Sentences with phrase «greater coal use»

That action will indirectly result in price pressure on that other fuel which will be compensated for by greater coal use somewhere else.

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Glasgow, Scotland (CNN)- Robert Marshall is the burly, landlord of The Louden Tavern, a pub located in the west end of the Scottish city of Glasgow, on the south bank of the same Clyde River that was once used to ferry coal and steel to the great shipbuilding companies that in the past made this area an industrial powerhouse.

As an example, I firmly believe that there is great promise in advanced technologies, such as Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), that can allow us to use our domestic coal and natural gas with greatly reduced carbon emissions.

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.

First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.

The USA is gradually switching from coal to gas as low gas prices make it favourable to burn, and it could make stronger use of particularly cheap gas since a great deal is produced within the country, but political will at present is still focused on retaining the use of coal.

Research and development to advance coal, natural gas, oil, and other fossil energy technologies, which will help the country make greater use of our rich natural energy resources and help keep down energy costs, are funded at $ 635 million — a decrease of $ 33 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 355 million above the budget request.

For the past four years almost nothing meaningful has been done to stop the rampant production and release into the atmosphere of ever greater amounts of carbon dioxide, and there have even been more frantic calls for more production of oil and expanded use of coal as a fuel.

When used to generate electricity, the shale - gas footprint is still significantly greater than that of coal at decadal time scales but is less at the century scale.

«Using and liquefying coal is an available technology, but under current conditions, there would be a great deal of CO2 released from making liquids out of coal.

The annual increments for the past few decades have been slightly larger for oil than for coal, but coal use has accelerated in the past few years, and in the long run coal will be the greatest source because of its larger reserves (discovered deposits) and estimated resources (deposits still to be discovered).

He talks to [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, and they're doing this great job of expanding solar, but they're also going to double their coal use because they need electricity for 300 million people.

No / Low Regrets Actions: (1) Fast Mitigation; (2) Renewables following sound engineering economics; (3) Increased use of Natural Gas internationally; (4) ABB's view on Energy Efficiency (supercritical coal); (5) Land / Agricultural Practices; (6) Win / Win Foreign Trade with Developing Countries; (7) Greater R&D.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

The English got rid of wind power in the 1600's at the start of the Great Industrial revolution as they learnt to tame and use steam power with coal as the fuel source.

The industry even mocked Garnaut's suggestion about the non-baseload future for brown coal generators, where they could be shut down for months and used more sparingly in times of greater demand.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, using liquefied coal as a fuel source would produce 119 percent greater greenhouse gas emissions than using petroleum - based fuel.

As a result, a cap - and - trade system's effect on the cost of coal use would be significantly greater than its effect on the cost of gasoline or natural gas consumption.

If the US were to provide support for our level of pollution control technology to developing region coal - fired power plants and the latest and greatest efficient boilers were used then the power available could address energy poverty.

«Greater use of coal... is a major part of this solution.»

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

Research suggests that the most significant effect of a carbon tax on electricity generation technology would be less use of coal and greater use of natural gas.

But the scientific report in Nature Climate Change suggests that under the «business as usual scenario» − whereby no steps are taken to address climate change, and the expanding the use of coal, oil and natural gas dumps ever greater quantities carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then such conditions could occur once every decade or so before 2100.

President Trump is on the path to becoming a great president because he embraces the fulsome use of fossil fuels, including «beautiful, clean coal».

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

Indeed during the seventies, when the coming ice age was the current theory, there was a great deal of research for using finely powdered coal to do just that.

While power from natural gas shrank considerably, the increase in electricity from lignite and hard coal was compensated for by greater use of renewables, so that the CO2 intensity of power generation remained the same in 2013 as in the previous year.

Nevertheless, the article shows that there is great potential for, over two decades, dramatically reducing American use of coal for electricity generation without impoverishing America.

«There are a number of companies that are promoting constraints on coal use to achieve greater profits and / or competitive advantages,» Murray said at the coal conference.

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.

She says that solutions include greater use of scrubbers, increased energy efficiency, and switching from coal to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewables.

Some nations have it much easier, already using a great deal of renewable energy; and some nations have it much, much worse, being nearly entirely dependent on coal.

With Norway considering divesting from oil and coal, the Church of England using its economic muscle to fight the «great demon» of climate change, and the Bank of England receiving warnings over a carbon bubble, divestment is by no means limited to liberal universities anymore.

To date, we have added about 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 from fossil fuel use (this is my recollection from papers by Meinshausen and others), and so by my very rough calculations, coal alone would permit us to contribute much more to atmospheric CO2 than we have already done, with a warming effect substantially greater than what we have already observed — and that is without counting oil and gas reserves.

This is a great way to produce clean energy instead of using coal.

Research by Fresh Energy, a Minnesota - based nonprofit that is also the publisher of Midwest Energy News, found that the electric storage water heater program operated by Great River Energy (GRE) emits substantially more carbon than heaters using natural gas or propane, because the utility still depends on coal for two - thirds of its generation.

If you have followed the kitchen nook and great room refresh, I used a lot of Fusion's Coal Black and Ash on the picture frames.