Sentences with phrase «run out of coal»

Another way of looking at that is whether emissions will be cut to mitigate warming or whether they will be cut because our descendants run out of coal.

Coal mines in the UK were shut down amid a historic dispute between the Government and miners, and the declining cost of importing coal from elsewhere against the rising costs of domestic production, not because Britain had run out of coal.

Mines run out of coal.

And for quadrupling (4 x 280 CO2eq ppm), which seems quite possible if not likely in the long - term absent significant mitigation (unless we run out of coal first), I would take my best ECS - per - doubling estimate and multiply by 2 right?

It's a big job, but it's one that has to be done anyway, since if the whole world tries to pull itself into prosperity by burning carbon at the rate the US does, then we run out of coal even at the highest estimates by 2100, and you wind up with no fossil energy and the hellish climate you get from 5000 gigatonnes cumulative emission.

Stanley Jevons wrote his book «The Coal Question» in 1865, at a time when there was some worry that Britain might run out of coal.

This is an example of a non-renewable energy source — eventually the planet will run out of coal — and in addition, burning coal sends toxins into the atmosphere.

Controlling coal exports would have real leverage, since many current estimates indicate that China could be running out of coal in the coming decades (see esp.

During last winter's near record cold in China, China almost ran out of coal.

Not exact matches

The decline in coal consumption fits an overall pattern seen in China over the past few years, which suggests that China is running out of high quality coal.

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.

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.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

His wry sense of humor was out in full force in this homage to John Coltrane, an exquisite installation made with coal and grand - piano tops that featured a minia - ture train running along a circuitous track.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

What do you suppose will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, as we are likely to do in the near future (decades for oil and perhaps a century for coal)?

One thing we know for sure: We'll never run out of energy, although we may have shortages in the near and medium terms if we don't immediately develop our abundant oil, gas and coal resources.

One thing we know for sure: We'll never run out of energy, though we may have shortages in the near and medium terms if we don't immediately develop our abundant oil, gas and coal resources.

She went Green as that vision was running out of steam, in spite of its success (and she closed far more coal mines than any environmental protest could wish for).

Some bigger Central Appalachia coal producers may be running out of time and money.

President Trump campaigned on «bringing back coal» and has attempted to follow up on this promise by thwarting the Clean Power Plan and pulling out of the Paris Agreement in an attempt to keep fossil fuels up and running.

The reason the UK (and other European countries) have substituted for coal is because we literally ran out of economically exploitable reserves.

«Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.

But China only has about 35 years of coal and when they and Indonesia run out, there isn't anyone to push emissions.

Developers know that time is running out for the development of large coal mines because they sense that the tide is turning in the market.

They spoke last, after the nine coal industry and coal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal industry and coal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stoCoal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stoCoal,» and even this energy industry publication story).

What we really need is to build out nuclear so we can quit funding the Middle East — we will run out of economical oil at some point, but I see no reason to stop using oil and coal now.

Concrete makers in Virginia say Dominion Energy doesn't need to worry about running out of customers for its 30 million tons of waste coal ash.

A number of old coal combustion stations were due to close in 2014, putting the UK in danger of running out of power in the second half of this decade.

New natural gas might run coal out of some regions slightly faster than otherwise, but overall renewables would deploy faster with a near - universal rule of no new natural gas plants.

We need to stop using them long before they run out: particularly, before the worldâ $ ™ s massive reserves of coal and unconventional fossil fuels are tapped.

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Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

Back in June there was a discussion of Coal and Climate Change by Dave Rutledge http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2697#more What I got from that discussion was that «global warming» won't happen because the world will run out of fossil fuels before CO2 level rises enough for any of the IPCC scenarios to happen.

It's not a matter of running out of cheap energy we can dig out of the ground (we have about 300 years worth of coal), it's a matter of surviving a changing climate.

In addition, Southern is represented by the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a coal industry front group run out of Bracewell's office in Washington, DC.

Once that is inplace countries that have a Nuclear blind spot have a few hundred years before they exhaust their coal supplies or run out of CO2 storage sites and have to go nuke regardless.

But Big Coal has certainly taken things a step too far It turns out they've been running ads in South Carolina featuring children (some under 10) who push coal on the public like some push a different product line on street - corners in bad parts of tCoal has certainly taken things a step too far It turns out they've been running ads in South Carolina featuring children (some under 10) who push coal on the public like some push a different product line on street - corners in bad parts of tcoal on the public like some push a different product line on street - corners in bad parts of town.

As Fran points out China needs 2.5 billion tonnes a year of coal and Australia can not physically make up the difference when China runs short.

Then there's running at the coal face with your «ead — one of the worst methods, know as the Bad Method of getting out coal.