Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel fired»

While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired power plants.

Irish Examiner — January 23, 2015 While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired power plants.

Using the 132 kV technology for a grid to connect fossil fuel fired power stations came later, and was done to reduce the amount of generating plant that ran at low loads for most of the day.

Not one of the few specific actionable proposals (such as the WWF proposal to replace all fossil fuel fired plants with renewables or Hansen's proposal to shut down all coal - fired power plants or a proposal posted here by Bridges to install carbon capturing + sequestering facilities on half of all new coal plants) result in any perceptible reduction in global warming by 2100, all at exorbitant cost.

However, these announcements do point towards the increased competitiveness of renewable energy projects compared to fossil fuel alternatives and that by 2020 commissioned CSP plants will increasingly be delivering electricity at a cost that is within the lower end of the fossil fuel fired cost range (Figure 4.10).»

All fossil fuel fired power stations in Australia have what amounts to an unlimited license to dump their waste carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel fired power stations are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification and these are far greater threats to the Australian environment than are wind farms.

I have no doubt that the rise of renewable energy, wind power in particular, is causing problems to the fossil fuel fired power stations.

So we are back to your «plan B» of «buying more time» by adding new fossil fuel fired power plants when new capacity is required (regardless of what James E. Hansen thinks of this option).

The power produced displaces an equivalent amount of power from the grid, which is fed mainly by fossil fuel fired power plants.

The only technically (and economically) viable alternate to fossil fuel fired plants today is nuclear fusion, which appears (post-Fukushima) not to be politically viable right now.

I doubt it will put out the fossil fuel fire any time soon.

The atmospheric CO2 level was pretty stable throughout this period, up until the industrial revolution ignited the fossil fuel fire.

Not exact matches

David Buckel, 60, a prominent LGBT rights lawyer, died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday to protest the world's usage of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

Will the Cuomo administration commit to continued dirty, dangerous, climate destroying fossil fuel energy, that further endangers communities with risks of explosion and fire, and provides few jobs?

They have also questioned why the Cuomo administration was pushing forward with a natural gas - fired power plant at a time when it was implementing climate policies, such as a fracking ban, that turned the state away from fossil fuel reliance.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

The original fossil fuel is back in the spotlight, under fire for being the biggest contributor to climate change (when burned in power plants).

It took millions of years for carbon atoms to become fossil fuel, a journey that we terminate in a flash of fire that determines the climate

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Our biggest sources of energy basically rely on fire — burning fossil fuels.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

Once the construction costs of a nuclear plant are amortized, its operating costs are less than those of any fossil fuel — fired plant, including coal.

Lazkano says that fossil fuel plants, particularly coal - fired plants, must pay a significant cost when ramping up production to meet peak demands.

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

The European Investment Bank's new criteria on coal lending — tied to specified limits on fossil fuel power plant emissions — have been criticized as being too generous to polluters, while the U.S. Ex-Im Bank continues to back coal - fired power stations in many parts of the world.

Aerosols are both natural and man - made, and include windblown desert dust, sea salt, smoke from fires, sulfurous particles from volcanic eruptions, and particles from fossil fuel combustion.

The new study, which incorporates satellite data on fire with fossil fuel emissions data from a 14 - year period between 1997 and 2010, marks one of the first times this shift has been tested with global data.

Over time, the majority of human fire use has shifted from indigenous burning to agricultural burning to fossil fuel burning.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

In the ARPA - E program alone, four of the 37 funded developing technologies concerned researching more energy - efficient ways to capture the CO2 in a fossil fuel — fired power plant's flue gas.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel - fired power plants.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

Despite the renewables building boom, such geothermal, wind and solar projects still do not crowd out fossil fuel — fired generation in the energy mix of, for example, the utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

«As many plants as there are, it's not enough,» Kelly adds, noting that older, fossil fuel — fired plants would have to be shut down in order for renewables to make up the required percentage.

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

Results: Airborne soot from fires, burning fossil fuels, and other sources can threaten water supplies in mountainous regions far from the burning source.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Yet many countries are still boosting investments in fossil fuel - fired power plants, a move that will «commit» the world to massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, a new study says.

The amount of CO2 emitted from fires in the US is equivalent to 4 — 6 % of anthropogenic emissions at the continental scale and, at the state - level, fire emissions of CO2 can, in some cases, exceed annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel usage...

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

Their diagnosed source fluxes are consistent with bottom - up models of wetlands and fires, and independent fossil fuel emissions estimates.