Sentences with phrase «built coal power stations»

When carbon constraints go they still have every advantage since already built coal power stations make the cheapest electricity.

If we could, then the cheapest way to build a coal power station would be to build a nuclear power first and then convert it to burn coal.

Not exact matches

Consequently, plans to build new coal - fired power stations will meet a mountain of resistance everywhere.

Barnaby Joyce said the government building a coal - fired power station would be consistent with its existing policies.

«If we intend to preach to others, we can not do so while building dirty coal power stations and new runways.

- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

Environmentalists will challenge the government's plans to build new coal - fired power stations in Britain near the Kingsnorth site in Kent from today.

Such a proposal had as much chance of being approved by Lib Dem MPs as a plan to build 1,000 coal - fired power stations in South - West England.

12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.

The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

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 country is building the two biggest dry - cooled, coal - fired, power stations in the world.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

All the talk of building new coal - fired power stations... no longer sounds vaguely «truthy».

«Why should I do anything when China is building X new coal - fired power stations each week,» is the most common response I've come across, and is actually a fair point.

Lobbying of US congress however seems to win the day in many ways and I would not be suprised to see many new coal fired power stations in the USA and hence worldwide built in then ext decade without carbon capture fitted.

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

If China, India and others — and indeed Germany for that matter — build extra coal fired power stations then they will find the coal to supply them in international markets.

How many people know that Germany, two years ago, started an urgent programme to build new coal - fired power stations, because their optimistic wind dreams did not deliver?

Even if companies could be certain they'd never have to pay for their carbon emissions, we'd still never see a new coal power station built in Australia given the current cost of renewable energy here and overseas.

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.

Harvey, in many cases when you compare the costs of new build power stations gas comes out cheaper than coal even without a carbon price.

For example, the study finds that 11 % of the energy generated by a coal - fired power station is offset by energy needed to build the plant and supply the fuel, as the chart below shows.

A special feature of the GCEL is the fact that it also identifies which companies are planning to expand coal mining or build new coal power stations.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient power stations but it is also building large, modern and more efficient (HELE) coal - fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE) coal technology.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

Seriously — if this heat pile up and CO2 radiative trapping of heat really worked AND it is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then Engineers — who are actually smart unlike climate scientists — would have easily built a «Greenhouse gas coal fired power station.

With the change of power in 1979, the power stations took years to built up huge stocks of coal at great cost in both manpower and interest charges.

Rebuild the railways to move coal to the power stations also to be built.

Some of Indonesia's plans to build coal - fired power stations have been cancelled altogether.

meanwhile, china builds coal - fired power stations by the week, while australia demonises coal & wants to shut down its own & give away more taxpayer money for expensive solar, wind & other unworkable, unnecessary CAGW «solutions»!

WHY the *** would you build a coal or gas fired power station if you are not going to use it to the best of its economic and functional ability.

Abyd Karmali explained that the effects of the EU trading scheme and other factors had meant that no coal - fired power stations had been built in the EU since 2005 and financial organisations were scrambling to invest in biomass or to convert existing power stations to use the fuel.

Coal - fired power stations built in the 1970s and 1980s can still produce power at a lower cost than that of wind, the research shows.

Since then, a majority of plans to build new coal power stations have in fact been shelved.

NCIG, which includes Peabody Energy, won a 2005 tender to build a third terminal at the world's biggest export harbor for power - station coal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two termincoal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminCoal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminals.

Personally if I were in a position to do so (and couldn't build nuclear or preferably coal fired power station to provide desperately needed power quickly) I would invest in research to develop a combined tidal and wave power unit.

Okay, it's ridiculous to compare a 40 - megawatt solar PV park to a coal - fired power plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically signifipower plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically signifiPower Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically significant.

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.

If we closed down all our coal fired power stations and build nuclear power stations to replace them it would cost us billions and billions of dollars.

In Germay because they ditched nuclear and went for wind turbines and solar they need filthy lignite and are building about 30 new coal power stations.

Just in case Germany's new 20 + coal fired (German built) powered power stations can't keep Das Autos rolling: -

It said these countries should immediately promise to stop building new coal plants and to accelerate the closure of old power stations.

Once the coal miner's were defeated she proceeded to remove her support for the planned ’10 further nuclear power stations» (and so only Sizewell B was built) and opted for the City financiers inspired «dash for gas» option instead.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed long - delayed rules that limit emissions from all new US power station, effectively barring the building of any new coal plants.

Germany has built lots of coal power stations to replace nuclear.