His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.

Clean coal technologies were at least 25 percent more efficient than traditional coal fired power plants.

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

A typical example is the increase in electricity produced by gas fired generating plants rather than coal fired plants.

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

For example, a recent report by Trucost estimates that coal fired power generation worldwide may be responsible for around 1 trillion of damage due to climate change and air pollution.

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.

But one day of coal adds up to one hell of a lot of carbon dioxide in a normal one gigawatt coal fired plant.

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.

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

Many coal fired power plants would be uncompetitive if they were required to internalize these costs.

The WCA is calling for the use of high efficiency, low emissions coal combustion technologies to lower greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants around the world.

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

The result has been, particularly in poor countries, the building of more inefficient, old style coal fired power stations.

Both depend on imported oil for transport and on domestic coal for power generation.

China uses coal, a particularly CO2 intensive fuel, for 70 of its commercial energy supply, while coal accounts for a third of America s total energy. China is now estimated to build two new coal fired power plants each week.

A nuclear power plant can take 10 15 years to build, and a coal fired power station around five years.

The majority of fossil fuel usage for the generation of electricity was coal and gas.

And, as a recent study shows, because China s coal fired power plants are so dirty, electric cars make the local air worse.

From 1996 to 2000, China also closed down many coal fired power plants that were producing less than 50 MW of power.

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.

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.

Moreover, fossil fuel costs fluctuate wildly with oil prices, and the centralized nature of nuclear and coal fired power stations creates distribution problems.

Even the most modern and advanced conventional coal fired power plants emit over 15 times more CO2 per unit of electricity than renewable energy systems, and more than twice the amount of efficient gas fired power stations.

Similarly, it will take a decade of public and private investments to demonstrate the feasibility of coal fired plants that capture their carbon dioxide.

Five Nordic countries have joined the US Treasury in ending public financing of new coal fired power plants overseas, and others may soon follow suit.

This is why the OECD Secretary General has suggested that it is time for a moratorium on the construction of conventional coal fired power plants.

South Africa, for example, reported that coal currently provides more than 90 per cent of the energy for its electricity generation and is expected to dominate power generation until 2040.

Some Parties are proposing the introduction of efficient fuel for boilers in industry, efficient coal fired boilers, efficient electrical motors, and efficient lighting in industrial buildings.

Furthermore, new coal fired power plants may no longer be allowed on either side of the border, necessitating greater use of natural gas and renewable energy sources.

Although science has demonstrated that CO2 from fossil fuels is heating the planet, politicians are unwilling to follow his advice and stop building coal fired power plants.

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

The World Resources Institute estimates that there are close to 1,200 proposed coal fired power projects around the world, with a total installed capacity of more than 1,400 gigawatts.

Have a moratorium we shouldn't have any new coal fired generating plants that aren't able to capture and store CO2, which means we have to quickly build these renewable sources.

When new coal fired power stations are built, they are likely to continue operating for as long as half a century, locking the world in to high levels of emissions.

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.

For example, the overwhelming majority of new power stations in China and India necessary to drive the industrialization that will lift hundreds of millions out of poverty will be coal fired.

Nevertheless, in the near future, China also will build 500,000 MW of coal fired power plants (more than the entire existing US stock), at great risk to the global atmosphere and environment.

For example, Blueprints assumes CO2 is captured at 90 of all coal and gas fired power plants in developed countries by 2050, plus at least 50 of those in non OECD countries.

In China and India, where coal accounts for about 80 of power generation, it has helped to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Trawler designs adapted as the way they were powered changed from sail to coal fired steam by World War I, and then to diesel and turbines by the end of World War II.

As inexpensive natural gas has eroded coal s traditional share of electricity generation in the US, importing cheap coal from the US has become more attractive to Europe.

The large coal fired power station we're building at King's North, and of course the exciting news that only today, only this week, Britain's only manufacturer of wind turbines has been forced to close.

Sami fired.