Sentences with phrase «from coal use»

This growth is expected to lead to a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 900 million tonnes through 2050, or about the same level of emissions growth as from coal use in the power and the entire industry sector combined.

(China's annual CO2 emissions primarily come from coal use.

Coal cleaning by washing and beneficiation removes this associated material, prepares the coal to customer specifications and is an important step in reducing emissions from coal use.

A number of technologies, collectively known as flue gas desulphurisation (FGD), have been developed to reduce SO2 emissions from coal use.

The huge fall in CO2 from coal use in 2016 was partially offset by increased emissions from oil (up 1.6 %) and gas (up 12.5 %).

Third, new technologies, such as underground coal gasification and especially carbon capture and storage, can — if given substantial financial support — reduce emissions substantially from coal use in power plants and industrial facilities.

Such a tax would be imposed not just on gasoline but on all fossil fuels — from the coal used to generate electricity to the diesel used to run tractors — so it would affect the price of nearly everything, including food and manufactured goods.

Here's a question: It's technically feasible to produce liquid fuel from coal using the Fischer - Tropf process.

Not exact matches

It's about where the coal comes from and what it will be used for.

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

For instance, in 2002, around 45 - 50 percent of the company's energy mix — what is used by its customers — came from coal, according to spokesman Rayhan Daudani.

Worse, they are producing that energy using creaky old coal plants that are, apart from generating a lot of pollution, sometimes unreliable.

Beijing has promised to implement «extraordinary» measures this year in a bid to tackle choking smog from traffic congestion and the heavy use of coal.

Heavy - equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics and engineers from the coal industry may be able use their know - how in a variety of businesses, including the fledgling drone industry that's emerging in Hazard.

But in the long run, the movement hopes to «start a conversation» about all aspects of the B.C. coal industry, from production to use and everything in between, says the Dogwood Initiative's Laura Benson.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

Additionally, global kerosene use has been estimated to emit up to 200 million tons of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of emissions from approximately 60 large U.S. coal plants, heightening the need to develop sustainable alternatives.

From the mid 2000s, the prices for commodities used to produce steel and generate energy — including iron ore, coal and natural gas — rose sharply.

Those actions would follow the Obama administration's policies, which include regulating emissions from coal - fired power plants and increasing renewable energy use.

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, they made it possible to move heavy goods, like coal, from mines to factories, using a fraction of the energy required by road transport.

New energy value chains can emerge from Canada's uranium exports to India, where, like coal, Canadian exports would be used as upstream inputs in producing energy for final consumption in India.

He is strongly opposed to traditional coal plants and would use whatever means necessary to stop new plants from being built, including a ban on new traditional coal facilities.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, one out of every five homes and business in the US use electricity made from Wyoming coal.

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amounts.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

By using the term coal, I am drawing attention to specific aspects of my experience; that is, I am abstracting from my experience.

Presumably that means divesting from companies that are engaged directly in coal, gas, and oil exploration and production, though not their use.

He lightly salts 15 - pound pork shoulders, using no rub and no basting, and then the shoulders are placed on metal racks in the pit and are cooked over hickory coals (some use oak) shoveled from a burning chamber (see above) into the pit, below the shoulders.

If using a smoker, don't add wood chips for smoke, instead just place a pan of water between the coals and the wrapped meat to keep the «package» from drying out.

This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.

Republicans: Bush withdrew the U.S. from the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and fossil fuel use (oil, coal).

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

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.

Choosing to use water from one of the world's largest aquifers rather than leaving it in the ground is not irresponsible, says Andrew Stone, executive director of the American Groundwater Trust in Concord, N.H. Like coal or natural gas, groundwater is a valuable resource.

In other words, to get away from fossil fuels requires not just expanding alternatives but also discouraging the use of coal, oil and natural gas.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

Coal silt from the Lehigh Gorge site fills a split - spoon, a tool used to remove cross-sections of soil.

Using waste heat from a coal plant to power the heat pump can mean 80 per cent of the energy put into the slush can be retrieved.

«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.

[D] uring gasification, roughly half of the sulfur, mercury, arsenic, tar, ash, and particulates from the used coal remain in the subsurface, and any sulfur or metals that reach the surface arrive in a chemically reduced state, making them relatively simple to remove.

China's massive jump in coal use - to 3.8 billion metric tons in 2012 from 2.5 billion metric tons in 2006 - drove prices of benchmark Asian thermal coal to average $ 121 a metric ton in 2011, from less than $ 50 five years earlier.

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.