Sentences with phrase «electricity from coal burning»

They are so high because Australian smelters rely almost wholly on electricity from coal burning.

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Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellCoal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellcoal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Most electricity still comes from burning coal, believe it or not.

As recently as 2008, about half the electricity in the U.S. came from burning coal and one - fifth from burning natural gas.

According to the Pembina Institute 63.7 % of Alberta's electricity generation now comes from burning conventional coal.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

Meanwhile, China obtains roughly three - quarters of its electricity from coal, meaning the air in Beijing and other cities is thick with sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide spewed from power plants and coal - burning stoves.

And, even if those targets are met, greenhouse gas pollution may remain: Rising prices for natural gas in the U.S. meant an uptick in coal burning in 2013 — and an attendant 2 percent rise in CO2 from electricity production.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

A promising core strategy seems to be the following: Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

If that electricity comes from burning oil and coal, it might mean that green alternatives aren't that green after all.

That means, for a coal plant, we'd have to burn — and so pay for — an extra 10 - 40 % more coal with CCS than we would without it, and the electricity from that extra energy / coal consumed is not available to consumers for electricity.

This is evident by the decline in bituminous coal being burned in the U.S. for electricity and the increasing share of coal production and consumption coming from the lower btu sub-bituminous and lignite coal.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

Emissions of the main human - generated greenhouse gas are surely tracking the reversal in electricity output, given that the vast majority of the country's electricity comes from burning coal.

Although in and of itself, as Revkin points out, this won't really reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as so much of our electricity is generated by burning coal, it is at least a doable step in the right direction that reduces our reliance on oil from antagonistic regimes.

The EIA estimates that due largely to the drop in coal - fired electricity, U.S. carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel declined 3.4 percent in 2012.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

At the time only 12 % of the state's electricity was from renewable sources and most of Victoria's electricity was being generated by burning highly polluting brown coal.

The research showed that air pollution from the burning of coal for electricity generation was something like five times as damaging to our hearts as was general air pollution.

The reason is simple: Most of our electricity comes from the burning of fuels like coal and natural gas.

The LCOE of electricity from coal, for example, takes into account both the cost of building a coal - fired power plant and the cost of buying and burning coal.

The world's most prestigious medical science journal, The Lancet, publised a paper puting numbers to the annual toll of deaths and serious illnesses in Europe due to the air pollutants from burning coal to generate electricity.

About 80 % of China's electricity comes from burning coal, which is why the wind turbine and solar panel manufacturers are closing factories here and in the EU and building new ones in China.

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Regardless of whether the plant closes, the experience of residents in Semora, NC illustrates one of the negative impacts of burning coal for electricity: water pollution resulting from the disposal of coal ash.

Carbon can be captured from electricity plants that burn coal or natural gas, or from oil refineries and other kinds of industrial plants.

Costs also suddenly could get higher when suppliers dependent on electricity from coal - burning generators are hit with a government decision to tax carbon emissions.

Electricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportatioElectricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportatioelectricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportation purposes.

With other greenhouse gases it is responsible for the natural greenhouse effect, and the extra levels of CO 2 from burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, are causing the enhanced (or accelerated) greenhouse effect which is why global warming is happening.

Another difference is that a larger fraction of China's electricity comes from burning coal, which is more polluting.

Most of the trains haul Canadian coal, but increasingly the trains are arriving from Wyoming and Montana, loaded with coal that will be burned in Asia to make electricity.

Developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the plan is a far - reaching set of regulations that, by seeking to reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation, could result in the closing of many coal - burning power plants, among other effects.

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Around half of our grid - based electricity could be supplied by means of a few very large power systems burning methane, either in the form of natural gas or the effluvium from underground coal gasification [the only way to employ coal cleanly, he argues], and burying the carbon dioxide they produce.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 30.1 percent of the nation's electricity comes from coal - burning plants.

The greenhouse gas pollution of coal - fired power plants is another huge cost that is not factored into the price of electricity (even though 50 % of our power in the US comes from coal), and the same goes for the air pollution caused by the burning of petroleum.

Areas all around China where coal is burned for electricity are suffering from this toxic air.

Washington received 80 % in 2002 of its electricity from hydroelectric while Ohio received 87 % from the burning of coal due its abundance there.

Every time you turn a light on, the electricity most likely comes from burning coal.

Natural gas may have lower greenhouse gas emissions when burned than coal, but widespread switching over to natural gas for electricity won't have much of an impact on reducing global warming, a new study from the National