Sentences with phrase «human power plant»

The Human Power Plant restores the connection between physical exercise and energy use.

The Human Power Plant project investigates the possibilities of human energy production in a modern society.

The game has had some awkward title changes, originally being called Atomic Runner Chelnov: Fighting Human Power Plant in Japanese arcades.

Not exact matches

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

«In the United States, power plants are highly automatized and require little human intervention,» José Rivera told El Nuevo Día.

There Statius explains to Dante the generation of the embryo, and how the embryo passes through various stages before it can be considered a rational human: «This active power,» reads Robert M. Durling's translation, «having become a soul like that of a plant, but different in so far as it is still under way, while the other is already in port,»

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

Human evolution: from bond fires started by rubbing sticks to hydroelectric power plants - from gazing at the Moon to actually going there - Indeed we are evolving!!!

The hurts of the people in Garden Grove may not be as sophisticated as the hurts of the Berkeleyites, but Schuller claims that any church will grow if it understands the needs of the community in which it is planted and acts realistically «to heal human hearts and fill human needs» through the power of God's love in Christ.

He will continue to deny climate change caused by human activity; and will use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut power plant carbon emissions.

Pruitt is currently participating in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

Dust can come from natural sources, but the other pollutants have human - made origins, including cars, factories and coal - fired power plants.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

The March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused extensive human suffering — evacuations, emotional trauma and premature deaths, disrupted jobs and schooling.

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

Cartan - Hansen described the importance of the research in determining whether the outbreak of white nose syndrome had reached southwestern Idaho (there was no evidence of it in the power plant building), and she noted that humans can spread the disease by transporting the fungus on their shoes and clothing from caves harboring infected bats.

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal - burning power plants and vehicle emissions.

Now protected from humans, elk and other mammals flourish near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, researchers say.

The extra radionuclides from Fukushima are simply not enough to create a dose large enough to cause any human health effects outside the immediate vicinity of the stricken nuclear power plant.

It thus seems quite likely that this new signaling path also links the performance of the cellular power plants and cell division in human cells,» says Meisinger, who now plans to analyze these mechanisms in tumor tissues.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

The world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Researchers emphasize, however, that environmental levels of radiation outside the 20 - kilo metre evacuation zone around the power plant are currently far below levels that warrant concerns about human health.

Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengths up to 720 nm — which is in the red part of the light spectrum, at the limit of visibility to the human eye.

Of all the failures, human error among the 50 to 55 reactor operators who staff a nuclear power plant control room in shifts looms largest, particularly in the case of the most notorious nuclear accident in U.S. history: Three Mile Island (TMI).

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

EPA had also set out a separate finding in 2015 as part of the new source rule for power plants, specifically stating that the facilities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, harming human health.

Shifting coal - fired power plants in the U.S. to natural gas would have tremendous positive effects on human health in America

Human emissions however are on the decline in many countries due to more strict pollution controls on power plants like burning low - sulfur fuel and technological advances to remove it during and after combustion.

Researchers led by Prof. Torsten Ochsenreiter of the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern have studied the mitochondria, the «power plants» of single - cell trypanosomes, and have now discovered that these behave differently from cell power plants in humans during cell division.

We are pleased to announce that Holtec's engineers have succeeded in designing SMR - 160 into a «walk - away» safe nuclear power plant, which means that if a calamity were to strike — similar to the tsunami that devastated Fukushima ̶ the plant will passively (without human intervention) switch to and remain in a safe shutdown and cooled configuration for an unlimited period.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.

Our bodies get their energy from plants, so you could say that humans and other animals are solar - powered.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

Complete restoration of deforested areas is unrealistic, yet 100 GtC carbon drawdown is conceivable because: (1) the human - enhanced atmospheric CO2 level increases carbon uptake by some vegetation and soils, (2) improved agricultural practices can convert agriculture from a CO2 ource into a CO2 sink [174], (3) biomass - burning power plants with CO2 capture and storage can contribute to CO2 drawdown.

In the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant — an area deemed unsafe for humans for the next 20,000 years after a catastrophic failure — life thrives.

The rest is released by human activities, with coal - fired power plants contributing the largest source of mercury to the atmosphere.

Thanks to coal power plants and train systems, there was a period of human - induced higher temps in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

They eventually convince Caesar to grant the human's access to the power plant.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.