Sentences with phrase «does coal waste»

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This recipe is perfect after you've grilled dinner and the fire has mellowed — don't let those coals go to waste!

«What this means is that we have a resource in farm waste that is readily available, can produce energy at a similar level to burning coal, and does not require any significant start - up costs,» said Dutta.

McCain says he doesn't want to waste money subsidizing special interests, but I'm not quite sure what that means in the context of $ 30 billion for the clean coal boondoggle.

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

How much do you figure it would cost the average coal - fired plant to remove the CO2 from its waste stream, instead of dumping it on the public?

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).

The report, in an attempt to pressure the EPA to regulate coal ash, noted that most states do not monitor drinking water contamination levels near waste disposal sites.

As these alternative ways are competing against a set of products — in essence, two: petrochemical fuels and coal — that are subsidized by being allowed to use up the scarce resource of the carbon cycle's ability to cope with waste CO2E, the Market is not fair, and does not run according to Capitalist precepts, without such a carbon price.

Just because we have centuries of fossil fuels in reserve, with thorium etc in the works, doesn't mean we should waste one precious nugget of coal.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

I am likely in support of fourth gen nuclear considering the safety factors, the 90 percent reduced waste with a vastly reduced 1/2 life, etc, but I do not get how coal in modern plants is so harmful?

(Having bought our coal, they don't tax it like we do, but neither do they waste it by burning it in old clunkers, like we do,)

Pekka, «There are also cases where mixed coal and solid waste is not allowed because coal does not satisfy the more stringent limits set for burning solid waste.»

Concrete makers in Virginia say Dominion Energy doesn't need to worry about running out of customers for its 30 million tons of waste coal ash.

We do not need subsidies any more for alternative energy, we need the other technologies to fully pay for the «externalities» of their operations, such as damaged kids, shortened lives, remediation of their damages, safe and permanent handling of their wastes, (such as coal ash and high level nuclear waste), and the like.

(1) Systems of monitoring, producing or extracting gas from solid waste disposal facilities, if the bore hole is a well subject to the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L. 380, No. 97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, which does not penetrate a workable coal seam.

I don't suppose there is any waste disposal problems or emissions with coal slag, or oil / gas refineries and wells.