Shell aims to combine coal gasification with gas-to-diesel technology in an alliance with coal miner Anglo American.
Ms. Jackson has also sought to tighten regulations covering traditional pollutants associated with coal.
That means that power plants have to burn two-times the wood as they do with coal.
Paying for electricity with coal brought in from Russia, they started financing steel production at the factory.
But the proponents of natural gas see harmony, not competition, with coal and oil the real enemies.
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Miners, their faces still streaked with coal dust, gathered for supper in Charity's cozy kitchen along with the family.
The EIA says the switch will speed up in 2012, with coal falling to just 36% of the total.
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Nobody knows if thorium reactors can compete on price with coal and gas.
Many have suggested that we are now within a few cost factors of achieving renewable energy cost-parity with coal.
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Regardless, bragging rights for Number One go to Erdos and Inner Mongolia, with coal production outpacing Shanxi province in early 2009.
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But the grid is becoming cleaner, with coal down from 56 percent of the national mix to 45 percent in 2009.
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Enron was then diversifying its energy business to emphasize natural gas, a fuel that was facing difficult market competition with coal.
He has repeatedly said that wind and solar energies are unreliable and cannot compete with coal unless they are heavily subsidized.
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It depicts a foundry worker pouring molten iron - an industry, along with coal, which features prominently in the history of Shotts.
Democrats from states with coal and oil probably will be stumbling blocks.
With coal prices rising about 6.7% annually over the past decade, cost competition from natural gas has had a big hit on profits.
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At issue, generally, is how those companies with coal-based operations will protect their citizens from coal ash that is now being walled off.
But we need to ramp up our investments in renewables and nuclear energy so that they can compete with coal and natural gas.
With coal gone, he says, Barnsley has to find a different purpose as a market town, which it has been since the 13th century.
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Duke wasn't the best place to be thinking such thoughts: The regulated utility still generates almost all its electricity with coal or nuclear fuel.
The wheezing, steam-powered devices that we used to have to load with coal before starting up would soon be the preserve of historians and cranks.
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Both are rich with coal but, paradoxically, short themselves on power.
The steamboats will have to navigate a gauntlet of locks and dams, and paddle among huge barges heading downstream laden with coal and petroleum products.
But unlike their agricultural brethren, they do not result in food shortages and those wood chips could be mixed in with coal before it is combusted.
In the process, they retained some original details, including the herringbone floor and chimney with coal stove in the kitchen Ms. Sackman's favorite part of the house.
The only thing we do with coal is boil water.
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If you can turn natural gas into a high-value fuel, why not do the same with coal, which is even more plentiful in parts of the globe (like the U.S. and China)?
IEA's boffins have analysed how much of a boost nuclear power could get from a carbon tax, and the answer is quite a lot possibly enough to compete with coal.
Bloomberg reports that the trend of solar power getting steadily less expensive is set to continue over the next decade and is getting close to being competitive with coal.
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The carbon bubble, quite simply, is the constantly increasing consumption of fossil fuels that began with coal in the 19th century and then continued with oil and gas in the 20th.
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