Sentences with phrase «less coal due»

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Even China's efforts to combat those rising concentrations — in part by switching from burning coal to capturing the power latent in rivers like the Yangtze — falter in the face of global warming, as a result of less water in those rivers due to drought and the dwindling glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau.

Energy emissions have declined to lowest levels since 1991 due to lower heating demand, less coal usage, and utilization of more renewable energy sources.

Hydro generation during August was short by around 17 per cent due to less inflow of water, leading to increase in generation from coal - based stations, he said.

The Department also points out that, due to the higher energy requirements of extracting the oil, shale oil produces less energy than conventional oil, coal or wood.

Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid electricity from coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you say.

The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

Note: The sum of «Production» and «Imports» less «Exports» may not equal «Consumption» due to changes in stocks, losses, unaccounted - for coal, and special arrangements such as the United States shipments of anthracite to United States Armed Forces in Europe.

Oil is especially useful due to its portability (I don't expect coal - burning cars to come on the market any time soon), so I wouldn't expect the drop in oil consumption to be made up for with other lesser fossil fuels.

Last year the Energy Information Administration noted that the «decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.»

China's emissions declined by 1.5 %, mainly due to less coal being burned.

An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.

When coal is burned due to combustion that is more or less completed the result is different levels of energy (B.T.U.'s), and different levels of air emissions (Sulfur Dioxide - SO2, Mercury - Hg), greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide CO2, Nitrogen Oxide - NO3), and amounts of ash that can potentially be toxic dependent on the conditions within the combustion chamber and ash that can or can not be used in a secondary market (ex.

But where coal - fired capacity is expanding, in emerging economies for example, less efficient, subcritical units dominate, primarily due to the absence of minimum efficiency policies.»

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

About half of this reduction is due to differing carbon intensities of the fuels (natural gas emits 40 percent less carbon than coal per unit of heat).

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

«The temperature change over the last century, even if it were all due to man, is so much less than the models predict,» said Lindzen, who has received government funding for his research during Republican and Democratic administrations, but hasn't conducted any research for oil or coal companies.

Much of this reduction is due to far less use of the state's only remaining coal - fired power station, the Northern, which, as of 2013, was being run for only the warmer half of each year.

As power demand growth slows from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, the coal capacity in the pipeline, as well as some existing coal capacity, risks becoming stranded due to low carbon capacity targets, ongoing reforms in the power sector and carbon pricing.

Luckily, coal - fired plants are closing down throughout the U.S. as the fuel becomes less profitable due to state and federal regulations, an aging fleet, and competition from other sectors such as natural gas, wind, and solar (3).