Sentences with phrase «by the nuclear power source»

The LANL report is a proposal to use combustion products (water and carbon dioxide are both combustion products, not sources of chemical energy) as feedstock for synthesizing a liquid that conveniently stores some of the energy produced by the nuclear power source.

Not exact matches

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

(By comparison, nuclear power was conceived in the late 1930s and didn't become a commercial energy source until the late 1950s.)

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

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.

At the time of the agreement, Cuomo and the commission argued that the nuclear plants provide a clean bridge fuel while reaching the state's goal of getting 50 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030.

Exelon officials have expressed support for Cuomo's new clean energy standard, which is expected to allow utilities to use nuclear power to fulfill a mandate to purchase 50 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2030.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

Cuomo will count nuclear power as renewable energy, at least temporarily, when the state issues new rules next year requiring utilities to procure half their power from renewable sources by 2030.

David Tillman, a spokesman for Exelon, which operates the Nine Mile Nuclear Power Station, said the company has offered to provide Fitzpatrick's fuel at cost so it can remain open while state officials work out the plan for how to achieve Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to get 50 percent of state energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Wind and solar energy will become major sources of power in New York — just in time to replace the 30 percent of the region's energy supplied by the Indian Point nuclear plant, which is closing.

They said subsidizing the nuke to keep it running would be a waste of money, and they criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to count nuclear power toward the goal of providing half the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030.

The former EPA administrator also commented on Governor Cuomo's energy plan, to get 50 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030 as a «step in the right direction,» but she disagrees with an $ 8 billion plan to finance upstate nuclear power plants, while Cuomo is at the same time pushing to close the downstate Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Indian Point nuclear power plant has been called on by environmental groups to shut down while officials investigate the source of its latest leak.

«The Obama Administration and the Energy Department are committed to an all - of - the - above energy strategy that develops every source of American energy, including nuclear power,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in a statement announcing the funding, which aims to get such modular reactors hooked into the grid by 2022.

This would preclude the need for batteries and nuclear power sources such as those used by the Chinese rover that recently landed on the moon.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

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.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

The world's second fastest - growing source of energy is projected to be nuclear power, with consumption increasing by 1.5 % per year over that period.»

A standardized design set in stone and approved by the NRC, that is free of political and legal interference from anti-nuclear activists, would make nuclear power the cost effective alternative energy source that its backers have always argued that it could be.

The furnishings inside, heterogeneous in terms of form and function, represent the different energy sources and their concatenation: luminous elements power a table whose top is made with photovoltaic panels (solar energy) that, in turn, is connected by colored wires to a cabinet completely covered with small propellers (wind energy) and rotating vases (nuclear energy), all moving with self - produced energy.

Consider that the share of electricity the world gets from clean sources of energy over the last 10 years declined by the equivalent of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount of electricity as 900 Topaz solar farms.

Now, Food and Water Watch has expanded its efforts with advertising in New York — one of the most expensive media markets in the country — with the apparent goal of killing the historic legislation passed last year by the New York Public Service Commission, which recognized the importance of nuclear as a source of clean, reliable power.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband says that by 2020 he wants 40 % of electricity to come from low - carbon sources: over 30 % from renewables — overwhelmingly wind power, but also biomass, and tidal energy — and the rest from nuclear and carbon capture and storage.

Source: «Early Nuclear Retirements in Deregulated U.S. Markets: Causes, Implications and Policy Options,» MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (March 2017)-- Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear power.

Perhaps the most concentrated source of non-carbon energy is nuclear power, but unfortunately, due to the Fukashima disaster and other issues, nuclear power generation is now declining or taken off the table by several nations, just when needed the most to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations (see graphic).

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.

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

«The indirect greenhouse gas emissions induced by upscaling wind, solar and nuclear power are small compared with other emissions sources, and thus do not impede the transformation towards climate - friendly power supply.»

In the energy sector, design problems and opportunities are signaled by a playing field strongly slanted towards oil, with coal, natural gas and nuclear power rounding out the U.S. government's favored energy sources.

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

If the nuclear power plant lifetimes were extended as briefly planned in 2010, the retiring fossil fuel plants could more easily be replaced by renewable energy sources, followed by a replacement of the nuclear plants with renewables as well.

Once hydrogen production is converted to a non-fossil source (probably electrolytic or thermochemical splitting of water, powered by nuclear energy) and all industrial hydrogen (for things like the Haber Process) sourced thus, it would probably be better to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels (either methanol, or Fischer - Tropsch petrol or diesel) than attempt to use hydrogen directly.

By 2050, solar energy for the European market is expected to fall even further, hitting levels between 1.8 and 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour — or 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of fossil and nuclear power sources.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

Wind further solidified its role as the number three electricity source in China (behind coal and hydropower), out - generating nuclear power by an impressive 22 percent.

The reduction, according to Die Welt's Daniel Wetzel, was attributed to the USA's 17 % energy supplied by renewable sources and that 20 % of the electric power was produced by nuclear plants.

The International Energy Agency expects carbon capture and storage to rank third among ways to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, behind energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources like solar and wind power, and ahead of nuclear power and a switch to lower - carbon fuels.

«Base load» power is provided by energy sources like coal and nuclear.

*** The most astonishing thing about Alan Finkel's report on Australia's electricity market calamity, is that the only stand - alone, CO2 emissions free generation source — nuclear power — barely rates a mention and gets dismissed as if it were some far fetched technology used by aliens.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

answer We can substantially reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by investing in alternative energy sources, such as solar power, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear power, tidal power, etc..

These are not corporate stooges of the nuclear industry; to a person, their embrace of nuclear power is motivated by a deep concern about climate change and the conviction that no other carbon - free source of energy is sufficient (and safe) enough to replace coal and gas.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

The report was drafted by young people aged between 16 and 25 who visited power stations, nuclear plants and projects promoting renewable energy sources to investigate the issues at first hand and met with experts, industry, pressure groups and innovators, to look at how we can keep the lights on in 2050 while reducing carbon emissions.