Sentences with phrase «of coal fuels»

The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.

The idea that many other world countries that desire high energy growth using coal fuel regardless of the greenhouse gas emission levels are going to abandon their enormous existing use and future growth of coal fuel because of California's ridiculous climate alarmist driven schemes is totally absurd.

Not exact matches

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

But come winter, when the rivers run low, we'll be buying coal - fuelled power from east of the Rockies.

A National Grid spokesman said the record low was a sign of things to come, with coal - free days becoming increasingly common as the polluting fuel is phased out.

It is often difficult to calculate the precise proportion of fossil fuel investments in complex funds, but about $ 400bn of the $ 5.2 tn total is likely to be in coal, oil and gas.

Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid hydrogen fuel — a mix of deuterium and tritium — would produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.

Scientists studying the aftermath of a massive coal - ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that may pose human health risks.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.

Cold weather drove up the price of natural gas — making coal look like a more attractive fuel option.

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Chinese engineering companies, banks and shipyards are all muscling into LNG, typically the preserve of Western, Japanese and South Korean players, as government coal - to - gas switching policies make LNG an increasingly strategic fuel.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

It described a scenario whereby gas begins to replace coal and oil as a transportation and electricity - generating fuel and satisfies a dominant share of new demand.

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

Coal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electricCoal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electriccoal as a fuel for generating electricity.

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

A slowdown in the growth of China's coal demand, due to more tepid economic growth and fuel substitution, has sent the prices that Australia fetches for its thermal coal plunging from US$ 125 a tonne in early 2012 to around US$ 70 a tonne.

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.

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

LNG will play its part in this dynamic, offering a cleaner energy solution to the coal Japan is burning to replace its broken nuclear capacity and China is using to fuel its rapid acceleration through a phase of industrialization.

The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

This is largely as a result of the bitcoin network being mostly fueled by coal - fired power plants in China.

If coal is to Australian politics as pipelines are to Canada's, the head of the country's largest coal - fueled energy company has just done the...

While natural gas is cleaner than coal, the volatility of the price of that fuel makes it risky for consumers, said Thibault.

19 No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, «Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate.

Your theory doesn't account for the amount of coal and fossil fuel found in any part of the world.

Due to the increasing cost of fossil fuels we are no longer able to provide coal on a per transgression basis.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

I assumed that these objections were fueled by the memories of lean times (the kind early coal miners experienced), which made them suspicious of any expenditures.

They will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large, often Carboniferous Period forests, in the case of coal, or tiny marine creatures in the case of oil.

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.