Sentences with phrase «over coal burning»

It's not only that coal - burning companies Ameren Missouri, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal are headquartered in St. Louis, or that statewide battles have been waged over coal burning and the storing of ash.

Not exact matches

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

So, it's not so much about the act of walking over burning hot coals, but about having people face and overcome something in spite of fear.

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burninBurning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burningburning coal.

Over the next 25 years, it will provide the same power as burning one million tons of coal.

Tekakwitha's dedication to ritual mortification became more intense and consuming over the remainder of her life; she included prolonged fasting, flogging, cutting, sleeping on a bed of thorns, and burning herself with hot coals.»

Some environmental groups are worried over the rise in coal exports from multiple countries (including the United States and Australia) to China, which burns half of the six billion tons the world burns annually.

Place the crostinis topping side up over the coals, but no more than 6 at a time otherwise you will burn one or two

He lightly salts 15 - pound pork shoulders, using no rub and no basting, and then the shoulders are placed on metal racks in the pit and are cooked over hickory coals (some use oak) shoveled from a burning chamber (see above) into the pit, below the shoulders.

Cook the bell peppers over hot coals or under a preheated broiler for about 10 minutes, so the flesh is blistered but not burnt.

Prepare a charcoal grill and when the coals are medium hot, brush the onions with the oil and place over the coals to roast, turning frequently so they don't burn.

On a tour abroad, amid an eighteen - day conditioning phase, Pochettino made the players walk barefoot over burning - hot coal.

The coal boom of the early century is turning to bust as China burns less and renewables slowly take over new investment.

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

Uniquely spherical magnetic minerals wafted over the world by coal burning can be found from peat bogs to lake sediments and may furnish a record of this carbon combustion for future geologists.

There are over 100 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil, coal and tar, which are readily released into the environment when fossil fuels are burned.

Estimates of China's greenhouse gas emissions are based in large part on official Chinese reports on the amount of coal it burns — data that China's government routinely revises over time, affecting scientists» estimates of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

And yesterday, the collapse of a coal ash pond in Tennessee buried 12 houses and 400 acres — a reminder of the 129 million tons of radioactive and / or toxic waste left over after coal burning produced in the U.S. each year.

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

They may live close to coal - burning factories and they also have a long tradition of cooking over wood or coal fires.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

For two centuries, we have been tapping into «fossilised sunlight», burning solar energy trapped over millions of years in coal, oil and natural gas.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Concerns over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that electricity is decarbonised — which means no more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.

If current coal reserves are burned on a time scale short compared to time scales for carbon storage, then CO2 concentrations will go over 400 ppm rather easily.

Another booming area of the guggul gum industry is as an incense; local Indians believe that burning the raw gum over coal to create a thick dense smoke can drive evil spirits away from the household and remove the «evil eye» from nearby humans.

When the wood has burned down to embers, place the chicken, skin side down, directly over the coals.

Most men would rather walk over a bed of burning hot coals than tell a whether single civilian members army, our website.

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Legislative attempts by authorities over the years to curtail — or even entirely ban — the burning of coal were ignored due to lack of any effective alternative.

He took the silver thurible of burning coals and incense from its bearer and swung it by its chain over the altar — seven times on this side, and then, walking round, a separate censing on each of the other three.

And Gundy melts over a foil - wrapped brick of gold from Ontario's Stirling Creamery: a high - fat, European - style butter churned in batches using two coal - burning, steam - powered pasteurizers.

Set in a Steampunk version of the 1800s with everything having gone to an iced - over hell due to a sudden ice age which somehow snuck up on humanity people have decided to leave the cities in order to found new homes using large generators, massive machines that burn coal to provide some warmth amidst conditions reaching -70 c.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

Even though the gas system is almost certainly leakier than previously thought, generating electricity by burning gas rather than coal still reduces the total greenhouse effect over 100 years, the new analysis shows.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

The Chinese project, called GreenGen, has gained a new partner, Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company (the one battling the governor of Kansas over stalled permits for coal - burning plants).

Or at the very least the accountants at Exxon Mobil must have put more than a lump of coal in the stocking hanging over Tierney's fossil fuel - burning fireplace.

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«The pollution from burning coal and from the coal that is extracted here affects people all over the world.»

We're going to burn more coal over the next 30 years than in all of human history, CO2 emissions are rising at worst case expectations, and we're looking at 6 degrees Farenheit temperature rise over that time.

Yet, in the one case where we in the developed world have direct leverage over China's coal burning, we fail to act.

Progressively over that span, the panel's reports have raised the likelihood that people, mainly by burning billions of tons of coal and oil, have been the main force responsible for global warming since 1950 and that a lot more warming, coastal retreats and shifting weather are in the offing under business as usual.

Even as the United States sees individual battles over siting new coal - burning plants, India and China are building them as fast as they can raise the money and find the cement and steel.

The coal will be burned, in other words, just over a longer time span.

We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.

A study by a leading apparel company concluded that one pair of denim jeans produces 44 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions — equivalent to burning over 21 pounds of coal.