Sentences with phrase «data on coal»

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A housing and construction rebound has boosted industries including steel and coal, and while many sectors continue to struggle with overproduction, domestic demand has held up reasonably well, with trade data on Thursday showing a surprising improvement in imports.

One silver lining: recent data shows that Americans who live in coal country, like the Appalachian region, aren't resting on their laurels.

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In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

The paper, published in PNAS on Monday, examined pollution data and death records to see whether coal burning, long a source of air pollution, could have damaged public health across northern China in the 1990s.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.

The team was able to derive new emissions factors based on data from Chinese government programs that analyzed nearly 5000 coal samples taken throughout the country.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

The new data suggest that the task of meeting that deadline by reducing China's dependence on coal will be more daunting and urgent than expected, said Yang Fuqiang, a former energy official in China who now advises the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The team also compared these results with regional economic and demographic data, as well as other information that provided clues to the sources — for example, data on human populations, livestock populations, electricity production from power plants, oil and natural gas production, production from oil refineries, rice production, and coal production.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

Many experts on China caution that most sources of data there should come with fat error bars, given past instances in which official estimates of activities ranging from coal extraction to fish catches proved to be way off.

The report praised Facebook, Yahoo and Google for their leadership in using renewable energy to power their data centers, but chastised Amazon, Microsoft, and especially Apple for still relying heavily on coal power.

However, using other official data as a proxy, including coal and electricity consumption, other analysts have tried to calculate a figure on its behalf.

When possible, we corroborated the data with field knowledge, contacting more than 40 researchers, NGOs, and journalists around the world who work on coal issues.

For natural gas and coal, transport and internal distribution costs are estimated on the basis of available shipping data.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the go - to source for data on electricity, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear, coal, emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Of the estimated $ 6 billion spent on television ads on the Presidential, House, and Senate races, some $ 270 million was directed at the promotion of oil, gas, and coal interests just in the last two months, according to a Center for American analysis of data from Kantar Media.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

Unfortunately, New York Times reported on November 3, 2015 that China «has been burning up to 17 percent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data.»

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The study (PDF) singles out a Facebook facility that relies on a coal - powered utility, along with Apple's North Carolina data center, also powered by coal.

Connection results are based on all coal purchases by coal - based electricity providers for 2013 (the EIA's most recent data.)

Some older coal - fired generators were retrofitted with various environmental controls (see chart for data on installations of one type of control, the flue gas desulfurization unit, also called FGD or scrubber).

But new data on China's coal consumption significantly alters our calculation, ultimately moving Earth Overshoot Day to August 9, four days earlier on the calendar.

The only exception is the data on companies» plans for new coal plants, which is based on CoalSwarm's «Global Coal Plant Tracker&raqcoal plants, which is based on CoalSwarm's «Global Coal Plant Tracker&raqCoal Plant Tracker».

Forecasts for global coal demand, made by the IEA in 2011 through 2017 (blue lines), compared to data on actual use (red), in millions of tonnes of coal equivalent.

He's the snake oil salesman who said that the CRU emails «had no effect on science» because he is fully at ease with corruption of data in his screaming global warming doom mongering, kept in his position by his anti coal nuclear interests.

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.

All of our data on the US coal industry's reclamation bonds, compiled nationally and published here for the first time

Sponsored by Yahoo! and Nielson, the site also provides data on how many dollars are being saved and how much less coal is burned.

Over five years with LBL, Nate's projects were focused on energy efficiency policy, assessment of Chinese urban form energy use and emissions, Chinese energy data, transport electrification and renewable electricity scenario analysis, the coal sector, and the steel sector.

For the minority who use common sense, very little data is necessary to know that a «low carbon» economy is far less efficient than an economy run on fossil fuel energy [coal, preferably, because it is the least expensive power].

The estimation was based on data from the China Coal Industry Association and the National Energy Administration for the first half of 2017, when China's coal consumption experienced a sharp reboCoal Industry Association and the National Energy Administration for the first half of 2017, when China's coal consumption experienced a sharp rebocoal consumption experienced a sharp rebound.

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.

Absolutely zero coal was used to generate energy in UK power stations between 10:25 p.m. on Monday until 5:10 a.m. on Thursday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The EPA decision was supported by scientific studies on the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining, some directly informed by SkyTruth's satellite derived mountaintop removal footprint data.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

However, current data (through August 2012) show that steam coal exports are rebounding, growing about 50 % in 2011 and on track to grow another 50 % in 2012.

(Sec. 437) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to review and report to Congress on coal assessments and other available data to identify: (1) federal lands, other than National Park lands, with coal resources available for development; (2) the extent and nature of any restrictions or impediments to the development of coal resources on such lands; and (3) resources of compliant coal and supercompliant coal.

And this data is showing that 2017 may be the first year where solar and wind arrive on the power system in a big way, digging into the market share of not just coal, but also natural gas.

With Australia facing a policy crisis over energy security and the winding back of reliance on coal, construction of new coal - fired power plants was increasing in at least 35 countries, according to data analysis supplied to the Nationals by the federal parliamentary library.

It aggregates publicly available data (such as capacity, generated power, and heat rate) on non-cogenerating coal units and combines this with publicly available cost methodologies to calculate the cost of complying with environmental regulations.

Despite uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, the 2016 data is one more piece of evidence that China will not return to the days of skyrocketing coal consumption for good, and that the world's largest CO2 emitter is on the right path to start reducing its emissions permanently at some point in the coming decade.

For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.

Dr Wheatley said more data was needed on actual fuel consumption at coal - fired power stations but there were several reasons for the inefficiencies of wind in abating emissions.