Sentences with phrase «depending on coal»

And both of them are developing depending on coal.

One company's coal plant may be more or less competitive to another company's solar plant depending on coal prices, for example.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

Duke Energy CEO James Rogers said consumers in parts of the country, such as the industrial Midwest, depend on coal more than residents of coastal states like California.

Without rich countries help, poor will just depend on coal.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

EPA continues to ignore the damage that its new regulations are causing to the U.S. economy and to states that depend on coal for jobs and affordable electricity,»

Your fellow citizens who depend on coal for their livelihood will have to learn to do something else.

Rick brought up an issue that the clean coal lobby usually mentions when we got to talking about the livelihood that so many families depend on the coal industry for.

Two huge «wind farms» recently announced in Texas demonstrate clearly that wind energy is a niche technology that will do little to offset the need for the people of the US to depend on coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower for their electricity for years to come.

The preceding analysis of the two huge «wind farms» recently announced in Texas demonstrate clearly that wind energy is a niche technology that will do little to offset the need for the people of the United States to depend on coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower for their electricity for years to come.

But the real goal of the campaign is not simply to re-brand coal as a clean and modern fuel — it's to convince energy - illiterate TV viewers that the American way of life depends on coal.

India currently depends on coal for more than half of its electricity production, but it also gets a lot of sun, giving it the potential to become a solar power titan in the future.

Federal and state policies can guide, nudge and encourage a transition toward cleaner energy in parts of the country that long have depended on coal.

Research by Fresh Energy, a Minnesota - based nonprofit that is also the publisher of Midwest Energy News, found that the electric storage water heater program operated by Great River Energy (GRE) emits substantially more carbon than heaters using natural gas or propane, because the utility still depends on coal for two - thirds of its generation.

Not exact matches

Most of the senators who signed are from states that depend on the continued burning of coal, oil and gas.

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

The prices of other sources of energy, such as coal and gas, also appear to be affected by oil price movements, though these relationships are quite loose, and depend on the state of world demand and stock levels.

Beyond the reasonably favourable outlook for the next few years, growth in productive capacity and exports in the resources sector over the longer term will depend on future mineral discoveries (though existing reserves could support production and exports of some commodities, such as coal, for a considerable time).

By: Donald Makhafola 16th March 2018 The best process for extraction of coal depends on the geographical and geotechnical information of the deposit, says Johannesburg - based multidisciplinary engineering consulting company GO Holistic Engineering engineering consultant Kevin Jacobs.

Grilling time depends on many factors: the size and shape of the turkey, the distance from the heat, temperature of the coals and the outside air temperature.

Grill the meat about 4 inches above the hot coals for 10 to 15 minutes (depending on the size of the meat cubes and the degree of doneness you want), turning the meat 2 or 3 times as it cooks.

The Tompkins County installation has two units that burn coal, and one that uses natural gas or oil depending on the market.

West Virginia — which relies almost entirely on coal power and also depends on mining to drive the state's economy — must make a reduction of 37 percent.

Carbon dioxide emissions depend mainly on the energy content of coal, not how much it weighs.

He asserts, however, that coal is wrong for America and suggests exporting any new coal technologies to emerging countries like China and India, both of which depend heavily on coal - derived energy.

Strategies for replacing light bulbs vary from place to place, depending on regional energy costs and the power - generation mix (i.e., coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewables).

Under his system, compliance depends not upon the choice of energy technology — i.e. wind is in, coal out — but rather on the tons of CO2 emitted for every megawatt - hour (MWh) of power produced.

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.

«It depends on the fertility of the soil in the region where you are producing the biochar, and whether you are offsetting coal or some other form of energy,» Amonette says.

Nearly 70 percent of China's energy production depends on water - intensive coal power.

The energy research offices have priorities that tend to shift with the «partisan» tides, he said, as administrations and bureaucrats favor wind or nuclear or coal research, for example, depending on the «political» winds.

Instead, it will be powered by PacifiCorp., which depends mostly on coal and natural gas for generation.

The outcome depends on how much more carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, human activities (such as burning coal and oil) dump into the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

This would also save you from making extensive searches and filtering users depending on your preferences, while seeking a perfect match on mainstream dating sites is similar to looking for a diamond in a coal mine.

The choice of method largely depends on the geology of the coal deposit.

West countries could not stop them and no right to say please stop your developing using coal because west countires developed depending on fossil fuel, too.

The share prices of oil, gas and coal companies depend in part on their reserves.

Of course, the energy mix used also matters — emissions vary depending on where the solar modules are made, perhaps also where nuclear fuel is mined, how far oil and coal must be transported, etc..

You can get about 50 times the energy out of solar cells covering the same area as a bio-reactor tank that depends on photosynthesis, so I don't think the idea that fertilizing bio-fuels with the CO2 from coal combustion makes sense.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

We really can not be blamed for nature giving us 100 to 1000 years worth of coal, depending on how much dirt we are willing to scrape off these reserves.

As the market for coal goes global (see our piece in Boston Review on this issue, September 2009) the future of global warming will depend on the interests in the countries that are least interested in slowing global warming.

But He said that would depend on China achieving a real reduction in coal consumption from sometime around 2020 or 2025, and on the nation meeting its target of having 150 - 200 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity by 2030.

Our civilization depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet...

Once in office, Mr. Bush did a complete turnaround in March 2001, abandoning that pledge under intensive lobbying of the White House by coal and oil companies, and industries whose profits depend on selling things that use energy.

Although the exact chemical composition depends on the type of coal burned, all coal ash contains concentrated amounts of toxic elements, including arsenic, lead, and mercury.

The choice of mining method largely depends on the geology of the coal deposit.