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(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

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Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

37.5 megawatts is about the size of a small solar farm; a large natural gas or coal plant can generate several hundred megawatts of power.

These 75 plants will require about 40,000 new coal cars.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

By: Ajoy K Das 23rd April 2018 India's Coal Ministry has requested thermal power generation companies to increase plant level coal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in JCoal Ministry has requested thermal power generation companies to increase plant level coal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in Jcoal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in June.

He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.

He said that from the 1970s into the 1990s regulation of smokestacks focused largely on the stench and opacity of the plumes because of concerns about coal - fired plants and steel mills, and less attention was paid to the chemical plants.

Coal only provides about 4 percent of the state's power, but closing down the dirtiest power plant is a symbolic victory for environmentalists.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

One in particular picked up the most slack: Paradise Fossil Plant in Paradise, Ky. (Incidentally, that town is the same coal - ravaged one John Prine sings about in arguably the best song ever written.)

Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

«There's nothing in the name «Rosenfeld» that tells you anything about coal - fired power plants or how energy's produced.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

About half of all our electricity comes from more than 500 coal - fired plants.

Around the country, about 600 power plants must be closed or retooled in the next two years, the result of EPA rules issued in 2011 that clamped down on coal - fired pollution.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmCoal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

That plant, which will turn the low - grade coal lignite into burnable gases, is designed to capture 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 each year, or about two - thirds of what it will produce.

LONDON — For those concerned about the impact of coal - burning power plants on the world's environment, the good news seems to have been arriving thick and fast lately.

Massachusetts has offered $ 6 million to Somerset, Salem and Holyoke, site of a third aging coal plant, to pursue renewable energy projects, but state officials say decisions about the future are up to communities.

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

Despite his criticisms of China's reliance on coal - fired power plants, Brown is upbeat about the country's alternative energy development.

«If we are serious about meeting climate targets, then the reality is that eventually we will have to start shutting down coal - fired power plants.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

If faced with the choice of shutting down either a typical coal plant or a typical gas plant and methane leakage from the natural gas plant is below about 2 percent of total fuel, there would be a short - term climate benefit to shutting down the coal plant instead of the natural gas plant, the team found.

Until advanced coal - combustion technologies become widely available that allow CO2 to be captured and stored safely underground, the shift to coal is bad news for climate change because coal plants usually emit about twice the CO2 per kilowatt - hour of electricity that gas plants do.

Conventional plants burn pulverized coal in the air, which contains about 78 percent nitrogen.

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

Coal - power plants account for about 25 percent of that carbon dioxide, so it's 320 years of coal - power emissions.&raCoal - power plants account for about 25 percent of that carbon dioxide, so it's 320 years of coal - power emissions.&racoal - power emissions.»

About one - fifth of the emissions reductions needed to cut the global output of greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 would have to come from CCS technology at coal - fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

«Unless you commercialize it, it's not going to contribute,» Kellie Caught of the World Wildlife Fund - Australia said about carbon capture technology needed to reduce coal plant emissions.

This two - turbine scheme makes an IGCC plant about 15 percent more energy efficient than a conventional coal plant.

One study concluded that a coal - burning plant located next to coal mine is about six times as likely to be fully integrated than any other coal plant.

Burning coal accounts for about 40 percent of all carbon emissions worldwide, but this plant would emit essentially no carbon at all.

About 60 % of Florida's manatees rely on warm - water refuges created by outflows from 10 coal and nuclear power plants.

He produced a document showing two of the plant's four coal - fired units provide about $ 14.2 million in tax revenue to state and local governments in Montana — dollars that help fund Colstrip's history museum, recreation center, golf course, schools and 32 colorful playgrounds.

Although a combined cycle natural gas plant could easily meet the standard, even the most efficient coal plant would have to cut about 40 percent of its CO2 emissions.

In the United States coal - fired power plants alone pump about 50 tons of it into the air each year.

An up - to - date coal plant costs about $ 3,000 a kilowatt, but charges levied on carbon dioxide emissions, or extra equipment to capture the gas instead, could add substantially to that.

As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal - fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $ 4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today.

Current plans are to build many more coal burning plants, without taking into account what we now know about climate.

«You can get this information on coal plants or any other polluter,» said Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with Food & Water Watch, an environmental advocacy group that has called for the agency to submit information about CAFOs to the public.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

About 85 % of the value of Babcock & Wilcox comes from the nuclear operations business that serves the U.S. Navy as its end customer and the power general on business that serves mainly U.S. coal power plants.

And what about the truly massive quantities of water needed for cooling — a vulnerability shared by coal plants, by the way?