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high carbon fuel [1 record]

Record 1 2002-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Combustion and Fuels (Fireplaces)
  • Coal Preparation
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Pollutants
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Although carbon emissions have fallen since liberalisation of the UK's electricity market, this was entirely fortuitous, in that a lower carbon fuel (gas) was cheaper than a high carbon fuel (coal).

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Shell notes in its 2000 annual report that electricity providers are moving away from high-carbon fuel such as coal and turning more and more toward cleaner-burning natural gas.

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Substitution, for example replacing a high carbon fuel by a low carbon fuel, can ... achieve useful reductions [of greenhouse gas emissions] at relatively low cost ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Combustion et combustibles (Foyers)
  • Préparation des charbons
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Agents de pollution
CONT

On voit [...] se manifester en Amérique du Nord une tendance à l'abandon de combustibles à teneur élevée en carbone tels que le charbon, au profit de combustibles plus propres comme le gaz naturel.

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[...] mesures de bon rapport coût-efficacité visant à remplacer les combustibles à teneur élevée en carbone par des combustibles à faible teneur en carbone et par des sources d'énergie non basées sur le carbone telles que les énergies renouvelables; [...]

Spanish

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