Sentences with phrase «getting out of coal»

It is time to start getting out of the coal mines.»

From Australia to Mozambique, new coal mines costing billions of dollars are being mothballed, and major mining firms are getting out of coal, according to Tim Buckley of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

«Starting with the global review due next year, countries have to get out of coal and strengthen their existing targets so as to keep open the window to the Paris goals.

One of its top recommendations was for rich countries to get out of coal as quickly as possible.

Not exact matches

For shareholders, it made financial sense to get out of the industry a year ago, when mining stocks and coal prices were collapsing.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

Solar pv has dropped 70 % in cost in the last 6 years and has become competitive with coal (which is dropping in price as commodity) making it more and more expensive to get out of the ground.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

In a related story, Meredith Baxter's agent is presently getting an earful of «Why didn't you get me out front on clean coal!?»

Poor nations say wealthy countries got rich using coal, oil and gas and they must be allowed to develop their way out of poverty.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

Most in the coal industry argue that market forces will sort out the problem, a dubious view shared by the Bush administration, but that seems improbable unless IGCC technology gets cheaper or the cost of emitting carbon goes up.

When I mention clean - coal technology to Judy Bonds, a local activist and coal miner's daughter in Whitesville, West Virginia, she scoffs: «Even if you could get marshmallows to come out of a power plant's smokestacks, you can't wash the blood off coal.»

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

Steve: The first part of the book, before you get to the case - by - case analysis of the threatened and endangered birds, the first part of the book is just like a traditional book, you can sit there and read it and it has various sections and one of them talks about birds, as you know, literally canaries in coal mines and the rest of the bird species out there as our canaries in the ecological coal mine that we are in.

At least Holly, myself, Lara, and Hannah have the ovaries to continually put our work out there into the world, at the risk of getting raked over the coals by people like you.

Let us get this out of the way first: Anurag Kashyap's generation spanning story set in the coal capital of India and spanning almost 70 years comfortably, nay confidently, belongs alongside the great crime sagas of the cinema: The Godfather Trilogy, City of God, Bertolucci's 1900, Heimat and Election.

* In the Fade: Diane Kruger's total immersion in the pain and rage of a woman dreadfully wronged... * Second by second, the most astounding performance of the year: Cameron Britton as Ed Kemper in Mindhunter... * Get Out: TV - like image of Mrs. Armitage (Catherine Keener) receding in darkness as Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) «sinks into the floor»... * Bronze box in ebon cosmos above ocean of stars — Twin Peaks: The Return... * The Other Side of Hope: gray face pushing up out of coal bin... * Almost subliminal glimpse of Maureen (Kristen Stewart) disappearing into a boutique doorway; how longshots of public spaces somehow enhance profound interiority, Personal Shopper... * But of course: Julianne Moore a great silent - movie face, WonderstruckOut: TV - like image of Mrs. Armitage (Catherine Keener) receding in darkness as Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) «sinks into the floor»... * Bronze box in ebon cosmos above ocean of stars — Twin Peaks: The Return... * The Other Side of Hope: gray face pushing up out of coal bin... * Almost subliminal glimpse of Maureen (Kristen Stewart) disappearing into a boutique doorway; how longshots of public spaces somehow enhance profound interiority, Personal Shopper... * But of course: Julianne Moore a great silent - movie face, Wonderstruckout of coal bin... * Almost subliminal glimpse of Maureen (Kristen Stewart) disappearing into a boutique doorway; how longshots of public spaces somehow enhance profound interiority, Personal Shopper... * But of course: Julianne Moore a great silent - movie face, Wonderstruck...

Using coal to power vehicles is outdated and no amount of pc waffle will get the smoke out of the air or out of our lungs!

Read on to find out which one deserves to deck your hall and which ones get a lump of coal.

Between all of your research into new resource buildings and other things, then, you have to consider increasing the range of your generator and the amount of heat it can output, but for each new increase the amount of coal the generator consumes is vastly increased, straining your ability to get the black fuel out of the ground fast enough.

In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

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.

When we send money to big oil and king coal, that money gets filtered upward into a top - down corporate hegemony that keeps money out of local communities.

As did Its getting hot in here, where we repeat the first and last verse of the Twelve days of Coal Christmas, you can figure out the middle ones:

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.

To me it seems that the coal industry, recognising that the game will soon be up, has conned our rather stupid state government into helping them ramp up production rapidly to make a windfall profit before they go out of business — akin to drug dealers getting governments to help them ramp up sales before banning the product.

Edward (332), Good point; but if you get them to build no more coal plants as of 3 years from now, that's not just waiting them out and they'll come along 20 - 30 years from now.

It's a big job, but it's one that has to be done anyway, since if the whole world tries to pull itself into prosperity by burning carbon at the rate the US does, then we run out of coal even at the highest estimates by 2100, and you wind up with no fossil energy and the hellish climate you get from 5000 gigatonnes cumulative emission.

Long life of c02 going to have additional c02... phase out coal by 2030 because of finite volume of gas we could get back to 350ppm.

We need to make the coal and oil companies pay their fair share of taxes, and get out of the government trough once and for all.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

If you make charcoal out of it, that would still release some CO2, of course — but the carbon that ends up as char coal is held back: Char coal does not decay that quickly (> 1000y) so if you put it into soil instead of burning it, you got THE ONLY CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHOD CURRENTLY KNOWN DOABLE.

While the United States is shutting down old coal - fired power plants and not building new ones, Europe — also because of the commitment in Germany to get out of nuclear power — is moving back to coal.

We did not succeed in what we set out to do except for the fact that tens of thousands of people up and down the East Coast got to see the panel and got to start thinking about how to get our most important piece of real estate off of coal.

With limited resources, they mounted a formidable campaign that got residents out to picket and attend public hearings, organize «Toxic Tours» of industrial sites and stage a «Coal Olympics» timed around the city's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

While Friedmann said he expects some natural - gas plants and a few coal - fired power plants to get enough of an economic edge from the credits, they are likely to pencil out more positively for industrial applications at first.

Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.

«Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, wrote the Framework Convention on Climate Change when she was an East German,» Michaels pointed out, but «Germany has resumed building coal - fired power plants because they can't get enough electricity out of solar energy and windmills.

The study, entitled «State of Charge: Electric Vehicles» Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States,» points out that charging an electric vehicle with coal - based electricity yields the same carbon impact as at conventional car that gets 30 miles per gallon (mpg).

We got North Sea Gas and the use of coal for heating died out.

I was fortunate enough to find out that these greenhouse skeptics were getting paid sort of under the table by the coal industry.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

Please project out a 3 % average annual decrease in coal mine productivity and project the cost of the coal that we would need to get to 1000ppm.

Their reserves actually grew 3 %, primarily because India's bureaucracy and corruption make it very hard to get coal out of the ground.

But such is the extent of regulatory capture in the electricity sector, that the government has handed out billions of dollars to coal fired generators to ensure they stay open, offered billions more to ensure that some actually close, as well as offering loan guarantees to all and sundry in case they get into a spot of bother (which is probably all they needed in the first place).

He also pointed out that they will not join in unless economically viable (i.e. inexpensive) solutions are found to get away from coal, which both nations have large reserves of.

And while oil is getting expensive to extract, there are a lot of BTUs out there in gas, coal, tar, and oil shales that probably can be extracted at no greater cost than petroleum today.

MS: But even in my lifetime, from childhood through to now -LSB-...] when we were using coal and whatever else -LSB-...] Britain for instance had a terrible atmosphere and it was... if you blew your nose you got black out of your nostrils because of the fog etc... fog and the smog.