They have New Haven coal fired pizza, traditional NYC pizza, authentic Neapolitan, esoteric California, even St.
It would triple your electric bill if your utility were entirely coal fired.
But you need so much energy for capture and compression that coal as a fuel, the entire idea of a coal fired plant, becomes uneconomic.
In the past 10 years natural gas fired generation has grown 61% while coal fired generation has shrunk by 17%, according to the US Energy Information Agency.
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Solar PV is coming down in price so quickly that as its supporters insist, it will be directly price competitive with coal fired electricity from the grid in the next few years.
Firstly, the utility companies are very likely to revert back to coal fired power generation from gas fired as soon as the gas prices get past coal prices on per BTU basis.
But he said for it to be "fully convincing", Mr Cameron should be clear he would rule out all "dirty" coal fired power stations - including plans for a new plant at Kingsnorth, Kent.
It also said it expected the plant to create 70 long-term jobs and save the country nearly three million tonnes of carbon over its 20 year life, compared to a traditional coal fired power station.
On the demand side, as per Hersh, coal fired electric generation is being replaced by natural gas, as evidenced by coal market share being reduced from fifty percent to roughly forty-four percent over the past two years.
Alongside coal-fired power stations and coal exports, a coal conundrum is growing.
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Coal-fired power plants and coal mines are being shuttered at an unprecedented pace mainly because the price of natural gas has dropped so far that it has made coal power uncompetitive.
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As part of leveraged buyout by private equity groups, Dallas-based TXU (nyse: TXU - news - people ) recently scrapped its plans to build 11 coal-fired plants, opting instead for three coal plants that include emissions-reducing technologies.
The UK government selected the gas-fired power station at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and the coal-fired power station at Drax in North Yorkshire.
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It's trying to sell its solar product to industrial customers, including coal-fired plants, which would use both the sun and coal to make steam.
In fact, the U.S. hit a milestone in April of this year when government data showed that natural gas-fired power plants supplied as much electricity to the nation as coal-fired plants for the first time.
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Moreover, coal-fired electricity producers in Europe have invested heavily in new clean-coal technologies over euro7 billion in the past three years in order to make coal power plants more efficient and environmentally friendly.
While gas-fired power plants are popping up like dandelions across America, just one coal-fired generator was brought on line in the first half of 2012, the EIA reports.
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Even China's modest hopes of bringing its share of coal-fired power down to 63% by 2015 sit ill with its growing dependence on coal.
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But Indonesia has coal-fired power stations under construction that will absorb an extra 20m tonnes or so of coal by 2011, points out Adam Worthington, a commodities analyst at Macquarie Securities.
As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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China is building a coal-fired plant once a week, just about --India is doing the same -- because coal is cheap.
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As a result, the German power generators' association, the BDEW, says gas-fired electricity output in Germany fell last year by 13bn kilowatt hours, or 16 per cent, while coal-fired plants upped output by the same amount, recording a 5 per cent increase to 275.8bn kWh.
This is partially being done by switching coal-fired plants to the cleaner-burning natural gas.
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In other words, by regulatory fiat, the EPA is flirting with shutting down coal-fired plants completely.
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Phase one would include the construction of two 750-megawatt coal-fired turbines, superefficient, just like LS'.
It produces more juice (5 billion kilowatt-hours per year) than a typical coal-fired plant.
Rogers whips out a map showing the states with more than 50% coal-fired generation.
Experts predict that 10%to 20% of coal-fired generating capacity will be retired by 2016.
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Coal-fired plants lost 10 billion yuan during the first four months of the year.
They found some papers on coal-fired fuel cells but decided they probably wouldn't work.
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