Sentences with phrase «much coal comes»

They know better than anyone just how much coal comes out of the ground each year to turn lights on in Missouri or Texas.

Not exact matches

Some 40 percent of U.S. coal production comes from government land, much of it found in wide - open western states such as Montana and Wyoming.

Few thought Japanese regulators would take their sweet time evaluating whether the deal would give Glencore too much control over the market for certain types of coal that come out of HVO.

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

Much of the recent strength has come from a steep rise estimated for «other resource» prices, as sharply higher contract prices for iron ore and coal began to take effect from 1 April, and to a lesser extent, from rising base metals prices.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Much of that comes from power plants that burn coal or natural gas — emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, even more than was captured.

Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.

I personally worry that coal is going to be a problem as demand will come off much faster than we think.»

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

The results are much more divided when it comes to support for nonrenewable energy sources like offshore drilling (52 % oppose while 45 % are in favor of expansion in this area) and coal mining (57 % are opposed and 41 % are in favor of expansion).

Much of that heat comes from burning coal.

The new data indicated that much of the change came from heavy industry — including plants that produce coal chemicals and cement, as well as those using coking coal, which goes to make steel, Ms. Jones said.

Similarly, average factors probably overstate emissions from gas plants since much of the erosion in coal's base load share has come from the most efficient gas - fired power plants.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

# 253 Jerry it is only in recent times that Australian farmers are starting to come to terms with climate change, after more than a decade of denial from conservatives (and not much better from the new Labor government, who just love coal mines) and their supporters among farmers organisations etc..

Neither Hansen nor you can predict when coal use is likely to end, nor state what will «come around 2100» — as much as I respect Dr Hansen, I'd be as inclined to listen to Nostradamus for predictions of our situation 90 years hence.

From what I've read, those who've tried to do this show the hybrid coming out ahead even with a 100 % coal generation, and much better given the current generating mix.

One interesting facet of the report, «The All - Of - The - Above Energy Strategy as a Path to Sustainable Economic Growth,» is how much of the progress it describes — particularly in reductions of petroleum and coal use — came as a complete surprise.

There's just too much inertia in coal and oil and too much incentive to make sure all of it comes out of the ground.

This graph from ACIL Allen shows that should the RET be repealed or diluted, there will be a lot more coal generation, and much of the mothballed capacity will come back into service.

Then came «Coal 21», a 21 - company voluntary levy promising $ 1 billion of «clean coal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the gCoal 21», a 21 - company voluntary levy promising $ 1 billion of «clean coal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the gcoal» projects but in five years spent barely a tenth as much, and that on the easy, paper end of the game.

In Australia much of the financial support for Abbott's Liberal Party comes from the coal industry while in Canada PM Harper's support comes from the highly polluting tar - sands and oil - shale mining businesses.

Still, coal is very much a part of our energy economy today, and it will stay that way for plenty of years to come.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

When it comes to policy, it's pretty much impossible to limit the amounts of oil, gas and coal used unless one comes up with a superior way of replacing them.

China is the world's largest emitter, and much of its coal comes from Australia.

Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or DDT; the role of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change.

The industry is hoping much of its growth will come from filling the gap as governments force old coal power plants to close to meet climate change goals, as the UK has committed to doing by 2025.

The Power Technology website notes that «As gloomy portents go, they don't come much gloomier for «clean coal» than recent developments at the Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi», which is «widely regarded to be one of the world's biggest proofs - of - concept for clean coal» and which «has failed to deliver.»

Trump, China, and natural gas are giving coal a much - needed boost right now, and coming changes in the market are going to keep that up.

Her samples come from coal mines in many parts of the world; much of the recent work has been done in the Donets Basin, in the Ukraine.

Unless we can find a way to protect utilities from much of this economic and emotional risk, the shift from coal to gas will be slow in coming.

That has come courtesy of its association with conventional natural gas - which produces much less CO2 on combustion than coal and oil, and which is often touted as a «clean» fuel.

But just how much renewables, nuclear, and gas will mix to make up for the coming coal retirements will depend on a number of variables, including economic factors and whether the CPP goals are extended to 2040.

A possible scenario is not much happens with US coal but the Canadian tar sands keep coming.

Finally there is a cry from the heart — remember these quotes all come from IPCC lead authors, the guys at the coal face if we still dare cut coal — which says, «there are too many committees and working groups and way too much time spent talking!»

Look you've got a great blog here, but unless your side of this arguement comes to grips that the Ausies of South Africa or Indinesia will continue to export very «dirty» coal to India and China most of your arguements are pretty much blowing smoke in the wind...

Much of that coal won't go to power plants stateside, but it's coming out the ground anyway.

Much of Toronto's smog comes from coal - fuelled generating stations in the U.S. Midwest, and Ontario's giant Nanticoke plant.

If life were a James Bond movie, the villain would be Chinese and he would hatch a diabolical plot to scare the western world into destroying its manufacturing base by making energy really expensive and to burden it with so many stupid regulations that 10s of millions of jobs would be exported to China where they would burn vast quantities of coal and produce so much CO2 that whatever western nations did it would never come close to reducing emissions at all.

Much of our fuel comes from countries whose rulers do nt like us, yet we have hundreds of years worth of coal locked in our land.

In other words, the natural gas touted as a good way to power the US over the coming decades could be worse than using coal and make it much more difficult to cut greenhouse gas emissions more broadly.

Since 80 % of Denmarks electricity comes from coal this does nt really say much about wind wholesale prices.

Thus Nordhaus's DICE model says that the price of carbon emissions should eventually rise to more than $ 200 a ton, effectively more than quadrupling the cost of coal, but that most of that increase should come late this century, with a much more modest initial fee of around $ 30 a ton.

The world has been much hotter in the past as is shown clearly by coal deposits in Antarctica and Spitzbergan, Coal comes from wood which only grows in quantity in warm clicoal deposits in Antarctica and Spitzbergan, Coal comes from wood which only grows in quantity in warm cliCoal comes from wood which only grows in quantity in warm climes.

We TOLD you nothing would happen if you didn't listen to us, but I don't really pay attention, I'm not really listeng to them, another troll carefully explaining that if we convert to coal to gas plus burn all the oil plus shut down all the nuclear reactors it will happen in 90 years... and there ought to be one comment from Khartoum complaining that my instructions on how to build a quinzie should have included the fact that it generates its own heat source from within and melts almost instantly, and is there any way to harness this commercially because it appears to be perpetual motion, free energy, maybe we can use it to heat the planet because there's an ice age coming and it turns out the CO2 is pretty much useless.