Sentences with phrase «on coal waste»

Not exact matches

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

Hochella and his team found these previously unknown nanoparticles not only in coal ash from around the world and in the gaseous waste emissions of coal plants, but on city streets, in soils and storm water ponds, and at wastewater treatment plants.

On the northeast coast there is talk of using coal wastes, and of chemically treating the millions of old tyres littering waste dumps and sinking them in «concrete boots».

Three weeks later a second spill occurred in Alabama, further focusing the nation's attention on the potential dangers of coal waste disposal.

For some communities, using more coal waste on farms may reduce health risks associated with coal waste ponds.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

The fuel - flexibility enabled by this new technology will reduce dependency on imported coal and create cost savings, since cheaper options, including waste coal, can be used for fuel, VTT says.

, global transportation infrastructure, the effects of sea level rise on sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.

Amy Schumer put her freshly - forged Hollywood connections to good use last night in a biting sketch that points out just how much of the industry's female talent is wasted on barely - there roles like concerned wife of sniper or concerned wife of trapped coal miner.

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

If all the money wasted on the Iraq war / military had been spent on energy research instead, we might have already achieved cheaper than coal renewable generation.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

Then let's take the pile of money already wasted on coal - liquefication and coal - gasification while ignoring the energy and environmental costs and use it for making direct solar energy the fuel for transportation, also all over the planet.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

How much do you figure it would cost the average coal - fired plant to remove the CO2 from its waste stream, instead of dumping it on the public?

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

(Note, you could always go into the business of mixing Coal Ash waste sand / gravel and sodium chloride and spread that on snow covered concrete roads during winter and possibly spreading aluminum sulfate or gypsum on asphalt roads in summer... (Chalk or marl might not be the best choice as the IR acceptance may be too high)-RRB-

I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).

From producing gas - guzzling cars to building more coal - fired power plants, to creating toxic waste disasters and simply maintaining our dependence on fossil fuels — are the members of USCAP really leading the pack?

Using nuclear heat to gasify waste and sequestering the CO2 fraction is going to be more sustainable than anything running on coal.

Flint Creek Power Plant ranked number 96 on the list, with 221,456 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

From mining through final disposal of waste from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human health.

The smallest subsidies on a per unit basis were for coal, natural gas and petroleum liquids, and municipal solid waste, all at less than $ 0.45 per megawatthour of generation.»

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

In early February, a coal ash waste pond on the banks of Dan River began to spill its toxic contents into the river.

And it is on the basis of this phony, manufactured «consensus,» that the scientifically illiterate Obama is hostile to the fossil fuel industry and threatens to bankrupt the coal industry, while wasting billions on failed «green energy» experiments.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

New rules are on the way for coal - ash waste and for drawing cooling water from rivers and lakes.

Financial Times - Andrew Ward Fossil fuel companies risk wasting almost $ 1.6 tn on oil, gas and coal projects that will become...

This particular tactic of political theater, of performance art, of spiritual statement, the delivery of coal waste directly to the lobbies of corporate entities associated with this environmental destruction, is an intervention that Reverend Billy and members of his Church of Life After Shopping (his thoughts on the rally here) have also carried out in New York City.

Monroe Power Plant ranked number 5 on the list, with 4,110,859 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.

In response to demands from environmentalists as well as Senator Barbara Boxer (D - California), chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, the EPA made public a list of 44 «high hazard potential» coal waste dumps.

So we call on you once again to reverse course immediately on supporting fracked - gas pipelines and the improper burial of coal ash waste in our communities.

And why is the $ 100B climate fund being used to being used to block coal power stations and waste massive amounts of money on next to useless renewable power projects.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

Such aggressiveness on issues from coal waste to vehicle emissions has made Pruitt one of Trump's most high - profile and consequential Cabinet members.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

Like last month's stay on the water discharge rule, a potential stay on the Coal Ash Rule extends unconscionable risk for the people who live near coal ash pits, which can rupture or leak toxics into drinking water, while pandering to corporate utilities that have gotten away with dangerous waste handling for decaCoal Ash Rule extends unconscionable risk for the people who live near coal ash pits, which can rupture or leak toxics into drinking water, while pandering to corporate utilities that have gotten away with dangerous waste handling for decacoal ash pits, which can rupture or leak toxics into drinking water, while pandering to corporate utilities that have gotten away with dangerous waste handling for decades.

Germany and other EU countries are now building new brown coal fired stns to try and fix their electricity grids after wasting over 100 bn on S&W energy for a zero return.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

In a region heavily dependent on coal for electricity, the project helps reduce emissions related to electricity generation and provides a source of natural gas for local residences and businesses that would otherwise have gone to waste.

To see a listing of coal waste sites in a particular state, click on the map:

Researchers at state universities in the Southeast are closing in on whether one of the region's biggest liabilities — coal mine waste — might become a valuable asset by supplying rare earth elements needed for clean energy and other applications.

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

On the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that natural market factors will gradually result in a reduction of ever more expensive fossil fuel combustion as older coal - fired power plants are shut down and replaced by nuclear plants, as hybrid and electrical cars gradually replace gasoline and diesel driven ones, and as energy efficiency is improved and waste reduced.

When we talk about «proof» we're not talking about smoke and mirrors «modelling» based on long - term average wind farm output — which ignores the extra gas and coal being burnt (and wasted) in order to balance the grid to account for wild fluctuations in wind power output (see our post here); and to maintain additional «spinning reserve» (see our post here) to account for complete collapses in wind power output — as seen in this post.

They include those increasing coal taxes in India (and Korea, where the levy increased to US$ 21 / t in 2015 from US$ 15 / t in 2014); moves being made to a national emissions - trading scheme like those being undertaken in China and Korea» tightening emissions requirements on coal - fired power generation in the U.S. and India; greater regulation of mine waste disposal ponds in Brazil and the U.S; and greater scrutiny of coal mine rehabilitation subsidies and coal company leasing schemes in the U.S.