Sentences with phrase «from coal usage»

In 2011, world gross emissions from coal usage were 14,416 million tonnes» http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

And though technology is improving our ability to reduce emissions from coal usage, natural gas is still a much cleaner source»

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By 2035, the IEA estimates that world coal consumption needs to fall by 30 percent from current levels, while global oil usage will have to drop by 12 percent.

It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?

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

Intelligent usage of Coal will come from thoughtful, practical and economically - sound solutions.

your link cites rising pollution from burning coal, which if anything bolsters the case for increased solar usage.

Taking capacity factors into consideration and using the above data on land usage, to replace the energy from all 274 gigawatts of coal - fired capacity that the United States currently has with wind power would require a land area consisting of almost the entire state of Washington — over 12 times the land area that the coal - fired units require.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

That cleaning process is separate from the usual usage of «clean coal» in the sense of carbon removal and pollution reduction.

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

The fact is that there are many other ways of reducing emissions — we can reduce our energy usage, we can reduce the carbon intensity of energy by replacing coal - fired power with gas, we can reduce emissions from agriculture by eating and farming less cows and sheep and more kangaroos and vegetables, we can sequester carbon in biomass by ending native forest logging and re-vegetating cleared land.