Sentences with phrase «tonne of coal we burn»

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.

Not exact matches

When it is burned, the coal will produce 128 million tonnes of carbon per year, says the ACF.

Underground burning could unlock the power of hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, of tonnes of otherwise inaccessible coal.

And if all the known reserves of coal, oil and gas are burnt, the figure will eventually rise to more than 4 trillion tonnes.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

It's must be truly frustrating to spend ones entire career determining what will happen if the world burns 20 or 30 billion tonnes of coal per year when the economic evidence points to the world never burning more then 7 or 8 billion tonnes per year.

Every day, we receive 2,000 tonnes of coal and we burn 2,000 tonnes of coal.

A tonne of fossil carbon is added to the active carbon cycle each time about 1.67 tonnes of coal are burned.

In fact, the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tonnes of coal per year by 2017 compared to today — equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

Coal — about 8 billion tonnes per annum, nearly half of which is burnt by China and 1 billion tonnes by the USA.

British Columbia inaugurated its carbon tax on July 1, 2008 at a rate of $ 10 (Canadian) per metric ton («tonne») of carbon dioxide released from coal, oil and natural gas burned in the province.

The 582 megawatt facility is expected to burn through around 4 million tonnes of low - grade lignite coal a year, all mined from the hills just behind the plant.

Well, India has a lot of coal to burn — «Coal production in the country during the year 2010 - 11 was 533 million tonnes (MTs) as compared to 532 MTs during 2009 - 10, registering a growth of 0.1coal to burn — «Coal production in the country during the year 2010 - 11 was 533 million tonnes (MTs) as compared to 532 MTs during 2009 - 10, registering a growth of 0.1Coal production in the country during the year 2010 - 11 was 533 million tonnes (MTs) as compared to 532 MTs during 2009 - 10, registering a growth of 0.12 %.

As an example in China, replacement of residential coal burning by large boiler houses providing district heating is among the abatement options providing the largest net benefit per tonne of CO2 reduction, when the health benefits from improved ambient air conditions are accounted for (Mestl et al., 2005).

Cost to burn a tonne of coal for most Australian coal plants before July 1st: About $ 3 Minimum cost to burn a tonne of coal in Australia after July 1st: About $ 70

The cost of transporting a 300 tonnes of water with every thousand tonnes of (wet) coal the 250 km from the mine to the power station (in the case of coal mined at Leigh Creek and burned at Port Augusta) must be very high, but I would think that it would be insignificant compared to the energy loss resulting from burning wet coal.

If you look at the savings that they have made in thermal efficiency and other in - house savings of performance of the plant and then you look at the coal - led burning, there is a gap for Loy Yang of six million tonnes of coal a year today versus 2005.

Teng estimates there would be a further cost of 160 yuan per tonne, on top of the 260 yuan calculated in the study, if the long - term social impact of climate change from coal burning were considered.

According to the same Environment Canada emissions inventory, Ontario residential wood - burning fireplaces released 1,150 tonnes of PM2.5 in 2009, 65 % more than all the coal - fired electricity generation together.

Adani will dig millions of tonnes of coal out of Queensland, ship it to India and burn it to provide cheap energy to Indians, and obliterating any possible difference Finkel will make to the climate hundreds (thousands?)

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

By way of comparison, the Port Augusta power stations, the closing of which Mr Frydenberg has strongly criticised, burnt 67 tonnes of brown coal every hour.