Sentences with phrase «out of coal use»

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

Second, even the fastest possible phase - out of ALL coal use would have NO «debilitating effects on our economy», and would in fact have enormous economic BENEFITS — even apart from reducing carbon pollution.

Not exact matches

During the presidential campaign, hackers cracked open all of the Democrats» secrets and splayed them out for everyone to see, while Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for using an insecure server for her own personal email.

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.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, one out of every five homes and business in the US use electricity made from Wyoming coal.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

That bugged the heck out of me because I don't use lighter fluid to light my coals.

If using a smoker, don't add wood chips for smoke, instead just place a pan of water between the coals and the wrapped meat to keep the «package» from drying out.

Because of the use of coal tar, many organizations and circles are speaking out and boycotting products using colors with coal tar because it is a carcinogenic in large quantities, known to cause tumors in lab rats.

Poor nations say wealthy countries got rich using coal, oil and gas and they must be allowed to develop their way out of poverty.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

He points out that Canada's economy grew while key climate regulations were enacted on coal and other sectors and alleges that the speeding up of oil pipeline approvals was necessary to end a process that used to drag on indefinitely.

Compressed Air The Alabama Energy Cooperative opened a compressed - air energy storage plant in 1991, using coal plants that ordinarily would be idle at night, to pump air into a hollowed - out salt dome at a pressure of more than 1,000 pounds per square inch.

It is not just a matter that if we started to use lots of coal gasification techniques [in] which your burning coal, which [and] you pull in the carbon dioxide out before it goes into the atmosphere — you can't just rely on those.

China is following suit, according to a news story in the same issue of Science, launching the Erdos coal - to - liquid plant in Inner Mongolia that will capture some of its 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions and use it to flush out oil from nearby fields.

Instead, the company will use high - sulfur coal — mined mostly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia — and will then pull the sulfur out as part of the CCS process.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

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.»

Their tales reflect those of many Charleston area residents, who found out on January 9 that their tap water had been contaminated with a chemical used in coal processing.

02/07/2018 - While less new coal - fired power plants are now being built in China and India, the planned expansion in the use of coal in fast - growing emerging economies, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Vietnam, will in part cancel out the reduction.

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.

Using coal to power vehicles is outdated and no amount of pc waffle will get the smoke out of the air or out of our lungs!

Overall, I have yet to see anyone rebut the simple calculations of Vaclav Smil, the resource and risk polymath at the University of Manitoba, who has shown how capturing and processing just a small percentage of today's CO2 from coal combustion would require as much pipeline and other infrastructure as is now used globally to get oil — a costly commodity — out of the ground.

A majority of the coal used today is Powder River Basin coal and it works out to cost about $ 1 at the mine for a million BTU.

If that electricity savings were used to close coal power plants, that would have saved 1.6 giga tonnes of CO2 emissions (out of 7.1 giga tonnes total greenhouse gas emissions).

It was then used to power very big and inefficient steam engines that pumped water out of mines; when James Watt developed his steam engine that used 75 percent less coal than the Newcomen engine it replaced, the common thinking was that the increased efficiency meant that they would burn less coal.

Hope the Communist Party in China will use its strict totalitarian control to mandate that all factories stop polluting, as well as mandating that coal and gasoline for power needs of homes, factories and cars and trucks and buses be phased out ASAP.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

«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.

First, and this is 80 % of the solution, coal use must be phased out except where the CO2 is captured and sequestered.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

The United Kingdom is scaling up its use of low - carbon energy sources as it plans to phase out coal - fired power plants altogether by 2025.

It means, for example, phasing out all coal - fired power plants by 2020 while greatly reducing the use of oil.

To achieve these reductions they propose phasing out coal - fired power stations by 2030 and scaling down the use of unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands.

A script pulled out the direct fossil fuel investments using the Carbon Underground 200 that identifies the top 100 public coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally, ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves.

Consequently, the UK government plans to enact a series of emissions standards for coal plants as well as incentives for the use of renewable energy sources in order to meet its 2025 target for the phase out of coal.

For one, Ontario successfully phased out its use of coal power — the first province or state in North America to do so — one year ahead of schedule.

But some ethanol supporters correctly point out that we have lots of coal, and we could use that as our primary energy source for ethanol production.

In their efforts to raise 2 billion people out of poverty using the only cheap energy sources available to them (and avoid revolution), there is little chance that China and India won't burn every ton of cheap coal they can purchase.

That is the just «for now» mark to aim for but we really do need to stop coal use dead and then take the 300 tonnes Carbon per westerner out of the air!

Despite this, one of the main takeaways from the report is that Trump administration may still be preparing to use energy «resilience» as an excuse to bail out the coal industry.

Alberta has a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity and have 30 per cent of electricity used by Albertans come from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro by 2030.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

We got North Sea Gas and the use of coal for heating died out.

After years of amazing community activism from local parents, business owners, residents, citizen groups, and community leaders, last week the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve plans to not only phase out the use of coal at its North Omaha coal - fired power plant, but also to ramp up energy efficiency.

Factories churning out solar panels use large amounts of electricity, often sourced from coal - fired power stations in China.

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Regulating the use of coal and oil out of the economy, increasing redistributive taxes to a massive degree, centralizing control of the energy economy in the government, ceding additional sovereignty to unaccountable international organizations, and creating one additional layer of bureaucracy upon another is not political.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)