When should we have done something: Without the influence of coal industry propaganda and lobbying: There would have been zero large fossil fueled
electric power plants after 1970.
Not exact matches
Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina
Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear
power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years
after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.
One of the benenifits of such a
power plant is that the optima can be full
electric up until it reaches speeds of 120km / h,
after that the 2.0 takes the lead.
Pure Color of the Hudson (
after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General
Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from
power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.
After rapping through some of the energy issues we're facing — the high cost of current oil production methods, the ridiculous talking points around the Keystone XL, and pollution from coal
power plants (highlighting China)-- the rapping crew takes a very brief look at Elon Musk's
electric vehicle and solar solutions (but with the main focus being that he is on Mars dressed like Iron Man), then gives a satirical presentation of Richard Branson's asteroid mining plans.
After a few hard and painful lessons, I think we finally matured enough to construct safe and efficient
plants and can use
electric power as a general
power source as is Scandinavia.
Nuclear
power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources
after hydro -
electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..
For one billion dollars they could secure America's
electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear
power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even
after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel
after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no
power.