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But your comment does highlight an important point: it isn't enough to stop coal fired power plants if you don't at the same time stop the coal mines.

However, nobody would go to the bother of sequestering Co2 from coal fired power plants if it weren't for concern about GW.

Not exact matches

But six miles inland, something just as unusual, if far less gaudy, is taking shape — the first coal - fired power plant in the Middle East.

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

Also, if newer greener energy technologies can reasonably replace our baseline power needs from coal - fired power plants then coal demand will decline further.

However, coal demand can continue to decline if natural gas prices stay low for a very long time allowing further replacement of coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones.

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.

Other mitigating factors for coal - fired electricity would be if thermal coal prices dropped off steeply or the cost of building a coal - fired power plant came down.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

«If we are serious about meeting climate targets, then the reality is that eventually we will have to start shutting down coal - fired power plants.

However, Kavanagh pointed out that electrolysis is only as clean as the grid that feeds it, so if the energy comes from a coal - fired power plant, there may not be any carbon emissions savings.

If, as Perry has claimed, climate change is a baseless hoax, it makes no sense that he should advocate for a technology explicitly designed to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants for the sole purpose of averting the warming effect of those emissions.

If we don't build all these new coal - fired power plants now, won't we be setting ourselves up for rolling blackouts and jeopardizing our energy future?

It allowed the team to explore a much wider range of what - ifs by tweaking a large number of inputs, including the energy efficiency of electrical appliances, the depreciation time of coal - fired power plants, and shifts in consumer behavior.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

«If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.&raquIf we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.&raquif they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

I also note that if Asia (particularly China) converts its many existing coal - fired power plants to methane (from hydrofracking) over the next few decades, then the air pollution in this part of the world will likely be reduced, which would further increase radiative forcing on the Earth.

That said, if Action # 1 is to put a complete moratorium on new coal - fired power plants until carbon storage works, then we can decide what it means for carbon storage to «work» in due course, and people may decide that it's not a good, safe, solution at all?

, like when mom wanted you to clean your room, is if a moratorium is placed on the building of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage technology can be built into such plants.

For example, if we stop building new coal - fired power plants without CCS, and if we quickly develop CCS technology, we can help the entire world avoid generating huge amounts of emissions from coal.

Even while they are running adds criticizing governor Sebelius's decision, Peabody Energy is already incorporating a shadow price of carbon into their financial calculations when deciding if investments in new coal - fired power plants are viable.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

I personally would not count on all the SUVs and coal - fired power plants in the world to save us from a modern Little Ice Age, if that's what Nature wants to throw at us.

Using electricity generated by coal - fired plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent, but what if the energy comes from the ultimate clean and renewable source — the sun itself?

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2Power Partnership 2011).

If the efficiency level of the other 49 states were raised to that of New York, the most energy - efficient state, the energy saved would be sufficient to close 80 percent of the country's coal - fired power plants.

The coal - fired Presque Isle Power Plant is scheduled to be shut down by 2020 if regulators approve.

With the likelihood that few, if any, new coal - fired power plants will be approved in the United States, this moratorium sends a message to the world.

While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.&raquIf we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.&raquif they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

If your electricity is generated in a coal ¬ fired power plant — as is half of all electricity produced in the U.S., the emissions reductions will be almost double.

In addition, the ISO - NE has projected there will be blackouts if coal - fired and nuclear power plants are forced to close.

EPA's Clean Power Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 yPower Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 ypower plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 years.

If the rest of the world joins Australia in this simple step to sharply cut carbon emissions, the worldwide drop in electricity use would permit the closing of more than 270 coal - fired (500 megawatt) power plants.

If you've been paying attention to the power markets in recent years, you know that merchant coal and nuclear power plants are struggling to compete against natural gas - fired generation and renewable

Higher temperatures enhance the chemical reaction, so smog levels can rise even if emissions from vehicle tailpipes or coal - fired power plants remain the same.6, 19

If clean energy is really such an obvious economic choice, why are China and India still building coal - fired power plants as fast as they can?

But in the real world, if coal - fired power plants are canceled (as many were last year), wind or nuclear power don't automatically substitute.

You might think that if some prominent power brokers pitched a plan that promised to shut down more than twenty coal - fired power plants owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that an organization like the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy might sign on without hesitation.

If implemented, the CPP would have closed hundreds of coal - fired plants across the country and increased the production of wind and solar power, which are significantly more expensive to produce.

Unfortunately, if EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has his way, our waterways and our health will remain threatened by our nation's leading source of toxic water pollution — coal fired power plants.

If coal fired power plants are phased out (at a time when energy demand is increasing) Appalachia will see a phase in of unemployment and poverty.

If your overriding concern is climate change, join the effort to close coal - fired power plants.