Sentences with phrase «coal power stations converted»

Not exact matches

The EU would need to convert some of their power stations to use most probably coal for a few years.

These include more efficient coal plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon footprint than directly burning coal.

«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining, transporting or trading coal, converting coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.

Abyd Karmali explained that the effects of the EU trading scheme and other factors had meant that no coal - fired power stations had been built in the EU since 2005 and financial organisations were scrambling to invest in biomass or to convert existing power stations to use the fuel.

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The 24 % efficiency that Mr Libby calculated is similar to the efficiency of coal - fired power stations and far ahead of the 15 % efficiency of internal combustion engine - powered cars in converting the energy in the fuel into useful power delivered through the wheels.

Converting efficient coal - burning power stations into ludicrously inefficient, wood - burning power stations (requiring the destruction of vast amounts of American woodland) isn't going to do that, either.

The Battersea power station is being converted into an «eco-dome» and is billed as» the most advanced sustainable development ever built in the UK» and will bring back the power station to burn renewable resources instead of coal.

They claim the «efficiency of converting fossil fuel energy to useful energy of power and steam is 80 %, approximately 2.5 times greater than a conventional coal - fired power station.»

If we could, then the cheapest way to build a coal power station would be to build a nuclear power first and then convert it to burn coal.