Sentences with phrase «by power plants needs»

The billions of tons of coal combustion waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.

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Paving the way for Indian Point's termination, the state Legislature last month passed legislation making it easier to site new nuclear plants, which conceivably might be needed to replace power lost by Indian Point's closure.

Mr. Obagmey believes the amount of gas that will be produced by the plant will be «enough to take care» of the power needs of the 10 regions in Ghana.

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

There are currently 19 nuclear power plants operating in the UK, with plans to increase their numbers by 2025 to meet the country's growing energy needs.

Long Island has even more excess power than previously projected, enough to forestall the need for a big new generating plant until 2028, according to an updated analysis by PSEG Long Island.

The New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state's power market, included the plant in its latest reliability needs assessment, meaning it is counting on the plant to contribute to the downstate base load by 2018.

That pump, which runs on a separate power supply from the rest of the plant, was inspected and standing by on Tuesday, but plant operators restored main power to the pool before the emergency pump was needed, he said.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Chinese and South Korean companies will also compete There will be offshore wind opportunities also in Germany, which needs to increase its renewable energy output as it phases out all its nuclear power plants by 2022.

By reducing the amount of energy used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new power plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power plants.

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).

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.

In fact, such energy - saving measures in the U.S. alone could negate the need for 66 large coal - fired power plants, according to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, an economic think tank and global consultancy.

By law, nuclear power plants must be periodically shut down for maintenance and inspection; utilities need national and local permission to restart operations.

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.

Response: The Fukushima accident happened when flooding of power plant safety systems caused by the tsunami prevented operation of pumps needed to cool the nuclear fuel within the reactor and the fuel storage pools, causing that irradiated fuel to overheat.

The governor of Japan's Fukui Prefecture, Issei Nishikawa, was cited by JAIF as saying: «The national government needs to resolutely develop a plan, given that little progress has been made in selecting sites for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel from the commercial nuclear power plants operated by the country's electric power companies.»

Happily, you can get all 9 of those amino acids, and in the amounts you need, by eating a balanced diet (such as the one promoted with the Daily Dozen or the PCRM Power Plate) of whole plant foods.

Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.

That's a reasonable amount of power for this 2,593 pound compact, but if you're the sort of driver that thinks the FR - S / BRZ needs more power, you'll probably be disappointed by the lack of «oomph» from this power plant.

I needed a research paper on a small company that makes vacuum cleaners and the writer said that vacuum cleaner company should diversify by «building nuclear power plants.»

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

Reducing our building's energy usage by 50 % will eliminate the need for new power plants.

Work by Hoffert, Caldeira, Green and others has show this to be an extremely dubious proposition, just based on simple mathematics — the world would need to deploy in a round number one nuclear power plant worth of carbon - free energy every day for the next fifty years.

Mr. Bush, according to the Associated Press this morning, will specify the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants within 10 or 15 years (methods unspecified) and will propose that the United States end growth in its greenhouse - gas emissions by 2025.

The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by - products of the fission - power plants which, by 2014, will be supplying well over half the power needs of humanity.

Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age

Recently a coal industry official tried to divert attention from the actions that are needed to solve the climate problem by criticizing a specific paragraph in my testimony opposing construction of a new coal - fired power plant that does not capture its CO2 emissions (LINK, pdf file).

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPower Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPlant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the ppower capacity in the regions surrounding the plantplant.

The energy return on (energy) investment is a measure of the useful energy produced by a particular power plant divided by the energy needed to build, operate, maintain, and decommission the plant.

DTE noted there's «a substantial capacity and energy supply need beginning in 2022, primarily caused by the Company's projected retirements of River Rouge, St. Clair, and Trenton Channel power plants from 2020 - 2023.»

With today's technology, it is possible to cater for all our energy needs with renewable sources by 2050, without the use of nuclear power plants.

The remainder of the CO2 demand (18 billion metric tons) would need to be provided by anthropogenic CO2 captured from coal - fired power plants and other industrial sources.

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.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

In the last decade, new needs have been evidenced simultaneously with the creation of an incipient industry around solar thermal power plants and new applications of solar thermal systems to other industries, as cited by our previous mini symposium.

The independent Electric Power Research Institute recently concluded the nation will need another 45 more nuclear power plants - to meet growing electricity demand and achieve a 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by Power Research Institute recently concluded the nation will need another 45 more nuclear power plants - to meet growing electricity demand and achieve a 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by power plants - to meet growing electricity demand and achieve a 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

As a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlights, grid costs become prohibitive for coal in rural areas when the investment needed to build a thermal power plant is combined with the cost of building electricity grid extensions and importing fuel.

Assuming that 500 gigawatts of solar power may be needed to meet a future climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Hernandez's team found that a region of California roughly equal to the land area of South Carolina may be needed to accommodate all the new solar power plant development.

«By using our glass and advanced material expertise to make solar thermal power plants more efficient and reliable, SCHOTT is part of the reason why communities in sunbelt areas around the world are increasingly exploring the use of solar thermalpower to satisfy their growing energy needs.»

Wind output forces dispatchable power plants to «throttle back or shut down,» as Rep. Kinzinger put it, without replacing the need for the plant to remain online to satisfy demand second - by - second (a task wind is wholly unfit to handle).

Every microgrid and local solar system deployed reduces by a fraction the need to extend the grid; every new renewable - energy system installed by a business or factory reduces the pressure to build ultra-mega power plants.

«Unless we get extremely lucky and see the cost of new modular nuclear reactors or NET Power's CCS gas plant somehow become cost competitive overnight, the current trajectories for wind and solar are by no means sufficient to carry us to the kind of deep decarbonization that we need,» Jenkins said.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees CelPower Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celpower plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

All rich countries would have to commit now to build no more coal - fired power plants and phase out existing ones in the next 2 - 3 decades (carbon capture and storage simply will not be ready in time), and the same commitment would need to be made within a few years by China, India, Brazil and other big developing countries.