Sentences with phrase «generating plants burning»

Beginning in 1965, electric power companies began building generating plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil made from imported crude.

Their efforts have primarily been directed towards reducing CO2 emitted by electric power generating plants burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

Supported by a $ 500,000 grant from the Danish Energy Agency and another million dollars in loans, Samsø Energiselskab began building in June 2002 a second plant to generate heat by burning straw — the stalks and husks of corn harvested on the island.

The idea of biochar was inspired by a rare type of humanmade soil found in the Amazon Basin, terra preta — Portuguese for «black earth», so named because the soil is rich in black carbon generated by the partially burned remains of old plants, much like charcoal.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

Much of it would be burned in carbon - spewing power plants to generate an additional 103 gigawatts of capacity.

And scientists continue to develop new ways to modernize power plants, generate cleaner electricity, and burn less gasoline while we drive.

The main option on the table is burning plant matter to generate electricity (bioenergy) and pumping the resulting CO2 underground (carbon capture and storage, or CCS).

Bruce Ames and Lois Gold have estimated that the average person eats 5,000 to 10,000 different plant toxins, amassing to 1500 mg per day, plus 2000 mg of burnt toxins generated during cooking.

Instead they will ship the still green waste and cane residue to a new 30 megawatt plants, where it will be burnt to generate

(By comparison, the average coal - burning power plant has a capacity of about 800 megawatts, but generates electricity day or night.)

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.

Another 8 percent came from biomass and plants that burn gas from landfills (which generates carbon but is considered «renewable» because the gas is released by decomposing garbage).

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

One such bizarre «green» proposal is to harvest the world's existing forests and burn the wood in power plants to generate electricity.

If fossil fuels are used for mining and refining uranium ore, or if fossil fuels are used when constructing the nuclear power plant, then the emissions from burning those fuels could be associated with the electricity that nuclear power plants generate.»

Coal combustion products (CCPs) are the by - products generated from burning coal in coal - fired power plants.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

The researchers found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire — which has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies — actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.

The primary instrument of negative emissions is expected to be BECCS: bioenergy (burning plants to generate electricity) with carbon capture and sequestration.

Through the instrument and system of carbon offsets, COTAP enables you to pay the poorest people in the world for planting and maintaining trees which sequester the carbon dioxide which you generate through your lifestyle activities which require the burning of fossil fuels.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

But the largest use around the world is at power plants, where it is burned to generate electricity.

The report also found that burning natural gas generated far less damage than coal, although still significant: a sample of 498 natural gas fueled plants (71 percent of gas - generated electricity) produced $ 740 million in total nonclimate damages in 2005.

Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water by using extra electricity generated by wind and / or solar collection to be stored for burning in power plants when those collection systems have lulls especially for solar at night, of course.

Even though lignite - burning plants accounted for 16 % of SO2 emissions from scrubbed plants in 2010, they generated only 8 % of the electricity from scrubbed plants.

Of the plants without scrubbers, the ones burning subbituminous coal generated 69 % of the electricity while only emitting 48 % of the associated emissions in 2010 (see chart).

Please consider this: Suppose you build a generating plant that burns methane gas leaking from a landfill to produce electricity.

Note also the intention to build hydrogen based power plant - you can use hydrogen burning turbines to generate electricity so the hydrogen economy is closer than you might think!.

Having said that, I think we should go beyond market mechanisms, and institute an immediate, outright ban on the construction of any new coal - fired power plants and any new coal mines, and also announce a deadline within no more than ten years at which time the burning of coal to generate electricity will be illegal and all coal - fired power plants, and coal mines, will be shut down.

Thermal plants generate steam by burning fossil fuel in boilers.

And scientists continue to develop new ways to modernize power plants, generate cleaner electricity, and burn less gasoline while we drive.

A typical fuel - burning power plant is wasteful in two ways: It produces harmful emissions, and it squanders two thirds of the energy it generates.

Now with this rocket thruster design, nitrates in the wastewater can be used to generate nitrus oxide and methane, with the methane harvested to run the plant, the nitrus oxide burned in a rocket thruster to break it down into clean hot air, and the nitrates safely removed from the water through the whole process.

However, burning trees releases carbon into the atmosphere immediately — more per unit of electricity generated than coal — and any new trees planted won't reach maturity and absorb the same amount of carbon for decades, if ever.

Recently, he was a member of a team that successfully obtained approval for a wood burning electric power generating plant in eastern Connecticut.