Sentences with phrase «when peak coal»

With supply remaining abundant and demand staying weak, the debate continues on when Peak Coal will occur in China.

Not exact matches

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Lazkano says that fossil fuel plants, particularly coal - fired plants, must pay a significant cost when ramping up production to meet peak demands.

PV is ALWAYS available when a summer peaking utility experiences it's peak, and that is worth enough cash dollars to pay for the differential in cost between PV and a new coal plant.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

In 2005, which is when CO2 emissions in the RGGI states reached a peak, coal accounted for 23 % of the regional generation mix and petroleum accounted for 12 %.

It turns out that coal use peaked around 1945, then declined until the 70's, when it started increasing again:

Thanks to China's skyrocketing growth, its coal addiction is expected to rise until 2030, when the International Energy Agency predicts China will, at its peak, consume more than half the world's coal.

Modeling has also shown that it's relatively inexpensive to increase the reliability of the total wind output to a level equivalent to a coal - fired power station by adding a few low - cost peak - load gas turbines that are opearated infrequently, to fill in the gaps when the wind farm production is low (Diesendorf 2010).

But when the worldwide peaks in both oil and gas production are recognised, who is to say whether deep - mined UK coal production will become again «economical ``.

It seems to me that peak coal would by theory come when 50 % x 2.5 Tboe = 1.25 Tboe is produced.

As my colleague Gordon pointed out in a post last week, India is currently learning the most important lesson about its over-dependence on outdated, centralized coal - fired power: It is simply not flexible enough to accommodate India's real problem - peak demand (the kind that happens when 20 million Delhi inhabitants turn on their air conditioners or fans all at once).

We are going to need, for example, as we move away from old coal - based systems to a fully renewable systems we will need, in many locations, to have natural gas come in to provide backup or provide peaking power for occasions when variable electricity and power from renewables isn't available.

At a time when industry analysts laughed at the suggestion, Carbon Tracker was already modelling the impact of Chinese thermal coal demand peaking on the seaborne markets.

Comments on the previous Climate Etc post on Maggio and Cacciola's paper, When will oil, natural gas, and coal peak?

This rise — as large as the CO2 rise from the depths of a glacial to the peak of an interglacial — rapidly brought CO2 concentrations to a level never seen in at least the past 800,000 years, and it happened at exactly the time when humans started burning coal and oil.

During peak periods when the pumped storage produces power it is the roughly equivalent of having a nuclear power plant for peaking purposes only and is preferable to coal fired or gas fired peaking generation.

We at TreeHugger are positive and forward looking, but when we see forest fires, drought, peak oil and global warming slamming into a government that can only come up with coal and 35 MPG in twelve years as an answer, we get depressed.

Peak coal is a neat idea, but there is a lot of coal out there, especially when you throw in the brown coal in places like Poland and the eastern states of Germany.

(Underground coal mining in the USA peaked 91 years ago in 1918 when 598 million tonnes were mined.)

In fact, coal - fired generated power is primarily used during peak periods like morning and early evening, not when we turn our lights on at night.