Sentences with phrase «cheaply than plants»
Both operate more cheaply than plants that run on oil and natural gas.
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Power plants that depend on natural gas can make electricity more cheaply than nuclear plants.
Starting with the natural pigments that help plants harvest solar rays, Velev and his team have crafted a flexible, nontoxic photovoltaic device that he hopes could eventually generate clean electricity far more cheaply than today's silicon - based solar panels.
That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.
A report by the group concludes that biomass gasi - fication plants could generate more power more cleanly and cheaply than conventional fossil fuels.
With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plants do.
Existing designs of NPPs will then provide power more cheaply than can renewables and not much more expensively than newly constructed coal plants with non CO2 emissions control.
A single turbine requires 700-1000 tons of concrete, steel, copper and fiberglass — far more raw materials than involved with coal or gas - fired power plants, generating equal amounts of electricity far more reliably and cheaply.
«There's really little chance that you could capture CO2 from ambient air more cheaply than from a coal plant, where the flue gas is 300 times more concentrated,» says Robert Socolow, director of the Princeton Environment Institute and co-director of the university's carbon mitigation initiative.
Our drones can go where machinery can't, and plant magnitudes faster and more cheaply than humans.
The comparison of costs is shown in the figure, and illustrate that carbon can be reduced much more cheaply with easy operational changes like improving power plant heat rates or increased use of natural gas combined cycle than with most renewable technologies.