Sentences with phrase «times more coal»

We have three times more coal than Russia.

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But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

To put this all in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of wind energy, and almost five times the number employed in nuclear energy,» the report notes.

Place the crostinis topping side up over the coals, but no more than 6 at a time otherwise you will burn one or two

You may need to add more coals half way through the cooking time.

A promise to coal country «I will be very clear, I want to do more to help in coal country,» Clinton said at the event, according to The New York Times.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Compared weight - by - weight, uranium 235 delivers a million times more energy than coal, which itself already represents chemical energy in a highly concentrated form.

Coal consumption in China has risen more than threefold since the 1980s, and there are close to 21 times more wheels on China's roads.

In all the nations surveyed, more than 73 per cent of people agreed that «Every time we use coal or oil or gas, we contribute to the greenhouse effect».

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

For unsubsidized solar power to be competitive with coal - or natural gas — powered electricity, it needs to cost $ 1 per watt — today, solar is three to five times more expensive than fossil fuels, Atwater said.

Underground coal and uranium mining, and oil recovery enhancement extraction use between two - and - a-half to 13 times more water per unit of energy produced.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

LOVE THE COOPERS As if the world didn't already have enough rancid comedies set during the holidays (including Jingle All the Way, Deck the Halls and all - time champ Christmas with the Kranks), here's one more seasonal atrocity to add to the coal bin.

But at the time the newspapers were full of reports from Mr. Palmer's office that new evidence of a gigantic plot against the safety of the country had been unearthed; and although the steel strike was failing, the coal strike was failing, and any danger of a socialist régime, to say nothing of a revolution, was daily fading, nevertheless to the great mass of the American people the Bolshevist bogey became more terrifying than ever.

At the same time, Mr. Trump has pledged to promote fracking for oil and gas, but that would make natural gas even more economically attractive, and accelerate the elimination of coal - sector jobs.

On «breaking the deadlock» — $ 100 / barrel oil helps a lot with the argument that we need to get off fossil fuels; unfortunately it's unlikely high prices will afflict coal any time soon, which is really the more serious problem.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

# 253 Jerry it is only in recent times that Australian farmers are starting to come to terms with climate change, after more than a decade of denial from conservatives (and not much better from the new Labor government, who just love coal mines) and their supporters among farmers organisations etc..

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

via: Times Online More on Pollution and Children Huge Drop in Birth Defects When Local Coal Plant Closes EPA Moves to Keep Rat Poison from Kids

Methane is many times more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere, and since the fracking process emits huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere, gas is not preferable to coal in the short term or long term.

We're going to burn more coal over the next 30 years than in all of human history, CO2 emissions are rising at worst case expectations, and we're looking at 6 degrees Farenheit temperature rise over that time.

The other group had to defend James E. Hansen, the NASA climatologist who had already become a strong advocate for particular climate policies at that time and, more recently, got himself arrested in coal country.

People do not buy your dirty coal power's today will come, at that time, you will loss more money.

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Via LA Times More on LCD and Plasma TV Energy Issues: Competition for LCD: Better Image, A Lot Less Power Plasma TVs Suck (Electricity) Energy Star Getting Tougher on TVs, Tests Them When Turned On Flat Screen TVs Worse For Climate Than a Big Coal Plant

Boyce observed that coal has been the world's fastest - growing fuel this past decade, with demand growing at nearly twice the rate of natural gas and hydro power and more than four times faster than global oil consumption.

Two fossil fuel facts define the basic actions that are required to preserve our planet's climate: (1) it is impractical to capture CO2 as it is emitted by vehicles (the mass of emitted CO2 is about three times larger than the mass of fuel in the tank), and (2) there is much more CO2 contained in coal and unconventional fossil fuels than in oil and gas.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

Nuclear fuel is 20,000 times more energy dense than coal and oil in the Gen III reactors and potentially up to 2 million times more energy dense in Gen IV reactors.

The 2016 version of Stacy and Taylor's report similarly claimed ``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

«Our study shows that on average, electricity from new wind resources is nearly four times more expensive than from existing nuclear and nearly three times more expensive than from existing coal,» according to a summary of Stacy and Taylor's 2015 report found on IER's website.

«For example, adopting best - in - Canada policies on renewable energy, staged phase - out of coal power and pricing carbon pollution in Saskatchewan and Alberta would be three times more effective in reducing carbon pollution than current policies.

Note that in the same year natural gas and coal produced THIRTY times more electricity than wind: 69 % of all American electricity, while wind produced a mere 2 %.

The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 1970).

An IER study shows that the levelized cost [vii] of new wind capacity is 2.7 times more expensive than the levelized cost of existing coal - fired capacity and the levelized cost of new solar photovoltaic capacity is 3.5 times as expensive as the levelized cost of existing coal - fired capacity.

While natural gas releases half the carbon dioxide of coal when it is burned, it is made up of 80 percent methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat 86 times more effectively than CO2 over a 20 - year span.

BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters)-- China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 — six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10 percent of U.S. annual usage — flying in the face of plans to tackle choking air pollution.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.