Sentences with phrase «out of coal»

Phase out of coal use except where the carbon is captured and stored below ground is the primary requirement for solving global warming.

We're not running out of coal anytime soon.

One of its top recommendations was for rich countries to get out of coal as quickly as possible.

It is a matter of established scientific fact that there is more radiation coming out of a coal - fired power plant than is emitted from a nuclear plant.

Wouldn't you also have to buy out all of the coal fired power plants and their employees?

The authors call for a rapid phase - out of coal as part of an «early and decisive» policy package.

So, in other words some CO2 is taken out of the coal equation.

Key issues are a socially acceptable phase out of coal, a transformation of the transportation and agricultural sector.

Another way of looking at that is whether emissions will be cut to mitigate warming or whether they will be cut because our descendants run out of coal.

So getting out of coal is an «essential feature» of climate action, the report says, and it is «critical» to limit further coal expansion.

That said, of course, my sense is that the coal industry is trying to change the subject, because reason is against it (in terms of its desire to build additional coal capacity before technologies are available that can take carbon dioxide out of coal emissions).

To change our earlier analogy, today we are like men coming out of a coal mine who suddenly begin to hear the rock rumbling, but who have also begun to see a little square of light at the end of the tunnel.

Environmental groups are concerned the new operators want to keep burning coal, when New York is so close to phasing out all of its coal plants.

So why did so many in the coal industry engage in obstructionism instead of planning for the future and gradually moving out of coal without real loss?

It warns investors that utilities currently only plan to close 27 % of capacity by then and that a complete phase - out of coal by 2030 could stem utility losses by $ 22 billion ($ 26bn).

For a nation with such a storied history, the UK has been all about the future of energy in recent years, cutting power sector carbon emissions almost 50 percent from 2010 - 2016 alone and announcing a phase out of coal power by 2025.

From the North Sea to Texas, this slide show looks at existing technology to take the carbon dioxide out of coal burning and other fossil fuel use

Jeremy Grantham, a billionaire fund manager who oversees $ 106bn of assets, said his company was on the verge of pulling out of all coal and unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands.

«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.

Energy efficiency — wringing more useful work out of coal, oil, and natural gas — is the fastest and cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Speeding the necessary phase - out of coal use in light of the climate crisis, and taking care of affected workers, will require thinking big.

Controversy arises out of the coal industry's use of the term in its high - profile marketing campaign aimed at convincing the public and politicians that the goal of using coal without damaging the environment and public health is either a current or a foreseeable reality.

Foley Hoag has once again secured a victory for Venezuela in claims arising out of a coal supply agreement between Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), a Canadian power company, and Guasare Coal International (now Carbozulia International), the foreign marketing arm of a mixed foreign Venezuelan entity mining coal in Zulia, Venezuela.

«This was not just great for me personally but I think also for some people living in Lusatia: I joined an info point at the market square of Welzow, where I invited the local citizens to join the demonstration to phase out of coal on the Saturday.

Just as much of the world languishes in uncertainty over the future of a low carbon transition, the Globe and Mail reports that Canada steps up and announces an almost complete phase out of coal for electricity by 2030 at the latest.

The New Climate Economy report identifies getting out of coal quickly as a priority for climate action.

«The next step would be to make petroleum out of coal, much like the Nazis did in World War II when their supply was cut off.

The particular nose can alter out of coal black to some light brownish color or perhaps pink based around the quantity of sunlight your pet is subjected to.

These sculptures, which recall Brancusi's work, are made out of coal dust.

«Using and liquefying coal is an available technology, but under current conditions, there would be a great deal of CO2 released from making liquids out of coal.

I understand there will be very, very VERY difficult times ahead transitioning out of coal and oil and into healthier energy choices, but this is about oil profit, greed and a nation freaked out right now about the dire many facets of our economy, among other things.

Frankly, I think one could write the perfect story on global warming, or create the perfect documentary, and repeat it over and over, and still not see much movement if the goal is to rapidly shift society out of its coal - fired comfort zone as the world heads toward 9 billion people.

Combined with an ambitious solar and geothermal expansion, along with new hydro projects in the pipeline, this would total 7.5 million megawatts of renewable generating capacity, enabling us to back out all of the coal and oil and most of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

Since the EPA's regulation and other regulations target coal - fired plants, Heritage produced economic analysis that showed what the phasing out of coal over a 25 year time period would mean to the U.S. economy.

It was great to see the momentum build immediately behind the phasing out of coal after the joint UK / Canada announcement yesterday, particularly given US attempts to promote coal at these talks, and more of these positive initiatives will be necessary if we are to increase the ambition of the Paris Agreement.

The advent of US shale oil was also disastrous, lowering the price of crude oil that is the benchmark upon which other forms of energy are judged, and having consequences like knocking the bottom out of the coal market, so coal began again to compete with renewables.

It's time we amp up the pressure on Chase and take their money out of the coal industry.

Those near - term health benefits aren't directly tied to the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but instead would result largely from curbing the release of more conventional pollutants — mercury and sulfur dioxide, among them — that billow out of coal plant smokestacks along with the CO2.