Sentences with phrase «entirely on coal»

The average GED * / kwh of coal - generated electricity is 60 percent of the average residential retail price of electricity in a state relying entirely on coal.

West Virginia — which relies almost entirely on coal power and also depends on mining to drive the state's economy — must make a reduction of 37 percent.

Not exact matches

In a back to the future moment reminiscent of the 1990s tech boom, Chinese coal miner Yankuang Group is establishing an e-commerce platform focused entirely on selling high - end Australian products into fast - growing markets on the mainland.

After reading Roger Bezdek's deck, I was reminded of this quote from Jevons in 1865 which I posted on my blog not long ago: «Coal in truth stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities.

A cogent piece on coal, and I'm entirely sympathetic to the points you make, with the exception of your claim that it's meaningless for our generation to pick a number.

Regulation of carbon emissions from the power sector under provisions of the Clean Air Act depends almost entirely on the Environmental Protection Agency's determination that cheap natural gas generation is the «best available» alternative to coal power plants.

Without such technology, the impact on climate by the new coal plants would be significant, though not entirely unanticipated.

And even if Ohio's nuclear plants were entirely replaced with natural gas, the result will be that other coal plants in Ohio and neighboring states will stay on - line longer, resulting in more premature deaths.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

Construction is slated to begin on the backbone in 2013, but even before there are wind farms to plug into the grid, the transmission backbone will serve a purpose — carrying electricity from Virginia, where it's relatively cheap, to places like New York and New Jersey, where it's far more expensive (looks like the project won't be entirely coal - free...).

Some nations have it much easier, already using a great deal of renewable energy; and some nations have it much, much worse, being nearly entirely dependent on coal.

To read more about COP - 15 and Hopenhagen at TreeHugger: Voices from Hopenhagen: Andrew Winston On Hopenhagen, Naomi Klein Misses the Point Entirely The Week in Pictures: COP15 Climate Change Conference, «ClimateGate Scandal, Coal Fire Still Burns (After 47 Years), and More (Slideshow) COP - 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference

If the IPCC is unwilling to include a scientific discussion of renewable energy and «clean coal» claims, then they should stay out of policy decisions entirely and just focus on climate science, along with the rest of the climate science community.