Sentences with phrase «cheaper than burning coal»

Debate on global warming is basically closed until a technology that is cheaper than burning coal is developed.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

The purity makes the capture process cheaper than what is needed to capture CO2 from the burning of coal, which creates a much more complex stream of gases than a wet corn mill.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

The UK has switched off many of its older coal plants, and government policy means it is now cheaper to burn gas than coal.

Coal burning power plants which capture the carbon would pay the carbon tax, but get it back with a profit since capture of carbon from flue gas is cheaper than from the air.

As Brad Plumer has explained for Vox, there's been a lot of discussion about cleaner stoves in India, but for now burning wood or coal in traditional stoves is considerably cheaper than the alternatives.

Natural gas isn't just cheaper than coal; it also burns much cleaner.

You may be correct that we do nt build it for economic reasons, ie burning coal is a lot cheaper than replacing with renewables and NG back - up.

That is a no regrets approach — especially if building nuclear power plants can be made as cheap or cheaper than mining coal and transporting it to the plants to burn it (or oil or natural gas).