Category: Fossil Fuels
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How much CO2 and other pollution comes from burning coal?
How much CO2 and other kinds of pollution would be released if we powered a 100-watt lightbulb for…
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Straight facts on the environmental impact of coal: CO2 emissions, pollution, land, and water
Burning coal creates CO2, NOx, SO2, mercury, and uranium. Coal also uses large amounts of land and water.…
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When it comes to land impact, does solar, wind, nuclear, coal, or natural gas have the smallest footprint?
Renewable energy technologies like solar, hydro, and wind require a lot of land. But, how does their impact…
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The earth gets more solar energy in one hour than the entire world uses in a year
Earth’s continents receive 23,000 terawatt hours of solar energy each year, compared to the 18.5 terawatt hours used…
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How is coal formed?
Coal began as dead plants that fell to the bottom of vast swamps millions of years ago. Which…
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Ever wonder why we use so much coal? America was built on it.
From old steamboats to the mines of Appalachia, to World War II, to the oil crisis of 1973,…
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How much coal does it take to power a 100 watt lightbulb for a year?
If you want to get a visceral sense of how much coal it takes to power our world,…
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Five trends that will lead to the end of fossil fuels
There are five trends driving the replacement of fossil fuels with clean energy from the sun and wind,…
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What is the best way to make electricity?
Coal, nuclear, wind, solar, or natural gas? What criteria should we use when comparing various types of electricity…
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The most important question each of us needs to ask about energy
The dirty secret of power plants Every time we turn on a light, crank up the air conditioning…
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If we used this much fossil fuel in Edison’s time, we’d have already run out
We WILL run out of fossil fuels. In fact, we will run out of natural gas, coal, and…