Sentences with phrase «fuel plants when»

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

Not exact matches

When product doesn't sell, it's donated to hunger relief organizations, and food that can't be sold or donated ends up as animal feed or alternative fuel at farms or biogas plants.

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

She attacked Calone for being appointed to the Long Island Power Authority by former Speaker Sheldon Silver, when LIPA raised rates and pushed forward fossil fuel power plants.

They have also questioned why the Cuomo administration was pushing forward with a natural gas - fired power plant at a time when it was implementing climate policies, such as a fracking ban, that turned the state away from fossil fuel reliance.

The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel»).

The objective of the model was to minimize the mass that would be launched from Earth, even when including the mass of a fuel - producing plant, and spares that would need to be pre-deployed.

In winter months, when demand for heat cranks up, there are two reserve systems: an additional heating plant fueled by wood chips, and another (rarely used) furnace that burns traditional oil.

The original fossil fuel is back in the spotlight, under fire for being the biggest contributor to climate change (when burned in power plants).

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.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

They can even be combined with the burning of plant matter to create a «carbon negative» fuel that when burned removes more CO2 from the air than it puts in.

Senator Jeff Bingaman, Democrat of New Mexico, opposed big subsidies for coal - based fuels until mid-June, when he moved to offer up to $ 10 billion in loans for coal - to - liquid plants.

Lazkano says that fossil fuel plants, particularly coal - fired plants, must pay a significant cost when ramping up production to meet peak demands.

After about three years of service, when technicians typically remove used fuel from one of today's reactors because of radiation - related degradation and the depletion of the uranium 235, plutonium is contributing more than half the power the plant generates.

When plants are turned into fuel and then burned, the carbon released is just what the plants absorbed, potentially offsetting the emissions.

When auxiliary batteries were exhausted, the plant was without power to continue cooling reactor cores and spent fuel pools.

Stomata are the gatekeepers to plants: When open, carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis, but water is allowed to escape through the process of transpiration.

The idea is simple: the algae or other plants suck up CO2 when they grow, the same CO2 that is released when the fuel made from the algae is burned.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

This happened in 1986 when a nuclear power plant at Chernobyl caught fire and exploded, showering surrounding territory with radioactive particles and threatening to let molten uranium fuel seep deep into the ground.

When an explosion blew off Unit 4's roof on 15 March, plant operators assumed the cause was hydrogen — and they feared it had come from fuel in the pool that had been exposed to air.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

These could include new measures to extend plant protection when outside and backup alternating current power and new instrumentation to monitor conditions in spent fuel pools in emergencies.

I would guess there were 50 or 60 of them, 40 or 50 anyway, just snaking all around the inside of the perimeter, you know, gated area of this plant and that was, I was told, one day's supply of diesel fuel for one of the turbines that they have; and when they are done I believe, they'll have 8 or 9 turbines.

«The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, scientists report.

The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, according to research by Medical College of Georgia Cell Physiologist Dr. Yisang Yoon.

Environmental change can be particularly harsh when the plants we use for food, fuel, feed and fiber are affected by this change.

This highly mathematical study tries to find constraints when an event in a power plant, say a pressure wave, can be traced to a source fluctuation (fuel or oxygen).

Tracking the complex chemical reactions that occur when new biofuels made from plants are upgraded to useful fuels like gasoline or diesel fuel.

Response: The Fukushima accident happened when flooding of power plant safety systems caused by the tsunami prevented operation of pumps needed to cool the nuclear fuel within the reactor and the fuel storage pools, causing that irradiated fuel to overheat.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

So when we landed in San Francisco, naturally we scoped out the best eats for plant - based paleo fuel in the city.

When your body is fueled by the stuff it needs — healthy fats, hydrating plants, and life - giving greens, it's able to work better than ever.

When we eat plant foods, though, the carbohydrates trigger a release of insulin that causes our muscles to take up many of the non-tryptophan amino acids as fuel, potentially leaving our tryptophan first in line for brain access.

When VW began building Passats in its Tennessee plant, it allocated nearly 50 percent of production to diesel models because of the popularity of the cars» high fuel economy.

Toyota will add Mazda's fuel - efficient Skyactiv engine to its tiny stable of borrowed powerplants when it sources a new Mazda2 - based subcompact from Mazda's just - opened assembly plant here.

But, that was somewhat consoling when I thought about the fuel mileage of the full - size SUVs and pickups that whisked past us when our speedo was planted at 85 mph.

The 320i, like its more powerful siblings, also makes use of Stop - Start technology that shuts down the engine while idling, saving what would be wasted fuel, and restarting the power plant when the brake is released.

When nuclear power was first contemplated and the first plants were built, this energy source satisfied your condition for a low cost alternative for fossil fuel.

When asked about the decision to build two new models at a plant about to close, a spokesperson for the company responded thusly: «Why not build them there, if we've got these large vehicles and they're going to get better fuel economy by adding a hybrid?»

India cancelled an Enron power plant when they didn't use coal, and instead produced an expensive natural gas plant with fuel from Africa.

Similarly, when a fossil fuel burning power plant dumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, its owners don't pay for the resulting climate disruption.

When Edison championed the notion of AC power supplies that could send electricity huge distances, he little realized that this would create massive plant for burning fossil fuels, or nuclear plants producing deadly waste that would remain deadly for millinia.

This highly mathematical study tries to find constraints when an event in a power plant, say a pressure wave, can be traced to a source fluctuation (fuel or oxygen).

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

It's a fact of life that some power plants are used less, and others used more, when fuel prices change, for example.

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels.