Sentences with phrase «means less coal»

Take the growth of renewable energy: every rooftop solar panel means less coal and oil coming out of the ground.

Not exact matches

Mild winters mean less home heating, lower natural gas prices and therefore lower coal use.

It was then used to power very big and inefficient steam engines that pumped water out of mines; when James Watt developed his steam engine that used 75 percent less coal than the Newcomen engine it replaced, the common thinking was that the increased efficiency meant that they would burn less coal.

Even solar is thwarted because it would mean that we might need to burn less coal since a cetain amount of energy would be produced by solar.

Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?

He claimed that reliance on railroads to move tar sands oil meant that less rail capacity was available to transport coal and other things.

On the other hand, the fact that we're transitioning from coal to natural gas means less greenhouse gases.

The economics means that the oil price will go up as demand exceeds supply and at that point we will turn to less likely sources of oil, such as the tar sands, but eventually we will reach a point where converting coal to the usual oil products, such as chemicals and gasoline, will be a more economically viable route.

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

Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.

At the moment, reduced shipping from the US is unlikely to mean that China burns less coal, because China has invested heavily in coal - burning powerplants.

This means that if the government of a developing country spends money on a solar power station it will be able to supply less energy to its impoverished populaton than if it invested in, for example, coal.

That means (roughly) 20,000 times less coal ship and coal train movements and correspondingly less fuel used to drive those ships and trains per unit of electricity generated.

To those who don't believe CO2 is a problem, it's still a good idea — more efficient use of energy means less reliance on the Middle East, less push to mine coal...

The Obama Administration has shown a strong commitment to economic prosperity through cleaner energy, and that means new regulations to force dirty coal plants and oil refineries to clean up their act to create less pollution and more clean energy jobs.

Natural gas produces about 50 % to 70 % less CO2 than coal for a given amount of energy produced (the higher figure is compared to the less efficient coal plants, which are probably those being closed right now), and while fracking and moving natural gas around isn't a free lunch by any mean, it compares favorably to mountaintop removal and all the energy that this requires (moving a whole mountain and grinding rock down to powder, can you imagine how energy intensive that is?).

And it means that that idea of using activated carbon to scrub mercury from «clean coal» technology produced gases will become increasingly less cost effective as the Appalachian sources dry up.

Big energy players are now cutting their ties to non-renewable energy sources (oil, gas, coal, and fossil fuels) and are taking a 180 - degree turn to focus more on other means for renewable energy (such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) that are highly sustainable, cost - efficient, and less damaging to the environment.

In a nutshell, closing down coal fired power plants means less emissions of CO2, SO2, NOx and fine particulate matter.