Sentences with phrase «coal power plants do»

No existing coal power plants do.

Then again coal power plants do produce pollutants and emissions and since coal power plants in some places are slowly being replaced by wind turbines I guess they do reduce emissions in the whole equation of things.

Not exact matches

Finally, the U.S. rules do not, at this stage, affect existing coal - fired power plants — those GHG curbs will likely come next year.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

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

Power plants are next let's see no coal they want to run them on gas and your heat bill will go sky high but the democrat voters don't care they get their heat free for their vote.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmCoal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

So - called baghouse filters do much the same for coal - fired power plants.

Perhaps that's why Southern Co., has announced it will no longer fund a proposed project to use such amines to capture CO2 at a coal - fired power plant in Alabama, despite securing $ 295 million from the federal government to do so (or roughly 100 times what UTC received).

One such facility does exist at the Shady Point coal power plant in Oklahoma, but it is not a government project.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

And the DoE has offered at least $ 8 billion in loan guarantees for coal - fired power plants with CCS.

The only issue is putting all the pieces together at one large, coal - fired power plant — which is what governments and some private companies are beginning to do.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has invested more than $ 3 billion since 2001 to fund multiple CCS projects being conducted by seven regional partnerships, including demonstrations of ammonia capture technology at the massive coal - fired Pleasant Prairie power plant in Kenosha County, Wisc., and the R. E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio.

«However, the continuing problem demonstrates that more remains to be done, especially in cleaning up coal - fired power plants and existing diesel engines.»

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

If we don't build all these new coal - fired power plants now, won't we be setting ourselves up for rolling blackouts and jeopardizing our energy future?

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.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company, did not sway from its support (financial or otherwise) for the controversial ads placed in Kansas newspapers on Monday that said Iranian, Venezuelan and Russian leaders were smiling because of the governor's recent rejection of two applications for coal - burning power plants.

So doing carbon sequestration out of a natural gas [power plant] flue is a lot easier than out of a coal flue, because there isn't the sulfuric acid.

But the windmills killing birds does far less damage to the environment than a comparably sized (in terms of power output) coal or nuclear power plant.

Also, the World Bank and U.S. A.I.D. plus the Nordic countries are no longer financing coal plants abroad, and none do nuclear power either.

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The economic incentive to shut down a newly built coal power plant once it is up and running would have to be huge and to my knowledge the replacement «green» technology either does not exist or does not offer the Chinese a large enough incentive to switch.

Our seas will need to have tens of thousands to these wind turbines deployed at several per week to do the job in time and only shallow offshore is viable at the present time and that is inline with existing baseload fossil fuel coal and gas fired power plants along with existing nuclear ones to.

India cancelled an Enron power plant when they didn't use coal, and instead produced an expensive natural gas plant with fuel from Africa.

ANDY REVKIN received by email and posted: Hi Andy, in my talks and papers I have mentioned many times that it does not make sense to go after every last drop of oil, and I have noted that one useful thing that citizens can do, in addition to helping block coal fired power plants, is to keep oil companies out of places such as Arctic National wildlife Refuge, deep and off - shore areas.

Isn't this paper confirming that Jim Hansen and others are correct in saying that we are already way above the acceptable level, and that we have to do whatever is possible to immediately put a moratorium on coal fired power plants — at least in the industrialized countries that can afford to do so?

Phillip Shaw: SO2 does have an impact on climate, but the natural Hawaiian SO2 emissions are tiny compared with what is coming out of China's coal - fired power plants.

I can do a lot more at less cost by building nuclear power plants or converting coal fired generators to modern gas - fired ones.

And there are things we just can not do, like turning the switch on all our coal fired power plants.

This is untrue, except that, by adding the element of confusion to the mix (which most skeptics do well), progress to find environmentally - friendly alternatives to high - polluting infrastructure and industries (such as coal - fired power plants and Hummers) is slowed due to political inertia.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

Recently a coal industry official tried to divert attention from the actions that are needed to solve the climate problem by criticizing a specific paragraph in my testimony opposing construction of a new coal - fired power plant that does not capture its CO2 emissions (LINK, pdf file).

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Do you support, and will you implement, a moratorium on the building of new coal - fired power plants until an approach is working that will effectively strip carbon dioxide from plant emissions?

China has been building Ultra-supercritical (USC) coal - fired power plants for the past several years and is a leader in USC, so the so - called important step forward merely allows China to continue to do what it has already been doing anyway.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

For example, because of the latest wave of US EPA regulations having nothing to do with climate change it is estimated that 50,000 MW of old coal fired power plants will be shut down.

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantsCoal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plantscoal - fired power plants do.

A feisty Obama — «We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society» — cited a list of projects to address climate change, but the centerpiece is crimping smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Heavily tax coal, don't let the power companies pass the cost to the consumer, use the funds to build nuclear plants and auction them back to the power companies.

Even though the PUC might never exercise the option to retrofit its coal + CCS power plant to a bio-CCS one capable of CDR, the option to do so has value today.

The reason is because while the rule would keep nuclear plants producing power, it wouldn't necessarily do the same for coal plants.

She regularly cleans up the trash in her community and speaks out on hydro - fracking and coal - fired power plants because she sees what it does to community health and the health of our atmosphere.

Due to the unreliability of wind power and solar your electricity will still come from coal and gas power plants when those don't work on windless and cloudy days.