Sentences with phrase «provided by coal»

25 Fossil Fuel - Problem A 400MW coal powered power plant operates with an overall efficiency of 35 % Calculate the rate at which thermal energy is provided by the coal.

Another factor, the report says, is the growing share of energy provided by coal, the dirtiest of the mainstream fuels.

Where would the electricity come from to replace the electricity provided by these coal fired plants?

I suggest that most countries with a large percentage of their electricity provided by coal could do similar.

Because U.S. coal production peaked in 2002 (in terms of energy provided by coal), the U.S. will experience significantly higher coal and electric prices in future years.

If that energy is most easily provided by the coal or oil resources they have available to them so be it.

Although China is producing more energy from coal in absolute terms, the percentage of total energy provided by coal is dropping.

Not exact matches

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.

As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

An Australian company has signed a deal to provide energy to a cryptocurrency miner by reopening a coal power plant.

Record high prices in Asia have had several impacts, including providing economic incentive to bring on additional supply, maintaining a continued reason to burn much cheaper coal despite the negative environmental consequences and a search by consuming nations for secure supply options.

That same Clean Power Plan predicted that by 2030, under the policy's changes to the electricity sector, natural gas would provide 33 percent of U.S. electricity, and coal would provide 27 percent.

Currently, China supposedly has stopped coal imports from N. Korea in an arrangement by Trump for the U.S. to provide the coal to China, but this trade curtailment being honored is in question.

Cuomo announced a deal in December 2013, subsequently approved by the PSC, to provide the coal - powered Dunkirk plant with $ 20.4 million a year to help renovate it to burn natural gas.

In addition to India's ambitious renewable targets (175 GW of renewables by 2022, of which 100 GW are solar PV), coal will provide a significant share of the additional power requirements — as much as 60 % through 2020.

I would urge him to consider ways to work collaboratively within our region by advocating for opportunities to include the coal facilities along with the good jobs they provide... which benefits our entire region and is critical for business growth and expansion.»

The governor needs to get out in front by committing to a coal phase - out, not more coal bailouts, and by providing the necessary glide path to ease the burden for coal - affected communities.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

An international study published in July showed that air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north.

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

Even if IGCC offers no solution to the dangers of pulling coal from the earth, it at least provides a way to control some of the most hazardous by - products of burning (or gasifying) the coal.

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.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

Layers of ice in the upper reaches of glaciers provide a year - by - year chronicle of soot emitted by local industry and by the coal and wood burned to heat homes in the valleys nearby.

Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single - source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass.

A clear illustration of direct effects of fossil fuels on human health was provided by an inadvertent experiment in China during the 1950 — 1980 period of central planning, when free coal for winter heating was provided to North China but not to the rest of the country.

At present most of the world's electricity supply is provided (primarily) by coal, oil, gas, and nuclear.

Owned and operated by American Heritage Railways, the locomotives used to pull today's train are 1923 - 25 vintage and remain 100 % coal - fired and steam operated, providing year - round passenger rail service.

May 10, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tackling Childhood Asthma Not Coal Industry Priority After All No more My Little Pony inhalers in stock Contact: [email protected], [phone] A charitable initiative by the world's largest coal company to provide free «novelty - themed» inhalers to asthmatic children may have seemed for a momenCoal Industry Priority After All No more My Little Pony inhalers in stock Contact: [email protected], [phone] A charitable initiative by the world's largest coal company to provide free «novelty - themed» inhalers to asthmatic children may have seemed for a momencoal company to provide free «novelty - themed» inhalers to asthmatic children may have seemed for a moment...

And when he talks about others ways to provide energy, he's talking about burning twice as much coal by 2030.

A newer look at the CO2 implications and options in a shift from coal to methane is provided in «Carbon Dioxide Emissions in a Methane Economy,» by the trio above.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

Natural gas is widely considered to be an environmentally cleaner fuel than coal because it does not produce detrimental by - products such as sulfur, mercury, ash and particulates and because it provides twice the energy per unit of weight with half the carbon footprint during combustion.

A story by Roger Harrabin of the BBC yesterday provided the latest of many estimates that China's explosively growing use of coal for electric power had vaulted it past the United States into world leadership in emissions of carbon dioxide.

[UPDATE 7/1: Upon consultation with editors here at The Times, we've pulled the photograph of a cliff of coal that was provided by Peabody Energy to accompany a Times business - section story in March on rising coal exports and which I used to illustrate this post on Peabody's response to criticisms of coal companies by James Hansen of NASA.

UPDATE 6/30: Several people, including Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org, noticed a blogger this morning showed that the image above of the cliff of coal, which had been provided by Peabody to The Times for an article back in March, has some digitally - spliced sections.

Through the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 35th AMEM, the Ministers appreciated the insights provided by the report ASEAN's Energy Equation: The Role of Low Emission Coal in Driving a Sustainable Energy Future prepared in collaboration by ACE and WCA.

Coal also went from providing 66 % of China's energy consumption in 2014 to 64 % in 2014 — at the same time as energy consumption rose overall by almost 1 %.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

Although coal - fired power generation may not be flexible enough to make up for the variability of wind power at the source region, the «hybrid - by - wire» strategy allows the lines to have a high utilization rate, and provides the flexibility to increase the share of renewable transmission in the future.

Other programs that provide economic support for coal include federal and state tax breaks, the Rural Utilities Service loan guarantee program, research on new combustion technologies by the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior's coal leasing program.

... «Today's coal ash proposal embodies EPA's commitment to our state partners by providing them with the ability to incorporate flexibilities into their coal ash permit programs based on the needs of their states,» Pruitt said in a statement.

The financing provided by this fund has enabled coal producers to restructure and recapitalize, leading to significant expansion of thermal coal production.

A caption below a photo of what looks like a smokestack added: «Humans have altered Earth's climate by burning coal and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide,» according to an image of the panel provided by the Perot Museum and by the panel's designer.

From providing cleaner cookstoves to rural families and improving rice cultivation to reduce methane emissions to reducing emissions from deforestation and cutting deepening dependence on carbon - emitting coal, the solutions to global warming pursued by countries across Asia are specific to their unique needs and opportunities.

In the latter case it will be much harder to harness from the relative trickle of energy which the sun provides to the earth, the same amounts of solar energy that have been packaged for us by nature into coal, gas and petroleum over tens of millions of years.

by Valerie Volcovici Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.

Experiences in developed nations such as Japan could provide good examples for achieving public consensus on coal use by showing how CCT uses coal more efficiently; that it is much cleaner than conventional plants; and that emissions from plants using CCT are very close to that of gas - fired power plants.

In 2016, coal - fired and nuclear power each contributed a bit over a third of the electricity, followed by natural gas generation, which provided a little more than a quarter of the load.