Sentences with phrase «lot less coal»

China may in fact be able to develop shale gas on a big scale and that means they burn a lot less coal.

Just to lay it all out, I also believe that if the anti-nuclear brigade had not caused the nuclear designers to have to over design NPPs over the past 40 years, we would now have about twice as much nuclear power as we do, a lot less coal power, nuclear would be replacing coal around the world, more of the world would be electrified, their would be less poverty.

Not exact matches

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

«The CO2 emissions related to China's exports are large not just because they export a lot of stuff or because they specialize in energy - demanding industries, but because their manufacturing technologies are less advanced and they rely primarily on coal for energy,» said co-author Klaus Hubacek, a University of Maryland professor of geographical sciences.

Sand, gravel, coal, deicing salt or diamonds, grain, sugar, coffee or grapes and waste — a lot of everyday goods are more or less grainy.

Cut the number of coal plants in USA / EU and just get people there to use a lot less electricity.

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.

Peak coal may be a lot closer than most people think, especially if we go into gasification or liquefying, which take considerable energy leaving less net energy gain than if we just burn the coal directly.

The U.S. consumes a lot of coal, but still far less than China.

I can do a lot more at less cost by building nuclear power plants or converting coal fired generators to modern gas - fired ones.

Via LA Times More on LCD and Plasma TV Energy Issues: Competition for LCD: Better Image, A Lot Less Power Plasma TVs Suck (Electricity) Energy Star Getting Tougher on TVs, Tests Them When Turned On Flat Screen TVs Worse For Climate Than a Big Coal Plant

For example, there's a lot of discussion about Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS or «clean coal»), though less than there used to be.

If they included all the imported good, manufactured in the third world with coal, and then shipped to them, using oil, their own emissions would be a lot less significant.

Hard to believe that many of the countries that burn less than 2 %, the other 17.6 % are going to ramp up and import a lot of coal.

Flat Screen TVs Worse For Climate Than a Big Coal Plant Competition for LCD: Better Image, A Lot Less Power

It is a fantasy designed to get the support of Senator Graham and other fuzzy - minded Senators with visions of lots of new nuclear plants, billions for technology to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, less dependence on imported oil, and tariffs to protect American manufacturing jobs in energy - intensive industries.