Sentences with phrase «burning by power plants»

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Breakthrough: A power plant efficiently and cheaply captures carbon released by burning natural gas, avoiding greenhouse - gas emissions.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

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Cuomo announced a deal in December 2013, subsequently approved by the PSC, to provide the coal - powered Dunkirk plant with $ 20.4 million a year to help renovate it to burn natural gas.

It will be nearly impossible for the state to reach its goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030 if there are still coal - burning power plants operating, she said.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

While many on the left embraced the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules to reduce coal - burning power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, some red state Democrats couldn't put enough distance between themselves and the Obama administration.

Indeed, four conventional power plants burning fossil fuels are due to come online in the Hudson Valley, at least two of which are possibly being lured by the promise of higher profits due to the Zone configuration.

Massachusetts approves the construction of a new power plant to burn natural gas, but only if it reduces emissions over time and shuts down by 2050

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

As people burn fuels — in cars, power plants and factories — nitrogen is released into the atmosphere and absorbed by plants.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Imagine a power plant that takes the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) put in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and converts it back into fuel.

Another study, published last year in Reviews of Geophysics, lists the man - made aerosols as coming from sulfates, nitrate and black carbon emitted by internal combustion engines, coal - fired power plants, slash - and - burn agricultural practices, and smoke from cooking.

Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

That's because CO2 is added to the atmosphere not just by burning the tree but also through the process of cutting it down and transporting it to the power plant, as well as from the forest now missing a tree.

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.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

Large swathes of China are affected by chronic air pollution from factories, vehicles and coal - burning power plants.

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired pPower Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired ppower plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.

More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley AuthoPlant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authoplant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

The Stanford scientists suggested roofs covered in photovoltaic panels would do a better job, by producing electricity that then obviates the need for more fossil fuel — burning power plants.

With World Bank backing, Abengoa is breaking ground on the first hybrid solar - thermal and natural gas burning power plants in Morocco and Algeria, online by 2010.

«As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the carbon accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the earth much more than the direct emissions of the power plant.»

Also, stating that aerosols are «dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants» is overly simplistic and inaccurate.

Both are pollutants, but the first is dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants, the second from ozone precursors such as NOx, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide mainly emitted from vehicles.

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.

Fine particles emitted by vehicles (especially diesel - powered ones), coal - fired power plants, and burning wood can penetrate deep into the lungs, while car exhaust, heat, and sunlight contribute to high ozone levels.

The two primary sources of mercury exposure are dental amalgams (mercury - based fillings) and seafood consumption, followed by thimerosal - containing vaccines and mercury pollution from coal - burning power plants.