Sentences with phrase «even coal supplies»

But if we decide to «opt in» and develop a strategy to achieve a secure, diverse energy future incorporating the undoubted strengths of the marketplace, we could sleep secure in our beds knowing that disruption of gas, oil or even coal supplies are not going to leave us in the dark.

Not exact matches

Assuming that takes place, gas will overtake coal as a source of world energy supply by 2030 and pull even with oil by 2035.

Those price differences have widened in recent months due to supply disruptions that pushed the price of steelmaking coal up over $ 300 per ton even as thermal coal prices where Alliance produces have remained around $ 50 per ton.

«He's targeting the largest share of coal production from an energy source that provides the largest share of U.S. electricity even now — removing coal will create a far less diverse energy supply and damages economies in coal states.»

Even in parts of the country where coal makes up most of the electricity supply, EVs produce the same amount of greenhouse gases as the best gasoline - powered nonhybrid vehicles that get about 33 mpg.

By Agnieszka Barteczko and Henning Gloystein WARSAW / LONDON (Reuters)- Poland, one of the heaviest polluters in Europe, will become even dirtier now that its shale gas ambitions have faded and it turns to cheap domestic lignite coal to secure its energy supply.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

A 2009 research paper published in the journal Energy Procedia predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come from coal.

Even as our nation is pivoting toward a more sustainable energy future, America's oil and coal corporations are racing to position the country as the planet's dirty - energy dealer — supplying the developing world with cut - rate, high - polluting, climate - damaging fuels.

The new gas supplies will most likely reduce, not increase, emissions, through replacing coal in electrical generation, a process that is already under way, even in the absence of a climate bill.

For instance — even while usage of some resources — although not power plateaued in the US — supply of electricity from coal powered plants increased globally.

But even much higher supplies of wind power would improve security only marginally, because the U.K. would still have to import just as much oil (wind replaces mostly coal, rarely oil) and much of its gas, leaving it dependent on Russia.

Mostly for reliability reasons, plant operators maintain stockpiles within certain ranges (usually about 50 to 80 days) even though coal supply disruptions of that duration are relatively unlikely.

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

Der Spiegel reports that «Germany's CO2 emissions haven't been reduced by even a single gram,» and additional coal - and gas - fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable supply.

In an additional twist, supply - side data appear to imply that the reduction in coal consumption should be much greater even than 4.7 %.

We had better hope that this (or more) comes about or else it will be even more coal as India is inevitably going to rapidly expand electricity supply from the current situation of per capita supply little more than 25 % of the world average.

Within about 15 years every new car sold in the United States will be electric... up to 60 percent of power might come from nuclear sources... and coal's footprint will shrink drastically, perhaps even disappear from the power supply.

Not even counting climate change, the cost to society from coal pollution is greater than the benefit it supplies.

In comparison, emissions from energy to power an electric Nissan Leaf would cost us $ 840 even if purely powered by coal, and $ 290 if fueled by electricity supplied entirely from natural gas.

Even in the United States, different interests help shape different attitudes: Poorer Americans in states more dependent upon cheap coal electricity are far less likely to support policies that would cost jobs or significantly increase energy prices than are wealthier Americans on the coasts, whose energy supply is already much cleaner.

BC's natural gas exports will be hit with a big CA carbon tax, even though the BC natural gas supplies displace demand for higher - emitting oil products and coal - fired electricity imports.

In the US, there has been substantial political pressure over the role of coal in the electricity system, leading to energy secretary Rick Perry to order a study on grid reliability and baseload power, which led to a controversial rule from the US Department of Energy allowing conventional generators to receive costs from suppliers to remain available, even when they are not required by the market.

On the other hand, Barack Obama — while not ruling out the use of greater nuclear power, clean coal, or even offshore oil drilling with qualifications — has expressed much greater confidence in the ability of renewable energy technology to supply a greater percentage of our energy needs in a shorter time period.

There are no power plants even remotely capable of supplying power to an Arctic coal mine.

And even if the U.S. continues to use coal at current levels of output — which is unlikely in the face of the looming political controls on carbon — the supply issue will almost surely come to a head in as few as 10 — 20 years.