Sentences with phrase «much coal per»

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The GED per kWh for natural gas is 20 to 30 times lower than for oil and coal, respectively, because its (non-carbon) emissions are so much lower (Table 5).

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

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.

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

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

Burney is examining a similar trade - off between sulfur and black carbon in the United States, as coal - fired electricity plants shift to cleaner natural gas, which emits half as much CO2 as coal per unit of electricity.

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.

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.

It's why China has been retiring coal plants for decades — at first in favor of ultrahigh efficiency modern supercritical coal plants that delivered twice as much power per unit of pollution produced, and now increasingly solar and wind.

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.

It's like we're all in this train which increases its speed a certain amount per amount of coal added, but we don't know exactly how much; we only have a range.

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.

The way to decrease emission from oil is to increase miles - per - gallon standards for light vehicles and eventually to electrify light vehicle transportation while at the same time shifting away from coal to produce electricity to sources with much lower emissions (gas, wind, nuclear).

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

Next, the wind investor is required to pay the government exactly as much per kWh generated as the coal plant would pay for coal.

How much cooling water does a nuclear power plant need compared with coal, geothermal and solar thermal plants (per MWh)?

The good news in the case of the UK is that it could have been a lot worse: Aberthaw, like all UK coal power plants, doesn't run that much because it has to pay a CO2 price of $ 30 per tonne.

There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.

Per memory (and you are much closer) most British coal mines were operating at a loss in 1984, so what they were producing was not economic reserves.

In terms of carbon emissions, new technology coal is still around 30 per cent higher than LNG but much lower than conventional coal powered generation.

China is certainly anxious to clean up its power generation because of the pollution, but it is now clear that the 3 per cent coal tariff was aimed not so much at reducing emissions but to try and make Australia agree to free trade agreement concessions — which it should not do.

Because the amount of cooling necessary is much less per unit of electricity output in NGCC plants than in coal or nuclear plants, dry cooling systems are more economical for NGCC plants than for other thermoelectric options.

That is because, as noted above, oil delivers much more value to society than coal does per tonne of CO2.

But the 2 tons of CO2 per ton of coal will likely cost as much to handle EACH as the coal, tripling cost.

Furthermore, from 2009 - 2011, the average cost of coal (in dollars per short ton) increased 7.5 percent in the United States, much faster than the 3.2 percent national average electricity price increase cited by Taylor.

By linking changes in coal stockpiles to changes in PM2.5 at nearby monitors, we were able to estimate how much particulate matter is generated per ton of coal stored.

Oddly, dedicated biomass operations could end up putting out more Mercury per kW than coal, though on a much smaller scale.

Follow the link to read a World Health Organisation publication that puts the number of deaths from air pollution at seven million per year; much of this pollution is due to burning coal.

If over the course of 40 years the world switched all the coal power plants over to natural gas, generating half as much greenhouse gas per watt - hour of electricity, then the warming would slow — but only by a small fraction.

If we ramp up new industries without reducing other things, we could see a short term increase in fossil fuel consumption and consequent CO2 emissions (relative to BAU), but if that is the start of a larger and permanent reduction of CO2eq emissions, then it's worth it (or in other words, much better to get 100 kWh per kg coal than 3 (or whatever much smaller number it actually is) kWh per kg coal).

The GED per kWh for natural gas is 20 to 30 times lower than for oil and coal, respectively, because its (non-carbon) emissions are so much lower (Table 5).

Natural gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as coal does.

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.

Checking different sources, this claim is confirmed: 1 kilowatt - hour of electricity generated by fossil fuels indeed emits 10 times as much CO2 (around 450 grams of CO2 per kWh for gas and 850 for coal).

China, which burns much more coal per dollar of gross domestic product than the United States does, overtook us by that measure around three years ago.

The problem with increasing funding for the deployment of renewable generation is that its low load factor means that per dollar of investment, it substitutes for much fewer MWh of subcritical generation than is the case with HELE coal - fired generation.

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.