Sentences with phrase «into coal use»

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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.

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

In the old day, or possibly still today I'm not sure, coal miners used to carry a live canary in a cage when going into the...

When I was a small boy I used to sit in front of the coal fire in our living room, get lost while gazing into the glowing ash and flame, and just — im... More

When I was a small boy I used to sit in front of the coal fire in our living room, get lost while gazing into the glowing ash and flame, and just — imagine.

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.

When the flames have died down, but the embers are glowing brightly, use a long - handled tool to separate the coals into two piles.

We also need to explore alternative fuels with lower greenhouse gas emission profiles, integrate larger amounts or renewable into the electric grid and develop ways to use natural gas and coal in cleaner ways.

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.

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.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of coal in China may run into difficulties getting accurate numbers

After 10,000 gallons of coal - washing chemicals leaked into the Charleston - area's water supply, many residents still do not trust that the water is safe enough to use, despite the lifting of a «Do Not Use» oruse, despite the lifting of a «Do Not Use» orUse» order

Power plants burned coal that released sulfur into the atmosphere, but coal use has declined.

Compressed Air The Alabama Energy Cooperative opened a compressed - air energy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per square inch.

Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.

It is not just a matter that if we started to use lots of coal gasification techniques [in] which your burning coal, which [and] you pull in the carbon dioxide out before it goes into the atmosphere — you can't just rely on those.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

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.

«It's the first time ever for someone to take into account, systematically and comprehensively, the quality of the coal actually used in China,» Guan says.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Awardees will receive approximately $ 16 million to advance the gasification process, which converts carbon - based materials such as coal into syngas for use as power, chemicals, hydrogen, and transportation fuels.

Forest cover and topsoil are removed, explosives are used to break up rocks to access coal, and the excess rock is pushed into adjacent valleys, where it buries existing streams.

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

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.

Add to that the fact that not all rocks turn into coal chunks when you break them apart and you've got yourself a reason to use the word «grating» in a review of a debut title that did its best to charm you earlier.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

It seems to me that instead of putting efforts into restricting coal use in the third world, the efforts would be better spent on methods to encourage R&D to reduce the cost of cleaner energy generation to be competitive with coal.

Grow Garden Plants Honey Bees Love Former Coal Mines Turned Into Bee - Friendly Havens Saharan Bees Survive 10,000 - Year Isolation German Airports Use Bees As Biodetectives For Air Pollution New Bee Death Stats in US Bring Colony Collapse Disorder Back Into Focus Going Bee-less - Trials of Self - Pollinating Almond Trees Begin in California Green Eyes On: Is Bees» Thirst Leading to Their Demise?

Similarly, energy from coal has to be used to pump that CO2 into the ground.

«dnatwork» # 7 has to do the math to see that energy (derived from oxidizing coal) has to be used to convert CO2 into those carbon fibers.

Here's the take - home section of the new paper, which uses the acronym MTM / VF for mountaintop mining and valley fill (the rock removed to expose coal seams is pushed into adjacent valleys):

Another inceasingly used method is simply to co-fire dry biomass with fossil coal but there is now a Southern Company project to refit two coal reactors into forestry waste reactors.

A story by Roger Harrabin of the BBC yesterday provided the latest of many estimates that China's explosively growing use of coal for electric power had vaulted it past the United States into world leadership in emissions of carbon dioxide.

The plants will emit about 23 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to the I.F.C., but using technology that is 40 percent more efficient at turning coal into kilowatt - hours than the average for India.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

This would be better than pouring more subsidies into coal, whose use will be limited by the carbon emissions, and which creates environmental problems in the mining process (e.g., «mountaintop removal).

The research began as a project looking into using quick - growing algae to sequester carbon in CO2 emissions from coal power plants.

If we could get through this next transition phase into a world where we use coal because we have to, but capture its emissions because we can, the screaming could ease.

Severnini's methods — which took into consideration the geographical and temporal variation in exposure to the additional pollution — could be used to estimate future health impacts in nations that are closing nuclear plants and replacing them with plants using coal and other fossil fuels such as Germany, Japan, and the USA.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

To put the 25,000 reporting threshold into perspective, it is the amount of pollution emitted from the annual energy use of about 2,200 homes, approximately 58,000 barrels of oil consumed, or 130 railcars of coal.

I'm not against EPA getting into some stringent controls of real pollution that may be associated with coal fired power; enough is known about clean coal that there is no reason for the (US) to put up with the kinds of gunk we used to.

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

Dominion acknowledges on its website that climate change is a concern, but in the same paragraph notes its plans to use greenhouse - gas emitting coal and natural gas far into the future.

On Dec. 7, 2011, Peabody said it bought a 5.1 percent stake in Winsway, a company that specializes in importing Mongolian coking coal into China for use in the steel industry.

The Nazis used this process to turn coal into oil and fuel their machines of war.

By driving cars, using electricity from coal - fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

Their article, «The End of Cheap Coal,» calls into question assumptions of endless supplies of cheap coal, using much of the same logic as earlier predictions around the end of cheap Coal,» calls into question assumptions of endless supplies of cheap coal, using much of the same logic as earlier predictions around the end of cheap coal, using much of the same logic as earlier predictions around the end of cheap oil.