Sentences with phrase «need more coal»

# 583: Gavin, Mike, that's based on a coal - industry shill's analysis meant to prove that we need more coal - generated electricity.

«It is clear that China is coming to terms with the fact it does not need any more coal capacity in a market where existing plants are not even running half the time.

Not exact matches

· The oil - conservation adjustment (OCA), sometimes called the power - conservation adjustment, reflects the utility's need to burn coal, a more expensive fuel, during certain months.

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

If you need more power, just burn more coal.

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.

Christian charities have disputed claims that the use of coal needs to be expanded in order to help people... More

You may need to add more coals half way through the cooking time.

If you control the heat well, you shouldn't need more than 4 — 6 chimneyfuls of coals to cook the brisket (2 — 4 chimneyfuls if finishing brisket in the oven).

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

Given that Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development in aggregate hold more than 20 per cent of Coal & Allied, in accordance with the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Coal & Allied shareholders (other than Rio Tinto and Mitsubishi Development and their respective subsidiaries) will need to vote to approve the relevant joint bid arrangements between Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi Development and Hunter Valley Resources and their respective related bodies corporate («Coal & Allied Shareholder Approval») before the Scheme can proceed.

The governor needs to get out in front by committing to a coal phase - out, not more coal bailouts, and by providing the necessary glide path to ease the burden for coal - affected communities.

There's a convenient sliding drawer so you can easily access the coal if you need to add more or make adjustments.

Pretreating with thermal depolymerization also makes coal more friable, so less energy is needed to crush it before combustion in electricity - generating plants.

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.

«We need to more effectively use the international coal market to import more coal, especially for our southeast coastline.»

Certainly, it is going to be needed to some degree, we have substantial amounts of coal and nuclear and natural gas — central generation currently in this country — but because of the distributed generation from wind, solar, geothermal and hydrokinetic, I think we are going to have to develop a different grid that can accommodate that in a much more efficient way.

Similar emissions are caused by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant by comparison.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

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.

Obviously, the last thing the Great Barrier Reef needs is more coal mines.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Doughty gathered coal samples from mines throughout the U.S.. By measuring the coal elemental concentrations, he found elements needed by plants, like phosphorus, were more abundant and much better distributed during the era of the dinosaurs than the Carboniferous.

For unsubsidized solar power to be competitive with coal - or natural gas — powered electricity, it needs to cost $ 1 per watt — today, solar is three to five times more expensive than fossil fuels, Atwater said.

The demand for coal to produce the hydrogen needed to run gas batteries has transformed places such as Grove's own south Wales, where coalfields are expanded to meet the insatiable need for more power.

The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the report.

Calling the findings «shocking,» the authors said the sickness and death related to coal emissions underscores the need to enact more stringent emissions standards, deploy advanced pollution control technologies and increase the use of cleaner energy options.

We also discuss what's going on in New Mexico with renewable energy, work that offers a better response to meeting people's energy needs and also is better environmentally and more affordable than nuclear power — or coal, oil, and natural gas that also play major roles in New Mexico.

But the committee said more research was needed to find better ways to mine coal, to estimate reserves and to store carbon dioxide captured from plants.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

On «breaking the deadlock» — $ 100 / barrel oil helps a lot with the argument that we need to get off fossil fuels; unfortunately it's unlikely high prices will afflict coal any time soon, which is really the more serious problem.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

The first step in this is to make electricity from coal much more expensive because the utilities will need to generate the money to pay the carbon tax (or offsets or whatever you want to call them).

It may be abundant, but if we want to prevent catastrophic global warming we need to do more than just make sure minimal pollution controls are in place, we need to phase out the burning of coal.

Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age

Now what we can do is 1) develop a sustainable energy economy 2) a) burn all the coal and other fossil fuels, buying us, if we make optimistic assumptions, perhaps a century of ever more elaborate schemes to meet energy needs with less and less suitable sources b) THEN in a severely degraded environment

And, if anything, these countries are more insistent than ever (see China's stance discussed here) that the heavy lifting, not marginal Obama - style cuts, needs to be done (or somehow paid for) by the world's established powers, which built their prosperity on decades of unrestrained coal and oil combustion.

But they can never be as cheap as coal - fired electric generation because the energy density of the sun's rays are not nearly at the level of fossil - fuels like coal, so you necessarily need more physical equipment to collect the energy, and turn it into electricity.

And if you need to scale back from earlier follies and burn lots more fossil fuels, even brown coal, while doubling up on green preaching, Angela Merkel has the expertise there.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target (RET).

U.S. coal peaked a few years ago in terms of BTU (heat value) per pound — meaning that we need to burn more coal for the same amount of heat / electricity.

But delivering those same services with less energy, more productively used, could shrink 2050 usage to 71 quads, eliminate the need for oil, coal, nuclear energy, and one - third of the natural gas, and save $ 5 trillion in net - present - valued cost.

According to Reuters, in the report Greenpeace concludes that «the last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal - fired power.»

To reconcile China's need for more cheap energy with its climate goals, the plan calls for a major pilot project to study carbon capture and sequestration, a technology intended to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants and either bury it underground or repackage it for use as an industrial chemical.

«Europe will need to see a lot more coal plant closures to protect its citizens» health and to respect the UN Climate Agreement struck in Paris.

For example, with the higher - EROI sources — hydro, wind, and coal — other considerations like generation intermittency and regulatory environments become more important than the amount of energy needed to get a return, Inman tells Carbon Brief.

When breakthrough technologies for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide are commercially deployed and demonstrated to be effective, coal - fired electricity will strengthen its leading role in new electricity generation both in the United States and, perhaps more importantly, around the globe — especially in regions that desperately need a secure and plentiful source of affordable electricity.»

«As even the most progressive bank policies only exclude companies if 50 % or more of their power generation is coal - fired, new standards need to be adopted.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

To get the same amount of end user energy after installing equipment that uses 20 % to 30 % of the output of the plant for CCS, you need to burn 100 % * (1 /.02) to 100 % * (1/0.3) more coal or about 25 % to 43 % more, not 40 % to 60 % more.