Coal in sentence

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There's a great quote that was written in the New York Times that said, "Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the 8-track, what solar power is to the coal mine."

If the end game is mercury toxification of our children downwind of coal fire plants as they scuttled the Clean Air Act, then I see that our education programs should be explicitly defined as, "Brain death for all children.

Now Judy Bonds is a coal miner's daughter.

And if anyone should be clinging to the former glory of the coal mining history, and of the town, it should be Judy.

But the way coal is mined right now is different from the deep mines that her father and her father's father would go down into and that employed essentially thousands and thousands of people.

Now, two dozen men can tear down a mountain in several months, and only for about a few years' worth of coal.

And the coal companies just move on after the mountain was emptied, leaving even more unemployment in their wake.

It means large-scale hydraulic fracking for gas and massive strip-mining operations for coal, the likes of which we haven't yet seen.

So I imagine my life if, a hundred years ago, China had been the most powerful nation in the world and they came to the United States in search of coal.

And pretty soon, they began shipping that coal, ton by ton, railcar by railcar, boatload by boatload, back to China and elsewhere around the world.

And they built beautiful cities all powered on that coal.

And I asked myself the question: How is it possible that we could be so poor here in the United States, because coal is such a wealthy resource; it's so much money?

And they did things like train Americans to help protect the coal.

They don't talk about the coal.

If you ask them, they'll say, "Well, you know, we need the coal.

It's all about coal, and the Chinese are here in the United States.

What I want you to do is picture her as a Chinese woman receiving a Chinese flag because her loved one has died in America in the coal uprising.

And she told me, she said, "You know, I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, in the coal mines and the farmlands of rural Virginia, and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen.

And in my opinion, coal is like an unfiltered type.

Imagine our economy when the carbon bubble bursts, when the financial markets recognize that, to have any hope of preventing the climate spiraling out of control, the oil and coal industries are finished.

A hundred years ago we were looking at coal, of course, and we were looking at whale oil and we were looking at crude oil.

So at that point, 1912, we selected crude oil over whale oil and some more coal.

The argument that it's a bridge fuel makes sense, because the amount of CO2 per unit of energy is lower than oil and coal, correct?

And so everyone can be at least happy to see a shift from coal or oil to natural gas.

But coal plants, nuclear plants can't respond fast enough.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal, gas and nuclear do today.

So very efficient vehicles, buildings and factories save oil and coal, and also natural gas that can displace both of them.

We can eliminate our addiction to oil and coal by 2050 and use one-third less natural gas while switching to efficient use and renewable supply.

Yet this cheaper energy system could support 158 percent bigger U.S. economy all without needing oil or coal, or for that matter nuclear energy.

I'm going to tell you how to get the United States completely off oil and coal, five trillion dollars cheaper with no act of Congress led by business for profit.

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