Coal - fired
electric power plants make up the largest source of national sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.
But with an average 50 miles per gallon, the combination gasoline -
electric power plant makes the $ 20,000 Prius one of the greenest cars on the planet.
Not exact matches
Crucially, he simultaneously developed mutually supportive inventions such as
power generation
plants and
electric meters, creating a commercial ecosystem that
made him fantastically wealthy.
It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear
power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are
making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost
electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.
FitzPatrick struggles to
make money because wholesale
electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural gas, which fuels many
power plants.
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make like a fish, Why our walls should really have ears, Squeezing solar juice from jellyfish, Perfecting the
plant way to
power, Wave
power line jacks into the grid, Fighting the efficiency fallacies, Don't burn
plant waste, bury it, Plug - free
electric cars» hidden cost.
Probert: You've got the vehicle developed, you just developed a
power train, the only thing advantage about is in your platform scalability, so you can get the
power train and interface to work with the Focus so then that platform that same car platform and if you
make it in different forms you build it in different countries, you have that ability, you can take that
electric vehicle, you can build it in your
plant in US, you can take it and you can build it in your plan in St Louis in Germany.
Without a level playing field and a steady price on carbon, companies can not assess whether advanced technologies such as «clean coal»
power plants or
electric vehicles will ever
make economic sense.
NuScale estimates that the
plant's full
power output will be available > 95 percent of the time,
making it one of the most reliable
electric generation systems available.
The governor of Japan's Fukui Prefecture, Issei Nishikawa, was cited by JAIF as saying: «The national government needs to resolutely develop a plan, given that little progress has been
made in selecting sites for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel from the commercial nuclear
power plants operated by the country's
electric power companies.»
FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his
electric car company's battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the
power grid with millions of small
power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.
In the
electric power world, the real way to
make progress is to first realize the absurdity of centralized
power plants that throw away the massive amount of energy as heat due to thermodynamic facts about heat engines.
The integrated «smart grid» electrical
power network may be needed to
make wind farm
power available in the right places, but it will also perpetuate the most wasteful practice known to man which is the system of central
power plants that throw away up to twice the heat energy as they manage to get converted into
electric energy.
To determine whether the
electric power industry
made optimal choices, we analyzed all
power plants built since 1973.
«This case is about whether Ohioans and other customers across the country will be
made to subsidize uneconomic
power plants at a time when Ohioans should be benefitting in their
electric bills from lower prices in the competitive generation markets,» said a filing by the Office of the Ohio Consumers» Counsel with federal regulators.
In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was
made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the
electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired
power plants.»
But perhaps the biggest contribution natural gas could
make to America's transportation picture would be more indirect — as a fuel for
electric - generation
plants that will
power the increasingly popular plug - in hybrid vehicles.
If merchant
power plant operators couldn't
make margins on the
electric market and didn't foresee an uplift in the reasonable future, they needed to leave the market — and they did.
Beginning in 1965,
electric power companies began building generating
plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil
made from imported crude.
Also, critics contended that the zero - emissions standard was erroneous, because while
electric cars themselves don't pollute, the
power plants that
make electricity do — a fair point.
In addition, the rates do not reflect shipments
made to cogenerators and other end - users of electricity and are based only on shipments
made to
plants in the
electric power sector.