Sentences with phrase «coal model technology»
A company called TXU has said it will build 11 new power plants in Texas use the old pulverized coal model technology, which is much dirtier than alternatives easily available in the United States, but is much more profitable.
https://www.chinadialogue.net/ Not exact matches
«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»
Therefore, Caldeira said, the more important question - and one of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate models - is «will the end of oil usher in a century of coal, or will it usher in a transition toward low - carbon - emitting technologies?»
The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.
A few years ago the models loved a CCS technology fired with coal, but in the real world coal CCS has barely taken off as well.
«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»
It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.