Sentences with phrase «coal fired power plant burns»

A 1000 million watt coal fired power plant burns 4 million tons of coal each year.

The coal fired power plant burns coal by the trainload.

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Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

This week, Gov. Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

In other words, the way such carbon capture and sequestration will work remains as hazy as the smog coal - fired power plants produce but it needs to become clear quickly if the world plans to continue burning such fossil sunlight.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Another study, published last year in Reviews of Geophysics, lists the man - made aerosols as coming from sulfates, nitrate and black carbon emitted by internal combustion engines, coal - fired power plants, slash - and - burn agricultural practices, and smoke from cooking.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

And attaching the Calera process to the nation's more than 600 coal - fired power plants or even steel mills and other industrial sources is even more attractive as burning coal results in flue gas with as much as 150,000 parts per million of CO2.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

This week the world's first carbon capture and storage at an actual power plant burning coal fired up near New Haven, W. Va..

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

Jacobson has also said that soot from diesel engines, coal - fired power plants and burning wood is a «bigger cause of global warming than previously thought, and is the major cause of the rapid melting of the Arctic's sea ice».

Coal - fired power plants work hard to heat and cool homes, but burning coal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the futCoal - fired power plants work hard to heat and cool homes, but burning coal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the futcoal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the future.

Though mercury often originates as an air pollutant from chlorine processing plants, coal - fired power plants, and the burning of medical waste, it can ultimately make its way into bodies of water.

Fine particles emitted by vehicles (especially diesel - powered ones), coal - fired power plants, and burning wood can penetrate deep into the lungs, while car exhaust, heat, and sunlight contribute to high ozone levels.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

The primary source of NO2 pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, especially by coal - fired power plants and diesel engine cars, like those in the Volkswagen emissions-gate scandal.

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Researchers say that one of the main contributors to aerosols in the atmosphere are emissions from gas - powered motor vehicles, coal - burning power plants, and forest fires.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plPower plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plpower plants.

Coal - fired power plants are simple: They burn coal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbCoal - fired power plants are simple: They burn coal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbcoal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbine.

Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal - fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its «green» and «climate protection» policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.

Since the mid-1980s, the US Department of Energy has invested over $ 3 billion in power plant «clean coal technologies,» but mine fires burn on, venting carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane in a wind poisonous to humans and the environment.

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The study reflects international trends in investment in coal - burning power plants, with construction of coal - fired power plants slowing in the West since the 1980s but increasing in China, India, and other areas of the developing world.

The LCOE of electricity from coal, for example, takes into account both the cost of building a coal - fired power plant and the cost of buying and burning coal.

Policies that protect sharks or that safeguard against practices, such as the burning of coal - fired power plants, that affect sharks, could be put at risk as a result of such rules.

In the United States, power plants (mostly coal - fired) burn an enormous 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year, accounting for around 40 percent of the nation's total emissions.

New and refurbished coal - fired power plants will not be eligible for funding unless they emit less than 550 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour (gCO2 / kW), which could be met either by a combined heat and power plant or one that also burns biomass.

Furthermore, the Protocol does not mention other factors that affect the climate, such as sulfate aerosols from coal - fired power plants, soot from diesel engines, and smoke from the burning of biomass (mostly in developing countries).

The coal would be enough to fuel 152 coal - fired power plants, and when burned, would fuel global warming by releasing more than 643 million tons of heat - trapping carbon dioxide — the amount released every year by 111,655,273 passenger vehicles (according to EPA's greenhouse gas equivalency calculator).

Even as many of the world's rich nations seek to phase out the use of coal, Asia's two most developed economies are burning more than ever and plan to add at least 60 new coal - fired power plants over the next 10 years.

We should minimize residential coal burning and substitute coal - fired power plants for it.

«Residential coal burning R: What is your suggestion on coal burning other than coal - fired power plants?

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All of the partner governments have agreed to take action to reduce the substances, for instance by fitting scrubbing equipment to coal - fired power plants or burn landfill gas — methane — for energy.

Democrats and Republicans had, in the course of a few short months, effectively switched policy positions on energy, with Democrats voting to hand trillions in new subsidies to coal - burning utilities and power plants while gutting Clean Air Act restrictions on the construction of coal - fired power plants, and Republicans, long - standing coal boosters, voting against a pro-coal bill.

It's an empty victory if we shutter coal - fired power plants at home, yet at the same time allow coal to be exported and burned abroad.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal pPower Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal ppower plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

Air pollution alerts will be a thing of the past as coal - fired power plants are dismantled and recycled and as gasoline - and - diesel - burning engines largely disappear.

Critics contend that emissions from wood - fired power plants can be twice that of coal - burning power stations and are a threat to forests in the southeastern U.S.

In a rising trend, countries, especially in the European Union and United Kingdom, are converting existing coal - fired power plants to burn wood — a renewable, albeit controversial, fuel source.

Alabama Power, taking advantage of a drop in the price for natural gas, already has announced that it plans to convert older coal - fired units at the Shelby County plant to gas, which burns far cleaner than coal.

The greenhouse gas pollution of coal - fired power plants is another huge cost that is not factored into the price of electricity (even though 50 % of our power in the US comes from coal), and the same goes for the air pollution caused by the burning of petroleum.

This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumiCoal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumicoal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and alumiCoal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.