Sentences with phrase «much coal on»

Only a few states have that much coal on their grids.

Not exact matches

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

With coal trains already coursing through the Lower Mainland to the much larger Westshore and Neptune terminals, it's not surprising the environmental report behind the port authority's decision found no appreciable impacts on the health of area residents.

While it is still uncertain just how much coal - energy prices are expected to rise, Rep. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has called Obama's initiative a «war on coal,» which he says will cost jobs and hurt businesses.

President Trump's decision on Thursday to enact new tariffs on steel and aluminum could break his promise to protect the coal miners he adores so much, leaving everything from oil pipelines to wind turbines vulnerable to foreign retaliation.

Natural Resource Partners focuses on coal production, and for much of the year, prospects for coal looked dire.

And much of the country's so - called war on pollution is centred on coal where the change in direction is just as startling.

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.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

On Tuesday the President spoke at Georgetown University and promised a package of executive orders and administrative rulings that aim, pretty much, to shut down the use of coal.

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.

I do believe that Jesus is the righteous judge of the world and that we will all stand before Him to give an accounting, and that based on the judgment of Jesus, some will be eternally separated from God... So don't rake me over the coals too much for that title....

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.

[Wild hogs were] «cut open, the bones taken out, and the flesh is gash'd on the inside into the skin, fill'd with salt and expos'd to the sun, which is call'd jirking... [This meat was] brought home to their masters by the hunters, and eats much as bacon, if broil'd on coals.»

So I'm wondering how many of these are in the oil, coal and gas business, and how much do they spend on their lobbying?

To get as many renewables as possible operating on the grid, these renewables are much different again in characteristic than the current generation mix in that we have primarily base - load plants that are operating over long periods of time that don't vary much, like a coal plant, for example.

Carbon dioxide emissions depend mainly on the energy content of coal, not how much it weighs.

A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- A choking smog across much of northern China threatens not just the health of local residents, but also of major coal projects globally that are still on the drawing board.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere.

Citizen opposition to new coal - fired power plants in places like Nevada and Montana has focused as much on water concerns as greenhouse gas emissions.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

Hundreds of miles away in Oregon and Washington, states where much of the plant's power is transmitted, leaders see climate change as a reason to end their reliance on Colstrip's coal - fired electricity.

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.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

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.

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.

Amy Schumer put her freshly - forged Hollywood connections to good use last night in a biting sketch that points out just how much of the industry's female talent is wasted on barely - there roles like concerned wife of sniper or concerned wife of trapped coal miner.

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.

During much of the second half of the 19th century, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) was able to maintain a monopoly on coal production because it controlled the only means of transportation into the Western territories.

However, regarding item # 4: The way I took that wasn't so much that it would give you the means to borrow in financial disaster (I'd rather walk on hot coals barefoot than consider borrowing against a HELOC).

[Granted, US hedge fund / private equity valuations are collapsing... so if they're the canary in the coal mine, we may have a much bigger S&P collapse on our hands!

Much of her work has evolved based on her observations from living in white - dominated communities from coal country to wine country.

The US has pretty much ceded the renewable energy sector to China, while we insist on a combination of a 20th century (oil) and 19th century (coal) energy infrastructure.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

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.

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.

Unless the proposed Sunflower generators were intending to buy coal on the spot market, there's not much to the claim of hypocrisy on the part of Peabody.

Energy systems can be made much more efficient and much less dependent on coal, petrol and natural gas to avoid climate change, protect the oceans, and clean the air of coal - based pollutants.

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.

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).

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

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.

Falsely portrayed CO2 emission benefits of plug - ins is a cover for shifting our much loved cars over to operate on coal.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

How much do you figure it would cost the average coal - fired plant to remove the CO2 from its waste stream, instead of dumping it on the public?

We really can not be blamed for nature giving us 100 to 1000 years worth of coal, depending on how much dirt we are willing to scrape off these reserves.

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.

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.