Sentences with phrase «coal power station up»

We had hoped to have a clean coal power station up and running by 2015 but the fact is that the early research has shown us that this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.

Not exact matches

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

It is that the rise of electricity and the power - station & «clean» domestic coal 1940 - 1970 may have cut black carbon more than is presently accounted for and thus with the renewed ramp - up of SO2 emissions in that period, more readily provide the cause of the 1940 - 75 temperature «hiatus».

In my case, I punched in my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utility.

Similarly, we should note that many of Britain's power stations have switched from burning coal to burning trees — hardly a step up in the climate fight.

New coal power stations in countries other than China make up around a fifth of these 700 new coal plants, Urgewald said, including some in countries that currently burn little or no coal.

More CO2 in the atmosphere would seem to be beneficial, so maybe more coal fired power stations are in order at present, backed up by nuclear.

Guarantee you that each and ever one if those coal fired power stations being built in China and India are about as clean as that fat chick in a brothel and will end up devastating the ecology around each if those sites.

In India up to 40 percent of our current CO2 emissions comes from coal fired power stations.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

Seriously — if this heat pile up and CO2 radiative trapping of heat really worked AND it is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then Engineers — who are actually smart unlike climate scientists — would have easily built a «Greenhouse gas coal fired power station.

With the change of power in 1979, the power stations took years to built up huge stocks of coal at great cost in both manpower and interest charges.

If it were possible for wind turbines to produce electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power stations, it wouldn't be necessary to push electricity prices up to make them «competitive».

The government's attempts to buy out up to 2000MW of coal fired generation are being frustrated because the big power stations they targeted were offered so much in compensation that they don't want to shut down.

The Productivity Commission produces figures that show each 2kW air conditioning systems requires around $ 7,000 of added infrastructure investment — made up for $ 4,000 in distribution (in neighbourhoods), $ 1,400 in transmission (from the central coal fired power station), and $ 1,600 in generation costs (gas fired peakers).

Wind farms need 24/7 back - up from carbon dioxide emitting coal - fired power stations.

This allows a graceful glide path to retirement for coal - fired power stations and their work forces while cleaner energy sources ramp up.

The take up rate would stop the natural increase in electricity generation required for increasing numbers of dwellings and in several years their would be a decline in electricity output from the coal fired power stations to equal or match that required by industry and commerce.

Asbestos mining has a «small» footprint and Port Augusta, Hazelwood and Yoy Lang make up 1000 km of coal power stations.

Germany is phasing out its nuclear power stations with cheap coal filling the void, causing its emissions to go up.

It was picked up by New South Wales and Queensland coal - fired power stations — 450 megawatts.

Some 60 older USA coal fired power stations do NOT meet 1970 (Nickson's) standards and should be closed or up graded in 2012.

First, under a cap system the interesting bottom - up actions drive down cap prices, like feed - in tariffs broadly used as in Germany and the closing of coal fired power stations in some EU countries.

The Abbott Liberal government are telling us that coal can be cleaned - up by things like «carbon capture and storage» (CCS), yet nowhere in the world has anyone set up a coal - fired power station from scratch that successfully uses CCS.

The action culminated with the unfurling of a floating banner near the site of the proposed Ludo coal - fired power station by a stand - up paddling group to convey Cebuanos» strong opposition to the project.

This alone would free up more energy consumption than 18 one gigawatt nuclear power stations or their coal powered equivalent.

Includes shutting down of 3 older coal fired stations in a year, gas being exported at premium prices with no retention rule subsequently pushing up local prices and insufficient supply for power stations next year.

«The proposal by German energy company E.ON to build a new coal - fired power station on this site which will emit up to 10m tonnes of C02 a year for the next 50 years are totally at odds with government targets for cutting CO2 emissions,» said Oakley.»

For example Ausra or its predecessor set up a solar steam generator next to Liddell NSW coal fired power station.

Do you mean effectively ruining our econmy and plunging the population into a nightmare of eternal power cuts because their dogma means they want to cut carbon but won't buld grown up power stations to replace the coal / nuclear versions?

As for the problem of acid rain being «avoided» - it was being caused by coal - fired power stations which then cleaned up their act - but has anyone told the Chinese and Indians that?

They have signed up to global reduction targets for carbon emissions, and are starting to close coal power stations which provide the majority of electricity.