Sentences with phrase «of the coal used by»

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

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For instance, in 2002, around 45 - 50 percent of the company's energy mix — what is used by its customers — came from coal, according to spokesman Rayhan Daudani.

Many of these nonbank institutions have financed risky infrastructure operations, like copper and coal mines or other poorly constructed buildings, by using a variety of unusual financial instruments, said Louis Lau, director of Brandes Investment Partners» investments group.

Thermal coal gets most of the attention, since it's used daily by many North Americans.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

Macron has also said he wants to phase out France's use of coal power in five years and reduce its reliance on nuclear power to 50 % by 2025.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

«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.»

Visualizing the CO2 emissions saved by 56 of the Fortune 100 companies, expressed using the quantity of coal not burned.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, they made it possible to move heavy goods, like coal, from mines to factories, using a fraction of the energy required by road transport.

By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used...By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used...by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used... →

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

And of course, this is exactly how Paul used the passage about burning coals in Romans 12:20 - 21, where he concludes by saying, «overcome evil with good.»

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

By using the term coal, I am drawing attention to specific aspects of my experience; that is, I am abstracting from my experience.

The country plans to stop using nuclear energy by 2022, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has resisted calls to set a deadline for ending the use of coal.

But that could change when China and India, for example, increase their energy consumption by using their vast reserves of coal.

«We will eliminate all use of coal in New York state by 2020.

This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.

Regulations would also be adopted at the end of 2020 that would end the use of coal in power plants by 2020, something first called for by Cuomo last year.

The US president used his state of the union address yesterday to announce plans to cut the use of petrol by 20 per cent in the next decade and diversify the US» energy sources by investing in clean coal, solar and wind power.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

By FRED PEARCE The large enterprises that mine coal and drill for oil and gas face a world increasingly determined to use less of their products.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of coal in China may run into difficulties getting accurate numbers

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).

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

The team used the data from charcoal in coal to propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p (O2)-RRB- that mass balance models predict prevailed.

Plantation forestry is the key rather than the usual approach of cutting emissions by reducing the rate of using carbon fuels like coal, oil and gas.

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

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

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.

First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.

When atmospheric scientist Christine Wiedinmyer first went to Ghana in 2011 to investigate air pollution produced by burning different materials — from crop stubble to coal used in stoves — she noticed an unexpected potential source: burning piles of trash.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

The earths heat is just a few KM's further down than coal and oil, does nt the use of fossil fuels seem stupid by comparison?

But according to the U.S. Department of Energy, pollution is on the rise in the U.S. and world energy use is expected to grow 57 percent by 2030, with coal being the fastest growing energy source.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

The UK achieved an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2016 by making full use of natural gas over coal.

Countries and regions report their CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by counting what they have used, such as the amount of oil, coal or gas they have burned.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»