Sentences with phrase «worse than coal»

We have posted a response to this report that shows not only that biomass is not worse than coal, but that the report itself says that biomass can pay dividends to the atmosphere and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

There is evidence to suggest gas - fired electricity generation may actually be worse than coal - fired generation on a 20 - year timescale when fugitive emissions are taken into account.

But tar sands are between 12 and 20 percent more carbon intensive than even regular oil, especially when burning of the, worse than coal, coke bi-product is taken into account.

«The take - home message of our study is that if you do an integration of 20 years following the development of the gas, shale gas is worse than conventional gas and is, in fact, worse than coal and worse than oil,» Howarth said.

New Paper: CO2 Emissions From Biofuels Are Worse Than Coal, Yet EU Says Biofuels Are «Carbon Neutral»

Using this metric (and this random chart), wind is about like oil but far worse than coal, and solar sucks.

Not exact matches

Fraser Surrey Docks aims to boost US coal exports; opponents warn climate impacts worse than Northern Gateway.

You're right — coal mining very well be worse for the environment than the creation of cement, but even if so, that doesn't mean that it's a cure - all.

But, Scientific American, among others, has argued that liquid coal could very well be worse than gasoline, both environmentally and economically.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

The study concluded that burning natural gas — and in particular gas obtained through fracking — was worse for the climate than burning coal.

There's nothing worse than clicking on a website only to find it doesn't work (except, maybe, for waking up on Christmas morning to a lump of coal).

Raypierre makes the case very clear in the current Chicago Int» l Law J. that closed system combustion with oxygen can avoid much of the externalization of costs built into current plants; I imagine it can even contain the uranium and thorium fallout from coal (which is worse than that from a properly operated fission plant).

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Even so, the prognosis for providing available capacity that displaces coal available capacity is worse than poor.

If we do nothing worse than burn all the coal, there is basically a slim and a none chance of a comfortable, non-tree hugging world ever existing.

While ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.

We're going to burn more coal over the next 30 years than in all of human history, CO2 emissions are rising at worst case expectations, and we're looking at 6 degrees Farenheit temperature rise over that time.

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Now that is a contradiction in terms, worse than a LEED certified coal power plant.

That's despite that fact that many scientists disagree, and have argued that burning wood can in fact be worse for the climate than burning coal.

A series of reports by Friends of the Earth showed that the proposed Long Phu 1 coal plant's climate impact will be worse than claimed and will violate international environmental policies, including restrictions on financing for coal plants abroad.

«If their analysis is overlaid with more realistic foreign and domestic leakage assumptions, it becomes clear that the immediate climate impacts of LNG would be much worse for the climate than coal if exports began today,» he said.

And the greenhouse gas emissions from coal have contributed significantly to climate change, a risk that is unfathomably worse than the worst case dangers of nuclear power.

Tar sands oil not only exceeds conventional petroleum, but the energy used in mining, processing, and transporting tar sands oil makes it slightly worse — in terms of CO2 produced per unit energy — than coal.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

If the entire grid were coal, you could double that (7,800 pounds), so even in that worst - case scenario, you'd still have far LOWER CO2 emissions from a plug - in Prius than from the average new car on the road running on gasoline.

If so, LNG tankers are far worse for global warming than burning coal for elctricity generation, since CH4 is one of the most potent greenhouse gasses.

«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China simply built a new power plant and burned its own coal supplies.»

If leakage is higher than 4 percent, there are some periods when gas will be worse for the climate than existing coal plants.

Under long - standing regulations, they said, it would be «in the public interest,» even though science has recently made it clear that the methane leaking from the fracked gas the pipeline will carry is worse than the burning of coal.

That is what gives shale gas «fracking» a worse climate impact than coal.

LNG projects are even worse for the climate than coal.

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year in the U.S. alone from coal dust Even hydroelectric has a worse record than nuclear... A string of dam failures in China once killed 230,000 people.

The proven health problems relating to the burning of fossil fuels (especially coal, bunkering oil used for shipping, and diesel oil) are far worse than any that are claimed to be caused by wind turbines.

A region that relies more heavily on coal - powered electricity generation, for example, rated worse for global warming emissions than a region using more renewable sources of energy.

I think you could make the case that consistently breathing PM from wood burning fires would be much worse for those individuals than the longer term ill effects of global warming, etc.... just as it would be worse for individuals to be in the path of coal burning smoke as opposed to suffering the long term consequences.

Unfortunately, Power Africa appears to emphasize large, centralized natural gas projects — a dirty fossil fuel that some scientists believe is worse for the climate than coal.

Writing in Mother Jones, Bill McKibben made a comprehensive case against the plan to substitute shale gas for coal, arguing that the so - called solution might be worse than the original problem.

The bad news is that such retrofitting is even more economically and technologically challenging than building a FutureGen clean coal project from square one.

In other words, the natural gas touted as a good way to power the US over the coming decades could be worse than using coal and make it much more difficult to cut greenhouse gas emissions more broadly.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

If they're not, so - called clean coal could actually be worse than a waste of money — it could be a serious danger to the environment the technology is allegedly trying to protect.

Our movement can never question if Keystone XL is worse than Flanagan South (an Enbridge pipeline running from Illinois to Oklahoma), or whether tar sands, fracking, or mountaintop - removal coal mining is worse.

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