Sentences with phrase «of its coal burning between»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Burning gas emits just 40 % of the CO2 as deriving the same unit of energy from coal, and between 65 % and 75 % the emissions of oil.

It's the type of litigation that legal experts say may become more common as coastal cities and waterlogged counties draw the connection between rising waters and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

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.»

Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil fuel or the buying and selling of the permits for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.

The topping cycle reduces the amount of pollution produced when coal is burnt and also narrows the gap in efficiency between coal and gas - fired stations (Technology, 1 February 1992).

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

In the last few days, three online tools have been launched, showing links between utilities and Appalachian mountaintop coal mines, a list of proposed coal - burning plants and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from thousands of power plants and utilities around the world.

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.

A newly announced partnership between the world's biggest private coal mining company and coal - burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels.

Dr. Hansen, like many who commented on Dot Earth after I wrote about his statements, insists that the parallels hold between the denial and passivity that allowed a human cataclysm to sweep Europe in plain sight and the denial and inaction now as the world prepares to build hundreds of conventional coal - burning power plants.

The graph produced from its measurements, known as the Keeling Curve, was the first to show the tight relationship between the increase in CO2 in the air and the rise in the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.

You may also have learned about the connection between the decline of the shark population and the burning and dredging of more coal near their sensitive habitats.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.

Between December 1998 [1] and September 2001 [2] she was listed as a «Scientific Adviser» to the Greening Earth Society, a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal - burning utility companies.

• This challenge has supposedly been «solved» by the CO2 isotope difference between fossilized biomass (oil, coal)(C12) vs. living biomass (C13), and by a reduction of O2 in the atmosphere that parallels the growth of industrial CO2 emissions (O2 eaten up in burning oil and coal and gas).

That means seeking what the treaty calls a «balance» between sources of carbon like the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and its absorption from the atmosphere by forest growth, or, possibly, techniques like capturing emissions of CO2 and burying them in the ground.

To estimate the social cost of carbon damages from this coal, expected to be burned between 2015 and 2030, we calculated the social cost of carbon damages from the total amount of carbon pollution (3,922,481,766 metric tons of CO2) in 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030, and then averaged those amounts.

Between Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its caBetween Friday and Sunday, excavation was stopped in part of the pit and 80 coal train trips were stopped between the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its cabetween the mine and the power plant that burns its coal, which powered down to just 20 % of its capacity.

In a letter released today, the American Lung Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Public Health Association took exception to Barton's comments and attempted to draw a clear link between the deleterious effects of burning coal and public health.

At the end of May, Amazon Web Services announced construction of three new data centers near Columbus, Ohio, in a region where between 70 % and 85 % of electricity is still generated by burning coal.

In the second part of the program, Maria Gunnoe and Kim Wasserman explored the connection between coal production in the mountains of Appalachia and coal burning in Chicago's power plants, as well as the human and environmental costs that accompany it.

The activists demonstrated the role that Pepco Holdings plays in the destruction of mountains and valleys in Appalachia by enacting a fight between coal and a coal - burning power plant and wind energy, with the mountains and the planet representing the stakes in the fight.