And burning coal and oil creates lots of pollution.
众所周知,燃烧煤和石油是会造成很多污染的。
And burning natural gas releases 43 percent less CO2 than burning coal.
同燃烧煤炭相比,消耗天然气释放的二氧化碳要减少43%之多。
Researchers found that dust clouds from Asia bring airborne mercury from burning coal.
研究人员发现从亚洲带来的尘云带来了烧煤产生的汞。
At the same time, smoke from burning coal and all kinds of dust are also important factors.
同时,煤炭燃烧的浓烟和各种各样的灰尘也是重要的因素。
Generating power by burning coal, for instance, can have local, regional and global impacts.
例如,燃烧煤炭产生能量,能够产生地方性、地区性和全球性的影响。
Burning coal produces roughly twice the CO2 emissions of even another fossil fuel like natural gas.
烧煤约产生比燃烧其它如天然气之类的矿物燃料高两倍的二氧化碳。
Drax, Britain's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, could stop burning coal by the end of the decade.
Drax公司是英国最大的二氧化碳排放机构。Drax将以二十年为限期停止燃烧煤炭资源。
The majority of electricity in China, India and several other Asian countries comes from burning coal.
中国、印度以及亚洲其他数国的大部分电力都靠燃煤来提供。
China and the United States are the world's top two emitters of carbon dioxide, from burning coal and oil.
中国和美国是世界上两个最大的二氧化碳排放国,烧煤和用油造成了二氧化碳的排放。
The waste gases coming from burning coal, oil and petrol include sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.
煤、燃油和汽油燃烧时产生的废气中含有二氧化硫和二氧化氮。
Poland wants fiddly changes that might make it easier to keep burning coal and not be bankrupted by the ETS.
波兰需要进行一些高技术的变革,来让用煤变得更为容易,并不至于被气候变化方案彻底搞垮。
Burning coal is nasty business, concentrating all kinds of toxic metals and resulting in potentially deadly fly ash.
烧煤是一件危害极大的事,释放各种有毒金属,并导致潜在的致命灰尘。
ADA Environmental Solutions, based in a Denver suburb, makes a product that reduces the mercury emitted by burning coal.
位于丹佛郊区的ADA环境解决方案公司生产了一种产品可以降低煤燃烧时水银的释放。
Such a policy would tend to reduce the amount of coal used, because burning coal produces large quantities of carbon dioxide.
这种政策可能会倾向于减少煤炭的使用,因为煤炭的燃烧会产生大量二氧化碳。
If this suspension were to become permanent, the power those plants would have produced is likely to be replaced by burning coal.
如果暂停变成永久,本该由这些电厂产生的电能可能就得由烧煤来替代。
Energy firms often call gas a clean fuel: burning it releases roughly half as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as burning coal does.
能源公司常常把天然气称作纯净的燃料:燃烧天然气进入大气层的二氧化碳量大致上是煤炭的一半。
After a long legal fight, the city is now moving forward with a ban on burning coal for home heating, to take effect in September 2019.
经过长时间的法律斗争,该市目前正在推进燃煤取暖禁令,将于2019年9月生效。
Figured that way, the climate effect of methane from natural gas would quickly outpace the climate effect of carbon dioxide from burning coal.
如此来看,天然气中甲烷的温室效应可能快速超过煤炭燃烧产生二氧化碳对气候的影响。
CAMBRIDGE Mass. - Most research on renewable energy has focused on replacing the electricity that now comes from burning coal and natural gas.
马萨诸塞州剑桥市——大多数关于可再生能源的研究都集中在取代通过燃烧煤矿或天然气生产的电力。
For the past century, U.S. energy policy aimed to promote cheap and abundant electricity, and the nation achieved this mainly by burning coal.
在过去的一个世纪里面,美国的能源政策主要是致力于提供廉价而富余的电力,而达到这一目标的方式主要是通过煤炭的燃烧。
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Most research on renewable energy has focused on replacing the electricity that now comes from burning coal and natural gas.
马萨诸塞州剑桥市——大多数关于可再生能源的研究都集中在取代通过燃烧煤矿或天然气生产的电力。
Particles that result from burning coal, for example, can travel great distances, but few are likely to reach Honolulu, some 2,000 miles off the mainland.
例如,由燃煤引起的微粒物质可以传播到远距离,但是极少会传到火奴鲁鲁,它离大陆约2000英里。
There is about a 50-percent chance in the United States that the electricity that's used to charge the batteries of a plug-in electric vehicle is generated by burning coal.
在美国,大概有50%的用来为电动车充电的电能是通过烧煤来产生的。
Whereas some of these changes are intended mainly to increase the productivity of existing plants, completely new technologies for burning coal cleanly are also being developed.
虽然某些技术改进是渐进的,其目的只是提高现有电厂的生产率,但人们正在开发全新的清洁燃煤的技术。
If these places wish to reduced the impact that burning coal makes on the climate, they must either burn less coal or develop ways of sequestering the carbon dioxide so produced.
如果这些地方希望减少燃煤对气候造成的影响,那他们必须要么减少煤的燃量,要么想出办法隔绝所产生的二氧化碳。
If these places wish to reduced the impact that burning coal makes on the climate, they must either burn less coal or develop ways of sequestering the carbon dioxide so produced.
如果这些地方希望减少燃煤对气候造成的影响,那他们必须要么减少煤的燃量,要么想出办法隔绝所产生的二氧化碳。
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