Sentences with phrase «converting coal fired»

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

Not exact matches

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

This week, Gov. Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

Converting from power plants from coal - to wood - fired may not deliver environmental benefits as advertised

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

Power plants that convert heat into steam include coal fired, biomass fired, and waste ‐ to ‐ energy plants.

I also note that if Asia (particularly China) converts its many existing coal - fired power plants to methane (from hydrofracking) over the next few decades, then the air pollution in this part of the world will likely be reduced, which would further increase radiative forcing on the Earth.

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.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plants.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

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.

The newest coal - fired generator in the state, the enormous Unit 6 at the Rogers Energy Complex in Cliffside, is being converted to run flexibly on either coal or gas, while coal - fired Unit 5 was excluded by the UCS analysis because it is being converted to run partially on natural gas, but would also fail the economic stress test compared to natural gas and wind.

The analysis identified 51 gigawatts (GW) of coal - fired generating capacity that is slated to retire or convert to another fuel (mostly natural gas) through 2030.

Moving the current average global efficiency rate of coal - fired power plants, which supply the heat to convert water (or CO2) to steam, from today's 33 percent to 40 percent by deploying more advanced technology could cut CO2 emissions every year by 2 gigatons, which is equivalent to India's annual CO2 emissions, according to the World Coal Associatcoal - fired power plants, which supply the heat to convert water (or CO2) to steam, from today's 33 percent to 40 percent by deploying more advanced technology could cut CO2 emissions every year by 2 gigatons, which is equivalent to India's annual CO2 emissions, according to the World Coal AssociatCoal Association.

Japan, led by Hitachi Power, has developed ultra-supercritical pressure coal - fired power generation technologies, which convert more of the energy in coal into power, slash pollution and reduce carbon emissions.

The company said it wants to find out if there's enough biomass in the province for it to convert several of its coal - fired generating units in Ontario so they can burn 100 per cent biomass instead of coal.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.

It was announced that in September 2010 PGE teamed with researchers from Washington and Oregon to study how a fast - growing grass known as Arundo Donax could serve as fuel for the utility's controversial coal - fired power plant in Boardman, if the plant ended up being converted to biomass.

If current coal - fired generating technology could be converted to use carbonized bio-waste, I doubt cellulosic ethanol would be viable.

In a rising trend, countries, especially in the European Union and United Kingdom, are converting existing coal - fired power plants to burn wood — a renewable, albeit controversial, fuel source.

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.

Alabama Power, taking advantage of a drop in the price for natural gas, already has announced that it plans to convert older coal - fired units at the Shelby County plant to gas, which burns far cleaner than coal.

Tyler Hamilton's piece points up the radical risk to the environment that converting coal - fired generating plants to «biomass» poses.

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.»

To convert the same oil - fired power plant to coal would cost $ 203 million, according to the 1989 study, «Orimulsion: A Revolutionary New Fuel for Power and Industry.»

B: Bagass Convert to ethanol, 10 unit loss (there must be a loss and it will be larger than fermentation) Distillation cost 40 units (coal fired furnace)

The timeline to convert or replace a coal - fired power plant with natural gas requires years, whereby siting, permitting and development to meet EPA's interim target would need to be completed by 2017.

Initially the energy input for the heat grids would be mostly from gas, but all the gas - fired industrial CHP and urban CHP&P capacity would be progressively converted to hydrogen, piped in from coal and biomass CCS gasifiers.

«Nearly one of every five existing coal - fired power plants is closing or converting to other fuel sources.»