Sentences with phrase «damaging than the coal»

The lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from burning and extracting shale gas make it even more damaging than coal.

As part of the FAQ «Behind the Seams» series being run by Mark Bahnisch and others, I posted a piece (here at Crikey) arguing that CSG is less environmentally damaging than coal.

The report also found that burning natural gas generated far less damage than coal, although still significant: a sample of 498 natural gas fueled plants (71 percent of gas - generated electricity) produced $ 740 million in total nonclimate damages in 2005.

Not exact matches

Texas experienced blackouts in February 2011, as colder - than - average winter weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

But the windmills killing birds does far less damage to the environment than a comparably sized (in terms of power output) coal or nuclear power plant.

We have to look the problem in the eye and make educated decisions as to which is less destructive, rather than put forward pablum like «coal is evil, and wind farms don't do any damage».

One of its many conclusions was that «coal - fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.»

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

She seems to have no concern for anything (such as the future of the planet with climate change damage or the huge environmental and health problems caused by the coal industry) other than getting her way;

What greater crime can there be than to dishonestly support coal and disparage renewables at the cost of severe damage to the planet and the quality of life of all future generations?

The former is a far bigger problem than most people realize: a 2011 economic analysis by Nicholas Muller et al found that coal power's associated «damages range from 0.8 to 5.6 times value added.»

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It would also send 500 extra coal ships with their cargo through the Great Barrier Reef each year, bringing new risk of damage to its fragile corals on their way to releasing an equivalent of more than 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In fact, coal plants «are responsible for more than one - fourth of GED from the entire U.S. economy» — roughly $ 53 billion in damages a year.

(South African coal plants are on the coast, so damages are lower although coal use per capita is higher than in the United States.)

But as this study shows, no matter how you mine it, coal costs more in damages to other segments of the economy than all of the electricity it generates is worth.

It means that continuing to rely on coal does more damage to our economy than good.

More on Coal: Coal Plants Do $ 64 Billion of Damage a Year to US Environment China's Coal Burning Cost the Environment $ 13 Billion Last Year In Appalachia, Coal Mining Costs $ 9 - 76 Billion More Per Year Than It Pulls In

In fact, coal is so economically disastrous that the mainstream journal American Economics Review found that the electricity generated from coal actually does more damage to the economy than the electricity is worth.

Variation across gas plants is less, though still substantial, with the best combined - cycle plants having nearly twice the efficiency (and hence roughly half the damages) of typical steam or centralized turbine plants, and lower damages even than the cleanest coal - fired plants.

Much of the uncertainty is systematic, so despite large ranges, differences can be significant (e.g. coal - related damages are $ 410 (− 180 / +240; 5 — 95 % CI) billion greater than gas - related damages at 3 % discounting).

These results suggest that total atmosphere - related environmental damages plus generation costs are much greater for coal - fired power than other types of electricity generation, and that damages associated with gasoline vehicles substantially exceed those for electric vehicles.

Living near a coal - fired power station would give you 100 to 300 times more radiation exposure than living next to a nuclear power plant, and even that is trivial and not the reason coal burning is damaging to your health.