Sentences with phrase «emitted by power»

Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, as well as further south, might be ideal reservoirs to lock away carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and other industrial sources.

He says controlling ozone is more complicated than many other pollutants, because it is not directly emitted by power plants or other sources.

«A power plant burning wood chips will typically emit one and a half times the carbon dioxide of a plant burning coal and at least three times the carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant burning natural gas.

With all that renewable energy comes over 100,000 jobs, and a huge reduction in carbon dioxide (27 million pounds of CO2 that is not emitted by power plants) and a reduction in smog producing nitrogen oxides and the health threatening fine particulate matter.

This is also one of the opportunities since CO2 is emitted by power plants and many industrial processes.»

Rudolph W. Giuliani called for moving from energy rhetoric to action, using the popular Republican phrasing «clean coal,» a phrase with no meaning in the climate context until someone comes up with a cheap way to capture and store carbon dioxide emitted by power plants on the scale of billions of tons a year.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Within a few years, we could be capturing the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and recycling it into fuel.

The chancellor announced the government's intention to increase certainty for investors in low - carbon generation by putting a minimum price on the greenhouse gases emitted by the power sector.

Not exact matches

The nuclear hearts were powered by plutonium - 238, an element that emits close to a century's worth of steady heat due to its natural radioactive decay.

I believe that the sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.

Cars can be powered by electricity and thus emit far less pollution, but the production of this electricity is almost always polluting or otherwise environmentally destructive.

Its organisers say the plant will emit up to eight million tonnes of CO2 every year and that six other similar power stations are also planned by the government.

New York City plans to replace its 250,000 street lights with light - emitting diode lamps by 2017 — a move the Bloomberg administration says could ultimately cut power and maintenance costs by $ 14 million a year.

According to a study by The Brattle Group, funded by Exelon and other nuclear supporters, the three reactors in Oswego County and another in Wayne County eliminate nearly 16 million tons of carbon dioxide a year that would otherwise be emitted by fossil fuel power plants.

Essentially, sulfur dioxide gets emitted near the surface, either by a coal - fired power plant's smokestack or a volcano.

Each of the 11 gamma ray bursters so far observed by the observatory emits about a 1000 times as much power as all the stars in the Milky Way combined.

Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

By comparison, nuclear and wind power are proven technologies that emit no carbon and whose environmental risks and costs are thoroughly understood and which can make an immediate difference for the better.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Another study, published last year in Reviews of Geophysics, lists the man - made aerosols as coming from sulfates, nitrate and black carbon emitted by internal combustion engines, coal - fired power plants, slash - and - burn agricultural practices, and smoke from cooking.

By sending more laser power to the quantum dot, the researchers could force it to emit exactly two photons rather than one.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

The power plant owners are also helped in this task by the fact that, prior to the RGGI auction, governments had simply given away allowances to pollute to the polluters based on how much they had emitted in previous years.

Each point of light is a single light - emitting diode (LED) powered by an electric current, which is switched on and off by a transistor.

The goal is to cut current pollution levels (estimated by the states at 188 million metric tons emitted annually) from the 200 - plus power plants in the region by 10 percent by 2019.

Some people charge their battery electric cars by plugging into the power grid, which delivers electricity generated largely from carbon - emitting fossil fuels.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

By powering the membrane with a high frequency laser beam, researchers induced the BIC system to emit its own lower frequency laser beam (at telecommunication frequency).

An all - electric Nissan Leaf in Buffalo, N.Y., emits relatively few greenhouse gases, equal to the amount produced by a gasoline - powered car getting 86 mpg.

And yet the cosmic rays that supernovas emit are ho - hum — just medium power by astrophysical standards.

And the bulk of these deaths would occur in Asian countries such as India and China, the researchers concluded, where households often use soot - emitting stoves and furnaces powered by wood.

It is unlikely that all of the CO2 emitted in the U.S. could ever be captured and transported — whether by pipeline or tanker — to the west coast for injection, but local coal - fired power plants might be able to take advantage of the formation.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

In some active galactic nuclei, you have a black hole and accretion disk and the majority of the power is associated with these outflowing jets, far more than is associated with the radiant energy that is emitted by the accretion disk and the hot gas surrounding it.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

Instead of sequestering carbon dioxide after it is emitted by cars and power plants, grab it from the air and reduce it to hydrocarbon fuels for us to use.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

A team led by Prof. Laszlo Veisz has developed a novel high - power laser capable of emitting bursts of infrared light — each consisting of only a few oscillation cycles — which contain 100 times as many photons per pulse as in conventional systems.

Its power requirements are relatively low because the radiation emitted by all of the lasers is «phase locked,» meaning that the troughs and crests of its waves are perfectly aligned.

The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.

Study lead author Michael Raupach, GCP co-chair and atmospheric physicist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, says it will take economic, policy and social changes to reverse the trend, such as capturing the CO2 emitted by coal - fired power plants and increased international cooperation.

Both are pollutants, but the first is dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants, the second from ozone precursors such as NOx, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide mainly emitted from vehicles.

By performing a detailed study of the light scanning parameters and the photopolymer's behavior, the researchers discovered the best parameters for using this chemical phenomenon to print microstructures using a low - power, inexpensive laser that emits continuously (rather than pulsed).

In our fluorescence system, illumination was provided by a high - power blue LED, emitting within the excitation range of the fluorescent Auramine O stain commonly used for detection of TB bacilli in sputum samples.

Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a by - product of power generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.

Fine particles emitted by vehicles (especially diesel - powered ones), coal - fired power plants, and burning wood can penetrate deep into the lungs, while car exhaust, heat, and sunlight contribute to high ozone levels.

Edit, to try to explain things further: When you measure the power of a light source you have various ways to measure the light that is emitted by it.