Sentences with phrase «burning electric power plants»

Enron had banked on trading permits for carbon dioxide emissions, which would have been based upon the existing permit system for sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - burning electric 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.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

The electric company, PREPA, relied on selling bonds to pay for the imported oil it burned at its power plants.

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.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

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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.

Electric power plants that burn fossil fuels release hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides.

Electric Power Plants are burning oill to create electricity, and oil is expensive.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

NATURAL GAS, compared to coal, is better in terms of greenhouse gases and other emissions (especially when burned in new combined cycle electric power plants).

A set of 12 sectors was agreed on as a common reporting format for all air pollutants: air transportation; international shipping; other transportation (surface transport); electric power plants, energy conversion, extraction and distribution; solvents; waste (landfill, waste water, non-energy incineration); industry (combustion and process emissions); domestic (residential and commercial buildings); agricultural waste burning on fields; agriculture (agricultural soil emissions, other agriculture); savannah burning; and forest burning.

Carbon capture and sequestration was demonstrated at a coal - burning power plant in New Haven, W.Va., built in 1980 and run by American Electric Ppower plant in New Haven, W.Va., built in 1980 and run by American Electric PowerPower.

This is the «long tailpipe,» which starts at your electric car, goes through the transmission wires, and ends with the smokestack of a coal - burning power plant.

Their efforts have primarily been directed towards reducing CO2 emitted by electric power generating plants burning fossil fuels.

The traditional model has been that electric load (electric demand) drives electric generation... your factory turns on, and you have to turn on a fossil - fuel burning power plant.

Beginning in 1965, electric power companies began building generating plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil made from imported crude.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

Even fossil fuel - burning power plants have become more efficient, and electric cars provide an alternative to gas - guzzlers, while better building design and more advanced electrical equipment mean we can enjoy modern facilities without rising emissions.

Most of the burning occurs in automobiles, in factories, and in electric power plants that provide energy for houses and office buildings.

Today a coalition of citizen groups, states and U.S. EPA announced a landmark settlement agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) requiring AEP to stop burning coal by 2015 at three power plants in Indiana, Ohio and KentPower (AEP) requiring AEP to stop burning coal by 2015 at three power plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentpower plants in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

Recently, he was a member of a team that successfully obtained approval for a wood burning electric power generating plant in eastern Connecticut.