None of these power plants have still been equipped with the modern emission control systems that many other major economies have made a routine requirement for.
Not exact matches
«All
of our coal - fired
power plants,
none of them can meet those efficiency standards,» said Melanie Hart, one
of the report's authors and director
of China policy at CAP.
The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) tool produced by the Center for Global Development, updated and released this week, shows that seven
of the world's 10 dirtiest
power plants are in Asia — though
none in China.
In the past, ministers have argued that expanding nuclear
power was an essential feature
of efforts to limit Britain's emissions
of CO2 on the grounds that nuclear
plants produce
none of the gas directly.
Meanwhile, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano was reported in this morning's Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) as saying it is conceivable that
none of the country's nuclear
power plants will be operating this summer because
of the difficulty
of gaining local approval to restart.
Coal fired
power plants make 40 %
of our CO2 and nuclear
power plants make
none.
One
of the technologies the scenarios took as necessary was rapid global adoption
of systems that capture and store carbon dioxide from
power plants —
none of which have been tested at anything remotely close to a scale the atmosphere would notice.
Of the 120 coal fired
power plants proposed in Europe in 2007,
none have been brought to the construction stage.
Overall, the report says «among all industrial sources
of air pollution,
none poses greater risks to human health and the environment than coal - fired
power plants.»