Sentences with phrase «of coal burned»

They were met with success on April 4th, when the Miami University of Ohio announced they would immediately begin reducing the amount of coal burned on campus and eventually eliminate it altogether.

On average, American coal plants are only 37.4 percent efficient, meaning that nearly two - thirds of the coal burned is not converted to electricity.

I have a simple technical question for PE or anyone who knows: When you ramp down a coal plant to 50 % — do you «ramp down» also the amount of coal burned = amount of emissions?

Coal consumption: The quantity of coal burned for the generation of electric power (in short tons), including fuel used for maintenance of standby service.

The world is still warming as a result of coal burned in power stations that closed decades ago, and no one suggests that we should not worry about this.

Much of the coal burned in Europe is lignite or hard coal — the most polluting kind.

Those attribution studies, such as Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 and others have aptly noted this, and, though they might not admit it, McKitrick & Tole 2012 are saying something similar... include the change in the amount of coal burned along with some of the GCM's and you can be much better at having a better model of the surface climate trends.

We know the vast amount of coal burned by China to produce manufactured goods (that could have been produced user cleaner energy if not for Kyoto) produces huge amounts of carbon soot that can change the albedo.

It is the amount of coal burned is what determines ghg emissions.

had taken place which led to unbridled amounts of coal burned in the big cities.

Although the exact chemical composition depends on the type of coal burned, all coal ash contains concentrated amounts of toxic elements, including arsenic, lead, and mercury.

[citation needed] The amount of coal burned during 2001 was calculated as 2.337 GTOE (gigatonnes of oil equivalent), which is about 46 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The 1,430,000 tons of coal burned in a typical 500 megawatt coal plant produces:

But to give you a sense of the challenge, here are his estimates of the scale of the challenge: six billion metric tons of coal burned every year, producing 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and requiring an underground storage volume of 30,000 cubic kilometers per year with untold consequences on subsurface pressure, mineral composition and the like.

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.

He had a little charcoal grill, and there was something about the smell of those coals burning.

The fine particles it measures, mostly residues of coal burning and vehicle emissions, are linked to respiratory and heart disease.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

The linen is boiled with soap and soda and then washed in hollow wheels, rinsed, partly dried by centrifugal machines, and for the rest in hot - air ovens, which carry off nearly three pounds of moisture per pound of coal burnt, and is finally ironed between polished rollers, and then packed ready for return to Paris.»

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.

Due to its rapid modernization, and the doubling of its coal burning between 1998 and 2008, China recently surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest emitter.

Yes, a major concern is that a scheme to take the co2 out of the air will just encourage the proliferation of coal burning.

In coming months, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), which has 27 members representing medical doctors in EU countries, will be raising awareness of the risks of coal burning as part of its work underlining the importance of cleaner air.

The report quotes public health experts who express concerns that carbon emissions associated with coal use will contribute to climate change and add to future public health problems - on top of the serious consequences of coal burning we are already seeing today.

Mercury is found in almost everyone from consuming fish, although it's also in the atmosphere as a result of coal burning.

This could easily explain the warming, and overwhelm any effect of coal burning during the same period.

It doesn't matter if levels of coal burning were comparatively small prior to 1940.

But, again, scientists and energy experts see an enormous gap between the scale and timetable of such plans and the real - world, real - time expansion of coal burning.

When we pull back to consider the larger picture we see that pollution due to sulfate aerosols continued unabated in the great majority of coal burning plants worldwide, regardless of constraints imposed in the US and Europe.

Of course it matters that the levels of coal burning were lower globally before 1940.

Anti-regulatory blogs and commentators and the McCain - Palin campaign made a push to publicize a 10 - month - old comment by Senator Barack Obama about the high cost of coal burning if and when a hard cap is set for carbon dioxide emissions.

Most of the coal we burn still in these waning years of fossil fuel use derives from trees that died and could not rot, because the organisms evolved to eat the strong, tough cell walls of trees did not yet exist.

«Tens of thousands of kilogrammes of toxic metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic and cadmium are spewed out of the stacks, contributing to cancer risk and harming children's development,» says the Greenpeace report, which does not emphasise the impact of coal burning on climate change.

A forensic examination of publicly available power - supply data shows Victoria's carbon - intensive brown - coal power stations do not reduce the amount of coal they burn when wind power is available to the grid.

While Australia's Abbott Government is increasing its support for coal in hopes of exporting more and more, the rest of the world is seeing that the end of coal burning is inevitable if we are not to destroy our environment.

Coal ash, the toxic remains of coal burning in power plants, is full of chemicals that cause cancer, developmental disorders and reproductive problems.

Perhaps we should be more like China - build lots of coal burning plants and then just go all electric with our cars.

China's move to halt or eliminate 170 gigawatts of coal burning follows a larger plan to keep total coal capacity below 1,100 gigawatts by 2020.

Digging a bit deeper we find that a worrisome high level of coal burning is slated to remain in place at least over the next decade.

Due to its rapid modernization, and the doubling of its coal burning between 1998 and 2008, China recently surpassed the U.S. to become the world's largest emitter.

There may have been some objections to other hazards of coal burning such as particulate emission, or acid rain, but that's not the same thing.

I learned shortly thereafter that there was going to be a public hearing in Minnesota that was going to review the environmental impacts of coal burning.

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.

This is due to the amount of coal burning power stations that provide electricity for the grid in the UK.

I think you could make the case that consistently breathing PM from wood burning fires would be much worse for those individuals than the longer term ill effects of global warming, etc.... just as it would be worse for individuals to be in the path of coal burning smoke as opposed to suffering the long term consequences.

Environmental costs of coal combustion: health; agriculture; industry, transportation, materials, buildings and infrastructure; water pollution; pollution of heavy metal to soil; solid waste of coal burning and electricity generation.

Coal burning in power stations is far more efficient than smoky inefficent open hearths and consequently far less particulate carbon gets into the air from each ton of coal burnt.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.