Sentences with phrase «powered by coal»

About 80 % of Australia's electricity demand is in the three eastern mainland states and they are predominantly powered by coal.

In comparison, emissions from energy to power an electric Nissan Leaf would cost us $ 840 even if purely powered by coal, and $ 290 if fueled by electricity supplied entirely from natural gas.

LONDON, 22 July, 2014 − It's not the sort of league table that anyone is proud of leading, but a new report on the European Union's power sector lists the EU's 30 most polluting energy plants — all powered by coal.

American Honda's chief engineer, Ben Knight challenged Ms. Korin's views, arguing that since half of North America's electrical grid is powered by coal, any local environmental benefit offered by plug - in hybrids would be lost by the increased combustion of coal.

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In contrast, fossil fuels can have a significant impact on water resources: both coal mining and natural gas drilling can pollute sources of drinking water, and all thermal power plants, including those powered by coal, gas, and oil, withdraw and consume water for cooling.

In May 2017 alone, the states of Gujarat, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh canceled thermal energy plants — that is, those powered by coal — with a combined capacity of nearly 14GW of power.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 49 % of all homes and businesses are powered by coal — a drop from 60 % in 2007.

Collecting liquid carbon dioxide by pipeline from large plants powered by coal is designed to allow steel, cement and chemical industries to continue to operate without making climate change worse.

It has grown, since 2000, from a poverty - stricken backwater to the world's largest economy, mainly powered by coal.

In the late eighteenth century industry powered by coal was innovative, in the twenty - first century coal is finished and any government that can not accept that fact is doing a great disservice to its people.

The study (PDF) singles out a Facebook facility that relies on a coal - powered utility, along with Apple's North Carolina data center, also powered by coal.

On the other hand, you can price your industries out of the home market by making energy so expensive that you end up buying goods and services from China and India that were made in factories powered by coal.

But if China ends up with an electric - car fleet that is powered by coal, the Earth's atmosphere won't be very impressed.

While ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.

The stark reality is that there is literally no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.

In this land powered by coal and steam, young April searches for her missing scientist parents.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Automakers» latest projections for rapid growth of China's green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal - fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy.

Machines powered by coal could now do much of the work that had previously been done by human beings.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

This computing power has added a burden to energy systems around the globe, and in some countries, such as China, those systems still are powered by coal.

Normally I wouldn't consider an electric car since zero emissions from a car when it's powered by coal isn't that much less.

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Federal regulators on Monday rejected a rule proposed by Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would have subsidized coal and nuclear power plants.

Banks says all the coal at Shotton and Highthorn can be extracted by the government's 2025 deadline for phasing out coal - fired power generation.

When first elected in 2003, he promised to retire all coal - fired power plants by 2007.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

By his estimates, renewables make up perhaps 7 % of the power grid, with natural gas and coal making up the remaining majority.

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The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

Electricity consumption, powered largely by coal, but increasingly by natural gas and renewable energy sources, will grow by 84 % by 2035.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

Berkshire has pledged to reduce coal - power generation by 76 % in its Nevada utility company.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

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.

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

Two electric generating cooperatives, Minnkota Power and Square Butte, which operate the Milton R. Young Generating Station, consume virtually all of the coal produced by BNI Energy under long - term agreements.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Last week, President Obama unveiled new regulations that will reduce emissions from coal - fired power plants by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.