Sentences with phrase «emissions of coal»

James # 517 — Conversion of CO2 by photosynthesis may not be adequate to handle the emissions of coal - fired power plants.

Among the initiatives is putting a floor price on carbon, investing in energy efficiency measures like smart meters, and limiting the emissions of coal plants.

Natural gas produces about half the carbon emissions of coal power, so you can imagine how excited clean energy supporters were when it took the top spot.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

Still, nuclear power does not produce the dirty emissions of coal - fired power plants, including soot, mercury and sulfur dioxide.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

Natural gas produces half the carbon emissions of coal and about a third fewer than oil.

It's only half the carbon dioxide emissions of coal.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

When used to generate electricity, natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of coal.

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

For instance, because natural gas has half of the emissions of coal, but still emits carbon dioxide, it could receive half the credit as zero carbon energy sources.

As we know here, on this blog, until technology allows for carbon dioxide to be removed from the emissions of coal - fired power plants, the term «clean coal» is a bit like the term «healthy smoking.»

New GE Power Technology Innovation Center Will Showcase Increased Efficiency, Reduced Emissions of Coal - Fired Steam Power Plants

India, China and many other countries are poised to rely more heavily on natural gas, which has less than half the warming emissions of coal.

For example, its pending rule, called the Clean Power Plan, would cut greenhouse gas emissions of coal - fired power plants.

Hochella and his team found these previously unknown nanoparticles not only in coal ash from around the world and in the gaseous waste emissions of coal plants, but on city streets, in soils and storm water ponds, and at wastewater treatment plants.

Policymakers and the energy industry have been looking to natural gas in recent years as a more climate friendly fuel with half the greenhouse gas emissions of coal, but EPA research is casting doubt on that plan

When burned, gas produces about half of the carbon emissions of coal.

Natural gas produces half the CO2 emissions of coal, but its extraction is harder on the environment.

EnBW participates in the project to further reduce CO2 emission of coal combustion as a bridge technology.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

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.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissiCoal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissicoal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

Burning gas emits just 40 % of the CO2 as deriving the same unit of energy from coal, and between 65 % and 75 % the emissions of oil.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

One of the leading and most economical ways to reduce carbon emissions from coal plants is to simply shut them down, particularly aging plants.

That study assumed some of the residue harvested would replace power produced from coal, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it's unclear whether future biorefineries would do that.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyEmissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyemissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energyemissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

China continues to lead in the ranking of the world's top 40 renewable energy markets, despite its continuing high greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on coal.

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

Buried deep in federal regulations to restrict emissions in the coal - fired electricity sector, officials explain that the costs of those new rules is about $ 16 billion in today's terms.

Visualizing the CO2 emissions saved by 56 of the Fortune 100 companies, expressed using the quantity of coal not burned.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

On an annualized basis, statistics show that in the first four months of 2015, coal consumption in China dropped by an incredible 8 %, while overall CO2 emissions dropped by 5 %.8 So, what has happened then?

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.