Sentences with phrase «coal power consumes»

Conventional power plants place heavy demands on our water resources — coal power consumes the most, but natural gas and nuclear power also require significant amounts.

Not exact matches

Our petro - industrial civilization produces and consumes a seemingly diverse suite of energies: oil, coal, ethanol, hydroelectricity, gasoline, geothermal heat, hydrogen, solar power, propane, uranium, wind, wood, dung.

Two electric generating cooperatives, Minnkota Power and Square Butte, which operate the Milton R. Young Generating Station, consume virtually all of the coal produced by BNI Energy under long - term agreements.

The power station will consume that mountain of coal (1000s of tons) in a regular period of time, say a week or a few days before the next trainload delivers a new stockpile.

Power plants currently account for more than 55 percent of all coal consumed in China, with the rest going to other industrial users such as steel mills and cement plants.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

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.

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

A power plant that produces 1,000 megawatts of energy consumes 9,000 tons of coal a day and emits 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas linked to climate change.

But the greatest likelihood is a Kansas coal - burning power plant would have consumed coal produced either in Kansas, Missouri or Colorado.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Given that typical coal plants can translate only 50 percent of the energy in coal into electricity, deploying CCS means that power plants will consume 40 to 60 percent more of the black stuff.

Coal mining destroys habitat and pollutes our air and water, while coal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifCoal mining destroys habitat and pollutes our air and water, while coal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifcoal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifers.

Wind power farms generate between 17 and 39 times as much power as they consume, compared to 16 times for nuclear plants and 11 times for coal plants.

In contrast, fossil fuels can have a significant impact on water resources: both coal mining and natural gas drilling can pollute sources of drinking water, and all thermal power plants, including those powered by coal, gas, and oil, withdraw and consume water for cooling.

Where locally produced sustainable energy might not be available, the power required for the drying of coal could be taken from the grid when electricity is abundant - that is, when sustainable electricity generation methods are puting more electricity into the grid than is being consumed.

On the other hand, despite the downwards trend in coal consumption, cement, steel and coal - fired power production — three of the biggest coal - consuming sectors — all grew again in 2016 after having fallen in 2015.

In a simple but striking chart published on its website, the U.S. Energy Information Administration plotted China's progress as the world's dominant coal - consuming country, shooting past rival economies like the United States, India and Russia as well as regional powers such as Japan and South Korea.

In short, if the people paying for coal power aren't aware of its full costs, then they can't take those costs into account when making decisions regarding how much to consume.

Moreover, every part - time power producer (using sun, wind, batteries, hydro, gas or coal) consumes money full - time for operations, standby, maintenance and replacement.

For example, if all the coal we currently consume in the U.S. in a single year in our coal - fired power plants were loaded onto a single coal train, that train would be 83,000 miles long.