WHAT TO
DO ABOUT COAL, by David G. Hawkins, Daniel A. Lashof and Robert H. Williams.
Correspondent Olivia Munn profiles the nation's most climate - conscious governor, Jay Inslee, and reports on what he'll
do about the coal export depots.
Not exact matches
Sectors like steel and
coal are
doing well, so there are fewer concerns
about non-performing loans, says UBS head of China strategy, Gao Ting
Sectors dealing with over-capacity issues like steel and
coal are
doing «quite well» in China, Gao added, meaning there are fewer concerns
about non-performing loans and the resulting shocks to financial stability.
UK - based Bushveld Minerals has launched its second takeover bid for local
coal explorer Lemur Resources in two years, this time proposing to acquire all the shares it doesn't own in the business for
about $ 10.9 million.
«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing
coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest
about the damage they are
doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.
And while the passage
does talk
about heaping burning
coals on the heads of our enemies, the way to
do this, according to Proverbs, is by giving them food when they are hungry and water when they are thirsty.
Because when I read the Bible, I don't remember reading much
about coal formation or tectonic plates or anything like that.
«Burning
coals on enemies» head» is not correct for the text
did not talk
about more or less
coals.
«With a vegetable grill topper, the size of vegetables doesn't become a limiting factor and you don't have to worry
about slices falling through the grate and into the
coals,» she explains.
But I would note Lahey
did not come up with the dutch oven trick — it's been around for awhile and Elizabeth David in her famous «English Bread and Yeast Cookery» talks
about how the English used to bake in overturned flower pots, with
coals piled outside.
Grill over medium
coals until beef is
done to your liking,
about 10 - 15 minutes.
Grill the satay sticks over
coals until the meat is
done,
about 12 minutes, turning often.
I
did my thighs over indirect
coals for 25 min and then placed over direct
coals for
about 90 sec each side.
If I'm
doing thick breasts (not butterflied), I typically
do about 6 minutes per side directly over the hot
coals.
Whilst pregnant with my little boy, I made up a refreshing jug of Raspberry leaf Iced tea ✨ ☺️ ✨ was so yummy, however whilst making my way through the whole jug (5tea bags brewed) I was painting the inside of my
coal shed (
about the size of a small walk in closet) with Silcone based Masionary Paint... it was on my MUST
Do Before Baby Arrives list... by the time Id washed my paint brush I had my Show... so this is something I will be trying again with this pregnancy ✨
Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warm
Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit
about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide
coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warm
coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more
coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warm
coal than we
do, is crucial to combating global warming.
At that point, Stracher
did not know very much
about coal, but he had a strong background in chemical thermodynamics.
Until advanced
coal - combustion technologies become widely available that allow CO2 to be captured and stored safely underground, the shift to
coal is bad news for climate change because
coal plants usually emit
about twice the CO2 per kilowatt - hour of electricity that gas plants
do.
«The U.S.
coal industry
does not have a bright future — and quite possibly no future at all in the long term — unless there are reversals in the factors that have brought this
about,» said Robert Stavins, a professor of business and government at Harvard University.
However, for specific numbers: US
Coal mine emissions were on the order of 4 Tg / year in 1990, which is
about 0.2 trillion cubic feet, if I've
done my conversions right (1 Tg methane = 52 Billion cubic feet).
Therefore a forcings timeline that shows increasing Beyond mere guesses
about quantity consumed, what
does their timeline / projection assume
about the development of clean
coal?
Gore was no dummy, he knows what he's
doing telling people in Tennessee and Kentucky that they have no worries
about coal.
Here's one climate change denier who really doesn't want you to think twice
about his funding from Koch,
coal and oil: Dr. Willie Soon, freshly profiled in today's Boston Globe.
At a Seattle Film Festival tribute, Sissy Spacek talks
about problems young actresses face, why she didn't want to play «
Coal Miner's Daughter» and what she thinks of Jessica Chastain
Speaking of his
coal miner film «Matewan,» Sayles notes that: «In America, there is a class system and we don't want to talk
about it.»
People moan
about coal powered EVs but don't understand how the power generation is changing so Your EV gets greener very day.
The Type of Author Who Will Have the Most Successful Campaigns Is: • Willing to be involved and engaged • Active on social media • A team player • Realistic
about their expectations • Friendly with fellow authors in the industry • Has an appreciation for booksellers • Willing to walk over hot
coals to meet one fan, versus only
doing something with an audience of 1,000 people • Patient, understanding that publicity is a marathon, not a sprint.
Why
did you decide to write a book
about coal?
Put the tips on the grill directly over the
coals and cook, rolling them around frequently so they get well browned on all sides, until
done to your liking,
about 8 to 10 minutes for medium rare.
Meb: Which I know nothing
about but we
did a fun article last year on
coal stocks which are down five years in a row and they're having a great year.
«We
did this out of a love for our own family pets, because when you think
about it, would you put a
coal tar treatment on your child?
I don't know
about you but I don't really care if the new consoles run on
coal and live hamsters as long as the games are good.
What I find ironic is that it is his can -
do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to
do something
about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak
Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.
Same goes for the newspaper columnists I blogged on in Kansas who
did the spoof ad complaining
about Big
Coal's ad attacks against the governor there.
Given the facts
about global warming, that seems to be exactly what continuing to burn
coal will
do, as long as we use existing technologies that mean that burning goal contributes to, and will accelerate, climate change.
It says nothing
about people rushing to stoke the engine with more and more
coal, or how much actual
coal is added (thus the actual range of speeds to expect), or the possibility of a precipice with bridge out up ahead (runaway GW), how dangerous that might be at various speeds, entailing greater or less number of deaths, or how far or close that precipice is, which we don't know either (except we have some fossil evidence of train wrecks in which 90 % of life died, so we know it could be bad).
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.
When you think
about it, Japan doesn't use very much
coal.
This isn't
about the article you posted, but I was hoping you could
do an article
about the relative costs of
coal versus solar plants.
I know some here will decry that I am not talking
about the issues because I
do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of
coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal vs long - term contracts, or use of
coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads
about politicians who oppose
coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal), it IS public relations («Clean
Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
Coal», cleanest
coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS
about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as
coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal vs NG when it is really
coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal vs every other energy source), and it IS
about greed (the
coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternati
coal industry
doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).
Whatever you think of the claims
about coal exports and
coal - related jobs (several critics of Mr. McCain pounced on that statement), it
does seem quite a stark turnabout for the candidate.
* The government insists that dealing with global warming is way down the priority list and since our economy is booming because of mineral exports (including heaps of
coal don't you know) we should concentrate on that and not get too worried
about the water situation.
And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody
Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more
about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get
done to combat global warming.
But one little fly in the ointment
about «following the money»: don't you think the oil and
coal lobbies have pockets one HELL of a lot deeper than environmental organizations supported by well intentioned college profs, high school teachers and housewives??
When I am confronted by the threats to the integrity of these aspects of the world, whether through photos of the Tar Sands, or reading
about mountain - top removal for
coal extraction, or some other sight or story
about degradation, I ache in a way that compels me to
do something.
Do you think that most of these politicians who talk
about «clean
coal» have any clue whatsoever what processes are involved, how they would work, and what the chances and risks are?
I'm still wondering as I
did the other day
about the cost of the power produced — in the video, it's put at somewhere between the cost of
coal and photovoltaics, a huge range which covers the gamut from the cheapest power available to the most expensive and uncompetitive.
As far as I can tell, the report also
did not say anything
about another option: not building any new
coal - fired plants until CCS is available.
Methane produces
about 2 times as much energy as
does coal for the same CO2.