New government stats on falling carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
from electrical power generation point to a good - news story on energy and climate, one that should grab the attention of policymakers nationally and in the states.
Not exact matches
Real - time, direct,
electrical detection of sequencing, combined with the enormous amount of computing
power in both the Ion Proton ™ Sequencer and Ion Proton ™ Torrent Server, enables
generation of high quality sequencing results
from DNA library to variants in a single day.
Powered by the fifth
generation of battery and drivetrain technology,
from 2021 the BMW Group will be capable of offering all - electric vehicles with a range of up to 700 kilometres and plug - in hybrids with an
electrical range of up to 100 kilometres.
The gasoline engine of the e-
POWER system is strictly for
electrical power generation with minimal influence
from the opening and closing of the throttle, allowing the engine to always operate in its optimum condition.
Mr. Obama has a plan to build five
power plants burning coal but capturing emissions (see below) to help limit the greenhouse impact
from electrical generation.
«The US forest sector is well set up and managed, meets our sustainability criteria and the supplies of sustainable biomass are plentiful,» says Melanie Wedgbury
from Drax
Power — the largest British electrical power generation com
Power — the largest British
electrical power generation com
power generation company.
Increasing nuclear
power plant efficiency
from 1980 to today came
from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and
electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»
And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning
from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly
power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale
generation of ubiquitous
electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.
Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for
power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions
from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of
electrical capacity installed.
These appear realistic to me, if we exclude any initiatives to shift new
electrical power generation from coal to nuclear, which could lower the estimate by 80 ppmv or so.
60 Wind
Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind
Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide
electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of
power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of
power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.
Power produced and sold
from landfill gas - fueled
electrical generation facilities is one of the most reliable sources of renewable energy.
This is a pretty big deal — about half of U.S.
electrical generation comes
from cheap - but - dirty coal
power, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Aside
from the excellent information provided on the breakdown of energy sources used to
power the Australian
electrical grid, the main figure in contention is highlighted in red — the percentage of coal - fired
power used per day versus all other sources of
generation.
Wondering where the oil comes
from for Florida's
electrical power generation?