Sentences with phrase «much about coal»

At that point, Stracher did not know very much about coal, but he had a strong background in chemical thermodynamics.

Because when I read the Bible, I don't remember reading much about coal formation or tectonic plates or anything like that.

Not exact matches

So, it's not so much about the act of walking over burning hot coals, but about having people face and overcome something in spite of fear.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

In 2007 he was still casting about for a novel resource — one that contained so much power it would cost less than coal — when he had an epiphany in midair.

«There's about as much carbon in permafrost as there is in coal, oil and natural gas put together,» said James White, a geological sciences professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Natural gas is by far the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon dioxide as the energy - equivalent amount of coal.

Countries such as these generate much of their electricity using coal, which he says produces about 1,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per GWh — nearly double the suggested threshold.

The smash - hit London musical, «Billy Elliot» (opening Nov. 13), is based on the hit 2000 film about a working - class lad from England's coal mining north who'd rather learn ballet than kick a soccer ball — much to the dismay of his family, especially his macho father.

Much has been said about the declining coal industry in Utah.

Digiconomist says that with much of the network powered by cheap coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.

And when he talks about others ways to provide energy, he's talking about burning twice as much coal by 2030.

Although there were a few, very few, voices in the wilderness telling of future problems from the CO 2, we know that the Fords and the Rockafellers were pretty much just plain stupid about the problems oil and coal would produce in this world.

If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.

It says nothing about people rushing to stoke the engine with more and more coal, or how much actual coal is added (thus the actual range of speeds to expect), or the possibility of a precipice with bridge out up ahead (runaway GW), how dangerous that might be at various speeds, entailing greater or less number of deaths, or how far or close that precipice is, which we don't know either (except we have some fossil evidence of train wrecks in which 90 % of life died, so we know it could be bad).

You note that China, to which much of the world has ceded its manufacturing, is unabashed about its thirst for coal and other resources.

When you think about it, Japan doesn't use very much coal.

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

If industry - generated aerosols have a more limited cooling effect than originally thought, we can clean up and scale down dirty coal plants without worrying too much about consequent sudden jumps in global temperatures of up to 2 degrees C (if I remember the upper limits of earlier studies correctly).

If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.

In an effort to move the discussion closer to that more «full portfolio» view, I would actually argue that if you care about climate, in the near term, you might want to be thinking about coal as much or more than you think about renewables.

Methane produces about 2 times as much energy as does coal for the same CO2.

Two fossil fuel facts define the basic actions that are required to preserve our planet's climate: (1) it is impractical to capture CO2 as it is emitted by vehicles (the mass of emitted CO2 is about three times larger than the mass of fuel in the tank), and (2) there is much more CO2 contained in coal and unconventional fossil fuels than in oil and gas.

Ms Ward has much to say about the cost of wind power, in fact a report from the World Energy Council places it as similar to coal and gas and cheaper than nuclear.

«Although there has been much reporting about metals contained in fly ash pond waters, including arsenic, copper and mercury, the ponds are designed to safely contain these metals which naturally exist in coal and remain in coal ash after combustion,» Sznajderman said in an email.

I'd quibble with you about lost coal jobs; that isn't so much due to the rise of renewables as to the regulation of coal in general; and I suspect that in fact, more coal jobs have been lost to natural gas than to renewables.

Additionally, I wanted to delve a little more into the much publicized domestic coal supply woes of China that we might have all read about at some point or another.

Your point about coal vs. oil availability in the 19th century is well taken, although I would remind you that much oil exploration (outside of the middle east) is not done on the cheap, and is indeed supported by generous subsidies from governments.

Carter - King is optimistic about how much better the coal industry is doing today than two years ago.

To achieve RCP8.5 using CO2 equivalent we would have to burn about twice as much coal as there is known to exist in an exponentially increasing manner.

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.

Why don't you continue to represent those fine coal industry geologists by pointing out a few that «know much, much more about the mechanisms of the atmosphere and its variations over time...» than the climatologists and atmospheric scientists that make it their profession to know how atmospheres vary over time.

«The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined.»

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the Earth's climate system and to its oceans.

Coal, which generated 34 percent of U.S. power in the first five months of this year — down from 49 percent in 2007, emits about twice as much carbon as natural gas when burned.

The potential exists at one particular Arizona mine with 10,000 acres of waste rock and tailings to produce up to 1 gigawatt of combined solar and wind power, about as much as an average coal - fired power plant, said Blair Loftis, national director of alternative and renewable energy for Kleinfelder, a large engineering consultant firm.

The system succeeded in meeting this demand, but the way it did so, through increased use of conventional energy, and in spite of mediocre to poor performance from renewables, has raised serious questions about the country's ability to withstand similar shocks in the future, when much conventional capacity, mostly coal, will have retired without replacement.

I think it's worth noting that even running on pure coal - electricty, a plug - in hybrid electric today would have much lower emissions of greenhouse gasses than the average new car today running on gasoline, and about the same emissions as a regular hybrid.

In the new version of «Northwest Coal Exports» we set out some basic facts about coal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences mightCoal Exports» we set out some basic facts about coal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences mightcoal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences might be.

In fact, not only are natural gas plants much cheaper to build, but they're ready in about half the time of coal.

China has shown the world how much it truly cares about global warming by burning significantly more dirty, carbon - unfriendly coal than it previously pretended.

The short version is that electricity from new natural gas plants costs about half as much as coal, and that's at gas prices approaching five dollars... two - and - a-half times the current price!

The report also identifies that if the least efficient 500 TWh of power generation in China's national coal fleet were to be upgraded to the same technology used at Zhoushan Unit 4, this could reduce China's CO2 by about 850 million tonnes each year and it would achieve this reduction at a much lower cost than any other equivalent, scalable, emission reduction strategy currently available in China.

Growing economic headwinds in the fossil fuel sector — particularly in the coal and oil industries — may bring about radical change much sooner than Obama's Clean Power Plan.

Natural gas, oil and coal are projected by EIA to supply about 76 percent of the world's energy in 2050, which is pretty much what it is projected to be this year.

As just one indicator, China's 20 - percent renewables by 2030 pledge means it will have to add about the same capacity in zero - emissions power as its coal - fired plants produce today — and nearly as much capacity as the entire US energy sector.

As a postscript I would like to make a few comments about the other side of the alleged dangerous climate change coin, our energy policy, in particular the much maligned fossil fuels; coal, oil, and natural gas.