Sentences with phrase «oil and coal run»

I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.»

What do you do when the oil and coal runs out, troll?

Not exact matches

This has played out satisfactorily in the procession from wood to whale oil to coal to oil and natural gas, but the concept that no real substitute is available runs counter to capitalist ideals.

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

According to a RAN report published in June, 25 banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas, have invested $ 784 billion in coal mining, coal power, «extreme oil» and liquefied natural gas facilities between 2013 and 2015 (ClimateWire, June 15).

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

The goal underpinning divestment, at least for Oreskes, is not directly running coal, gas and oil businesses into the ground but inciting a discussion to generate the political atmosphere to pass bolder climate policies.

I see that mr. Boone, has run into trouble and right now oil is dirt cheap (let us see how long that lasts) but now that we are officially in recession (two consecutive quarters down) and the oil and gas companies boast record profits and the oil, natural gas, and coal resources will all last longer than 25 years by most projections (coal about a hundred years give or take a decade?)

There is also the rather obvious fact that a nation that has 3 % of the global oil supply but which consumes 25 % of global oil production is eventually going to run into an economic wall — and coal - to - gasoline is not the answer to that, by any stretch.

We already use very little coal, and we're running hard to slow, and then lower our use of oil & gas so that our economy keeps rolling, and people's houses are still livable, when oil, and then gas get really expensive, not this wimpy oil rise we've seen lately.

A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, James E. Hansen, who has variously been hailed and attacked for becoming a prominent campaigner against coal and oil use.

There's no parallel Earth without burning coal, oil, and forests, so the classical method of running a controlled experiment is impossible.

What do you suppose will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, as we are likely to do in the near future (decades for oil and perhaps a century for coal)?

The annual increments for the past few decades have been slightly larger for oil than for coal, but coal use has accelerated in the past few years, and in the long run coal will be the greatest source because of its larger reserves (discovered deposits) and estimated resources (deposits still to be discovered).

One thing we know for sure: We'll never run out of energy, although we may have shortages in the near and medium terms if we don't immediately develop our abundant oil, gas and coal resources.

Oil and coal are limited, they will certainly run out... maybe in 100 or 200 years, but that's not as far away as you think.

One thing we know for sure: We'll never run out of energy, though we may have shortages in the near and medium terms if we don't immediately develop our abundant oil, gas and coal resources.

Some sources of heat are inexpensive on running cost (solid fuel, wood or coal boilers), others work silently (electric, gas / oil boilers) and some are more environmentally friendly (biomass boilers).

In many parts of the world, the easy to access oil, gas and coal resources are running dry.

Oil, Coal and Gas will probably run out this century, or become incredibly expensive, so we have to deal with these issues for other reasons too.

Delays in climate mitigation «lead to higher utilization of... coal in particular, in the short run... To compensate... particularly oil and gas would need to be reduced much more strongly in the long run.»

Oil wells go dry and coal seams run out, but the earth's wind resources can not be depleted.

another issue, the economy is not «real», oil, coal and other resources are, and they will soon run out.

Steep price rises for oil and gas could stymie global demand or prolong the current coal boom or it could all run out sooner than expected.

What we really need is to build out nuclear so we can quit funding the Middle East — we will run out of economical oil at some point, but I see no reason to stop using oil and coal now.

Keep the current fission nuclear power running and replace oil, coal and gas with more wind and solar.

Air conditioners run on electricity while heat comes from coal / oil / natural gas and least effectively or commonly on electricity.

He collected data on crude oil, natural gas, coal, and cement production worldwide by three types of entities: investor - owned (e.g. ExxonMobil), state - owned (e.g. Saudi Aramco) and government - run entities (e.g. North Korea's coal industry).

For starters, Obama is aware that we canâ $ ™ t just keep burning oil, coal and gas until they run out.

They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.

That's with running our vehicles and replacing coal and oil entirely.

In the letter, the groups applaud Obama's commitment last June to reducing carbon pollution and leading the world in the fight against climate change, but remind him that an «all of the above» energy strategy — one that embraces the domestic production of natural gas, oil and coal — runs counter to those goals.

The so called Renewable Energy technologies such as Wind and Solar even if further refined and made more efficient, sought after efficiency increases that are now running into the problems of ever diminishing returns for the investments needed to raise those levels of efficiency, are now just one of the limiting factors in the hope of the so called Renewable Energy systems ever replacing today's base load coal, gas, oil, nuclear powered generators.

As oil, natural gas and then coal run out we will be forced to find other energy sources.

The scenarios were all run for the winter season — Dec. 1 through Feb. 28 of 2024 - 2025 — and assumed no additional natural gas pipelines but accounted for demand reductions from energy efficiencies and rooftop solar power and the continued closure of coal and oil generators.

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«Oil wells go dry and coal seams run out, but for the first time since the Industrial Revolution began we are investing in energy sources that can last forever.»

In the words of author Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, biochar may enable us to «run the [climate] movie backwards to unmine coal and undrill oil.»

ISO New England president Gordan van Welie said «coal and oil power plants rarely run most of the year, but they are still needed during extreme weather events.

plant was a 1400 MW capability, 4 units running on coal, gas and oil.