Sentences with phrase «kind of power plants»

In the short run, our choices for what kind of power plants we build can contribute to freshwater supply stress — by committing an imbalanced share of the available water to power plant use — and can affect water quality, by increasing water temperatures to levels that harm local ecosystems, for example.

They predicted how much global warming would be produced by different kinds of power plants during and after their period of operation.

In «wet - cooled» concentrating solar power plants, more water is used to make power than in any other kind of power plant.

In most scenarios, capturing and storing CO2 from coal involves building a new kind of power plant that uses heat and pressure to gasify the coal, instead of burning it.

Not exact matches

Power is probably the worst kind of pride, it engenders a sense of entitlement and views people and the world's animals, plants, and resources as expendable.

This kind of rebranding makes about as much sense as claiming that, since it's based on long dead plants that originally got their energy from the sun, oil is actually solar power.

They offer the kind of mainstay, everyday plant - based products that make living a plant - powered lifestyle empowering (as opposed to draining).

Chris Gettelfinger got me fired (kind of) from a job at a small power plant in West Va..

Nuclear power plant jokes just aren't funny these days and the cheesy poster in the House of Representatives kind of cheapens the important message he was trying to convey.

These kinds of estimates are of great importance for safety assessments for structures and buildings that need to hold up well for a very long time, or for structures where severe weather could pose a security risk, such as drilling platforms or nuclear power plants.

The new method can be useful in analyzing any kind of time series, such as predicting a power outage by accounting for power plant production, the fluctuating input of renewable energy sources and the changing demands of consumers.

This is especially important for formulating fusion and new kinds of fission nuclear power plants.

Space scientists have roughed out designs for several different kinds of stellar power plants.

In other words, the MagLIF could produce the kind of energy needed for a commercial fusion power plant.

These are the principal findings of new research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and Xiaochun Zhang, and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures that compares the temperature increases caused by different kinds of coal and natural gas power plants.

Right now the Polk power plant is one of just four of its kind in the world.

But the greatest hurdle facing carbon - capture coal - fired power plants — not just in New Jersey but around the country and the world — is the other kind of green: dollars.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

In analyzing this data, a multi-year task, the team found that at night, the concentrated power plant exhaust creeps atop the temperature inversion in the air where the atmosphere is relatively calm, allowing time for different kinds of chemical reactions that might not occur during the day.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wPower has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower, and no external water.

Thank you for your kind words, and you're absolutely right that the antioxidant power of plant foods represents only one of their many benefits.

Every single piece of fruit and plant - powered meal that I ate helped me restore and achieve a completely different kind of life for myself.

Right now the government dominated by left wing cranks, and mindless bureaucrats, has gone completely overboard in dictating not only fuel economy numbers but kinds of drivetrains and power plants that must be built.

So, almost certainly, there will be some kind of new power plant in Holcomb serving the region eventually.

Such vehicles eventually could (if the grid were powered by nuclear plants, dams, windmills, or solar energy) form the basis for the kind of «green mobility» I wrote about a few days ago.

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

All that adds to costs, and the point of that excellent WaPo opinion piece by Glennon that you point to is the slight extra costs deter this kind of investment, unless adult supervision is present to constrain the cheapest - possible design by the power plant mindset.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

Learn more about this one of a kind, integrated power plant, based in Germany.

«Common estimates are that this kind of CCS will eat up 20 to 30 percent of a power plant's output.

Prairie State uses state - of - the - art technology to ensure we operate as one of the cleanest power plants of our kind.

First - of - its - Kind Offering Allows Massachusetts to Use Offshore Wind to Replace Retiring Fossil - Fired Power Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSBPower Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSBpower -LSB-...]

The groups all claimed at the time that rising energy efficiency meant electric utilities didn't need to build new power plants of any kind.

A performance «learning curve» has always been planned since the project's earliest stages, which is normal for a thermal power plant of any kind.

Another game offers me the opportunity to play the part of a virtual energy minister — a kind of eco Sim City in which you can build different types of power plant, from tidal to coal, to cope with the virtual city's energy demand and its emissions targets.

The term dumb generation describes the kind of conventional power plants, wind turbines or solar panels that have been used for decades.

This kind of radiation isn't the kind from atom bombs or nuclear power plants.

«Unless we get extremely lucky and see the cost of new modular nuclear reactors or NET Power's CCS gas plant somehow become cost competitive overnight, the current trajectories for wind and solar are by no means sufficient to carry us to the kind of deep decarbonization that we need,» Jenkins said.

Expectations for what kinds of and how many new power plants will be built in Texas vary.

In Morocco, the CTF supported the phased construction of the Noor Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant — the largest of its kind in the world.

«A big plant like Diablo, which was designed to go up to full power and just stay there day and night, is kind of a tough fit for all of that.»

This small plant is producing enough energy from landfill gas to power 10,000 homes, making it the largest facility of its kind in the state.

At the Plataforma Solar de Almería (Spain) and California (USA) several demonstration projects have been carried out to demonstrate the techno - economic feasibility of the coupling of solar - powered absorption heat pumps to Multiple Effect Distillation (MED) plants reaching the highest thermal performance value for this kind of technology [1].

but Y00 was much more common and could, if present in many different system cause a big surcharge... a kind of dragonking (upset clients, tired workers, diverses problems, hard to find consultant, holtine broken, long delay to solves, impact on road traffic, higher electric consumption, avalanche of problems and impacts, leading to sensibility to small unrelated problems like a power plant break, car accident or a meteorologic problems)

Our state - of - the - art air quality control systems make us one of the cleanest power plants of our kind.

That kind of money buys a lot of misinformation, and the organizations spending that cash are aiming to roll back clean energy solutions like vehicle fuel efficiency standards, pollution controls on power plants, and wind and solar innovation.

* General Features: * Miniature Greenhouse * USB Powered (4 - foot cable) * Adjustable growth light * Computer interface monitors growth rate, and includes calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings * Watering reminder * Easy view window offers maximum plant protection * Removable tray * Includes starter pack: Marigold seeds and artificial soil (can you any kind of seeds)

These include many of the 186,000 utility customers in 23 largely rural, mostly low - income counties in southeastern Mississippi that are now on the hook for a good part of the plant's estimated $ 6.6 billion cost - this after Southern promised them and state and federal officials in 2010 that the first - of - its - kind power station wouldn't cost more than $ 2.4 billion.

This is kind of ironic, since the term geoengineering was originally coined to describe ocean disposal of carbon dioxide from power plants.