Sentences with phrase «much coal falling»

They say, «Hello, no much coal falling these days!»

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With the benchmark price having fallen 86 % from its peak in 2006, coal generators, with their much lower fuel costs, have little trouble competing with gas.

That figure may well be much smaller by the time of the next election, because the market value of some of the major companies has been falling rapidly, and the value of their coal, oil and gas fired power stations is falling even faster.

If all that coal power was replaced by cleaner natural gas, greenhouse - gas emissions from the power sector could fall by as much as 7 percent.

But Jared Ciferno, Director of the Office of Coal & Power R&D at the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, said much work is under way to make such proofs a reality, ready for implementation when economic factors fall into place.

Production in Wyoming and Montana, where much of government coal is located, fell 18 percent in 2016 from the prior year.

While government policy to diversify energy sources has driven much of this near - term growth, a sharp fall in technology costs has accelerated the deployment of renewables to the point where in some regions they now can compete with coal or gas without subsidies.

The statistical communiqué reported that coal consumption in 2016 had fallen by a whopping 4.7 % when measured in weight (tonnes), compared to just 1.3 % when measured by how much energy it contains (joules).

1Coal combustion emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as does the combustion of natural gas, whereas the amount from crude oil combustion falls between coal and natural gas, according to Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1985 - 1990, DOE / EIA -0573 (Washington, DC, September 1993), p. 16.

Next, we heard that Chinese coal imports had fallen too, an indicator that is considered much more reliable than domestic consumption by many experts.