate change envoy, said continued use of coal was exacting a heavy cost on some of the world's poorest...

I'm quite prepared to believe that our coal will last forever (if we can continue to tolerate using the stuff).

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But my point is, all the hybrid and electric vehicle technologies in the world will hardly make a dent if car ownership and use continue to increase, if oil (or coal, in the case of electric cars) continues to be burnt, and if roads and highways continue to be built out with reckless abandon.

With non-fossil already near 15 % by 2020, this is mathematically necessary in order to cap coal use in 2020 while total energy continues to grow by 25 % from 2020 to 2030.

This trend is expected to continue in all the markers, except A2 in which an increased use of coal «counters» a decline in specific emissions in OECD90 (Figure 5 - 20).

The city government has restricted coal use, shut down factories and introduced new fuel standards for cars and trucks in a bid to limit [continue reading...]

Fortunately, there is a potential pathway that would allow continued use of coal as an energy source without magnifying the risk of global warming.

With a large part of this coal coming from domestic sources, continued use of coal is often viewed as an important strategy in maintaining both energy independence and security.

Since coal consumption has actually declined by 6 percent since its peak in 1996, however, there is reason to believe its use will either continue to drop or will increase less than projected.

However, sluggish power demand, abundant gas supply and renewables growth are expected to continue to generate headwinds for coal use and limit the prospects for any resurgence in construction of new coal power plants.

Both will still produce power that is more expensive than coal, but Google believes that this will change with continued investment in the technologies used and with others coming on board as companies begin to realise the benefits to be gained.

The Los Angeles Business Council also questioned the Department's continued use of out - of - state coal.

Despite rapid growth in renewables deployment, coal use will continue to rise in India.