Sentences with phrase «run on coal»

I have been dismissive of electric cars in the past, claiming that they essentially run on coal.

So, let's get this straight: if the Macarthur Wind Energy Facility was being run on coal or gas instead, the residents» complaints would have been treated seriously; the Council would have acted consistently with its duty under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act; and ordered that the Facility be shut down at night?

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Hint: COAL So your electric car will run on coal.

I don't know about you but I don't really care if the new consoles run on coal and live hamsters as long as the games are good.

It is the Tesla Model S, Model 3 and Model X, plus the Datsun Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt that run on coal.

Over the years, consumers have learned to expect electricity on demand from power plants that run on coal, natural gas or oil.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

China still runs on coal, but has a pressing reason for wanting out: smog is now too big a health problem to ignore.

This 11,000 kilowatt power station in Bluestone, West Virginia, ran on coal - fired steam turning Westinghouse - Parsons turbines.

GM's turbine program continued into the 1980s, with one of their last visible projects being a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado turbine car that ran on coal dust.

Please consider the possibility that the process will get stuck with huge inefficient plug - in cars running on coal.»

Well if they care about global warming they should, because we are poised for a world of plug - in SUVs running on coal.

China's modern economy runs on coal.

Using nuclear heat to gasify waste and sequestering the CO2 fraction is going to be more sustainable than anything running on coal.

Shut down the tram (it runs on coal).

plant was a 1400 MW capability, 4 units running on coal, gas and oil.

Not exact matches

Just as Nebraska doesn't want the Keystone XL pipeline running through its backyard, coastal states such as Washington and Oregon don't want to see an endless string of coal trains hauling millions of tons of coal to export terminals on the Pacific.

North Korea also ran a near - record trade deficit of $ 1.96 billion with China in 2017, the NIS reportedly informed the National Assembly on Monday, owing to United Nations Security Council sanctions banning exports of goods including coal, marine products and garments.

The Alberta - based company's facilities run on a number of different sources, such as natural gas, wind, and coal.

Now multiply this by every coal - fired power station on earth running night and day and the staggering volume of CO2 produced starts to be something you can understand can impact the earth on a planetary scale.

I saw the tracks they left on the highways, lying on the floor of freight trains, the parents in rags, the coal box empty, the sink running over, the walls sweating and between the cold beads of sweat the cockroaches running like mad; I saw them hobbling along like twisted gnomes or falling backwards in the epileptic frenzy....

Noted the National Republican Congressional Committee in its take on Hein's passing of the cup, «Ulster County executive Mike Hein just dropped a huge load of coal into the stockings of local and national Democrats this afternoon by announcing that he would not run for Congress in NY - 19.»

Cuomo announced in December 2013 that NRG Energy, owner of the failing Dunkirk coal - fired power plant, would negotiate a deal with National Grid to renovate Dunkirk to run on natural gas.

Power plants are next let's see no coal they want to run them on gas and your heat bill will go sky high but the democrat voters don't care they get their heat free for their vote.

It kind of seems a bit stuck in the past — some big chuffing coal - munching traction steam thing we'd be given while London runs on some silent future energy.

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

The cost of one project can run at the $ 1 billion level or higher, causing critics to say that full use of CCS on most of the world's coal plants would bankrupt the energy industry and possibly spur earthquakes (ClimateWire, June 19).

If we continue to rely on coal to keep the lights burning and gasoline to keep our cars running, we are bound to pay a heavy price.

«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal coal extraction,» says RAN.

RAN and the Sierra Club hope that by exposing the impact these banks are having on the environment through their financing programs, they can help alert the public and policymakers to the need to outlaw MTR coal mining altogether.

But nobody wants to own or run coal and gas generators if they can only make money out of them for a few hours on a few days.

Will tomorrow's power plants run on a few ounces of hydrogen and boron instead of several hundred tons of coal?

For one, the current fiscal crisis presents the U.S. with an unprecedented opportunity to wean itself off fossil fuels — whether implicated in coal mining on Native American lands, congested freeways running through inner cities, or refineries sited along the fence lines of poor neighborhoods.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to heat and cool our buildings and run our vehicles takes a heavy toll on the environment, contributing significantly to both local problems like elevated particulate levels and global ones like a warming climate.

If the cells run on hydrogen — which could be derived from a clean - coal plant, for instance — the only direct by - product is water.

Those deep beds of top soil were sort of like deep beds of coal or something; they're running out, you know, they depend on to be used at least the way we're using them now, tons of synthetic fertilizer, immense amounts of water, which in much of the world, we're running out of.

On the other hand, these outlooks have consistently underestimated the rate of growth of renewables and the decline of coal, with BP, for example, being «surprise [d]» six years running.

In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.

Another time it nearly rolled off a very tall cliff to its certain demise but instead plowed through a pile of stacked coal near the edge and slowed down just enough for Dad, running in cowboy boots, to catch up, throw himself through the passenger's door, and jam on the brake mere feet from the precipice.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

At the start of the DLC you find yourself stuck in a sack, along with other sacks being carted around the Maw, which you rip open from the inside and fall on to coals below, where you are met by nomes, which as always run away.

At times it would look like you were crying as the rivulets of water would drip off your head and run down your face causing little streaks through the caked on coal dust.

And note that some solar thermal plants are now achieving availability on a par with coal - fired plants, due to storing excess heat from the day in molten salts and using it to run the turbines at night and in bad weather.

Our civilization runs on fossil fuel, increasingly coal, in the way the Roman empire ran on slavery.

Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»

Democrats need to develop clean coal legislation based on current science and engineering, not sit around wringing their hands and whining, and not denying coal permits when there is little else that can meet the demand in the short run.

But if anyone can point me to evidence that China plans to burn less coal in the long run on the basis of greenhouse concerns, I'd be happy to highlight that.

Trains can run on diesel as well as electricity (or coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity per unit fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).