Sentences with phrase «one's use of coal»

In addition to the increasing use of coal internationally, there is a large number of coal - fired power plants coming online in the next few years.

With a large part of this coal coming from domestic sources, continued use of coal is often viewed as an important strategy in maintaining both energy independence and security.

If we don't take steps to make smarter, cleaner use of our coal reserves, just tell me which 12 hours of the day you want your lights turned off.

It hopes to make less use of coal - burning stations and more of combined - cycle gas - turbine stations.

The effort succeeded, buying time to ramp up a public relations campaign touting the «beneficial» uses of coal ash and pushing the familiar dire economic implications of federal oversight.

Please try to understand that by trying to bring factual understanding of the problem that I am advocating mindless, wasteful use of coal.

If so, we still have time to conserve far more energy and find substitutes for most uses of coal, oil and gas.

It's cleaner than the current use of coal and we can capture a percentage of the pollutants and store them in the ground today.

Direct use of coal and other sources of energy are small fractions of total usage.

Today, the most important use of coal, both directly and indirectly, is still as a fuel.

In contrast, 40 % strongly supported increased use of natural gas, 14 % strongly supported increased use of nuclear power, and just 8 % strongly supported increasing use of coal.

There is no excuse for the continued use of coal to generate electricity that costs too much and is a health hazard to everyone who lives anywhere near a coal - fired power plant.

But many energy experts have run the numbers on just how many nuclear power plants would have to be constructed between now and 2050 just to avert even a tenth or so of the projected increase in emissions of carbon dioxide coming from expanding use of coal in that span.

In complying with restrictions on use of coal, California buys more natural gas.

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.»

[4] While a range of positions is possible, it seems particularly strange that ExxonMobil takes the position that it does in that future global warming will be caused most by emissions from use of coal rather than by emissions from use of petroleum or natural gas.

A story by Roger Harrabin of the BBC yesterday provided the latest of many estimates that China's explosively growing use of coal for electric power had vaulted it past the United States into world leadership in emissions of carbon dioxide.

«Reduced emissions have been due to increased use of natural gas, and the decreased use of coal.

«Growing use of coal globally is overshadowing progress in renewable energy deployment, and the emissions intensity of the electricity system has not changed in 20 years.

Beijing has promised to implement «extraordinary» measures this year in a bid to tackle choking smog from traffic congestion and the heavy use of coal.

«The next 25 years of investment would produce 34 percent more emissions than all previous human use of coal,» says engineer and scientist George Peridas of NRDC's climate center.

But if China continues its rapid economic growth (it has averaged 10 percent per year over the last 20 years) and its vast use of coal (it typically adds one new gigawatt per month), then that same warming could take place in less than 20 years.

Increased use of coal relative to other energy sources has reversed the long ‐ standing trend of gradual decarbonization of the world's energy supply....

The report concludes that climate change may at some point limit use of coal, but that the level of understanding was at time (in 1980) not mature enough for final conclusions.

The dissemination of CCT technologies for the clean and efficient use of coal in the East Asia Summit (EAS) region is of pressing importance.

This rising use of coal requires a cleaner coal pathway, which balances energy security, economic development and environmental sustainability.

The agency attributed the decline to a warm winter, slumping use of coal - fired electricity, and strong growth in renewable and hydroelectric power.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.

The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.

I saw Hansen on CBS the other night, he knocked every possible use of coal, of course coal emmisons are growing around the globe no matter what the United States does.

(It misses important subtleties in saying plug - ins won't help emissions in China or India today or in 2020 because of their high use of coal.

With a decline in conventional coal plants, and no new coal plant proposals being forwarded by most utilities, the Crow are looking into different partnerships for non-conventional use of their coal.

A study conducted by ERIA on the strategic use of coal in the EAS region concluded that the application of inefficient technologies and ineffective environmental standards and regulations would lead to a waste of valuable coal resources (Otaka and Han, 2016).

Thus, seeking public acceptance on cleaner use of coal through CCT technologies will be crucial.

Those attempting to argue that other countries will follow California's lead in emissions reduction are completely out of touch with reality with what the world's largest and fastest growing emissions countries are now doing regarding the increased use of coal fuel on a global basis.

They determined that surpassing the 2 °C global goal could be quantified as equivalent to the release of more than 1 trillion tonnes of carbon (3.7 trillion tonnes CO2), with their timeframe being 1750 (i.e. the start of the modern use of coal) to some distant point in the future, in their case 2500.