Sentences with phrase «less coal per»

Supercritical stations burn less coal per megawatt - hour produced and so benefit the environment and the electricity consumer.A modern, highly efficient, supercritical coal - fired station with stack gas cleanup is very clean indeed, essentially emitting only water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

Not exact matches

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

Railway tariffs cost about 0.15 yuan per metric ton for each kilometer, less than half the cost of around 0.35 yuan by truck, according to data from the China Coal Transport and Distribution Association.

Such coal must now be less than 30 per cent ash and less than 2 per cent sulphur.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

In fact, a typical coal - fired power plant exposes local residents to as many as 18 millirems of radiation yearly, whereas a nuclear power plant emits less than six millirems per annum, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

In an emergency, unlike today's reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of nuclear scientists believe this technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

Spending on school operations — not including school construction or debt payments — ranges from less than $ 8,700 per student in a coal country district, one of the state's lowest - achieving, to more than $ 26,600 in a tony Philadelphia suburb.

Hydro generation during August was short by around 17 per cent due to less inflow of water, leading to increase in generation from coal - based stations, he said.

The KDHE has denied a permit for a coal plant that would have been more efficient (read, more MWH per ton of coal and less CO2 and other pollutants per MWH) than older plants whose permits they will be renewing as a matter of course over the coming months and years.

China's NEA knows that new Ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plants can meet the requirement of emitting less than 1,627 pounds of CO2 per MWh.

Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

The smallest subsidies on a per unit basis were for coal, natural gas and petroleum liquids, and municipal solid waste, all at less than $ 0.45 per megawatthour of generation.»

A natural gas turbine can reach about 350, while a coal plant equipped with carbon capture — such as the innovative Boundary Dam CCS project in Canada — can release less than 130 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.

Natural gas does emit less GHG than coal on a per Btu basis when burned, but the analysis assumes there are no methane leaks from both conventional and unconventional wells.

New and refurbished coal - fired power plants will not be eligible for funding unless they emit less than 550 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour (gCO2 / kW), which could be met either by a combined heat and power plant or one that also burns biomass.

With a growing fleet of coal power plants running at less than 60 % of capacity and robust power demand growth, coal - fired generation is forecast to increase at nearly 4 % per year through 2022.

It would take about two years worth of new Chinese coal plant construction to create an installed sea - level reduction capacity of about 5 mm / year, and I recall it was less than $ 15 or so billion per year for the coal to run the plants.

Given that health and environmental costs of coal are another two to 4.3 cents per kilowatt hour, wind energy is unequivocally less expensive than is coal energy.»

Because the amount of cooling necessary is much less per unit of electricity output in NGCC plants than in coal or nuclear plants, dry cooling systems are more economical for NGCC plants than for other thermoelectric options.

About half of this reduction is due to differing carbon intensities of the fuels (natural gas emits 40 percent less carbon than coal per unit of heat).

The US natural gas industry has often argued that a switch to natural gas will significantly reduce ghg emissions from the electricity sector because natural gas emits almost 50 % less CO2 per unit of energy produced than coal combustion.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

Considering only estimated US coal mortality per unit energy and assuming US nuclear plants are NOT any less hazardous than the worldwide average:

There are rules that can be applied like replacing less efficient fuels (in terms of energy per CO2 released) like coal with more efficient ones like natural gas, and never switching towards less efficient fuels like shale oil from more efficient ones like regular oil.

A typical advanced coal plant today emits about 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per hour compared with natural gas plants that emit around 800 pounds on average — less than the proposed new standards.

Centralized coal - fired power plants are run on cheap coal and they release less CO2 per car mile than do most petroleum fueled cars considering the efficiency, shipping and refining losses.

By comparison coal fired power received less than $ 1 per MWh and natural gas less than 1 cent per MWh delivered.

Greenhouse gas emissions from coal, gas and oil combustion since the dawn of the 19th century and the coming of the machine - age century have pushed carbon dioxide ratios in the atmosphere from less than 300 parts per million to 400ppm everywhere, and global average temperatures have risen by 1 °C.

Jerry's model indicates that no New York Marcellus shale gas wells would pay for themselves (break even) at less than $ 8 mcf (which is roughly equivalent to $ 8 per million Btus) To put that price into perspective, coal is forecast to be $ 4 MBtu out until at least 2040.

The authors found that carbon emissions could be reduced by roughly one gigaton per year within five years — equivalent to 3 % of worldwide emissions — if other countries followed the U.K.'s example by switching to natural gas from coal in power stations, as natural gas produces less than one - half the carbon dioxide produced by coal.

As power demand growth is slowing from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, China has come to realise it needs to take its foot off the pedal when it comes to coal capacity.

That means (roughly) 20,000 times less coal ship and coal train movements and correspondingly less fuel used to drive those ships and trains per unit of electricity generated.

As power demand growth slows from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, the coal capacity in the pipeline, as well as some existing coal capacity, risks becoming stranded due to low carbon capacity targets, ongoing reforms in the power sector and carbon pricing.

We actually need energy that is less costly than coal to meet the 3 % per year increase in food and energy supply target.

For coal with a missing county that originated in Wyoming, EIA only assigned shipments with an average energy content less than or equal greater 17.9 million British thermal units per ton to the Powder River Basin.

The CO2 from electricity generation is down for a number of reasons; the biggest is the shift from coal to natural gas, which produces less CO2 per unit of energy generated.

China understands coal can not be the base load generating fuel for the long term, but it also needs to invest in coal in the short term to meet demand that is still less than 1 / 10th the level used per capita in the United States.

Although hydrogen generates about 62,000 Btu per pound, it accounts for only 5 percent or less of coal and not all of this is available for heat because part of the hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water vapor.

Britain was forced to rely on new «last resort» measures to keep the lights on for the first time on Wednesday after coal power plants broke down and wind farms produced less than one per cent of required electricity.

Key features: China would cap absolute coal consumption by 2020 at 4.2 billion tonnes, and coal's share of the mix would be reduced to less than 62 per cent by 2020, from the current level of 66 per cent.