The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方背诵文选

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: China's economy has had a spectacular run. But last year, it grew at its slowest pace in 26 years. And as it attempts to transform an economy based on building things to one based on consumers buying things, Beijing is making pai

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

Chinese and Pakistani investors inaugurated the project in Hub, Balochistan province, Pakistan, on March. 21, 2017. [Photo: China Plus] The groundbreaking ceremony for a China-Pakistan joint venture, a coal fired power plant, was held in Hub, in the

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The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of electric power. Coal seemed to fit the bill, and it fueled the earliest power statio

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An inquest is a court which tries to find out the cause of death after an accident or violent death. A coroner is the judge in this court. Yesterday, the chief coroner held an inquest in Greymouth to find out the cause of death in the Pike River Mine

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Jeff Swicord Terre Haute, Indiana 24 May 2007 As part of our continuing series on Searching for Solutions, VOA traveled to Terre Haute, Indiana, to tour one of two so called clean coal electric generating plants in the United States. Clean coal te

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(五月)

By Malcolm Brown Washington, D.C. 24 July 2007 The future of coal has become a hot topic in the United States. The debate sets concerns about global warming against the desire to reduce America's dependence on foreign energy sources. With the United

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A unique program to capture carbon at coal power stations has been unveiled in Australia. Operators of a demonstration plant say it is the first of its type in the world and involves burning coal in oxygen rather than air, which reduces carbon dioxi

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President Barack Obama, walks with Linda Davis, the grandmother of deceased miner Cory Davis, during a memorial for the victims of the Upper Branch Mine explosion at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 20

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(四)月

Coal consumption is increasing in many parts of the world, driven by skyrocketing energy demands in rapidly developing countries like China. But with coal comes pollution: from climate-changing carbon dioxide to coal ash, the powdery toxic waste left

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump is just 19 days away, and coal miners nationwide are waiting to see if Mr. Trump keeps election promises he made of new jobs through reopened mines. Reid Frazier of The Allegheny F

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When President Trump promised to step out of the Paris climate accord earlier this month, dozens of mayors and a handful of governors promised to step in. Officials like the mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of New York pledg

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NOEL KING, HOST: Germany has this reputation as a pioneer of clean energy. Angela Merkel was called the climate chancellor when she decided to ditch nuclear power. But the reality in Germany is a lot dirtier. The country is the biggest miner of brown

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Despite mounting evidence and a stream of dire warnings, federal regulators and mining companies failed to protect coal miners from toxic dust. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: NPR and the PBS series Frontline spent more than a year lookin

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Families of the 29 miners who died in the Pike River coal mine heard the news this week that the bodies probably cannot be recovered. It is too dangerous for anyone to enter the mine. There is a risk of another explosion if the mine is opened. Solid

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

At the moment, workers at the Pike River Coal mine are using a jet machine to pump CO2 into the mine to put out the fire. Then they will put a cover over the entrance. When the mine is cool and all poisonous gases have gone, rescuers will enter the m

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The police said today that the Pike River Coal Mine will be closed and sealed perhaps forever and the bodies of the 29 miners will never be recovered. This is bad news for the families of those men. The reason for closing the mine is that it is too d

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What would you do if you had billions of dollars buried in your backyard? That's a question that's been debated on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Southeast Montana. The tribe sits on one of the richest coal deposits in the co

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades men without much education could make a very good living by mining coal. The loss of those jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power, especially solar power, is now where jobs are. So we wondered

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

As the world's largest coal producer and consumer, massive coal production has powered China's economic advance over the past few decades. But shrinking domestic demand amid an economic slowdown has made much of this capacity redundant. Wang Xianzhen

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