Sentences with phrase «consumed by the power plant»

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To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for power plant cooling waters that decreases the amount of freshwater power plants consume by increasing the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

Indeed, Jacobson estimates that the opportunity costs of nuclear — the CO2 emissions that result from not using the resources consumed by expanding nuclear to expand renewables and improve efficiency instead — exceed the total CO2 emissions from the entire nuclear power plant lifecycle.

If you do that, you effectively replaced what you would have consumed from conventional power plants with electricity produced by solar panels (or wind farms).

In contrast, fossil fuels can have a significant impact on water resources: both coal mining and natural gas drilling can pollute sources of drinking water, and all thermal power plants, including those powered by coal, gas, and oil, withdraw and consume water for cooling.

If widely implemented, these scrubbers would consume about one - third of the energy generated by a power plant and this would substantially drive up the price of electricity.

There are roughly 224 million of these boxes in use in America and together they consume as much energy as produced by four giant nuclear power plants, running 24 hours a day.

Andreas Antonopoulos, for example, points out that bitcoin mining can be used to consume the excess energy produced by power plants «that would be otherwise wasted.»