Sentences with phrase «about coal fire power stations»

Yet he also announced the Liberal Party should stop quibbling about coal fire power stations and rally behind Turnbull.

Not exact matches

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

The policy resulted in the building of coal - fired power stations with a combined capacity of almost 12 gigawatts — about one - third of peak German demand in 2008.

The health costs associated with coal - fired power stations cost the European Union about 53 billion U.S. dollars each year, according to a report by the Health and Environment Alliance.

Guarantee you that each and ever one if those coal fired power stations being built in China and India are about as clean as that fat chick in a brothel and will end up devastating the ecology around each if those sites.

Nick has probably got his misinformation about abatement and coal - fired power stations on standby from anti-wind campaigner Hamish Cumming who has been pushing this fallacy, especially with the anti-renewable «Environment Editor» Graham Lloyd of The Australian.

With about 90 % of the carbon emissions from our electricity sector coming from coal fired power stations, Australia will need to look beyond just coal towards the full spectrum of available energy solutions.

Investors have also been warned about investing in new coal and gas fired power stations after 2017 by a second new study.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

In the 1980s Greenpeace argued for a coal - fired power station to be built instead of Sizewell B even though the «greenhouse effect» was known about at the time.

Subsidies will no longer be necessary in about 6 years time for solar (same amount of time it takes to build a coal or gas - fired power station).

Does that mean continue flying, don't worry about changing light bulbs, don't worry about trying to capture carbon or shutting down coal - fired power stations?

In October 2015 it was announced that the coal - fired power station at Port Augusta will close «by about March 2016».

That amount of electricity generated by a wet - cooled coal - fired power station would require about 480ML of water.

Libby calculates that at a wind speed of 14m / second a particular turbine will generate 2MW of electricity while the total power available in the air passing through the turbine is 8.5 MW (giving an efficiency of about 24 %, very similar to that of coal - fired power stations).

Lloyd and Cumming may be right about one thing, Victoria's brown coal - fired power stations may not be polluting any less.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

I'm a fan of nuclear, then, but I don't think there's an emergency about coal, and no need to suddenly shut down all coal - fired power stations.

«If all Canadians lowered their thermostats by just 2 degrees Celsius this winter, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 4 megatons — that's equivalent to shutting down a 600 megawatt coal - fired power station or taking nearly 700,000 cars off the road!»

Kit and Bill Zak live about ten miles northeast of the Indian River Generating Station - a coal - fired power plant near Millsboro, Delaware.

The coal fired generators don't begin to switch off power stations until carbon is at about $ 70 a ton.