Hansen condemns coal fired power plants as death factories, and his belief that coal is evil is widely shared.

Electric power companies are seeking to reduce their use of coal.

Its leaders bucked the power of coal and oil interests, which wield enormous power in Australia.

Imagine a coal fueled power plant that emits only water and clean air.

China is now estimated to build two new coal fired power plants each week.

Why does the Thai government want to destroy Krabi with a coal power plant?

Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production.

The most important technology for the safe environmental use of coal is the capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide from coal fired power plants.

Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production.

Indeed, there is excellent potential for low cost solar power, zero emitting coal based technologies, and safe and reliable nuclear power.

Even in many developed countries, coal still accounts for a large share of power generation.

Apart from electric power generation, coal also has wide application in a number of industries.

Even in many developed countries, coal still accounts for a large share of power generation. Coal plants currently provide more than half of America s electricity supply.

These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.

The broader task is to integrate these vehicles into a more efficient and cleaner power grid for example, by replacing aging coal fired power plants with hydroelectric power.

Why choose coal?

Unfortunately, there is enough cheap coal around to power ever higher emissions for at least another century.

One approach is to capture the CO2 at the power plant as the coal or gas is burned.

Later, they fought the scientific evidence that sulfur oxides from coal fired power plants were causing acid rain.

The coal is burning.

Was first coal mines.

Suppose coal produces electricity at a cost of 0.06 per kilowatt hour, while solar power costs 0.16 kilowatt hour.

Coal accounts for almost half of the planet s electricity supply, including half the power consumed in the United States.

Suppose coal produces electricity at a cost of 0.06 per kilowatt hour, while solar power costs 0.16 kilowatt hour. The tax on coal based electricity would have to be 0.10 kilowatt hour.

Solar and wind power appear to be acceptable, but both are much less reliable than coal, and much more expensive.

Here's a piece of coal.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

Coal is not always black.

They substituted coal for oil.

They replaced coal with oil.

We've run out of coal.

Tom was a coal miner.

Tom isn't a coal miner.

Coal is a dying industry.

The coal industry is dying.

Coal is a fossil fuel.

Whereas a coal burning plant, a normal one gigawatt coal plant, burns 80 rail cars of coal a day, each car having 100 tons.

It is little wonder, then, that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who two years ago described the expansion of coal fired power plants as his worst nightmare, now calls coal a great natural resource.

All energy generators, including coal and gas fired plants, make major demands on water resources. But nuclear power requires even more.

Instead of generating power using human and animal muscles, we developed machines that could liberate sunlight stored in coal and oil.

The government should conduct more public consultations about the country's energy policies, specifically the use of coal in building power plants

The Industrial Revolution started in the English midlands and Belgian forests regions endowed with coal, canals (along which barges could carry the coal), and skilled metalworkers (who could build coal burning steam engines). Coal, canals, and metalworkers were the foundation for building, installing, and using the automatic spinning machines, power looms, and railway locomotives that were the first modern machine industries.

This country is rich in coal.

We have used up the coal.

Her eyes are black as coal.