Sentences with phrase «end of coal burning»

While Australia's Abbott Government is increasing its support for coal in hopes of exporting more and more, the rest of the world is seeing that the end of coal burning is inevitable if we are not to destroy our environment.

Not exact matches

If SolarCity succeeds, clean power will replace dirty energy, spelling the end of the coal - and natural - gas - burning power plants.

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.

With the global climate negotiations in Paris beginning Nov. 30, now is the time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make an enforceable commitment to end coal - burning in the Empire State by the end of the decade.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

«Can we go all - out on efficiency and renewables * fast enough * to keep world (US) real GDP at least flat... and not end up, out of desperation, burning a lot more coal to keep the lights on and do CTL synfuels... with bad results.

The report also suggested that to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2 °C target, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, should fall dramatically by the 2050s and virtually cease by the end of the century.

A slow burn that makes a meal of stoking its coals, the film ends with a fiery and well - deserved release.

I can't understand why that is a sensible definition of a runaway feedback effect, or why that ends up «putting things completely out of our control» (as if once the methane starts going up, let's just give up and burn all the coal because it won't matter anyway).

It also makes economic sense: All those reservoirs filling up with coal ash day after day are just problems waiting to happen, and if we're just waiting for catastrophes to happen before we do something, the true cost of burning coal isn't being internalized properly; local citizens and people downstream of those rivers end up paying for it with their health and by losing their local environment (what if your family house was buried in potentially toxic sludge?).

If you make charcoal out of it, that would still release some CO2, of course — but the carbon that ends up as char coal is held back: Char coal does not decay that quickly (> 1000y) so if you put it into soil instead of burning it, you got THE ONLY CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHOD CURRENTLY KNOWN DOABLE.

Mr. Gore's mantra, like that of James Hansen, is ending coal burning in a hurry.

Bearng in mnd the great concumption of coal in the preceding 100 years and the wholesale burning of wood and coal for hundrds of years before that, logically we would have to blame man for ending the LIA as we came into the Industrial revolution.

The announcement that the UK government is cancelling funding (budgeted at stg 1 billion) for its proposed competition for carbon capture and storage (CCS) marks the end of the last best hope that we can mitigate CO2 emissions while continuing to burn coal.

While we share a logo and an ultimate goal to see an end to the mining and burning of coal with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in the US, we are an independent coalitcoal with the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in the US, we are an independent coalitCoal campaign in the US, we are an independent coalition.

To get the same amount of end user energy after installing equipment that uses 20 % to 30 % of the output of the plant for CCS, you need to burn 100 % * (1 /.02) to 100 % * (1/0.3) more coal or about 25 % to 43 % more, not 40 % to 60 % more.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

If we continue with business as usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, the global average temperature is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.

«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China simply built a new power plant and burned its own coal supplies.»

This is the «long tailpipe,» which starts at your electric car, goes through the transmission wires, and ends with the smokestack of a coal - burning power plant.

But (once the burning of the coal stops) these aerosols are fairly quickly removed from the atmosphere and the negative forcing ends.

While it's impossible to know precisely, since coal mining companies can adjust the amount of coal they extract as market conditions change, we will base our calculations on an assumption that this coal will be mined and burned during a period beginning in 2015 and ending in 2030.

When speaking at Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's 2013 news conference announcing her government's Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act, Mr. Gore said, «Ontario has become the first regional jurisdiction in all of North America to take these steps on the burning of cCoal for Cleaner Air Act, Mr. Gore said, «Ontario has become the first regional jurisdiction in all of North America to take these steps on the burning of coalcoal.

The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution's large - scale coal - burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

At the end of May, Amazon Web Services announced construction of three new data centers near Columbus, Ohio, in a region where between 70 % and 85 % of electricity is still generated by burning coal.

> peat moss The mass of the hypothetical peat moss would end up about equivalent to the mass of coal and oil burned, and the volume would be much greater.

The mass of the hypothetical peat moss would end up about equivalent to the mass of coal and oil burned, and the volume would be much greater.

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