Sentences with phrase «fuel plants»

With fossil fuel plants in stand by mode, that still means cleaner air.

Finally, the emissions standard for each state would be a cumulative, overall emission rate average of all fossil fuel plants in the state.

When organic matter breaks down in the soil, it releases carbon that fuels plant growth, allows the soil to store more water, and helps hold soil particles together.

The emissions from coal and other fossil fuel plants cause environmental concerns.

The addition of titanium dioxide to the paint boosts its sunlight absorbing abilities, making the paint into a hydrogen fuel plant that can be applied to any surface.

There's no need to rush to build multiple fossil - fuel plants when we know we have to kick our fossil - fuel habit.

You're not actually bringing people out of poverty if you're building fossil fuel plants near them, without connecting them.

And fossil fuel plants used for supplemental or backup power do NOT «keep spinning in the background» burning fossil fuels.

But the cost reductions I wrote about have continued, and renewables are now, broadly speaking, as cheap as, or cheaper than, new fossil fuel plants.

The authors meant this as a method of offsetting CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants by taking the CO2 out of the air and sequestering it.

The Yanchang Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project, located in the Shaanxi Province, will be China's first investment in a facility that turns carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal into gas fuel plants.

My post addressed the idea of using algae to recycle emissions from fossil fuel plants into new biomass, which could be used a number of ways.

In addition to their argument that fossil fuel plants like CPV contribute to global warming, the demonstrators, who numbered between 250 and 300, offered a uniquely New York twist to their argument — the CPV plant was an element in the federal government's corruption case against former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

LONDON — Critics of renewables have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers of electricity and need fossil fuel plants as back - up to make them viable.

In particular, he says Trump's administration now has an opportunity to place a greater emphasis on cellulosic ethanol, which is produced from grasses, wood, algae and other less - traditional fuel plants grown and refined domestically.

Fulcrum expects its first alternative fuels plant to begin commercial operation in 2017.

But even this argument misses the key point: While it is certainly far better from a climate perspective to replace old fossil fuel plants rather than old nuclear plants, even old nuclear plants have to be replaced eventually.

The proposed port expansion in Washington is being developed by Ambre Energy who are also trying to build Australia's first coal to liquid fuels plant in the fertile Felton Valley in Queensland.

So only the most desperate of foreign renewable fuel plant owners will readily agree to waive sovereign immunity and release confidential commercial info to the US government for the purpose of supplying the US market, even when they have no problem with EPA emission or other operating performance standards.

The state will also work with local communities to address potential revenue shortfalls, similar to how it has worked with communities affected by other plant closures through the existing fossil fuel plant retirement fund.

Fossil fuel plant needs to transition into the role of backup to low emissions generation and the market emergent de-facto carbon price increasing intermittency brings to a fossil fuel dominated grid needs to be used intelligently as the incentive it is to drive time shifting of demand, efficiency and investment in emerging storage technologies.

In late October the first truck load of pyrolysis oil came to the LTU Green Fuels plant in Piteå.

Dr Martin Linck has revealed to the 244th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia that his large scale fuel plants are capable of producing 300,000 gallons of fuel a day.

CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems cancel the Benwood Project, a large synthetic fuels plant in Benwood, West Virginia.

The effect of the tariffs on the cost of imported solar panels makes it more difficult to compete with other sources of power like wind, or even makes fossil - fuel plants look attractive again, Mr. Freeman said.

First are four relatively small programs - $ 8.4 million for the State Education Department to print more versions of state exams, $ 25 million to the Yonkers school district (following a similar «one - time» $ 28 million bailout last year), $ 19 million to address economic hardship in municipalities with fossil fuel plant closures, and $ 6 million for an anti-poverty initiative in Rochester.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

«In addition, fossil fuel plants benefit from better storage technology as they are able to supply electricity without incurring high ramping costs.»

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

Moniz was pushed a bit by Senator Tim Scott (R - SC) on the future of the problem - plagued mixed oxide plutonium fuel plant under construction at the department's Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

The levelized cost of electricity generated by a new nuclear plant is estimated to be about 60 percent greater than the cost of electricity from a coal plant or a gas - fueled plant assuming moderate gas prices.

In early September 2015, 14 U.S. experts, including Joseph Nye, a Harvard University professor who once served as assistant secretary of defense, submitted a letter to the U.S. Energy Department calling on the United States to abandon its own plan to construct a MOX fuel plant and to persuade Japan to suspend plans to operate the Rokkasho facility.

This time it means closing coal plants, stopping fracking, placing tariffs on tar sands oil, and permitting new fossil fuel plants only after all externalities are accounted for.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

The major other advantage of CDR from fossil fuel plant cleanup is that air capture can be done anywhere and thus where the carbon can be both removed, used, and sequestered with the use even making the sequestration profitable.

Energy storage avoids curtailment and it's the only supply - side strategy that can make a balancing capacity of fossil fuel plants redundant, at least in theory.

It may not seem fair that existing fossil fuel plant bears the greatest burden of the costs of more time offline but, then, it's not fair we all collectively bear the burden of the full and true costs of that «low cost» forever into the future.