Sentences with phrase «from coal fired power stations»

The Lancet paper mentioned above stated that air pollution from coal fired power stations result in 24 deaths and 225 serious illnesses per Terrawatt - hour (TWh) of electricity generated (see Table 2 of the paper).

Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution from coal fired power stations and many others were from indoor cooking fires using coal.

The take up rate would stop the natural increase in electricity generation required for increasing numbers of dwellings and in several years their would be a decline in electricity output from the coal fired power stations to equal or match that required by industry and commerce.

Compare this with the estimated cost of geosequestration of carbon dioxide from coal fired power stations of around US$ 50 / tonne.

Air pollution from coal fired power stations result in 24 deaths and 225 serious illnesses per Terrawatt - hour (TWh) of electricity generated.

In India up to 40 percent of our current CO2 emissions comes from coal fired power stations.

With about 90 % of the carbon emissions from our electricity sector coming from coal fired power stations, Australia will need to look beyond just coal towards the full spectrum of available energy solutions.

Taken together this is rather more than double the 169 million tonnes of CO2 coming from our coal fired power stations.

Would be much better to run a cable from a coal fired power station and use reliable, clean, non-polluting electricity.

Not exact matches

Beijing originally aimed to bring coal consumption to below 10 million tonnes this year, down from around 22 million tonnes in 2013, and has already shut major coal - fired power stations.

MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska is interested in buying Russia's largest coal - fired power station from Enel Russia, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.

Environmentalists will challenge the government's plans to build new coal - fired power stations in Britain near the Kingsnorth site in Kent from today.

12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

Stern said that electricity from coal - fired power stations only appeared cheaper because the costs of air pollution and climate change were not included.

China is currently suffering from horrendous air pollution caused by its huge numbers of coal - fired power stations.

The Global Apollo Programme aims to make the cost of clean electricity lower than that from coal - fired power stations across the world within 10 years.

There can be no doubt that the pollutants from coal - fired power stations lead to many deaths and serious illnesses.

Assuming that this electricity is from a brown coal fired power station 23g of unnecessary CO2 is released to the atmosphere.

In addition, closer to New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie and Commissioner Martin have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expedite action to reduce pollutants emitted by the Portland Generating Station, a coal - fired power plant operated by RRI Energy in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, directly across the Delaware River from Knowlton, New Jersey.

Also see Greener coal, which discusses ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the coal industries and increasing the efficiency of coal - fired power stations, etc..

Nick has probably got his misinformation about abatement and coal - fired power stations on standby from anti-wind campaigner Hamish Cumming who has been pushing this fallacy, especially with the anti-renewable «Environment Editor» Graham Lloyd of The Australian.

As recently as the Stern Review in 2006, carbon capture and storage from coal - fired power stations was seen as the most promising clean energy technology on offer.

Energy giant AGL announced it will close down its coal - fired power stations in 2050 (still too slow but a strong first step from the sector), Shell is stopping drilling for oil in the Artic, and Australia's major banks are also making overarching commitments to limit global warming to 2 ℃.

Factories churning out solar panels use large amounts of electricity, often sourced from coal - fired power stations in China.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

They are produced from SO2 by reactions in the atmosphere - either from gases erupted naturally out of volcanic vents, or from the smokestacks of coal - fired power stations.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

Efficiency gains in electricity generation from coal - fired power stations will play a crucial part in reducing CO2 emissions at a global level.

Very roughly Electricity costs from existing Australian coal fired power stations might be say $ 25billion / TWh and from existing European and US nuclear plants (Gen II) say the cost is the same, i.e. $ 25billion / TWh.

Another factor at this time was accusations from Scandinavia that acid rain eminating from UK coal fired power stations was killing all their trout.

The EU is currently in the process of drafting new standards to limit pollution from coal - fired power stations.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

Electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm in Australia at a cost of A$ 80 ($ 84) per megawatt hour, compared with A$ 143 a megawatt hour from a new coal - fired power plant or A$ 116 from a new station powered by natural gas when the cost of carbon emissions is included, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report.

The Productivity Commission produces figures that show each 2kW air conditioning systems requires around $ 7,000 of added infrastructure investment — made up for $ 4,000 in distribution (in neighbourhoods), $ 1,400 in transmission (from the central coal fired power station), and $ 1,600 in generation costs (gas fired peakers).

And, backed by science from James E. Hansen of «coal death train» fame, Al Gore will spearhead the new drive to save our planet by shutting down all coal - fired power stations in order to stop aerosol and particulate pollution that is hastening the man - made global winter.

The coal - fired Hazelwood Power Station was closed in Victoria last year and the average spot price over there has jumped from $ 66.58 to $ 97.48.

Wind farms need 24/7 back - up from carbon dioxide emitting coal - fired power stations.

90 per cent of Australian land was stolen from the people and used to meet an international carbon treaty when it should have been taken from the coal - fired power stations.

Air pollution from coal - fired power stations kills more than 2,200 South Africans every year, and causes thousands of cases of bronchitis and asthma in adults and children annually.

And one reason being put forward for this is that all the pollution being chucked out by thousands of coal - fired power stations may be blocking the sun's heat from the Earth.

This photo from 2014 shows smoke streams from the chimneys of a coal - fired power station in Germany.

A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal - fired power plant in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, in Power Station, a coal - fired power plant in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, in power plant in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, in 2013.

Nota Bene — Financial Post — August 29, 2012 From «Germany's new «renewable» energy policy,» a commentary by Kelvin Kemm, member of the international board of advisors of the Washington - based Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow: In mid-August, Germany opened a new 2,200 megawatt coal - fired power station near Cologne, and virtually not a word has been -LSB-...]

For example, a headline from the site on the 15th May tells us that «US government: climate change threatens polar bears» And today, the site urges that «The government must act to ensure that no new coal - fired power stations are built in the UK until carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been proven to work on a large scale and can be installed from the outset».

No one has yet demonstrated that geosequestration of carbon dioxide from an operating coal - fired power station is viable at any price, and at best, geosequestration is more a land - fill style of disposal than it is an environmentally friendly method.