Sentences with phrase «still more coal»

As with his last show, Kounellis also hangs out dark, heavy clothing — on the way to a steel wall, holding still more coal and broken by crushed sewing machines.

Not exact matches

Even with the gains, the coal producer's shares are still down more than 80 % since 2013, but that shows how much more upside Natural Resource Partners might have if coal returns to favor.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

A sharp drop in US coal - fired power generation — and the resulting drop in steam coal production — played a more significant role in 2015, but met still accounted for 57 % of the revenue decline relative to 2011.

While I concede that coal mining produces more CO2 emissions that cement production, I think a better comparison would be «well, I am going to quit drinking Coca - Cola, but instead will drink diet Coca - Cola; it's not as bad, but it's still fucking awful for my body.»

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

But the timber picklers were not interested in the lighter and most volatile components of coal tar, which were still nothing but toxic waste — more toxic, in fact, than undistilled coal tar.

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

A 2009 research paper published in the journal Energy Procedia predicts that even if China achieves its 2030 target of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy use, more than half of its power supply will still come from coal.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

Still, a pilot project burning Montana coal in IGCC plants and sequestering the CO2 in Montana geological formations would be a very informative and important step, even if only because it would help create more market for IGCC plants and help develop the technology.

The upward trend is still readily apparent, and in fact this reflects the warming trend rather nicely, although it be more pronounced here, like the canary in the coal mine.

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From what I've heard from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of electricity is coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehicles.

More efficient power plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could boost prospects for coal, but the latter still faces significant regulatory, policy and technical barriers that make its deployment uncertain.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

And, despite having more than 30 new nuclear reactors under construction, China's new nuclear capability was still a fraction of new coal energy.

-- Wind energy is still more expensive than gas or coal generated electricity.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

The regulation has been softened since but still operates to push renewable projects to more remote areas where they can compete with high - cost fuel like diesel, and makes them uncompetitive in areas like Java where they compete with low - cost, abundant coal.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

To put in some context, even with the cancellation of some proposed plants, planned capacity additions in India are still more than three times greater than Germany, a major coal user.

Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal - fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its «green» and «climate protection» policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.

A study surveying «leaky valves and pipes in the rapidly growing natural gas industry» observed 50 % more methane leakage than expected, but the extra atmospheric contribution still causes less global warming than coal.

Germany still uses coal for 40 % of its electricity production... Which is more than coal's share in the United States.

AGL says brown coal can still spin off cash flow even with a carbon price of more than $ 50 / t, particularly as the cost of gas and black coal is expected to increase dramatically in coming years.

Renewable technology has greatly expanded across the continent, with wind power overtaking coal as Europe's second - largest form of power capacity in 2016 — though coal is still used to meet more of the continent's electricity demand.

There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.

To meet the 2030 targets, the 65 % RES will help, but Germany will still definitely need additional national instruments to even half coal by 2030 (which is more or less the official target for the energy sector).

Mr. Resch argues that more established technologies including oil and gas, coal and nuclear power are still taking advantage of incentives that were established in the 20th century.

Future efforts to control and limit mercury emissions, since the technology for doing it is yet to be identified, will make paper fiber still more attractive as a fuel substitute for coal.

Vietnam is still planning to build 24 more coal fire - powered plants.

Both will still produce power that is more expensive than coal, but Google believes that this will change with continued investment in the technologies used and with others coming on board as companies begin to realise the benefits to be gained.

To deal with the failures of «going green» Western governments, still wanting to appear green, justify abandoning alternate energies and returning to coal by saying energy and jobs are more important in the short term.

Wind energy, the cheapest renewable technology, still costs 50 percent more than coal or gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.

But he still believes one or more of solar, wind, nuclear, and coal will bail us out — by the time I write those articles it will be too late, sigh...

Offshore wind is still one of the more expensive electricity generating technologies, but onshore wind is often highly competitive with coal, natural gas, and nuclear power in areas with strong wind resources.

Elsewhere in the world, China — often still thought of by many as relying almost entirely upon dirty coal plants for electrical generation — actually added more clean energy generation capacity in the first 10 months of 2013 than fossil fuel:

It doesn't make a difference that a coal - burning powerplant has to reduce its emissions if they have to do it by reducing their own coal, that could be more costly than just buying an offset and we still get the same environmental result.

Despite China's ratification of the Paris global climate agreement, it is still building more coal - fired power plants.

The challenge is that although renewables are increasingly cost competitive with coal in some parts of the country, on average, they are still more expensive.

Yes there are still starving children in the world, yes there is still war and pestilence but coal and oil have done more to free us from these evils than any charitable organisation has ever done.

* Redirecting more than $ 250 billion in subsidies in industrial countries away from coal and oil and putting them behind carbon - free technologies; (would these figures still be adequate, several years later?)