** The burning of fossil fuels ( coal, natural gas, or petroleum ).

Surrounding all is a ring or horseshoe-shaped layer of raw coal, usually kept damp and tightly packed to maintain the shape of the fire's heart and to keep the coal from burning directly so that it " cooks " into coke first.

Dyson agrees that anthropogenic global warming exists, and has written that " ne of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas.

In the 19th century the first railway locomotives were powered by steam, usually generated by burning wood, coal, or oil.

The burning of soft coal coupled with thousands of factories in Ulaanbaatar and a sharp increase in individual motorization has resulted in severe air pollution.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

By contrast, most chemical oxidation reactions ( such as burning coal or TNT ) release at most a few eV per event.

As a simple example, burning a kilogram of coal releases much more energy than does detonating a kilogram of TNT, but because the TNT reaction releases energy much more quickly, it delivers far more power than the coal.

By this time, the pollution from burning coal and steel production created a black fog ( or smog ), which even a century earlier had induced author writer James Parton to dub the city " hell with the lid off ".

This kind of smog is caused by the burning of large amounts of coal within a city ; this smog contains soot particulates from smoke, sulfur dioxide and other components.

On a dark night, and burning smokeless anthracite coal, the torpedo boats were virtually invisible.

The term " carbuncle " is derived from the Latin meaning " live coal " or burning charcoal.

Similar changes may be induced in shales by the burning of coal seams or even by an ordinary furnace.

Industry can use oil shale as a fuel for thermal power-plants, burning it ( like coal ) to drive steam turbines ; some of these plants employ the resulting heat for district heating of homes and businesses.

Few governmental entities, by contrast, effectively limit pollution from burning fossil fuels such as diesel fuel or coal.

Andrew Revkin writing for the New York Times described Watson as an " outspoken advocate of the idea that human actions — mainly burning coal and oil — are contributing to global warming and must be changed to avert environmental upheavals.

* Anthropogenic climate change is attributed to greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, gas, and coal.

The smoke from a burning coke fire was much cleaner than that from coal.

It is produced in some quantities from the burning of wood and coal in blast furnaces and fireplaces ; commonly found inside chimney flues when the wood or coal burns incompletely, producing soot and tarry smoke, and is the compound responsible for the preservation and the flavor of meat in the process of smoking.

When he is finally turned into a burning coal, she is to throw him into a well, whereupon he will reappear as a naked man and she must hide him.

He went on to realise that burning a pound of coal in a steam engine produced five times as much duty as a pound of zinc consumed in a Grove cell, an early electric battery.

The cold lingered, making sleep difficult that night, and he remained in bed still the next morning, now unable to keep from thinking about the inexplicable sight of burning metal, the wretched sound, the unbearable feeling of having been to a remote Tokyo temple at some earlier time in his life.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

The satellite feed of one station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast ; the image ( a remote-camera shot of the burning towers ), viewable across North America ( as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas ), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities.

Indeed, one of the common markers of a case of SHC is that the body – or part of it – suffered an extraordinarily large degree of burning while the surroundings or the lower limbs remained comparatively undamaged.

Although much had been lost to the ravages of time ( and to catastrophe, as in the burning of the Library of Alexandria ), many Greek works remained extant: they were preserved and copied carefully by Muslim scribes.

For a while the king remained in the hands of the conspirators, who purposed murdering or just deposing him, but the people and the army rallied round him ; he recovered power, crushed the Sicilian rebels, had Bonello blinded, and in a short campaign reduced the rest of the Regno, avenging the rebel burning of Butera.

The carrier-based night-fighter squadron, nicknamed the " Tomcatters ," remained active under various designations continuing through the present day and Felix still appears on both the squadron's cloth jacket patches and aircraft, carrying his bomb with its fuse burning.

During the century most textile manufacture moved to newer mills in the surrounding towns while Manchester remained the centre of trading in cotton goods both for the home and foreign markets but pollution from burning coal and gas remained a considerable nuisance.

The Host was then put in the fire, but miraculously remained intact and could be retrieved from the fire in one piece without the heat burning the hand of the person that retrieved it.

Ruaidrí remained active in suppressing the Ua Briain's of Munster, burning Croome, dividing Munster in half ( Thomond to Tadhg Ua Briain, Desmond to Diarmaid MacCartaigh ), expelling Toirrdelbach mac Diarmata into Ailech.

The team remained on Counter-Earth for some time, until, in sealing a rift, they returned home, leaving Jolt ( whom Fixer saved from burning out in helping to seal the rift ) behind.

The pilot remained in the burning aircraft before he ejected to direct the aircraft to crash into the sea, however the aircraft later spiraled down into the village and crashed leaving a large crater.

Grant finally lost patience with Early, particularly his burning of Chambersburg, and knew that Washington remained vulnerable if Early was still on the loose.

Industries included charcoal burning, coal mining, quarrying, farming and settlement but transporting products to lucrative markets remained expensive and relied heavily on shipping from Bristol – which took its cut of the profits.

Mimicking gang mentality where a member from one gang would successfully take the " colors " ( jacket with gang insignia ) from a member of a rival gang, dancers would sometimes compete for their respective shirts, however this practice was mostly done in Brooklyn, where the dance remained a bit primitive with the mind set of burning the other dancer with disrespectful hand gestures.

For years, Kevin remained inside his cell, sustained by isoteric energy fields that kept his body from burning itself out, until one day, after a battle between Magneto and the X-Men, his cell was damaged and Kevin was able to escape when he took over the body of Angus MacWhirther.

Several of those who remained in England to profess and defend their Protestant beliefs would be executed by burning, and thus their supporters considered them martyrs.

" It is true, so help you God who appeared to Moses in a burning bush which yet remained unconsumed.

The local Endicott Estate burned to the ground in 1904 after the local volunteer fire department, responding to three separate fires burning simultaneously, reached the Endicott fire last.

Silent Hill ( 2006 ) depicts death by burning as a punishment in two separate scenes.

Indirect-burning incense ( or " non-combustible incense ") is not capable of burning on its own, and requires a separate heat source.

On June 30, the fire was mostly contained and warnings of new ones were reduced, as only a few fires were slowly burning sporadically in separate parts of the mountain.

The resulting liquid air was then processed to separate out the liquid oxygen for burning in the engine.

Oil circulation is kept separate from the fuel / air mixture, thereby preserving oil rather than burning it as happens in two-stroke engines.

Three defendants were convicted in two separate cases of violating a Virginia statute against cross burning.