Sentences with phrase «deepest coal mine»

That might be the world's deepest coal mine.

The chaplain at Britain's last deep coal mine to close has said it's been emotional seeing the miners... More

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

Pilot projects in Algeria, Japan, and Norway indicate that CO2 can be stored in underground geologic formations such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs, deep coal seams, and saline aquifers.

As a result, a 68 - day research expedition to study the deep coal bed biosphere off Shimokita, Japan, has been canceled.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

To overcome these limitations, wells are drilled into deeper coals with higher gas content and much greater pressure.

Ever deeper coal mines.

I believe that deep coal mines were shut because they could not compete with natural gas or surface mined coal from S Africa and Australia.

But I'd predict we hear news of deep coal mines being re-opened within the next couple of years - I don't think the UK will be able to sustain this trade defecit and will be forced to expand indigenous energy production.

Having worked in the coal industry as a geologist and mining engineer, I have considered some of those massive, exceptionally deep coal seams (some in the Powder River Basin get up to 80 feet thick) and I wonder how warm and luxurious it would have to be to support plantlife that would accumulate such massive amounts of carbon.

Hydro power stations, a «renewable» actually destroy the environment more than a deep coal mine.

Not exact matches

Strike's ambitious 2000m well is expected to be the deepest pure coal seam gas well drilled in the southern hemisphere — and possibly the world.

He was born, raised and still lives in Hazard, Kentucky, a small town in the southeastern corner of the state, deep in the heart of Appalachia's coal country.

Times were best when mining wide veins of high - sulfur, bituminous coal close to the surface was cheap and demand was high, and worst once miners had to dig deeper and demand dropped.

Buried deep in federal regulations to restrict emissions in the coal - fired electricity sector, officials explain that the costs of those new rules is about $ 16 billion in today's terms.

But stalled indigenous energy production, especially coal (Figure 3), means that China is dipping deeper into the global energy market and that should support prices and offset the deceleration in consumption.

Even in the dim light before dawn I could see the intent, pensive expression in his deep brown eyes and in the alert quivering of his coal - black nose.

This had been set on fire and burned until there was left a bed of burning coals, some two or three feet deep, that did not emit a particle of smoke.

Every now and then the roasting flesh would be turned over with long oak sticks sharpened smoothly to a point at one end, which answered the place of forks; deep and long incisions would be made in the barbecuing meat, and with the swab a good basting of the mixed condiments from the bowl would be spread over; the process of turning the roasting flesh over the glowing red coals and basting with the seasoning continued till the meat was thought to be thoroughly done.

A report refutes a recent finding that extracting gas from deep shale basins results in at least as big a greenhouse gas emissions footprint as that of coal

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

Krivovichev and Pekov were able to obtain the original samples of the two rare minerals, which had been found decades earlier in a coal mine deep beneath the Siberian permafrost.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

But a coal mine in Illinois has revealed woods that, if not lovelier, are certainly darker and deeper — and a good bit older.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

With underground gasification, geologists would scope out thinner but broader layers of coal found much deeper.

Momentum is growing worldwide to look closely at the idea, a 150 - year - old technique of igniting seams of coal deep under the ground to produce electrical power or chemicals.

Some experts say that coal - fired plants can only become truly clean if the government and industry pump billions of dollars into the technological upgrades required to extract the carbon dioxide gas created during combustion and sequester it semipermanently deep underground.

Slightly deeper fires can sometimes be quenched by digging out the burning coal — in Indonesia, Whitehouse's crews did this by hand — and then burying the entire area.

Although injection into deep rock formations has proceeded without difficulty at a pilot project at the Mountaineer coal - fired power plant in West Virginia — 3,000 metric tons have been stored so far, says Gary Spitznogle of American Electric Power, which owns the facility — public opposition halted a similar government - funded project in Ohio.

He found that even in places where burning coal was so deep in the ground that there was no visual evidence on the surface, there were still significant amounts of carbon dioxide rising up.

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

One cat repository, found by farmers in 1888, was reported to have «a stratum thicker than most coal seams, 10 to 20 cats deep.»

The clue is hidden in a coal - to - liquids plant here, deep in northern China's Gobi Desert.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

By burying 60 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions deep underground, the 275 - megawatt FutureGen plant, to be built in Mattoon, Illinois, seeks to show that coal can be, if not exactly clean, then at least cleaner.

Pennsylvania will soon see the opening of the Acosta Deep Mine near Somerset, Penn., which will produce 375,000 tons of metallurgical coal annually and employ 70 workers, according to the Associated Press.

These were the processes that sequestered the carbon deep in the Earth as coal, oil, natural gas...

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

Fine particles emitted by vehicles (especially diesel - powered ones), coal - fired power plants, and burning wood can penetrate deep into the lungs, while car exhaust, heat, and sunlight contribute to high ozone levels.

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He and Raylan have a mutual respect that runs deep (they «dug coal together»), prevents them from killing one another immediately, and implodes over — what else?

The deep lighting makes her red hair stand out like smoldering coals in the dark.

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