Sentences with phrase «decades out of that plant»

«New York State has literally taken billions of dollars over the decades out of that plant to subsidize the other power plants that lose money and worse yet, billions have been dumped into New York State's general fund budget,» Jacobs said.

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In a 2002 report, the Department of Energy laid out a plan to get rid of the nation's spent nuclear power plants» waste, which has been piling up for several decades.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

Noda has said, however, that no new plants should be built and that the others should be phased out when they reach the end of their life spans — a process that could take decades.

Decades ago, it wiped out thousands of cotton acres annually, showing up first as brown spots on leaves, stems and even bolls then spreading until a plant — indeed entire fields of plants — dropped leaves and stopped growing.

The cause of the Cretaceous - Paleogene (KPg) mass extinction, which wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and roughly three - quarters of the planet's plant and animal species about 66 million years ago, has been debated for decades.

While genetically modified plants, fertilizers and pesticides have made crop yields go a long way, the momentum sparked a couple of decades ago is steadily running out.

Power plants are expected to pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, creating a 4 percent jump in emissions each year over the next few decades, according to scientists from Princeton University and University of California at Irvine.

From the cut - outs of Henri Matisse, the formulaic high realism and the color vibrancy of David Hockney (with special reference to his Fresh Flowers 2011 show at the Royal Ontario Museum featuring the iPhone and iPad drawings), Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and Patrick Caulfield, the distinctive style of Alex Katz in both portraiture and landscape, the plant paintings of Lucian Freud, to Richard Hamilton's structural arrangement and axiality of the work surface and the aesthetics of the Josef Frank textile designs, we are continuously bombarded with a vast repertoire of artistic practices spanning several decades of art history.

Here is how we could fix the costs, but admittedly it will take decades for all the impediments we» cve imposed over the past 5o years to be washed out of the cost of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Analysis of more than 600 power plants by Carbon Tracker, the climate think - tank, estimates that $ 22bn of losses could be avoided by phasing out coal in the EU by the end of the next decade.

For decades, we've been pumping billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases into the air, and for decades plants have been obligingly sucking it back out again.

But now cheap gas is also driving nuclear plants out of competitive energy markets, and some nuclear plants licensed to operate for several more decades could close before 2020, taking their low - carbon electricity with them.

We assumed only that due to the biological and physical effects the ratio fabsorbed (t) / (total CO2 content of then air) is more or less constant, hence a simple response pulse response exp -LRB-- t / lifetime) is applied to the anthropic time series of coal, gas, oil and cement which have different delta13C As the isotopic signature of (CO2 natural)(t) is slowly decreasing because plants living days or centuries ago are now rotting and degassing and as molecules entered in the ocean decades ago are now in the upwellings after a slow migration along the equal density surface from the high latitudes where those surface are surfacing at depth zero, there are common sense constraints or bounds on the possible evolution of the delta13C of the natural out - gassed CO2 molecules.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.

They can even finance the modernization of a coal plant to ensure that those dirty monstrosities that could have otherwise been retired continue to spew out pollution for decades to come.

It thereby (1) raises questions about reliability, cost, and stranded assets, (2) will lead to an increased deployment of natural gas plants that will freeze out renewables for a decade or more, and (3) imposes legal uncertainty that will cause resistance, litigation, and bad short term decisions.

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

So about two thirds of the emissions of CO2 are treated like biomass and considered carbon neutral, which many scientists dispute, because these plants are pumping out CO2 now, where in a natural cycle they might take decades to do so.

Attorneys won affirmance of a grant of summary judgment in a putative medical monitoring class action arising out of alleged neighborhood exposure to beryllium dust and fumes from defendants» plant over the course of many decades.