Sentences with phrase «producing coal electricity»

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«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on ThursCoal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurscoal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

«Electricity is produced, for the most part, by combustion of fuels, primary coal,» the company says.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

A cynic might say that the German industrial establishment has taken a look at the way the «wind is blowing» and told the government enough is enough (after all coal - produced electricity is about 30 % of the price of wind and solar).

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

Earlier this year, Cameron and his then rival party leaders, Labour's Ed Miliband and Lib Dem Nick Clegg, also signed a pledge to end the use of coal - fired power stations to produce electricity.

But once it's produced, gas is a far cleaner fuel than coal for generating electricity.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

Last April natural gas tied coal as the top electricity - producing fuel in the United States (each generated 32 percent of the total).

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

If liquefied coal powered the world's vehicles, produced its heating, and generated its electricity, Earth would warm 2º Celsius (3.6 º Fahrenheit) by 2042, three years sooner than if society continued to use oil.

Burning coal produces more than half the country's electricity, despite its immense human and environmental costs.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

«Ideally, we could produce electricity with solar at the same price you can produce electricity with coal.»

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

This year natural gas moved to the top of the electricity - producing charts in the U.S., threatening coal's 120 - year dominance and pushing carbon emissions down to their lowest levels in 20 years.

First coal is burned, boiling water and producing steam that drives a turbine to generate electricity.

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

A similar integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant — in which coal is turned to gas before being burned — capturing the same amount would produce electricity for roughly $ 103 per MWh.

A tale of two solar press releases A new startup at MIT is working hard to create a kind of printable solar panel that could produce electricity that is cost - competitive with the electricity produced by burning coal.

FACT: Seventy percent of our electricity is produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, sources linked to global warming.

Even in parts of the country where coal makes up most of the electricity supply, EVs produce the same amount of greenhouse gases as the best gasoline - powered nonhybrid vehicles that get about 33 mpg.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

But that would still be only a fraction of the electricity produced by burning coal.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

So if you've got big coal plants producing electricity, you're not getting anywhere.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

Natural gas produces a quarter of the nitrogen oxides emitted by coal and half the carbon dioxide for every unit of electricity generated.

Mountaintop removal is just what it sounds like: Explosives are used to blast away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves that power companies want for producing electricity.

The opposite is true in parts of the Midwest, where electricity is produced largely from coal.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

«However, if electricity is generated from coal to charge an electric vehicle it produces 139g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions, compared with only 9g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions with electricity from renewable energy sources.»

But in the Midwest and South, where coal fuels the bulk of electricity generation, a hybrid produces less CO2 than an electric car.

Countries such as these generate much of their electricity using coal, which he says produces about 1,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per GWh — nearly double the suggested threshold.

Currently, India produces about 201 gigawatts of power, with more than half of its electricity generation coming from coal.

Hydrogen produced by converting coal or by splitting water with electricity costs four times as much as gasoline.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Coal - producing states, along with states reliant on coal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed pCoal - producing states, along with states reliant on coal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed pcoal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed plan.

I don't see why baseload power like coal and nuclear get credit for producing electricity all night long that nobody wants.»

Robert (NOT Robert Rapier) also said «I don't see why baseload power like coal and nuclear get credit for producing electricity all night long that nobody wants.»

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

«Since 2008, coal use has decreased, in part due to the recession but also in part due to replacement of coal with shale gas to produce electricity,» Howarth said.

Additionally, France also wants to phase out gas exploration on French territory and stop burning coal to produce electricity by 2022.