Sentences with phrase «from coal combustion»

Energy and environmental analysts will find EIA's emission factors useful for analyzing and monitoring carbon dioxide emissions from coal combustion, whether they are estimated by the State of origin of the coal, consuming State, or consuming sector.

You can get about 50 times the energy out of solar cells covering the same area as a bio-reactor tank that depends on photosynthesis, so I don't think the idea that fertilizing bio-fuels with the CO2 from coal combustion makes sense.

Yet, undeniably replacement of coal combustion with non-fossil energy would create a much greater reduction in the long run in the US carbon footprint than a shift to natural gas from coal combustion would alone.

It finds that the overall economic costs of health impacts from coal combustion in the EU at up to 62.3 billion Euros.

His rapid - fire mind allowed us to fit in a long list of issues, from the ebbing and surging of China's power over the centuries to the merits of Honda Civics and a low - meat diet, from the persistent threat of terrorism and nuclear war to what he says is the fantasy of capturing and burying carbon dioxide from coal combustion at a scale the atmosphere might notice.

Most atmospheric sulphur dioxide in East Asia is emitted from coal combustion and industry, whilst the bulk of sulphate particles in the Northern Hemisphere are formed from sulphur dioxide caused by human activities.

When Biden says «My record for 25 years has supported clean coal technology», he's clearly talking about removing sulphur and nitrogen oxydes from the coal combustion gases.

The technology can remove about 90 to 99.9 % pollutants from coal combustion.

The sludge is a byproduct of the ash from coal combustion.

«As the Clean Air Act and amendments have taken effect there has been a reduction in sulfur emissions from coal combustion, so that the amount of atmospheric sulfur deposited each year is only 25 percent of what it used to be.

In Texas, the Petra Nova project, a joint venture between NRG Energy and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp., is capturing CO2 from coal combustion, which is then piped to an oil field 80 miles away.

There are laws and rules that address the impacts of current mining operations and abandoned mine sites; air pollution from coal combustion; and disposal of the ash left over after coal is burned.

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that would no doubt alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal - ash spill in 2008.

Overall, I have yet to see anyone rebut the simple calculations of Vaclav Smil, the resource and risk polymath at the University of Manitoba, who has shown how capturing and processing just a small percentage of today's CO2 from coal combustion would require as much pipeline and other infrastructure as is now used globally to get oil — a costly commodity — out of the ground.

A study by DOE's Oak Ridge National Lab found that radioactive emissions from coal combustion are greater than those from nuclear power production.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning gas are a fraction of those from coal combustion, but gas wells and pipelines leak, so it's not clear whether switching to gas really reduces greenhouse emissions.

Just a quick note to those seeking a rapid decline in emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollution) from coal combustion: The challenge, in a world with rising populations and energy appetites, is getting harder by the day.

Petroleum emissions have declined since the late 1990s largely because many facilities transitioned to natural gas; emissions from coal combustion are nominal.

Using a 20 - year GWP for methane, the 50 % goal would achieve reductions of over 2,300 MTCO2e (the equivalent of India and the EU's combined CO2 emissions from coal combustion in 2012) and the 75 % goal would reduce emissions by around 3,400 MTCO2e (nearly as much as all CO2 emissions from coal combustion from OECD countries in 2012).

Later, from 1980 to 2000, the atmospheric trend of GEM concentrations and global estimates of anthropogenic emissions of mercury to the atmosphere (mainly emissions from coal combustion) exhibit a similar trend: a large decrease during the 1980s and then stabilization between 1990 and 2000 (3, 50, 51).