Sentence examples for coal cycle from inspiring English sources

EPA must retain the authority to regulate every part of the coal cycle, especially with regards to cleaning up older coal plants.

The bad news is that coal is still making a mess from one end of the coal cycle to the other, and within the past three weeks we have fresh evidence of that from the coalfields in the Cumberland Mountains to the sludge fields of the Kingston power plant in Tennessee and the Widows Creek facility in Alabama.

"Every single step in the coal power cycle is dirty, from the profoundly destructive mountaintop removal mining to the smokestack emissions, which are responsible for 24,000 deaths a year".

Because China, for example, generates almost all its power from coal, life cycle analysis of EV cars in China shows they are far more polluting than conventional cars.

The emission factors of the coal life cycle are listed in Table  7.

GHG emissions of the coal life cycle were studied in Finland by the Finnish Environment Institute (Sokka and others 2005).

The consequences of implementing the President's National Energy Plan are considered in terms of the impact of the NEP in 1985 and 2000 on the potential effects of trace and radioactive elements from the coal fuel cycle.

For instance, David and Herzog [55] analyzed the costs associated with CO2 capture technology and concluded that 1.5 2 cents/kWh would be added to the cost of electricity for an integrated coal gasification-combined cycle or natural gas-combined cycle power plants.

Climatic fluctuations generated coal-bearing cycles, probably through a variable intensity of precipitation which affected the density of vegetation cover across the landscape along with evaporation and groundwater table.

Advanced integrated coal gasification combined cycle (A-IGCC) and integrated coal gasification fuel cell combined cycle (A-IGFC), which recuperate the exhaust heat from gas turbine and solid oxide fuel cells as heat source of endothermic gasification technology, are promising technologies because higher thermal efficiency is expected than that of conventional coal-fired power generation systems.

Coal gas life cycle is used as the reference system for comparison with that of coconut shell-derived producer gas life cycle.