Nick DeIuliis, President of Consol Energy, a coal and natural gas producer based in Canonsburg, Pa.
These power stations require fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas to operate which are relatively more expensive.
So net-net, Yelp saves trees but uses more electricity (and more coal and natural gas, which produce 75% of kWhs).
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The central focus of carbon dioxide restrictions will be replacing coal and natural gas electricity with wind and solar power.
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Yet wind and solar power are, and will continue to be, far more expensive than coal and natural gas power.
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On the other hand, coal and natural gas plants do not hold the same potential for a single catastrophic failure event.
Equipment manufacturers were expanding quickly and driving down costs to make solar power competitive with rival sources like coal and natural gas.
It will also have to build more coal and natural gas plants.
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It seems that the UK has a more intensive coal and natural gas mix so the benefits would be somewhat less than that.
China is rapidly expanding its coal and natural gas generating capacity and will accelerate the process if oil prices remain high, Littell says.
After all, their fuel is free, whereas the bills of power stations that run on coal and natural gas are high and rising.
He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.
Various factors influence this relationship such as the availability of cheaper substitutes like coal and natural gas as well as total refining capacity.
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But we need to ramp up our investments in renewables and nuclear energy so that they can compete with coal and natural gas.
But those companies are struggling to set up power plants quickly amid shortages of coal and natural gas and long delays in acquiring land.
When coal and natural gas are burned to produce the same amount of heat the natural gas produces only 44% of the CO2 that coal does.
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According to Gramlich, conventional generation sources like coal and natural gas are occupying the full capacity of the transmission grid, leaving no room for wind.
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In reducing dependence on coal and natural gas for power and heating, and petroleum for transportation, biofuels have proved to be much less promising than advertised.
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Demand for Australian iron ore, coal and natural gas, mostly from Asia, has pushed up the Australian dollar, which remains above parity with its U.S. counterpart.
Carbon dioxide, blamed for global warming, is produced when fuels like coal and natural gas are broken down to make the hydrogen used in fuel cells.
Solar energy proponents want the price of solar electricity to fall so that it could better compete with cheaper power from coal and natural gas power plants.
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Hydrogen is a fuel that, like electricity, can be made from a variety of sources: fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, renewables, even nuclear power.
Basically, the company would locate its own facilities next to coal and natural gas plants where they would take the carbon and eventually transform it into gasoline.
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.
Until last week, Japan obtained almost 30 percent of its electricity from uranium, roughly 25 percent each from coal and natural gas, and 10 percent from oil.
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Where would they be without coal and natural gas today?
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This amounts to more than 20 times more for subsidies in terms of average electricity generated by coal and natural gas, while coal produces 50 times more U.S. electrical power than wind.
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But in the short term, at least, coal will remain a key source of energy for the U.S. mainly because the cost of running coal and natural gas power plants remains comparable.
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My (much smarter) brother Robert showed the House Natural Resources Committee on September 22 that federal subsidies related to fossil-fuel (mainly coal and natural gas) fired electricity are about 68 cents per million watts.
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