Sentences with phrase «liquid coal»

But liquid coal comes with substantial environmental and economic negatives.

In the carbon - intensive scenario, the remaining demand would be met by liquid coal.

Early in the morning of Feb. 26, 1972, approximately 132 million gallons of liquid coal waste broke through a dam on Pittston Coal Company's facilities.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Lawmakers of both parties are proposing amendments to the so - called energy independence bill that would massively subsidize the coal industry to produce liquid coal as a replacement for foreign oil.

As pundits have pointed out, driving a Prius on liquid coal makes it as dirty as a Hummer on regular gasoline.

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.

Liquid coal meit double greenhouse gas emission than oil.

Why not invest to this clean energy to pursue derty liquid coal?

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.

From liquid coal to biofuels, military and commercial aviators are searching for domestically sourced, cost - effective and clean alternatives to petroleum - derived jet fuel

Heightened concern about oil dependence is generating growing support for alternative transportation fuels, but some fuels, like liquid coal and gasoline from tar sands would emit significantly more global warming pollution than gasoline or diesel, according to a new report issued human hand holding a citytoday by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Liquid coal — produced when coal is converted into transportation fuel — would at best do little to rein in climate change and would at worst be twice as bad as gasoline in producing the greenhouse gases that blanket the earth and lead to warming.

The conversion technology is well established (the Germans used it during World War II), and liquid coal can power conventional diesel cars and trucks as well as jet engines and ships.

Liquid coal is also a bad economic choice.

On the environmental side, the polluting properties of coal — starting with mining and lasting long after burning — and the large amounts of energy required to liquefy it mean that liquid coal produces more than twice the global warming emissions as regular gasoline and almost double those of ordinary diesel.

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

But, Scientific American, among others, has argued that liquid coal could very well be worse than gasoline, both environmentally and economically.

I object to your opening paragraph relating the liquid coal process to apartheid and the Nazis.

I think people are missing their way to make liquid coal.

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.

Via:: Herald Tribune, More parched communities ponder desalination solution AND New York Times, Venezuela Pushing «Liquid Coal» Image credit:: RoPlant, Tampa Bay Florida Reverse Osmosis Plant

Here's how this could happen: Without Renewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rise.

, A North American overview, Andrew Nikiforuk on Canada's Highway to Hell and Joe Romm on the tar sands — Canada's version of liquid coal

Using the label «liquid coal,» Venezuela started marketing a bitumen and water emulsion this year that is liquid and easy to handle like oil but priced like coal - a cheap and stable commodity.

Liquid coal, for example, can release 80 percent more global warming pollution than gasoline, the report found.

A version of this article appears in print on October 15, 1990, on Page D00001 of the National edition with the headline: Venezuela Pushing «Liquid Coal».

To «make carbs count» by describing performance - based policies that will reward low - carbon transportation fuels for their performance and help them compete against highly polluting fuels such as liquid coal (gasoline or diesel made from coal).

Eliminate the wasteful and environmentally damaging loan guarantees for nuclear power and liquid coal, which generate far fewer economic and jobs benefits than clean energy.