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The book has 9 chapters and 264 pages. First chapter of the book is Ole King Coal which contains introduction to India's mining history and how coal mining was started. [RY 1] It mentions about Raniganj, city on the bank of Damodar River, where coal mining happened en large and it mentions about Zambezi, river in the Africa, from where India has imported the coal.
The carbon content is low in India's coal, and toxic trace element concentrations are negligible. The natural fuel value of Indian coal is poor. On average, the Indian power plants using India's coal supply consume about 0.7 kg of coal to generate a kWh, whereas United States thermal power plants consume about 0.45 kg of coal per kWh.
Coal phase-out is an environmental policy intended to stop burning coal in coal-fired power plants and elsewhere, and is part of fossil fuel phase-out. Coal is the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, therefore phasing it out is critical to limiting climate change as laid out in the Paris Agreement .
The draft ‘cover decision’ requests countries ‘revisit and strengthen’ their 2030 emissions-cutting targets by the end of 2022.
As of 2024 over 40% of all energy sector CO2 emissions are from coal, and many countries have pledged to phase-out coal. [2] The peak of coal's share in the global energy mix was in 2008, when coal accounted for 30% of global energy production. [1] Coal consumption is declining in the United States and Europe, as well as developed economies in ...
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future is a book by Jeff Goodell which claims that coal mining is one of America's largest and most influential industries. Goodell suggests that coal mining is deadly and environmentally destructive. [1] [2] [3]
The UMPPs are seen as an expansion of the MPP (Mega Power Projects) projects that the Government of India undertook in the 1990s, but met with limited success. The Ministry of Power , in association with the Central Electricity Authority and Power Finance Corporation Ltd. , has launched an initiative for the development of coal -based UMPP's in ...
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