One year, we're
predicting coal use will grow for decades to come.
Not exact matches
«This study shows it's possible to reduce
coal use and cut emissions without major economic impacts, refuting skeptics who've
predicted economic ruin,» said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House official and climate expert attending the Paris negotiations.
For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to
predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of
coal it
uses.
The team
used the data from charcoal in
coal to propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p (O2)-RRB- that mass balance models
predict prevailed.
A 2009 research paper published in the journal Energy Procedia
predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy
use, more than half of its power supply will still come from
coal.
Meanwhile the World Energy Council
predicts coal,
using today's infrastructure, will remain with us for decades, if not centuries.
Neither Hansen nor you can
predict when
coal use is likely to end, nor state what will «come around 2100» — as much as I respect Dr Hansen, I'd be as inclined to listen to Nostradamus for predictions of our situation 90 years hence.
Compared with remaining reserves of
coal as of 2005 plus postulated additions to reserves to 2050, these cases
predict that
coal production from 2006 to 2050 will
use up 34 — 40 % of currently remaining ultimate world
coal reserves.
Gas will eventually replace some of the
coal used to make electricity, the study
predicts, and gas will be the benchmark against which other carbon - saving technologies like wind or nuclear will be measured.