Coal in sentence

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OK, if you put steam into coal fields or petroleum fields that have been running for decades, you can get a really substantial increase, like an eight-fold increase, in your output.

And be that oil, be that gas, be that coal, this is what we're dealing with.

They're basically buried sunlight in the form of coal and oil.

If you choose coal, you end up emitting more CO2 than you capture.

So we are trying different types of energy now, alternative energy, but it proved quite difficult to find something that's as convenient and as cost-effective as oil, gas and coal.

The word "hobo" conjures up an old black and white image of a weathered old man covered in coal, legs dangling out of a boxcar, but these photographs are in color, and they portray a community swirling across the country, fiercely alive and creatively free, seeing sides of America that no one else gets to see.

The air is dangerously polluted from the burning of coal and diesel.

It's become a sprawling urban area dependent on dirty fuel, dirty energy, particularly coal.

China burns half the world's coal each year, and that's why, it is a key reason why, it is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

China's planning to scale back coal.

By regulating coal, within a few years the problems of smog were rapidly reduced.

For you see, in China, about two thirds of its electricity comes from coal.

China has more coal-fired power plants than any other country in the world, about 40 percent of the global total, and it's because of this fact that China's government has decided since 2014 to wage a war on coal, shutting down small coal mines, setting limits on coal consumption, even canceling an Australia's worth of coal-fired power plants.

If we look at some of the data, we can see that China's coal consumption may have already reached a peak as early as 2013.

This reduction in coal consumption is also directly driving improvements in air quality across the country, as I've shown here in blue.

But of course, the statistics and the data are still murky and that's because China regularly revises its coal statistics after the fact.

And of course, coal is still king in China, at least for now.

Can we trust the data and the statistics that show that China's air quality is coming down and that its war on coal is actually having an effect?

And then I learned how the energy of burning fire, coal, the nuclear blast inside the chambers, raging river currents, fierce winds, could be converted into the light and lives of millions.

I was fascinated by coal, fundamental to our global energy needs, but also very close to my family.

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, and he spent 50 years of his life underground.

And on my journey of learning, I went to the World Coal Association website, and there in the middle of the homepage, it said, "We have about 118 years of coal left."

And there is a race on at the moment to convert electricity from tidal and wave power, in order that we can leave the coal in the ground.

It's cheaper in many cases, and definitely more sustainable than our dependance on traditional power plants that use resources like coal, which will eventually run out.

Because it's impossible for an employee at a coal fired or a nuclear plant to turn a knob to produce more or less electricity depending on how many clouds there are in the sky.

But the difference is, on Earth, most of the carbon has been leeched over time out of the atmosphere, deposited in the ground as coal, oil, natural gas, etc.

Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent.

Every single debate has been sponsored by "Clean Coal." "Now, even lower emissions!"

All of these coal plants were proposed in the next 10 years and canceled.

All of these existing coal plants were retired.

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