Sentences with phrase «much coal it burns»

Gerard Harbison says: July 10, 2014 at 1:01 pm «You know how many MW your power plant produces, and you know how much coal you burn.

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.

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burninBurning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burningburning coal.

This commodity has a higher carbon content than thermal coal and burns at much higher temperatures.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

Record high prices in Asia have had several impacts, including providing economic incentive to bring on additional supply, maintaining a continued reason to burn much cheaper coal despite the negative environmental consequences and a search by consuming nations for secure supply options.

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.

But the court accepted the Australian government's case that there was no definitive proof that coal from the Carmichael mine would increase global greenhouse emissions, because multiple factors affect how much coal is burned annually.

-- A 100 - story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant — a total of 3.5 million tons a year.

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.

It is much cleaner to burn natural gas than to burn crude oil or coal.

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.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

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.

But we can not burn coal much longer without somehow sequestering the resultant C02.

Efforts such as GreenGen bode well for resolving those complaints, but China is also moving ahead with efforts to turn coal into liquid fuel — a costly transformation that emits twice as much CO2 as does simply burning the black rock and consumes yet more energy.

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.

ROBERT LAUGHLIN, a Nobel laureate for his work in quantum physics, starts his study of our energy futures with an absurd proposition — that it doesn't matter much whether we burn all our coal and oil or leave it underground.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

The purity makes the capture process cheaper than what is needed to capture CO2 from the burning of coal, which creates a much more complex stream of gases than a wet corn mill.

Burning natural gas, for example, produces half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as burninBurning natural gas, for example, produces half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as burningburning coal.

And attaching the Calera process to the nation's more than 600 coal - fired power plants or even steel mills and other industrial sources is even more attractive as burning coal results in flue gas with as much as 150,000 parts per million of CO2.

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

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.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Much of that heat comes from burning coal.

The outcome depends on how much more carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, human activities (such as burning coal and oil) dump into the atmosphere.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

A version of this article appears in print on November 4, 2015, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: China Is Burning Much More Coal Than It Claimed.

«Our results indicate that, pound for pound, coal - burning particles contribute roughly five times as much to heart disease mortality risk as the average air pollution PM 2.5 particle in the United States,» he added.

Mercury toxicity could be from eating too much mercury - laden fish and shellfish, mercury amalgam fillings, simply breathing air containing mercury (from coal burning), vaccines and flu shots and contact lens solution.

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

We'll be writing more on the much wished - for notion that large volumes of carbon dioxide from coal burning can be captured, compressed and pumped into the earth or deep in the sea for long - term storage.

There's much more, including on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns imported coal (Germany is closing down its coal mines).

1bbb: Coal ashes and cinders contain so much uranium and thorium that more energy goes into coal cinders and ash in the form of uranium and thorium than you get by burning the cCoal ashes and cinders contain so much uranium and thorium that more energy goes into coal cinders and ash in the form of uranium and thorium than you get by burning the ccoal cinders and ash in the form of uranium and thorium than you get by burning the coalcoal.

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.

The ocean, with around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons), contains 16 times as much carbon as the terrestrial biosphere, that is all plant and the underlying soils on our planet, and around 60 times as much as the pre-industrial atmosphere, i.e., at a time before people began to drastically alter the atmospheric CO2 content by the increased burning of coal, oil and gas.

A molecule of CO2 from coal, in a certain sense, is different from one from oil or gas, because in the case of oil and gas, it doesn't matter too much when you burn it, because a good fraction of it's going to stay there 500 years anyway.

In the meantime, how do you personally weigh the costs of changing from unfettered burning of the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — which have created so much wealth, for the sake of limiting future risks?

China's plan to build millions of electric vehicles will have little impact on the country's carbon dioxide emissions, a new analysis concludes, because so much of the country's electricity is produced by burning coal.

«How do you personally weigh the costs of changing from unfettered burning of the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — which have created so much wealth, for the sake of limiting future risks?»

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Two factors make much of India's and China's coal expensive or inaccessible; it takes a lot of water, which is in short supply, to extract and burn the coal at mine - mouth, and it takes a lot of diesel fuel, increasingly expensive, to train / truck / ship it to coastal power plants and load centers....

I ran that release by some specialists in global energy trends to be sure this isn't hype, including Richard K. Morse, a talented young Stanford University researcher who has spent much of this year touring Asia's emerging coal - burning powers.

Although in and of itself, as Revkin points out, this won't really reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as so much of our electricity is generated by burning coal, it is at least a doable step in the right direction that reduces our reliance on oil from antagonistic regimes.

We'd be doing the Indian people a much bigger favour if we were to help them develop renewable wind and solar power to lift them out of energy poverty without the pollution from coal - burning.

As the EIA (it really is a treasure trove of information) reported last year, China makes and burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world does.