Sentences with phrase «coal plant construction as»
In fact, he sees some new coal plant construction as integral to African growth and dismisses those who would rather see Africa develop solely via renewables.
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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living
I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.
As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.
China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.
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.
Realization that all coal - fired power plants without actual carbon capture will have to be «bull - dozed» in the next several decades, in all countries, should serve as an effective brake on new construction of coal - fired power plants during the next few years in all countries.
New coal plants cost three to four times as much as they did three years ago, due to the embedded cost of petroleum and natural gas in plant construction, materials and labor.
Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants — but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well?
Since 2007 planning and construction of new coal - fired power plants in India has accelerated, and hundreds of new plants are in currently in the pipeline, as shown in CoalSwarm's India coal plant tracker.
Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.
While there are still new coal plants planned or under construction — mostly in Poland, the Western Balkans, and Turkey — with Europe as a whole on a clear path beyond coal, these projects face an uphill battle.
Even in that context groups like Greenpeace have pointed to planned construction of new coal plants being cancelled in India as a sign the country is moving away from coal.
There are currently about 350 coal - fired power plants under construction in Southeast Asia, which Georg Kell, the founding director of the United Nations Global Compact, and now board chairman of Arabesque Partners, described as «collective suicide» at a green finance event in Singapore in February.
As part of those international efforts, the United States has agreed to end financial support for construction of new coal - fired power plants overseas, except for those in the «world's poorest countries» and those that employ carbon capturing technologies.
This not only includes renewables, but also including the adoption of state - of - the - art technologies for new coal power plants as well as construction of more hydropower.
(3) Other cases are described on my Columbia University web site, e.g., Switzerland finances construction of coal plants, Sweden builds them, and Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet.
More coal plant could happen in the near future as the EPA has proposed regulations would effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired power plants, unless they utilize commercially unproven carbon capture and sequestration technology.
The chart shows needed & unneeded coal capacity (GW) in 2020 based on existing plants as of 2016 and under construction under different coal plant capacity factors and power generation growth rates.
The study shows that as of July this year China has 895 GW of operating coal capacity or 2,689 plants being utilised less than half the time, with another 205 GW of capacity under construction inconsistent with the goals of the 13th five - year plan.
The only employment they are allowed would be as day laborers on third world construction projects building coal and natural gas electrical generation plants and electrical distribution grids.
«USEDA» (formerly know as the US Environmental Protection Agency) is proposing revisions to decades - old air quality regulations that will make it easier for coal - fired generation plants to obtain construction and operating permits for sites where air
The other obvious thing to do is to halt the construction of new fossil - fuel based power plants, and start shutting down coal - fired power plants as soon as possible.