Sentences with phrase «fuel plants benefit»

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

Not exact matches

What we put in our body is a message to how we're choosing to fuel it each day, and although each of us may choose different options than each other, all of us would benefit by incorporating as many whole plant - based foods into our routines as possible.

Savings quickly repay the cost of anaerobic plant — typically within two years — while achieving permanent environmental benefits by replacing fossil fuel, says the Chairman and CEO of GWE, Mr Jean Pierre Ombregt.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

Gitner tried to show the relationship between Howe and Kelly was not a quid pro quo arrangement designed to benefit CPV's development of a controversial gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

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.

If test plants succeed, waste methane could fuel vehicles — but the conversion may not offer much environmental benefit

If faced with the choice of shutting down either a typical coal plant or a typical gas plant and methane leakage from the natural gas plant is below about 2 percent of total fuel, there would be a short - term climate benefit to shutting down the coal plant instead of the natural gas plant, the team found.

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.

Coconut oil provides plant - based fats in the form of medium - chain triglycerides which impart health benefits like faster utilization by organs as fuel and appetite control.

What we put in our body is a message to how we're choosing to fuel it each day, and although each of us may choose different options than each other, all of us would benefit by incorporating as many whole plant - based foods into our routines as possible.

Anecdotal evidence of benefits from Moringa Tree has fueled a recent increase in adoption of and attention to its many healing benefits, specifically the high nutrient composition of the plants leaves and seeds.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

Of course that will have «upsides and down sides» — not only environmental, but social and economic, and some people will experience more of the upside (e.g. rural villages in Africa and India benefiting from off - grid PV) and some will experience more of the downside (e.g. investors in large, centralized fossil fuel or nuclear power plants that will not be able to compete with dirt - cheap PV).

Despite recent claims to the contrary, plant - based fuels developed in economically and environmentally sensible ways can contribute significantly to the nation's — indeed, the world's — energy security while providing a host of benefits for many people worldwide.

In some cases, bioenergy appears to offer net climate benefits compared to fossil fuels because of carbon sequestration by plants grown for biofuel and biomass.

Substituting fossil - based products for plant - based ones is the core idea of the «bioeconomy», which is promoted by the EU, governments and industry, with the promised benefit of reduced reliance on fossil fuels.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

The plan errs by placing its focus on preventing fuel supply disruptions at larger power plants and ignores the potential resiliency benefits of fuel - free, distributed generation such as wind and solar, clean energy advocates said.

As costs shift from fossil fuels and the installation of expensive pollution controls at existing power plants to low - cost, underused energy efficiency and renewable energy, ratepayers will see a net benefit.

Fossil fuels are thus justified on grounds of making heat and energy, without a supplemental onus to support photosynthesis, though helping plants is a collateral benefit, to be sure.

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

The project benefits the local community by preventing odor in the surrounding areas, improving air quality through reduction of volatile emissions, and displacing fossil fuel dependency at the ethanol plant.

NRDC as an organization has over $ 70 million invested in fossil fuel and renewable energy companies that could benefit financially from closing nuclear plants

Previously, solar power plants had depended on back up energy plants powered by carbon emitting fuels because a solar system's peak generation hours do not coincide with the utility's peak load hours after 5 p.m. Low sunlight meant low energy generation, and this challenge scaled back the environmental benefits of solar plants.

There can be no long - term CO2 emissions reduction benefit to installing more and more wind power if the long - term net effect of doing so leads to the requisite construction of more fossil fuel energy plants.

All three fuel makers tout ATF's ability to improve nuclear plant safety and reliability as well as their fuel cycle cost benefits.

But coal plants don't have the same level of complexity as a nuclear plant, so it's unclear how this approach will benefit the fossil fuel.

If co2 is plant food, so that a fossil fuels burner or cement producer is fertilizing Farmer Bob's crops, that is definitely an external benefit that needs to be subtracted from any external cost to figure the net external cost (benefit).

Current fossil fuel grids with baseload power plants benefit greatly from storage being added as is happening now.

Another potential benefit to crops is that increased airflows could enable corn and soybean plants to more readily extract atmospheric CO2, a needed «fuel» for crops.