Instead, every effort should be made to make the burning of coal clean and efficient.
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Or to extract germanium from the fly ash from the burning of coal.
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China produces over 15% of the world's total energy, and much of that comes from the burning of coal.
One university scientist even wrote a paper alleging that greenhouse emissions from shale gas production are worse than the burning of coal.
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Clean coal is a trade term to describe methods and technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal to generate electric power.
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On 1 September 1990, Dublin banned the sale and burning of bituminous coal.
Importing fossil fuel is one solution, but the environmentally minded Swedes are unhappy about the greenhouse-gas implications of burning more coal, oil and natural gas.
One concept that is getting pursued is the recycling of carbon dioxide emissions, or those releases that result from the burning of petroleum, coal and natural gas.
But there's no denying that burning natural gas (methane, that is) produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than burning coal.
Those heat-trapping gases are from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.
The volt is not solving the problem, your just burning coal instead of gas, and compared to that gas is pretty clean.
By changing operating procedures and burning a higher grade of coal, Midwest boosted output from the 40-year-old plants 12% last year--while reducing emissions.
Beijing catches so much of the pollution from coal-burning power plants because it sits at the center of a ring of mountains, which help trap the smog.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
The emissions licensing regime, shortening the lifespan of coal-burning power stations, has already begun to take big lumps out of capacity.
About 90% of Poland's electricity is generated from burning coal, a fuel blamed for increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
The effect was multiplied by the creation of coal-burning locomotives and the rise of the railroads (thanks again to profit-seekers, such as George Stephenson) and ultimately by oil and the rise of cars, trucks, and airplanes.
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The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
Burning coal to supply most of its electricity makes Australia's emissions per person among the world's highest: ten times bigger than Indonesia's, five times bigger than China's and almost three times those of France.
And, by promising to capture 90% of its carbon, SCS Energy can get away with burning the cheapest but dirtiest source of baseload fuel (coal) in the most expensive retail electricity market in the country.
Furnaces could no longer emit "dark smoke" and households were offered grants towards the cost of converting their coal-burning grates to smokeless fuel.
While both coal and gas play important roles in our energy future, and there is another agenda to regulate coal-fired power plants out of existence, the claim is contrary to the well-accepted fact that the greenhouse gas impacts of burning natural gas are less than coal.
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Most of this decrease was due directly to the decreasing use of coal in power plants and the increase in combustion of clean-burning natural gas.
Taking the place of coal will be clean-burning natural gas and clean, green solar and wind power.
Burning coal is the single greatest cause of mercury contamination in the environment.
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Further, says Peabody, world steel production is up 8% this year, requiring an added 75 million tons of extra hard and hot-burning metallurgical coal.
Because of the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, carbon dioxide levels have gone up by that amount in just 55 years.
The World Coal Association (WCA), a trade body for the industry, said that burning coal account for about 24% of global mercury emissions and the use of "adequate technologies" could reduce emissions of the metal from coal-fired power stations by up to 90%.
Dr McConnell believes the picture of the last few years captured by his Greenland core suggests this renewed interest in coal burning is leading to an upturn in heavy metal input to the part of the Arctic he has studied.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas produced by the burning of fuels, including gas, oil, wood and coal.
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