Sentences with phrase «fuel power stations»

The entire world production of the greenhouse gas from all the world's working fossil fuel power stations in 2012 was 14 billion tonnes.

Understanding how fossil fuel power stations generate electricity is important if we are to have productive discussion about this at both the personal and governmental levels.

«All fossil - fuel power stations produce carbon dioxide which causes...» So long as you agree with the Government on these matters, you will pass with 100 per cent.

A combination of state and Federal level policy including stiffer renewable energy targets and a continuation of existing policies to limit emissions from fossil fuel power stations.

Efficiency is very important in the case of fossil fuel power stations because fossil fuels are a finite resource — once we use them they are gone, and when burned they produce carbon dioxide and other substances that kill people and cause climate change and ocean acidification; so it is very important to get as much electricity as we possibly can per tonne of fossil fuel.

The implication here is that he holds that the fossil - fuelled power stations in Grey are more sustainable than are the sustainable energy installations!

A report published this week by the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank concluded that plans to build the new coal - fuelled power stations places the EU's emissions reductions target in jeopardy.

To cut our emissions, fossil fuels need to be replaced with low - carbon energy sources such as nuclear power and renewables, and fossil fuel power stations need to be fitted with carbon - capture technology.

In a multibillion dollar effort to reduce air pollution, Beijing is shutting down its coal - fired plants and replacing them with natural gas - fuelled power stations by the end of next year....

Private industry is willing to build sustainable power generation facilities — wind, solar and geothermal — that are comparable in cost to fossil - fuelled power stations when the cost of pollution or the proper disposal of waste is taken into consideration.

The fossil fuel power stations dump their wastes into the atmosphere at no cost to their operators, but huge cost to the environment.

As methane is readily storable, enough can be set aside to fuel the power stations at night and on cloudy days.

To do so will mean massive investment in renewable and nuclear power, with a commensurate closing of carbon fuelled power stations.

«Implement the economically - affordable plan produced by Beyond Zero Emissions to replace all fossil - fueled power stations with renewable energy power stations including wind, solar thermal, solar PV and wave immediately in a staged transition to save our planet from run - away temperature increases which will harm the economy, the environment and the Earth.»

Efficiency is very important in the case of fossil fuel power stations because fossil fuels are a finite resource — once we use them they are gone — and when burned they produce carbon dioxide and other substances that kill people and cause climate change and ocean acidification; so it is very important to get as much electricity as we possibly can per tonne of fossil fuel.

The Treasury imposed the tax of 4.94 pounds per metric ton of emissions from fossil - fueled power stations in its budget this year.

Wind farms reduce greenhouse emissions by displacing fossil fuelled power stations and they save lives by reducing the air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels that kills millions of people each year.

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

Mothballed fossil fuel power stations may be brought back online to counter a short - term energy supply crisis, it emerged today.

But the SNP says emphasis will be placed on developing carbon dioxide capture and storage for its fossil fuel power stations.

Dr Staffell said: «To avoid the worst impacts of climate change we can not afford to build new fossil - fuel power stations.

The citizen who installs the solar power system is involving himself in an act that will reduce his reliance on fossil fueled power stations.

Furthermore, experts claim that the energy taken up for solar panel production is less than that required for the operation of coal - fuelled power stations.

A typical ratio of «useful work» (electricity generated) to «heat taken in» for fossil fuelled power stations is about 1/4; ie; 25 % efficiency.

They ignore the fact that the wind farm will increase health (and reduce deaths) in Australia by reducing the air pollution from fossil - fuelled power stations.

As the transition to zero - carbon accelerates, many fossil - fueled power stations will have to be closed before they reach the end of their natural life, the IEA says, causing lost earnings and creating «stranded assets» that are worth less than expected by investors.

To decarbonise the electricity sector, Australia could increase the volume of renewables while closing old fossil fuel power stations.

Thats not getting it wrong, thats just using available data, which, shockingly, changes every year and is shifting toward renewables, so reducing the need for additional fossil fuel power stations.

Considering the intermittency of photovoltaic and wind energy and expensive grid - scale storage, the continued operation of fossil fuel power stations is inevitable.

In the case of fossil fuelled power stations this is the units of thermal energy provided by burning coal, oil or gas in order to generate 1 kWh of electricity.

A typical ratio of «useful work» (electricity generated) to «heat taken in» for fossil fueled power stations is about 1/4; ie; 25 % efficiency.

Fossil - fuelled power stations are typically available around 85 % of the time; at other times they are undergoing maintenance or suffering breakdown, etcetera.

Wind farms displace fossil fuel power stations that often use huge volumes of water for cooling.

The electricity from renewable energy power stations is generally more expensive than from fossil - fuelled power stations, so electricity retailers have to have incentives to buy renewable energy.

Sustainable forms of power (including wind) require more work and more infrastructure for the same amount of power generation compared to fossil fuel power stations — thus have higher initial costs — but do not have the environmental problems associated with fossil fuel power.

SO, climate theory obsessed politicians blow up and decommission baseload «dirty» fossil - fuel power stations, to stop bad weather, and replace them with «dirty» fossil - fuel diesel generators to stop blackouts!

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

Currently there are plans to capture CO2 from fossil fuel power station and sequester it underground.

If Australia is to replace substantial proportions of its fossil - fuelled power stations with renewables we must greatly increase our amount of energy storage; pumped hydro will have to provide a large part of this.

Australian governments have always been willing to build transmission lines to serve new fossil - fuel power stations, why - if they are as much in favour of sustainable energy as they claim to be - are they unwilling to build them for sustainable energy development?

If you're a developing nation and you want to build a fossil fuel power station it won't help you: only renewable projects get funding.