Sentences with phrase «coal stations produce»

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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.

Now multiply this by every coal - fired power station on earth running night and day and the staggering volume of CO2 produced starts to be something you can understand can impact the earth on a planetary scale.

[33] A month later, Miliband announced to the House of Commons a change to the government's policy on coal - fired power stations, saying that any potential new coal - fired power stations would be unable to receive government consent unless they could demonstrate that they would be able to effectively capture and bury 25 % of the emissions they produce immediately, with a view to seeing that rise to 100 % of emissions by 2025.

Earlier this year, Cameron and his then rival party leaders, Labour's Ed Miliband and Lib Dem Nick Clegg, also signed a pledge to end the use of coal - fired power stations to produce electricity.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

The topping cycle reduces the amount of pollution produced when coal is burnt and also narrows the gap in efficiency between coal and gas - fired stations (Technology, 1 February 1992).

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

Still, as The Guardian noted in its story about Friday's achievement, the very first electricity from coal was produced in London at the Holborn Viaduct power station.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

«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.

They are produced from SO2 by reactions in the atmosphere - either from gases erupted naturally out of volcanic vents, or from the smokestacks of coal - fired power stations.

«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»

These allow more electricity to be produced from less coal - known as improving the thermal efficiency of the power station.

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».

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

Coal - fired power stations built in the 1970s and 1980s can still produce power at a lower cost than that of wind, the research shows.

«Coal - fired power stations produce sulfur dioxide which causes...» 4.

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).

There are plans by the EU to shut down UK coal powered power stations because they are not «clean» and produce too much CO2.

Now a gas power station saves more emissions, when compared with coal, than an array of windmills because it produces so much more energy.

Not only do coal - fired power station produce climate changing CO2, they also produce particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen; all of which cause serious and undisputed health problems in a great many people.

Ten new hard - coal power stations, or 7,985 megawatts, are scheduled to start producing electricity in the next two years, according to information from German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur and operators.

Coal - fired power stations also produce more greenhouse gases per unit of energy than any other type of power station.

The authors found that carbon emissions could be reduced by roughly one gigaton per year within five years — equivalent to 3 % of worldwide emissions — if other countries followed the U.K.'s example by switching to natural gas from coal in power stations, as natural gas produces less than one - half the carbon dioxide produced by coal.

Supercritical stations burn less coal per megawatt - hour produced and so benefit the environment and the electricity consumer.A modern, highly efficient, supercritical coal - fired station with stack gas cleanup is very clean indeed, essentially emitting only water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

In South Australia, for example, wind farms now produce 26 % of the electricity and, while coal - fired stations used to produce 42 %, they now only produce 25 % of the state's electricity.

Generally, coal - fired power stations are inflexible in their power output; gas - fired power stations are much more flexible; they produce greenhouse gasses too, just rather less than coal - fired power stations.

What happened in China is that, as it industrialized, coal burning in open hearths and domestic stoves was replaced by coal burning in power stations to produce electricity.

Meanwhile, the renewable energy lobby, big on promises but short on delivering them, has barely produced enough capacity to replace two coal - fired power stations.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

Coal - fired power stations produce a little over 50 % of the electricity in the USA and their share is growing every year because other electric power sources (nuclear, hydroelectric) are stagnant.