Sentences with phrase «dirty than coal»

Natural gas is less dirty than coal, more expensive and used for peak demand.

Natural gas is less dirty than coal but it still locks Europe into an unsustainable, carbon intensive fossil fuel system.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

Oil shale is dirtier than coal in emissions terms.

Not exact matches

For power plants, burning natural gas is cleaner than coal and dirtier than wind, solar and hydropower.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

«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.

Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

If industry - generated aerosols have a more limited cooling effect than originally thought, we can clean up and scale down dirty coal plants without worrying too much about consequent sudden jumps in global temperatures of up to 2 degrees C (if I remember the upper limits of earlier studies correctly).

It might make sense to take a small portion of the aerosol that would have been dumped into the troposphere by retired dirty coal plants, and inject that directly into the stratosphere where it will restore the lost cooling effect while (hopefully) doing less harm than the old stuff dumped into the lower atmosphere.

For CalCars» Response to Comments in NY Times story see: How Much Cleaner than a Gasoline Car is a PHEV Charged from the Dirty (Coal) Grid?

Working with Power Past Coal — an alliance of environmental, health, and community organizations — we delivered more than 124,000 public comments voicing grassroots opposition to this dirty coal termiCoal — an alliance of environmental, health, and community organizations — we delivered more than 124,000 public comments voicing grassroots opposition to this dirty coal termicoal terminal.

Imagine if the data centres that drive our internet were powered by renewable energy, rather than dirty coal.

«Environmentalists charge that CCS is not much more than energy vaporware, a fantasy concocted by coal companies to greenwash an inherently dirty industry.

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeles.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

**** Big Wind's Dirty Little Secret: Toxic Lakes and Radioactive Waste Right Side News Travis Fisher and Alex Fitzsimmons of IER 23 October 2013 The wind industry promotes itself as better for the environment than traditional energy sources such as coal and natural gas.

Elsewhere in the world, China — often still thought of by many as relying almost entirely upon dirty coal plants for electrical generation — actually added more clean energy generation capacity in the first 10 months of 2013 than fossil fuel:

Market Transformation One of our goals is to make clean - energy affordable and cost less than its dirty counterparts such as coal.

IEEFA estimates less than 5 GW annual net coal power installations over the next decade, with more than 2.5 GW in annual retirements of the oldest and dirtiest generation.

China has shown the world how much it truly cares about global warming by burning significantly more dirty, carbon - unfriendly coal than it previously pretended.

Coal is dirty, burning it emits more greenhouse gasses than any other single source, mining it destroys mountains, streams, and rivers... but it DOES give us energy, to which I'm thankful for it.

It started spewing out its annual, relatively clean, 13 million tons of CO2, and other nasties, so much lower than those older dirty coal plants that would have put out 15 million tons of CO2 for the same power output.

Not only are nuclear plants much more expensive than anticipated, but their primary competitor is no longer dirty coal or imported oil but instead clean, inexpensive domestic natural gas.

Coal burning is often a lot dirtier than diesels and on a lot bigger scale.

Unfortunately, Power Africa appears to emphasize large, centralized natural gas projects — a dirty fossil fuel that some scientists believe is worse for the climate than coal.

On top of that, it is done mainly with lignite, which is «dirtier» than the coal we use in Ontario.

A company called TXU has said it will build 11 new power plants in Texas use the old pulverized coal model technology, which is much dirtier than alternatives easily available in the United States, but is much more profitable.

«The problem is that if Big Dirty Coal Generation can sell a MWH for even $ 0.01 less than Clean Solar Producers, the utility MUST buy from BDCG...»

Coal is the worst offender, a dirty energy source that produces less than half our electricity but nearly 80 percent of all power plant carbon emissions.

If solar or wind or any other renewable energy source costs more than grid electricity, then the company sticks with its dirty power, and if the cost is lower than coal, the company chooses alternative energy instead.

But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricCoal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electriccoal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electriccoal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricity.

The question of a new tax or fee being included in a climate bill has been a controversial issue because many Republicans have long dismissed climate control legislation as nothing more than a new tax on consumers, who would face higher energy prices when more expensive alternative energy like wind and solar power replace dirty - burning coal and oil.

It is staying ahead mostly by building hydro, and in the tropics that releases a lot of methane (and displaces people and destroys habitats), in some cases so much that it's «dirtier» than coal, so being renewable isn't much of a plus if you're worried about GHG emissions.

He thought electric cars were a great improvement because they would wean people off of fossil fuels, but I had to remind him that in most jurisdictions in North America, the electric car is actually dirtier than any other car because most of North America generates its electricity from coal.