Its coal
volumes have been
falling for several years, and the combination
of tougher environmental regulations and, in all probability, continued low natural -
gas prices make it likely that the decline will persist.
In the US, where power generation from coal has
fallen by 38 % in
volume since 2007, the availability
of cheaper natural
gas brought about by the boom in shale
gas production has caused significant switching from coal to natural
gas in the power sector.
As the day heated up (the temperature in Adelaide hit a maximum
of 42 ℃), demand grew, wind generation
fell away, and the
volume of electricity supplied by
gas generators increased rapidly.
The molecule will first use the heat energy in expansion and on cooling will again condense and sink because heavier, and it will cool when its heat expanded
volume flows to colder air which absorbs the heat, the internal kinetic energy
of vibration, which if strong enough will pass that heat to another colder (which is why visible light is not a thermal energy, it is not powerful enough to move a molecule
of matter into vibration, it takes the bigger heat wave, longwave infrared, aka thermal infrared called that because it is the wavelength
of heat)-- that is how convective heating warms the fluid
gas air in a room, by circulation, in the rise and
fall of molecules as they expand and condense, not by heat energy propelling molecules to hit other molecules..