Sentence examples for tons of combustion from inspiring English sources
Each of those produces about 275,000 tons of combustion waste annually, which means more than 100 million tons.
Presently in India, about 75% of the total electrical energy (i.e. ∼100,000 MW) is generated from fossil fuel and about 105 million tons of coal combustion residues (CCRs) as solid waste/by-product is being released annually during combustion of pulverised bituminous, sub bituminous, and lignite coal.
Every year, domestic power plants produce more than 125 million tons of coal combustion waste.
According to the US Environmental Protection agency (USEPA), about 131 million tons of coal combustion residuals including 71 million tons of fly ash, 20 million tons of bottom ash and boiler slag, and 40 million tons of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) material were generated in the US in 2007.
The San Juan Coal Company has dumped more than 40 million tons of coal combustion waste containing pollutants like arsenic, lead and mercury into massive unlined pits at the San Juan Mine, about 10 miles west of Farmington.
(In 2008 for instance, approximately 136 million tons of coal combustion residue [pdf] was produced).↩. 2 Using different criteria, the state of North Carolina rated the Dan River impoundments as having "high hazard".↩. 3 The News and Observer reports that no other Duke Energy coal impoundments in North Carolina or South Carolina have stormwater pipes running underneath the impoundments.↩.
Power plants and other industries in the United States produce more than 136 million tons of ash and other coal combustion byproducts every year.
That is the cost of combustion, and it is always combustion that interests us.
Such combustion pumped 2,245 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 1999, according to the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
But in 2000, fossil fuel combustion from transportation alone pumped 1.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere.
