Sentences with phrase «society out of its coal»

Frankly, I think one could write the perfect story on global warming, or create the perfect documentary, and repeat it over and over, and still not see much movement if the goal is to rapidly shift society out of its coal - fired comfort zone as the world heads toward 9 billion people.

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«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

Now they can actually make jet fuel out of the coal; hence state researcher Harold Schobert announced last week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society that he had made jet fuel that's half from bituminous coal and they successfully powered a jet engine with it.

A separate, unpublished and preliminary economic analysis carried out by the team estimates that implementing large - scale cryogenic systems into coal - fired plants would see an overall reduction in costs to society of 38 percent through a sharp cut in associated health - care and climate - change costs.