Sentences with phrase «mine coal burned»

America's biggest coal burning plant is in striking distance of my air, actually, near Macon, Georgia.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

There will be no more coal burned in this office today, is that quite clear, Mr. Cratchit?»

Coal burns.

No one yet knew what live coals burned under those external ashes.

Let the coals burn for about ten minutes undisturbed.

The chile heat is present but not abrasive, like coals burning low after a fire dies down.

The bed of coals was easily height adjustable; i.e., when the coals burn down, you could just raise them by turning a knob while fire is on.

Our pizzas and calzones are baked to perfection in our signature coal burning oven, delivering a tantalizing aroma, unique flavor and crisp crust that is just not possible from gas, convection or wood burning ovens.

He had a little charcoal grill, and there was something about the smell of those coals burning.

«There will be coal burning.»

The fine particles it measures, mostly residues of coal burning and vehicle emissions, are linked to respiratory and heart disease.

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

That has helped to boost rates of cardiovascular disease and other health effects of such air pollution, a problem that combined with the health effects of air pollution from industrial coal burning that costs China roughly $ 66 billion dollars per year and causes 760,000 premature deaths, according to a World Bank report.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

Uniquely spherical magnetic minerals wafted over the world by coal burning can be found from peat bogs to lake sediments and may furnish a record of this carbon combustion for future geologists.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

A federal civil rights probe seeks to understand why the poorest bear the burden of waste from coal burning

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

Since then, cheap natural gas and shallow, easy - to - mine coal burned in traditional power plants have prevented the technique from taking off.

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

The paper, published in PNAS on Monday, examined pollution data and death records to see whether coal burning, long a source of air pollution, could have damaged public health across northern China in the 1990s.

Only since 1986 and the current oil glut, said Masse, has there been a resurgence in oil use and coal burning.

The linen is boiled with soap and soda and then washed in hollow wheels, rinsed, partly dried by centrifugal machines, and for the rest in hot - air ovens, which carry off nearly three pounds of moisture per pound of coal burnt, and is finally ironed between polished rollers, and then packed ready for return to Paris.»

The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.

In Krakow, Poland, where the study took place, as in many areas worldwide, coal burning is an important air pollution source.

The University of Oxford's ClimatePrediction.net offers an opportunity to at least predict the consequences of all that coal burning.

And yesterday, the collapse of a coal ash pond in Tennessee buried 12 houses and 400 acres — a reminder of the 129 million tons of radioactive and / or toxic waste left over after coal burning produced in the U.S. each year.

Crude MCHM, or 4 - methylcyclohexane methanol, is used to purge impurities so coal burns more cleanly.

And, even if those targets are met, greenhouse gas pollution may remain: Rising prices for natural gas in the U.S. meant an uptick in coal burning in 2013 — and an attendant 2 percent rise in CO2 from electricity production.

They found that across ocean basins, the ratio of human - generated mercury to human - generated CO2 tends to stay consistent among waters in the same layer of depth, because coal burning, for example, emits both mercury and CO2.

Research on coal burning in China offers powerful evidence of air pollution's effect on public health

After some residents passed out from carbon monoxide inhalation and another fell into the earth in 1981, when the ground suddenly collapsed — as the coal burns away, the ground above it often subsides into the resulting cavity — Pennsylvania received $ 42 million from Congress to relocate Centralia's residents.

Such climate changing pollution continues to increase — in 2010, the world emitted some 49 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, thanks largely to increased coal burning in countries such as China.

Carbon storage has to expand rapidly, or coal burning has to cease, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change

Industrial processes such as small - scale gold mining and coal burning emit mercury into the atmosphere.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

«China's central and western regions are rich in coal, and their environmental capacity is better than the Beijing - Hebei - Tianjin region, so we are encouraging them to develop coal - to - gas and to replace coal burning in eastern regions.»

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

That is equivalent to the weight of all the coal burned in the United States in seven months.

«Right now we put about 2.5 billion tons of carbon from coal burning into the atmosphere each year.

But to give you a sense of the challenge, here are his estimates of the scale of the challenge: six billion metric tons of coal burned every year, producing 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and requiring an underground storage volume of 30,000 cubic kilometers per year with untold consequences on subsurface pressure, mineral composition and the like.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

Findings of thousands of scientists have determined that the biggest driver of warming of the planet and the resulting climate change is industrial - scale coal burning.