Sentences with phrase «coal power plants»

It shows that one key is to avoid new coal power plant construction.

For example, we can discuss a move away from coal power plants in terms of the public health threats of emissions rather than climate change.

Just like new designs for coal power plants are very green so has progress been made on cleaning up diesel emissions.

Doing something better than that which is already being done is like making coal power plants more efficient.

And coal power plants not only produce CO2 during their construction, coal mining and coal transportation, they mostly produce it because they burn coal!

One thing is clear — no conventional coal power plant can meet the standard.

This is true even with the most modern, efficient coal power plant.

But the responsibility for CO2 should not be as heavily carried by low cost coal power plants.

The idea that cutting down forests and burning the wood in former coal power plants is green is insane.

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

Polish coal power plants were estimated to cause more than 5,000 premature deaths in 2010.

This is unfortunate, as neither institution makes the distinction between financing old - school coal power plants and CCS projects.

These conclusions are based on existing and «under construction» thermal coal power plants, yet even if no additional power plants are constructed, the budget would still not be met.

In 2030, the pollution from current coal power plants will be 150 percent higher than levels that would allow us to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Second, it proposes to keep the gate open for more money to be poured into coal power plants.

Some changes can take a while, such as dumping coal power plants, but are necessary to make real progress.

It would not seem to be that difficult to establish a global moratorium on new coal power plants.

There are two pretty obvious things we could do right away: halt construction of coal power plants, and reduce deforestation.

Across the world, it has become cheaper to build new renewable energy installations than to operate and maintain existing coal power plants.

The classic example is mercury toxicity release from coal power plants.

Coal power plants not located near oil fields would not have a market for their captured CO2.

That would be about the equivalent of 15 big coal power plants.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

Scotland's last coal power plant closed in spring 2016, and two of the largest coal plants in England were also decommissioned.

The ENKA project was the first proposed coal power plant in Aliağa, 20 years after the massive human chain.

US coal power plants emitted more than 3.1 million tons of SO2 in 2014.

In 2014, US coal power plants emitted more than 1.5 million tons.

But even in that case, this still shows that the waste produced by coal power plants isn't exactly contained in a foolproof way...

The Greens want to shut down the country's dirtiest coal power plants, and support a climate - protection law to help Germany meet its plans to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 80 — 95 % from 1990 levels by 2050.

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.

DOE to Award Up to $ 408M to Two CCS Projects at Coal Power Plants; One for Hydrogen - Fired Power Generation

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

The new study finds that as much as 37 % of global investment in coal power plants over the next 40 years could be stranded if action is delayed, with China and India bearing most of these costs.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

No existing coal power plants do.

And while CCS could theoretically be used to retrofit coal power plants, the study shows that hundreds of power plants would need retrofitting in a short period of time — a lot of pressure on a technology that as yet remains both technically and politically uncertain.

-- «That's why I'm calling on the Congress to fully fund my Administration's Future Gen program to build clean coal power plants that will reduce our competitivity with foreign sources of oil and increase our commitment to carbon emissions.»

Some of it is burned at nearby coal powered plants but the majority is shipped off to foreign markets, cementing Australia's place as the world's largest coal exporting country.

2) A modern coal power plant powering an electric drive car produces less CO2 than gasoline.