Sentences with phrase «vast coal reserves»

America has vast coal reserves that provide nearly half the country's electricity.

Both China and India, as we all know, are counting on their vast coal reserves to fuel their long - awaited growth.

Not exact matches

But that could change when China and India, for example, increase their energy consumption by using their vast reserves of coal.

China has vast reserves of coal that it wants to burn.

The world has vast reserves of coal, including these mountaintop deposits in Virginia.

Pollution from coal burning, in the United States and particularly in developing countries, has big impacts on public health, and the climate impact from coal - generated carbon dioxide could be enormous if the world's still - vast reserves are heavily exploited.

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is «unburnable carbon» — an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world's still - vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably costly or dangerous climate change.

While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting coal.

Given that the United States, China and other countries sit on vast reserves of coal, and that vast volumes of carbon dioxide will come from conventional use of this energy source, what is the best way forward?

While vast global coal reserves make this question more neutral with regard to carbon per se, it a more complete socio - politico - economic experiment nonetheless to examine how good we have been at steering the oceanliner of energy policy with regard to foreign oil in the United States, obviously a more simple problem than all fossil fuels together.

Endowed with vast reserves in the Thar lignite field and facing a severe energy shortage, Pakistan is betting on domestic and imported coal for electricity supply in the coming years.

Mark Carney, the FSB chair stated that a carbon budget consistent with a 2 °C target «would render the vast majority of reserves «stranded» — oil, gas and coal that will be literally unburnable without expensive carbon capture technology, which itself alters fossil fuel economics»

Fossil fuel companies hold vast oil, gas and coal reserves that help determine their market value.

Poland's leaders have come to see coal, and further development of the country's vast lignite reserves, as crucial to maintaining the nation's position as one of the faster - growing economies in the EU.

Meanwhile, the world is blessed with vast reserves of natural gas and, particularly, coal, that reside under soil that is more congenial to democracy.

Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves.

Vast quantities of coal — proven to exist — remain in the ground — but not included on the reserve tally because they are not economically recoverable at current prices — in part due to the availability of oil and natural gas.