Sentences with phrase «of coal cars»

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).
The largest, Manufacturing, accounts for about 70 % of revenues and produces most types of railcars, with the notable exception of coal cars.
The reason orders should be headed upwards include, a decreasing number of coal cars in storage, many new utilities coming online, increased coal car loadings and increased domestic and international demand.

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So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.
Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.
They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»
Beijing's new war on pollution will see carbon - belching coal plants shuttered and millions of cars taken off the road.
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FCA had its IPO in early 05 at $ 19 per share and in 06 the stock was at $ 78 at the peak of the secular boom in coal car orders.
Coal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.
FCA's 80 % plus market share in the North American coal car market is protected by high switching costs and 100 plus years of market share and technological dominance.
Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.
Coal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.
In addition to the positive fundamentals for coal and the likely pickup in orders come 09, FCA is also diversifying its operations by developing non coal rail cars and an active exploration of international opportunities.
Youths pack the coal into sacks and carry it out of the mine on their backs, or to a small cable car for the trip upward.
He is also a coal - mine operator, a car dealer, a political campaign manager, a hardware - store proprietor, an agent for the Fabulous Harlem Magicians and a promoter of scores of entertainers from Lawrence Welk to The Supremes.
The train is comprised of a locomotive, coal car, three wagons, and a caboose all of which can seat both young and old alike.
Yes, back to the days of full employment, 75 % unionised work forces, and mass employment in cars, shipbuilding, steel and coal — not forgetting the clothing industry.
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.
Such a carbon tax could help keep coal, oil and natural gas safely in the ground in favor of alternatives like electric cars and cleaner power plants.
There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.
Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).
Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed
Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.
With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).
A host of factors determine the role of electric and hybrid cars in reducing greenhouse gas pollution, such as whether coal is their ultimate fuel source.
BEIJING (Reuters)- Automakers» latest projections for rapid growth of China's green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal - fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy.
The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.
But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
But in the Midwest and South, where coal fuels the bulk of electricity generation, a hybrid produces less CO2 than an electric car.
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Increases in coal burning and car emissions are major sources of pollution in China and other Asian countries.
Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.
Burning fossil fuels through cars and coal plants is exacerbating the presence of ground - level ozone gas in the air we breathe.
GM's turbine program continued into the 1980s, with one of their last visible projects being a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado turbine car that ran on coal dust.
Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.
Unlike «normal» electric or hybrid cars, a fuel - cell vehicle never causes a drop of oil or lump of coal to be burned on its behalf.
The reason is that there are two plants and some coal mines here, and, of course, the cars are uncountable!
If / when oil gets over $ 100 / barrel and stays there, a combination of coal, nuclear, solar and wind will be used to generate electricity, and electric cars will become more common.
Chongqing is a major industrial city; there are several motorcycles and car factories here as well as chemical, steel, coal, textile,... Chongqing occupies a vast area (470 km wide at its widest) and all you see are hundreds of skyscrapers on every hill you can see through the fog.
You can almost see as a vestige of train trestle and this is kind of a strange like a coal car or something and you can see that he's transitioning into his more kind of iconic black and white works.
Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis — an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal - fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray - haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint - green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table.
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.
Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.
A president who easily folds to «oil, coal, and car companies» isn't the kind of leader anyone wants.
Electric cars are particularly clean in Quebec because close to 100 % of the province's electricity comes from hydro (while big hydro isn't perfect, it beats coal for sure...).
If half population of chinese drive coal to liquid cars is 700 million.
But a coal car crushed the life from me In the darkness of that mine, In the darkness of that mine.
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