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A crow is as black as coal.
Coal and natural gas are natural fuels.
China is the largest producer and consumer of coal in the world.
I used to be a coal miner.
We have used our ration of coal for the week.
The vessel was loaded with coal, lumber, and so on.
Will the strike affect the price of coal?
This country is rich in coal.
The coal was glowing in the fire.
Coal consists mostly of carbon.
Coal is not always black.
If we burn fuels such as coal, oil and gas, they give off various gases.
Many workers were trapped in the coal mine.
The patient's lung tissue was damaged from years of working in a coal mine.
Put some coal in the oven, so that the milk will start boiling.
Last year's output of coal fell short of the standard.
We have used up the coal.
The coal is burning.
They substituted coal for oil.
They replaced coal with oil.
You shouldn't sleep with a coal stove on because it releases a very toxic gas called carbon monoxide. Sleeping with a coal stove running may result in death.
Movie subtitles
Sophie dropped me like a sack of coal.
You're getting a lump of coal.
Vienna needs coal.
Look at all the coal they got.
The coal belongs to everyone. Whether we dig it up on this side or the other.
What can they have been looking for in the coal?
Only a coal truck.
Oh, Clive, you've got Pullmans and coal trucks on the same train!
I asked for rye, not coal oil.
He's going to let me have those machines, and I'm going to let him have coal- stuff to make oil.
I've got everything fixed now for an attack straightaway. on the Floss Valley to the old coal and shale pits, where there's oil too.
Our new victory at the coal pits. has brought a great supply of oil within our reach.
I know this isn't quite the place, but Lucy tells me you two own a coal mine.
I suppose you told him there wasn't any coal in it, too.
The mineralogical map says we have coal.
These were the days before oil fuel made stoking a lady's job - when stokers earned their pay in sweat and coal-dust.
There's no more coal.
The country needs to be given coal!
Here comes the coal.
Coal for the factories.
Waggons laden with coal and steel.
A bankrupt coal mine.
You have no coal mine.
You are wrong. I deal only in coal.
I finally found the coal man.
Oh, Clive. you've got Pullmans and coal trucks on the same train.
Vienna is freezing. Vienna needs coal.
That's the last of the coal.
Well, I guess we'll have to ride over to Glover's farm and get another load of coal.
I won't have to run errands for Mama or bring up coal.
Yes, a coal train to the Scotch express.
I did not couple the coal train to the Scotch express.
I coupled the express to the coal train.
Coal trucks.
Not coal trucks.
Where's the coal?
Save coal.
That's the last bit of coal we've got left.
News and current affairs
We wouldn't have to force (or subsidize) anyone to stop burning coal and oil.
David Victor, an energy expert at the University of California, San Diego, estimates that the shift from coal to natural gas has reduced US emissions by 400-500 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 per year.
Along with the closure of German nuclear power stations, this has led, ironically, to a resurgence of coal.
But why can't the US bring itself to raise taxes on gasoline and other sources of carbon emission like coal burning power plants?
Coal is a cheaper and more easily used energy source than the alternatives.
Suppose that we levy a small tax on existing coal power plants in order to pay for the solar subsidy, and then gradually raise consumers' electricity bills as more and more solar plants are phased in.
Indonesia depends less on exports than its Asian peers (let alone Russia), and its asset markets (timber, palm oil, and coal, in particular) have attracted major foreign investment.
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.
One thing is clear: if we are not to be totally reckless with our planet's climate, we cannot burn all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we have already located.
Yet most of them, including Schrag's and mine, continue to invest part of their multi-billion-dollar endowments in companies that extract and sell coal.
In these circumstances, to develop new coal projects is unethical, and to invest in them is to be complicit in this unethical activity.
While this applies, to some extent, to all fossil fuels, the best way to begin to change our behavior is by reducing coal consumption.
Replacing coal with natural gas does reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, even if natural gas itself is not sustainable in the long term.
Right now, ending investment in the coal industry is the right thing to do.
These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.
Coal has historically played a crucial role as a source of energy worldwide, and has several important advantages over other fossil fuels. First is its relative abundance.
The current level of proven coal reserves worldwide stands at roughly 850 billion tons.
Coal is also much more widely distributed geographically than any other fossil fuel.
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.
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.
The same is true for Germany, which is home to some of the most efficient pulverized coal combustion units in Europe.
In contrast, coal prices are more stable, and may remain that way for a long time.
Apart from electric-power generation, coal also has wide application in a number of industries.
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.
Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.
There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.