Sentences with phrase «dozen new power plants»

The Polish government and Polish utilities are planning to build a dozen new power plants.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The trend is just one of dozens that appear in a sweeping new database of 60,000 power plants worldwide with emissions data going back to 2004.

Despite dozens of new nuclear plants ordered or built in Asia in recent years, «increased deployment of nuclear power has been slow both in the United States and globally,» wrote the authors of a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology review of the state of nuclear power.

Next week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize new rules to reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions that will affect dozens of antiquated power plants currently operating without pollution controls.

This new technology is not readily available in China, but it is available to utilities in the U.S. Which brings us to the second article — an announcement by TXU, a giant Texas energy company, that it intends to build 11 new coal - fired power plants in Texas, plus another dozen or so elsewhere in the country.

Indeed, only four out of more than two dozen applications for new nuclear power plants have begun construction after receiving a federal license to do so.

Climate scientist James Hansen and dozens of other scientists and environmentalists today urged New York's Public Service Commission (PSC) to pass a proposed Clean Energy Standard (CES) to save the state's nuclear power plants.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed industry plans to build dozens of new coal - fired power plants, expecting that at some point they would be able to capture the carbon dioxide and send it to subterranean burial sites.