Sentences with phrase «of coal use»

It is estimated that the substitution effort would replace about 47 million metric tons of coal use in 2017.

Phase out of coal use except where the carbon is captured and stored below ground is the primary requirement for solving global warming.

Their numbers vary, based on age of facilities and types of coal used.

Most significant is the 24 % decrease of coal use in electric generation and the 12 % decrease in crude oil production.

The annual benefit of coal use alone has been estimated at more that $ 1 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP) and nearly 7 million jobs.

Our findings suggest that this dimension of coal use should be regulated as well.

«The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas displacing a large amount of coal used for electricity generation.»

Using extrapolations of business as usual, you can see why 7 billion tons of coal use by China makes sense from that prism.

AEP also said it purchases about 24 million tons of coal from the Powder River Basin each year, or more than a third of the coal used by the company, and that it was unclear how the potential closures would affect the utility's purchase of coal from the Powder River Basin.

Coal opponents assert that such usage is not factually based and that its main purpose is to provide public support and political cover for continued expansion of coal use.

For a period of more than 40 years, beginning in 1940, the amount of coal used in the United States for this purpose doubled in every decade.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

The production decrease is largely attributable to lower forecasts of coal use in the electric power sector (down 4 % in 2018).

Since China and the United States together constitute more than half of global coal production, a peak of coal use in these nations can be sufficient to ensure that the peak in coal use is now behind us.

The report further stated that slowing economic growth and energy consumption in China as well as the restriction of coal use in its coastal regions will impact seaborne trade, especially Indonesian exports.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

The Rhodium Group consulting firm has released a «report card» on China's energy trends and policies that describes the country's intensifying efforts to increase the proportion of renewable sources like wind and hydroelectric dams and boost the efficiency of coal use (essentially the metric called «greenhouse gas intensity» by President George W. Bush).

This introduction is done by demonstrating the technique to members of coal using households through well - orchestrated demonstrations in streets, houses and public places.

«And from the point of view of a global warming campaign, I don't think it's a wise strategy to count on the complete abolition of coal use.»

He said the ponds retain 99.9 percent of the solid remains of the coal used to produce electricity rather than have it go up the stacks of power plants.

The key to question # 1 is the extreme pollution China suffers as a result of its coal use.

A recent study by the US National Academies into coal's research and development needs found that future levels of coal use will depend largely on the timing and stringency of regulations to control carbon emissions.

Entering the last quarter of the year, the momentum of coal use growth faded.

[34] In 2009, JPMorgan Chase helped finance $ 600 million for Arch Coal, which that year mined 4.7 million tons of coal using MTR.

The country consumes approximately half of all coal used worldwide and gets roughly 66 percent of its electricity from coal, according to the Energy Information Administration.

«The current global trend of coal use is consistent with an emissions pathway above the IEA's [International Energy Agency] 6 °C scenario.

-LSB-...] to the negative externalities of coal use (some 1.7 trillion yuan per year as we described in a previous post) and the positive externalities of distributed PV such as: * the national security value described -LSB-...]

Coal and Natural Gas Prices: How does the price of coal used for electricity generation compare to that of natural gas?

But in the last few years, long - distance international coal exports have been surging because of China's galloping economy, which now burns half of the six billion tons of coal used globally each year.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

He added that «the decrease of coal use is decided by demand, rather than supply.

Specifically, they say that humanity «must begin now to move toward the era beyond fossil fuels», and «the most difficult task, phase - out over the next 20 - 25 years of coal use that does not capture CO2, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II.

Speeding the necessary phase - out of coal use in light of the climate crisis, and taking care of affected workers, will require thinking big.

As a result, a cap - and - trade system's effect on the cost of coal use would be significantly greater than its effect on the cost of gasoline or natural gas consumption.

Sachs says that China is on course to continue its expansion of coal use and therefor CCS is a must if those coal plants are to operate without further damaging the climate.

Environmental costs of mining: loss due to water shortage (washing one ton of coal uses 4 to 5 cubic meters of water) and wastewater (for every ton of water produced, 2.5 tons of water is polluted); loss from land subsidence; land erosion and loss of ecosystems; coal gangue storage and treatment; air pollution from coal mining.

100 % of the coal used to generate electricity in Michigan is imported from other states.

The power sector is responsible for close to 40 % of energy - related greenhouse - gas emissions, 60 % of coal use and 36 % of natural gas use.

Second, even the fastest possible phase - out of ALL coal use would have NO «debilitating effects on our economy», and would in fact have enormous economic BENEFITS — even apart from reducing carbon pollution.

Gas will eventually replace some of the coal used to make electricity, the study predicts, and gas will be the benchmark against which other carbon - saving technologies like wind or nuclear will be measured.