Sentences with phrase «carbon electricity produced»

The Proposal claims it will replace the 17,660 gigawatt - hours of low - carbon electricity produced by Diablo Canyon with an equal amount of low - carbon electricity, but the details of the Proposal make clear that will not happen.

The low - carbon electricity produced by such reactors provides 20 percent of the nation's power and, by the estimates of climate scientist James Hansen of Columbia University, avoided 64 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution.

Not exact matches

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

AD — anaerobic digestion — is a naturally occurring process which can be integrated into waste management and farming to reduce costs and carbon emissions, and produce gas, electricity, fuel and fertiliser:

Moreover, the two reactors at Indian Point produce about one - quarter of the state's carbon - free electricity.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

Adding carbon capture technology to that plant sucks up 40 percent of the power it can produce and adds at least 2.7 cents to the retail price of that electricity.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

This year natural gas moved to the top of the electricity - producing charts in the U.S., threatening coal's 120 - year dominance and pushing carbon emissions down to their lowest levels in 20 years.

«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to producing real, carbon - free hydrogen fuel.»

On the surface, the hydrogen is cleanly burned in a turbine to produce electricity and the carbon dioxide, as well as processed carbon monoxide, is liquefied for underground storage.

Ultimately, the researchers believe their device design — a combination of a carbon nanotube antenna and diode rectifier — could compete with conventional photovoltaic technologies for producing electricity from sunlight and other sources.

If the UK government caves into pressure and lowers its ambitions for onshore wind, it will make more expensive forms of low - carbon generation a necessity to hit the UK's target of producing 30 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2020.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

A new method could produce electricity equal to about 400 times the annual output of the Hoover Dam from carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

A new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide could be the start of a classic trash - to - treasure story for the troublesome greenhouse gas, scientists are reporting.

Natural gas produces a quarter of the nitrogen oxides emitted by coal and half the carbon dioxide for every unit of electricity generated.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Power plants could, they argue, pump the carbon dioxide through water or other liquids and produce a flow of electrons — and therefore more electricity.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

A study of one hydroelectric reservoir, Cedar Lake in Manitoba, revealed a likely release of about one kilogram of carbon dioxide for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced by the reservoir's power station.

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

Scientists searching for the next big energy - producing biofuel, something such as switchgrass that power plants could burn to make electricity and reduce their carbon emissions, have a very fussy wish list.

But what if human beings could mimic photosynthesis and use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce fuels that generate electricity or power our cars and aeroplanes?

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

Audi currently oversees a process that guarantees g - tron vehicles have a low carbon footprint, ensuring it produces enough gas (generated from biogas using electricity from renewable energy) to cover the total usage of the g - tron fleet.

For electric vehicles like the IONIQ Electric, it took into account the carbon dioxide emissions produced to generate the electricity used during recharging.

Tesla) may actually not always score as well, if its build causes excess pollution, and it requires a greater abundance of electricity, which is produced by sources that emit carbon.

The World ex USA SRI ex Fossil Fuels Index is comprised of the common stocks of the companies in the MSCI World ex USA SRI Index (the World ex USA SRI Index), minus the stocks of the companies that explore for, extract, produce, manufacture or refine coal, oil or gas or produce or transmit electricity derived from fossil fuels or transmit natural gas or have carbon reserves included in the World ex USA SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) Index.

The right way is to promote more emission - free nuclear power and encourage the investments necessary to produce electricity from coal without releasing carbon into the air.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

Given that a coal - fired electricity generation plant produces about 1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour, Borenstein estimated that the price of greenhouse gas reductions would have to range from about $ 150 to $ 500 per ton of greenhouse gases to make the current solar PV technology a worthwhile investment when greenhouse gas reductions are considered.

So, new nuclear power plants being proposed today are extremely unlikely to even begin producing any «carbon free» electricity for at least ten years, and probably closer to 20 years.

China's plan to build millions of electric vehicles will have little impact on the country's carbon dioxide emissions, a new analysis concludes, because so much of the country's electricity is produced by burning coal.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon - free sources within 10 years.

He calls for the United States to produce all electricity from «carbon - free sources» by 2018.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

At the community or village level, the use of crop residues to power small steam turbine generators to produce electricity can deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to saving carbon.

and: «Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon - free sources within 10 years.»

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

By capturing this landfill gas and using it to produce electricity, the methane and carbon dioxide contained within are destroyed, reducing the emissions released.

This technology combination is capable of producing final energy such as electricity with net - negative carbon emissions (Luckow et al. 2010).

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

You can also purchase a TerraPass to offset the carbon emissions produced by a flight you take and the electricity you use at home, in addition to the above mentioned Road TerraPass.