Sentences with phrase «fuel plants near»

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The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

The President was hopeful that generation of gas from the Western Region to the power enclave near Tema will be accelerated so that the excess gas can fuel plants like Sunon Asogli.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the pPlant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plantplant.

The endorsement was announced during an event at Plug Power, a hydrogen fuel cell company located near the Albany International Airport, but its seeds were planted last month at the Business Council's annual conference at the Sagamore, an island resort in Lake George.

Banta imagines siting bacteria farms near coal plants to convert troublesome carbon emissions into valuable fuel.

This past March, an A-10 Thunderbolt II streaked across the sky near an Ohio Air Force base, powered by a 50 - 50 blend of standard jet fuel and biofuel made from a plant called camelina.

«It is the oldest plant still in operation and has had a myriad of problems from collapsing cooling towers to losing a spent fuel rod,» says Oona Adams, a union organizer who grew up in Guilford, Vt., near the plant.

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

We are exposed to toxins from a wide array of sources including fish and seafood, cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes from vehicles, dental fillings, flu vaccines, jet fuel (especially if you live near a major airport), manufacturing plants, pesticides, crop dusting, fertilizers, fungicides, motor oil and more.

We've seen technologies where the electrons in the soil near plants» roots was are used to power a fuel cell and concepts for moss - powered lamps, but this discovery from University of Georgia researchers taps photosynthesis directly for producing electricity.

As long as the focus is «public fear about residing near nuclear power plants» and doesn't venture into the impacts of climate science denial and it's excessive allaying of public fears about excessive fossil fuel burning — it won't address the single most significant political impediment to nuclear.

The idea I posted years ago called for 1000 fuel plants located across the country making gasified and synthesized biofuel near the source.

Geothermal plants emit only a tiny fraction of the emissions that fossil fuel powered plants do, and there is a seemingly endless amount of heat near the Earth's surface that remains untapped for power production.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

As a result, building out natural gas — or so - called «cleaner» fuel options — to replace coal plants would have a near indistinguishable impact on global warming over the next century.

You build a nuclear powered hydrogen factory near the coal and feed that hydrogen into a coal to liquid plant to make any fuel you want.

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I did a lot of math on this and honestly, the ONLY way I could find to reasonably integrate large amounts of wind / solar... is to convert most of it into hydrogen, storing WEEKS WORTH in vast, metal lined, bored tunnels (or just huge arrays of tanks) near conventional gas fired turbine power plants... and JUST BURN IT in the power plant as fuel to buffer out the remainder of the wind / solar that's actually providing electricity.

More 60 participants gathered near the plant, decorating their bikes and other non-fossil fuel - based modes of transportation before moving to nearby Oronoco Bay Park for a rally supporting offshore wind power and other renewable energy sources.

The leftover waste oil comes from restaurants in the southern US state of Louisiana, where it's used to fry up cracklins, catfish and other Cajun treats before being refined at a plant near Baton Rouge and trucked to New York to fuel the flights.

«France's decision to reprocess reactor fuel has contaminated the seas as far as the Artic Circle and may have led to leukemia clusters near the reprocessing plant.

quokka provided a good answer about future fuel supply, but more uranium mining will be required in the near to medium term while Generation II and III plants are still being built.

Locally - Sourced Wheat to be Feedstock Located near Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, the Terra Grains Fuels ethanol plant has officially opened and is claiming to be the largest wheat ethanol project in North America.

Now, it's sent to a plant near Philadelphia International Airport, to be converted into pellets to fertilize golf courses and farms, or fuel cement kilns.