Sentences with phrase «tons more coal»

Globally we are destined to use about 50 - 80 billion tons more coal.

Globally, perhaps 50 to 100 billion tons more coal may be used (about 20 to 40 years of current consumption) before coal largely disappears from the market (Ausubel et al., 1988).

Not exact matches

This will help to save more than one million tons of CO2 when compared with a «conventional» coal fired plant.

Contrast that with Alliance Resources Partners, which sold nearly 9 million more tons of coal than Teck on an equivalent basis last year, but only pulled in $ 1.9 billion in revenue and generated $ 692.7 million of adjusted EBITDA.

The major reason for this is the strong profitability of the industry — the price of both the ingredients (iron ore, coal, freight, fluxes etc.) and the finished steel has decreased, but the costs of producing a ton of steel fell more, so the profit margins have actually improved.

Newcastle spot prices, essentially the global benchmark price for coal, have fallen from a peak of more than $ 140 a ton in early 2011 to less than $ 70 a ton.

The train carried more than 13,000 tons of coal.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

But there are technology options on the horizon that might allow for future coal - fired power plants to avoid the average emissions of more than four million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year per plant.

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.

But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every year from burning coal.

Burning coal produces more than 100 million metric tons of coal ash per yearthe gray or black sooty aftermath of our fossil fuel habit.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmCoal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

Beijing is mulling proposals to scrap a 10 - percent coal export tariff, a move which could easily see shipments jump four-fold to the annual quota of 38 million metric tons as Chinese coal becomes more competitive.

Which is to say, one ton of coal in, more than two tons of carbon dioxide out.

The EIA says U.S. coal exports were more than 115 million tons in 2012, more than double the 2009 figure.

The cost of retrofitting an old coal plant with capture equipment, for example, could in theory run to more than $ 100 per ton.

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

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Landfills in Korea accumulate more than 250,000 tons of oyster shells each year, while coal - fired power plants churn out just as much fly ash.

To sequester one billion tons of CO2, more than 3 billion tons basalt would have to be spread, a mindboggling amount equal to almost half of the current global coal production.

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

States with more coal power plants such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana released the most electricity - related SO2 emissions in the summer at more than 1,300 metric tons per day, per state.

sWow, if hundreds of thousands of tons of uranium are being released by coal power plants it would appear they are more dangerous than nuclear power plants.

The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century

Fly Ash Bricks In the process of generating electricity, U.S. coal plants spew more than 70 million tons a year of a radioactive waste called fly ash.

Since 1998, the company has provided our utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

However, more than 20 percent — about 118 million tons — of that coal was reportedly shipped overseas, accounting for about 10 percent of worldwide coal exports in 2013, the year for which latest data are available.

By comparison, the country's largest coal mines produce more than 100 million tons of coal each year.

Since 1998, the company has provided its utility customers with more than 1750 reactor years of fuel — equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

Because nine of every 10 tons of the nation's coal vanishes into power plants, many Americans hold the illusion that coal is no longer a major energy player, but here's the reality: Coal produces at least half of the nation's electricity, and we're burning more ocoal vanishes into power plants, many Americans hold the illusion that coal is no longer a major energy player, but here's the reality: Coal produces at least half of the nation's electricity, and we're burning more ocoal is no longer a major energy player, but here's the reality: Coal produces at least half of the nation's electricity, and we're burning more oCoal produces at least half of the nation's electricity, and we're burning more of...

I was astonished to learn that the United States burns more than a billion tons of coal a year, mostly to generate electricity.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has stoked the coals of the hype train a little more by suggesting that Microsoft have tons of exclusives» to show off at E3 this year, also hinting that the next - gen console, codenamed Durango, might emerge this holiday season.

I had to add this video clip of Merle Travis singing «Sixteen Tons,» another coal classic, more focused on the economic hazards to miners:

The KDHE has denied a permit for a coal plant that would have been more efficient (read, more MWH per ton of coal and less CO2 and other pollutants per MWH) than older plants whose permits they will be renewing as a matter of course over the coming months and years.

The plants will emit about 23 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to the I.F.C., but using technology that is 40 percent more efficient at turning coal into kilowatt - hours than the average for India.

Progressively over that span, the panel's reports have raised the likelihood that people, mainly by burning billions of tons of coal and oil, have been the main force responsible for global warming since 1950 and that a lot more warming, coastal retreats and shifting weather are in the offing under business as usual.

For years, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has used tortured economic logic to mask its willful ignorance of the tremendous harm done to our climate and people through federal leasing of more than five billions of tons of coal.

As of 2013, the world has ~ 1,000 Billion short tons a mine price would be no more than $ 5 per short ton, so we are looking at a cost of ~ $ 5 Trillion to sequester the remaining known coal reserves.

Through subsidiaries, AEP owns, leases, or controls more than 9,000 railcars, 726 barges, 18 towboats, and a coal handling terminal with 18 million tons of annual capacity to move and store coal for use in its generating facilities.

The hotter the steam, the more electricity the plant can generate from a ton of coal.

«Waste created by a typical coal plant includes more than 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber each year.

Over the past seven years, the Interior Department has leased more than 2 billion tons of publicly owned coal.

To accommodate the enormous output of this mega mine, Adani is planning to expand its existing Abbot Point terminal and build two more ports to ensure the 60 million tons of coal can be dumped on international markets - after traveling through the Great Barrier Reef.

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

These strip mines produce more than 200 million tons every year, 20 % of the nation's coal.

On July 14, 2011, a Peabody Energy Corp. subsidiary submitted the winning bid for more than 221 million tons of federal coal in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.