We just need to figure out as a society that reducing energy demand is a better and more cost / environmental effective solution than building
more coal plants.
For some communities,
using more coal waste on farms may reduce health risks associated with coal waste ponds.
But rather than calling
for more coal, oil and gas to be extracted he made it harder for these things to be used.
With more coal flowing through the terminal, the amount of dust settling on people's property is increasing.
Forty
percent more coal will have to be burnt to get the same amount amount of usable energy.
Natural gas is the pivot point around which the energy debate revolves today: Cheap gas means renewables struggle, but no gas
means more coal.
We really like the side door because it makes it super easy to
add more coal and keep the smoke and temperature going without interruption.
That increase comes largely because natural gas eventually
replaces more coal in electricity generation thanks to future carbon emissions reduction policy.
Bringing this full circle, CCS
requires more coal that is increasingly more costly to mine and has increasingly lower heat contents.
This exploitation of an urgent humanitarian need to
promote more coal - burning in poor countries is extremely misleading.
If more coal is consumed than expected under any of the forecast scenarios, then the alternative cement solution could have a larger mitigation benefit because of a larger supply of fly ash.
So if we don't
want more coal burned, we shouldn't increase its supply to market.
But the longer we put this off, the harder it gets — the carbon budget gets smaller, and there are
more coal plants and SUVs out there to replace.
As coal plants get retired, utilities aren't replacing them
with more coal.
More electricity
means more coal and natural gas burning, which, according to green dogma, means more greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
«If we can not stop the building
of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»
«Europe will need to see a
lot more coal plant closures to protect its citizens» health and to respect the UN Climate Agreement struck in Paris.
«The risks have also increased
as more coal ash continues to be produced by the coal plant and threatens other areas in Cebu, and there are still no clear plans for proper disposal,» said Mark Dia, Country Representative of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
U.S. energy companies have
exported more coal in the last six years than ever before, the report said, analyzing preliminary data released by the Energy Information Administration, or EIA.
But it is importing
more coal from the United States — a trend helped by the collapse of the European cap - and - trade market for carbon emissions in 2013.
As in past years, utilities all across the nation indicate they expect to continue retiring coal - fired generation, and virtually no one expects to add
more coal capacity to their systems in the next decade.
The average worker today could
buy more coal with an hour's pay than he could when «The Coal Question» was published in the last century, just as he could buy more metals and more food.
Such options include the inevitable expansion of Canada's own tar / oil sands (Keith Kloor has nicely knitted several views of this option),
ever more coal production and the global push to tap greatly expanded reserves of natural gas.
There is no conceivable way — barring perhaps quitting your job and becoming a recluse — that you will extinguish your backlog while constantly
throwing more coals on that particular fire.
China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, has been burning up to 17 per cent
more coal per year than the government previously disclosed, according to newly released data.
GE's alleged involvement in the Orion - Khulna project and expressed interest in
building more coal projects in Southeast Asia suggest that Hochberg very likely discussed financing the Orion coal projects in these meetings.
«Whether viewed from a climate perspective, a public health perspective, or a financial perspective, the implication is clear: rather than building
still more coal plants, the time has come to shift resources toward cleaner, safer, and ever cheaper alternatives.»
China produces about 37 percent of the world's coal, and consumes roughly three
times more coal than the US on an annual basis.
She went Green as that vision was running out of steam, in spite of its success (and she closed
far more coal mines than any environmental protest could wish for).
Last year Australian listed companies spent an estimated AU$ 6 billion on
developing more coal reserves.
In 2012 alone, China consumed 600 metric
tons more coal than previously indicated, which is equivalent to 70 % of annual coal use in the United States, according to a New York Times article.
The southeast has
more coal ash per capita than any other region of the country, so we hope Rep. Johnson's southern colleagues will co-sponsor and publicly support H.R. 4827.
By 2040 the old roof top panels will be cracked and faded and people will beg for
more coal powered electricity.