Sentences with phrase «keeping power stations»

Of course there are costs involved in keeping power stations on standby.

Two protestors used bicycle locks to close off the plant's entrance, stopping the hourly 20 - tonne deliveries of woodchip needed to keep the power station operating.

Not exact matches

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gas.

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK Nuclear Industry Association, said: «Building new nuclear capacity in west Cumbria is an integral part of the UK being able to replace old power stations, keeping a balanced mix as carbon emissions are reduced.

Meanwhile, ample power station capacity meant that our ability to keep the lights on wasn't an issue.

More than 250 downstate gas stations — including nearly 100 on Long Island — are taking steps that will allow them to keep pumping during major power outages, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

In April 2014 the government released its first post-Fukushima strategic energy plan, which called for keeping some nuclear plants as baseload power sources — stations that run consistently around the clock.

Once a satellite reaches the trajectory, few, if any, station - keeping maneuvers are required to keep it there — a particularly attractive option for mass - constrained spacecraft that can't carry propellant to periodically power thrusters to maintain an orbit.

TOKYO — On the 4th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, there is one bit of reassuring news: A new study concludes that contaminated food was likely kept out of the market.

Nuclear power stations, once built, are reasonably cheap to run, and every country in the world keeps them open as long as possible.

It is not expensive, you can find great sources on ebay, and even if it was expensive, I'd rather spend whatever is necessary to keep the functionality of my Body Temple highly efficient with the best fuel I can give it, than to spend it on, let's say petrol at the gas station, or the electricity to power the utilities in my house.

Brothers, stationed abroad, and kept my power for me put them in a drawer more than 53 years, fine.

Not unlike a cryptically speaking gas station attendant, or a creepy - but - well - meaning janitor from a formulaic scary movie, Paramount is doing everything in its power to keep people away from watching The Ring.

Changes to the electricity generating infrastructure will only ever keep pace with demand and nobody is going to build power stations for cars that aren't sold yet.

The KoolMAX 40 - quart wheeled cooler offers a Bluetooth PA system and power station for under $ 400 that lets you keep your electronics dry and safe and makes you the star of any beach event you want to throw.

Dogs should be kept away from any electrical area marked as dangerous (e.g. power stations or generators).

If you have a feeding station near an electrical outlet, an electrically powered water bowl designed to keep the water at a temperature above freezing is an option.

This project is a version of Fischli / Weiss's 1990 «Snowman» a snowman outside of a thermic power station in Römerbrücke, Saarbrücken, Germany that utilizes the plant's energy to keep the snowman frozen year round.

Power stations need to keep a base load at night which is largely wasted.

I'm convinced that the United States will be better off keeping existing nuclear power stations running, where their management can be demonstrated to be reliable, rather than initiating a decades - long decommissioning process that would not resolve community concerns about spent fuel and many other sources of risk.

30 more years of business - as - usual will make it impossible to keep temperatures from rising beyond Eemian levels (see here for some discussion of stabilisation scenarios), and decisions (on infrastructure, power stations, R&D, etc.) that are being made now will determine the emissions for decades to come.

The Australian reports that Victorian wind farms, for all their hype and subsidies, have eliminated virtually zero GHGs, thanks to the need for backup coal power stations to keep running at full speed to cope with the fluctuations in wind generation:

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

Meanwhile, the north of China famously struggles with a lack of water, something nuclear power stations require plenty of to keep reactors cool, and the east coast, where there is plenty of water, is home to China's most developed cities, which are increasingly turning to NIMBY - ism.

With NMBI legislation in place and carefull planning, taking into account likely closure dates of aging coal - fired power stations and potential depletion dates of current coal and gas sources, NSW can have more renewable electricity generation and grid - level storage in place in plenty of time to «keep the lights on».

BHP has not been specific, but the most likely option would be to make sure Engie was compensated for keeping its Pelican Point power station, where one of two units has been mothballed since 2015, up and running.

Republicans want to keep the Millstone Nuclear Power Station through 2045 when the plants operating licenses expire.

Just in case Germany's new 20 + coal fired (German built) powered power stations can't keep Das Autos rolling: -

With NMBI legislation in place and carefull planning, taking into account likely closure dates of aging coal - fired power stations and potential depletion dates of current coal and gas sources, Victoria can have more renewable electricity generation and grid - level storage in place in plenty of time to «keep the lights on».

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

You keep comparing apples and oranges; the peak thermodynamic cycle efficiency of a state of the art diesel with the overall fuel efficiency of an antiquated power station.

The report was drafted by young people aged between 16 and 25 who visited power stations, nuclear plants and projects promoting renewable energy sources to investigate the issues at first hand and met with experts, industry, pressure groups and innovators, to look at how we can keep the lights on in 2050 while reducing carbon emissions.

But Brack insists that, even accepting Drax's premise, wood cut for construction or making furniture will keep its carbon out of the atmosphere for much longer than wood cut to burn in a power station.

In September 2017 the Liddell power station was again in the news when the Turnbull Government discussed its aim of keeping the old power station going for five years past the date at which AGL proposed to close it down.

My guess is that the actual outcome would involve keeping some brown coal stations, with drying technology that reduces emissions to a level comparable with black coal, and some expansion of gas - fired power stations, offset by a combination of domestic offset measures and purchases of international offsets.

The bureaucrats who operate the LCPD need to justify their jobs so they keep pointlessly tightening the SOx and NOx emission limits with a result that UK power stations are now being shut and this threatens UK power supplies.

Capacity payments included in the package — cash payments that will keep outdated and polluting power stations on the grid — have been described as «life support for an industry that should be laid to rest» by the organisation.

Should we be building more reserve power stations, or are there other ways to keep the grid balanced?

The Solana solar station in the Arizona desert is one of the first large - scale solar plants with thermal storage that allows it to keep producing power even when the sun doesn't shine.

At first, Divvy will have about 75 stations and about 750 bikes, but it'll keep expanding until it reaches 4,000 bikes and 400 solar - powered locations by the spring of 2014.

To propose keeping an old coal - fired power station open longer and redefine coal as clean energy.

Still considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to Adani to open a new coal mine, pushing for keeping the Liddell coal - fired power station open five years more than its owner, AGL, intended, and criticising the SA Government's achievment of 52 % renewable electricity as «idiocy».

The coal resource at Leigh Creek was mostly mined - out, but the main reason the power station was closed was because the owners decided it was uneconomical to keep it open.

But because of the pressing need for thousands of large generating stations that emit no carbon dioxide while providing electricity day and night, many technologists keep returning to potential improvements in nuclear power.