Enterprises fuelled by coal generally need to buy more allowances than those using gas, because their CO2 emissions are higher.
Coal plants need diesel, a derivative of petroleum.
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The World Bank should support poor countries that need coal-powered energy in spite of its contribution to climate change, its president has said.
By reducing the need for coal-fired power plants, China Longyuan also earns carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
We need clean coal in the U.S., and melding the technology with oil recovery is a smart way to make it economic.
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Using natural gas to create electricity will reduce our need for coal and will drastically reduce emissions of carbons that are contributing to global warming.
This would lessen the need to burn coal and oil, and lead to reduced emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.
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Countries whose mines are not mechanized, such as India, Poland and especially China--which mines about a billion tons of coal a year--need infrastructure to support high-tech machines.
Cleaner coal technologies such as coal gasification will reduce that need by as much as half but, emerging concepts like carbon capture and burial could increase consumption between 30-100 percent.
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Our joint Clean Energy Research Center is funding new approaches to energy efficiency, clean coal -- which we both need to deal with -- and clean vehicles.
As China increases its power production by a factor of four over the next 20 years, that means it will need to add more coal plants to meet its goals and electricity demand.
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If the current application is accepted and viable coal is found a further application would need to be submitted before any mining could start.
Russia was allowed to argue that its vast forests soaked up at least 17 million metric tonnes of carbon a year, thus sparing it the need to reduce its use of coal and oil by that amount.
China is expected to bring 50 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fueled generation in 2011 which will demand an additional 175 million metric tons of coal use, while China is expected to need an additional 250 million tons by 2017, according to Peabody. (Read Production Of Iron Ore, Copper, Coal Falling, Is Goldman Sachs Wrong?).
We need to make continued investments in clean coal technologies and advanced biofuels.
As it fell, the utility would need to switch to more gas and retire coal.
Its voracious appetite for energy and steel means it will need at least 5-7% more coal each year.
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But you need so much energy for capture and compression that coal as a fuel, the entire idea of a coal fired plant, becomes uneconomic.
Many of these resolutions are focused directly on fossil fuel companies like Exxon, coal-fired electric utilities and hydraulic fracturing operators whose practices need cleaning up.
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Coal, oil and gas pollute and are increasingly expensive: We need alternatives.
But nothing special need be done for American oil, natural gas or coal to be used in European cars, aircraft and power plants.
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The more of that need that is met by high-carbon technologies like coal, the harder it will be to make big cuts later.
We'll need to make continued investments in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies, even as we build greater capacity in renewables like wind and solar.
"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas, " Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
When a receiver will generate about 25kW of energy while costing less to make through cheaper mirrors and structures, a fully developed solar array could be an affordable replacement for coal power that delivers greater independence -- picture remote towns that need a fresh water supply.
In the past, data centers did not need much energy, and the energy sources they did use, like coal, were cheap, plentiful, and accepted.
Coal-fired utilities, meanwhile, say that the rules are jeopardizing reliability, and they need more time to comply.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
But we need to ramp up our investments in renewables and nuclear energy so that they can compete with coal and natural gas.
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