Sentences with phrase «coal fired power stations as»

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«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

Such a proposal had as much chance of being approved by Lib Dem MPs as a plan to build 1,000 coal - fired power stations in South - West England.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

The European Investment Bank's new criteria on coal lending — tied to specified limits on fossil fuel power plant emissions — have been criticized as being too generous to polluters, while the U.S. Ex-Im Bank continues to back coal - fired power stations in many parts of the world.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

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.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

Guarantee you that each and ever one if those coal fired power stations being built in China and India are about as clean as that fat chick in a brothel and will end up devastating the ecology around each if those sites.

Besides, he said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large - scale use on coal - fired power stations.

As recently as the Stern Review in 2006, carbon capture and storage from coal - fired power stations was seen as the most promising clean energy technology on offeAs recently as the Stern Review in 2006, carbon capture and storage from coal - fired power stations was seen as the most promising clean energy technology on offeas the Stern Review in 2006, carbon capture and storage from coal - fired power stations was seen as the most promising clean energy technology on offeas the most promising clean energy technology on offer.

For example, the study finds that 11 % of the energy generated by a coal - fired power station is offset by energy needed to build the plant and supply the fuel, as the chart below shows.

The EIB is now in line with other multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank, which very recently announced it would fund coal - fired power stations only in «rare circumstances».

We have been contacted with requests for information and assistance by affected people living in urban as well as rural areas, and the noise and vibration sources have included coal mining, gas fired power stations, large refrigeration units with compressors and swimming pool compressors in city apartment blocks.

As we're gettng rid of our coal fired and nuclear power stations what is our advanced industrialised country supposed to use to power our indusries and how do we remain competitive against other countries paying lip service to the environment including your own

In fact, new coal - fired power capacity additions in 2017 were the lowest in at least nine years (see figure, below), with official reports indicating capacity actually dropping for four consecutive months during the year, as older power stations have been retired.

This is a particularly crucial need over the short - term given that South Australia's brown - coal fired Northern Power Station in Port Augusta, which provides 40 % of South Australia's electricity, may be retired as early as 2015.

As this occurred, places like the Latrobe Valley could see a large influx of gas - fired power station as a medium - term baseload replacement for coaAs this occurred, places like the Latrobe Valley could see a large influx of gas - fired power station as a medium - term baseload replacement for coaas a medium - term baseload replacement for coal.

This process can remove 5 pounds of carbon dioxide per kWh of electricity, the company estimated, as opposed to U.S. coal - fired power stations which emit 2 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kWh of electricity created.

Solar thermal power is showing signs of approaching viability as a large scale contributor to the power grid and there are hopes of replacing the coal - fired power stations at Port Augusta with solar thermal.

Others challenge government authorizations of fossil fuel development, such as a claim against the Norwegian government's approval of oil drilling and a South African NGO's recent successful challenge to the approval of a coal - fired power station.

As is noted in the piece above, where Dr Wheatley says: «more data was needed on actual fuel consumption at coal - fired power stations».

First, under a cap system the interesting bottom - up actions drive down cap prices, like feed - in tariffs broadly used as in Germany and the closing of coal fired power stations in some EU countries.

The inflexibility of coal - fired and nuclear power stations is almost as great a limitation as the pseudo-random variation of wind power generators.

Much of this reduction is due to far less use of the state's only remaining coal - fired power station, the Northern, which, as of 2013, was being run for only the warmer half of each year.

Greenpeace's description of CCS as «a smokescreen for building new coal - fired power stations» turned out to be correct.

As Giles Parkinson reported on Renew Economy, 2017/12/20, «A 700MW unit at the Eraring coal fired power station in New South Wales tripped on Monday afternoon, taking to four the number of big coal units that have failed without warning in less than a week.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

The Mount Storm coal - fired power station sits on a man - made lake, created as a cooling pond for the power plant, near Mount Storm, W.V. (Photo: Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

It is if a terrorist cell decides to target a nuclear power station, or even a coal - fired power station that we need to be extremely worried, as the results could be catastrophic.

Coal fired power will only be replaced as old power stations are retired or coal becomes too expensive due to export demCoal fired power will only be replaced as old power stations are retired or coal becomes too expensive due to export demcoal becomes too expensive due to export demand.

Aerosols can cool the climate by reflecting solar energy back out to space before it has a chance to be absorbed and re-emitted as infrared radition by the Earth's surface, and also warm the climate by absorbing extra energy in the lower atmosphere (coming mostly from incompletely burnt carbon from coal - fired power stations and dung braziers).

To propose keeping an old coal - fired power station open longer and redefine coal as clean energy.

Still considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to Adani to open a new coal mine, pushing for keeping the Liddell coal - fired power station open five years more than its owner, AGL, intended, and criticising the SA Government's achievment of 52 % renewable electricity as «idiocy».

As for the problem of acid rain being «avoided» - it was being caused by coal - fired power stations which then cleaned up their act - but has anyone told the Chinese and Indians that?

As for solutions if CO2 is a big problem: I think we should just replace coal - fired power stations with nuclear, and then shift terrestrial transportation first to natural gas and then hydrogen, leaving the fossil fuels for air - travel.

Some environmental policies are as a result of UK initiatives, Driven by concerns on carbon price, the UK unilaterally enacted the carbon floor price which is contributing to the closure of coal - fired power stations.