Sentences with phrase «cooling thermal power plants»

It is used in power generation, primarily for cooling thermal power plants; in the extraction, transport and processing of fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow biomass feedstock crops.

The production of wind energy also conserves water resources that would otherwise be used to cool thermal power plants, something that is important in years when the province is hit by drought.

Not exact matches

When river or sea - water is used for power plant cooling, it gets released back into the environment at a higher temperature, a problem known as thermal pollution, which can affect aquatic organisms.

In return, the utility companies would not have to build cooling towers on their Hudson River power plants; they would instead regulate how the plants were operated so as to minimize the fish kills, they would not be forced to follow the strict letter of the Clean Water Act, to use the «best available technology» to mitigate the fish kills caused by their thermal pollution.

How much cooling water does a nuclear power plant need compared with coal, geothermal and solar thermal plants (per MWh)?

90 percent of India's thermal power plants — which provide the country with most of its electricity — rely on freshwater for cooling.

Thermal power plants rely on water for cooling, which means droughts can push generation offline.

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.

The thermal energy not used by the power plant is removed by cooling water.

In contrast, for fossil - fired plants to compensate for wind energyís power fluctuations, the turbine has to heat up and cool down, and the thermal cycling shortens the turbineís life.

Water is another big concern — like any thermal power generation (such as coal - or oil - fired, or even bio-mass-fired plants) nuclear uses water for cooling — and uses it in really massive quantities.

That means that any thermal power plant could be increasingly hobbled by limited cooling capacity.