Sentences with phrase «like liquid coal»
It also makes some false solutions look a lot more appealing to the public, like liquid coal or deforestation diesel, while providing the incentive to use «unconventional oil» such as Canadian tar sands or Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil.
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While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.
The flammable liquid with a gasoline - like odor is found in coal tar and petroleum, as well as tobacco smoke.
But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040
I would like to find out if there was any pressure exerted on China to slow down its effort to turn coal into liquid fuels.
«Closet carbon», as this paper has quoted me calling the carbon released in making «bio» fuels like corn ethanol or coal to liquids, would be taxed, too, no exceptions.
Petroleum - fired generators either burn petroleum liquids (such as distillate or residual fuel oils) or petroleum coke, a refinery waste product that can be used as a fuel much like coal.
As recoverable oil reserves dwindle, there will be increasing pressure to convert coal to liquid fuels as well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and oil shale.
We don't want LNG [liquid natural gas] facilities anywhere near us; we don't want to explore for oil and gas; we don't like coal; we won't touch nuclear.
Second, relying on unconventional oil like tar sands and liquid coal to make up a supply shortage, as the oilmen say we must, would be climate catastrophe.
In practice, «alternative energy» subsidies have overwhelmingly gone to things like corn ethanol, nuclear energy, «clean coal,» and hydrogen; the way things are going we can expect liquid coal to hop on the bandwagon as well.
They are working to protect communities from toxic coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040