Sentences with phrase «worldwide coal production»

While most coal is used for power generation, a significant amount, approximately one - third of worldwide coal production, is used for making steel.

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Coking coal production is also down by about 10 % worldwide, says Dudas.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

In January 2009, Peabody announced plans to reduce its yearly production of Powder River Basin coal production by 10 million tons because of the economic downturn and weakening demand worldwide.

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 ``.

Moreover, oil and hard coal production are reported on a worldwide basis.

He collected data on crude oil, natural gas, coal, and cement production worldwide by three types of entities: investor - owned (e.g. ExxonMobil), state - owned (e.g. Saudi Aramco) and government - run entities (e.g. North Korea's coal industry).

If it is even possible considering the enertia in the production of electricity worldwide, simply too many coal and natural gas fired plants to replace overnight.

We have a worldwide CO2 global warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can

We have a worldwide CO2 global warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can figure out how to sequester the CO2 and over DOUBLES if there is no sequestration.

By comparison, all of the coal produced worldwide in more than two centuries of coal production through to 2005 was only 287 billion tonnes, an amount exceeded by even the low projection of 2006 — 2050 production.

The average annual absolute increase in Chinese coal production during these 7 years — 193 million tonnes — is greater than the annual production in 2007 of all but six other countries worldwide.