It builds nearly two new coal fired electricity plants each week.

Much of the future increases in coal fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India.

Much of the future increases in coal fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India. In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.

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.

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.

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.

Poland uses coal for 98 of its electricity production, and South Africa uses coal for about 50 of its electricity production.

The base load power, too, is predominantly based on fossil fuels, with around 39 of global electricity generation sourced from burning coal.

The world needs to stop building new coal fired power plants (except those that implement CCS) and to shift to low carbon electricity.

Coal oil lamp we didn't have electricity in our farm home.

Coal plants currently provide more than half of America s electricity supply.

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), an electric power transmission and generation authority owned by the Thai Ministry of Energy, proposed in early 2014 to build a coal fired power plant with a capacity of 870 megawatts in Krabi.

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

Greater sharing of existing cleaner coal technologies is needed, as is continued development of next generation clean coal plants.

The tax on coal based electricity would have to be 0.10 kilowatt hour.

There is no shortage of hydropower plants for electricity generation in Africa.

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.

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

All energy generators, including coal and gas fired plants, make major demands on water resources.

The US gets 50 of its electricity from coal but less than 0.5 from wind.

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.

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.

Weakening electricity demand has tipped China s coal industry into severe distress, with many mines effectively bankrupt.

Assume that as of 2010, the entire electricity system is coal based, and that the electricity price paid by the consumers is 0.06 kilowatt hour.

Fueled by research, the past few years have witnessed the development of increasingly cleaner and more energy efficient coal fired generation plants and the retirement of older technologies, especially in the developed world.

Fueled by research, the past few years have witnessed the development of increasingly cleaner and more energy efficient coal fired generation plants and the retirement of older technologies, especially in the developed world.

If he were truly concerned about global warming, how could he have endorsed the construction of coal fired electricity plants, even if those plants use more efficient technologies than have been employed in the past?

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

Local electricity producers also asserted that there are other options than coal like the use of renewable energy.

Burning coal is the only option, Erdene Bayar says. Mongolia has no natural gas, and electricity is expensive.

Coal and gas are burned in huge and growing amounts to produce electricity and to provide energy for industry.

But it may be a pretty good idea relocated into sustainable nuclear energy for electricity, instead of burning coal.

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.

The US auto industry should be re tooled for low carbon emission automobiles, either plug in hybrids or pure battery operated vehicles. Either technology will depend on a national electricity grid that uses low emission forms of power generation, such as wind, solar, nuclear, or coal fired plants that capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions.

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

During the President's first term, the United States more than doubled generation of electricity from wind and solar energy.

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.

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President Barack Obama s administration is trying to stop the construction of new coal fired power plants, unless they are equipped with CCS technology.

The plant s operators temporarily halted electricity generation to curb the risk of a radiation release, but nothing came of the threat.

Coal is one place to begin, as it will continue to generate the lion s share of the world s electricity for decades to come.

You're fired.

You're fired.