Sentences with phrase «many coal fired power stations»

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.

In which way is passing the environmental impact of the ICE to the coal fired power station «cleaner methods of propulsion?»

Lobbying of US congress however seems to win the day in many ways and I would not be suprised to see many new coal fired power stations in the USA and hence worldwide built in then ext decade without carbon capture fitted.

Taken together this is rather more than double the 169 million tonnes of CO2 coming from our coal fired power stations.

If China, India and others — and indeed Germany for that matter — build extra coal fired power stations then they will find the coal to supply them in international markets.

More CO2 in the atmosphere would seem to be beneficial, so maybe more coal fired power stations are in order at present, backed up by nuclear.

Somewhat ironically, all six of Victoria's coal fired powered stations are located in so called no - go zones.»

Guarantee you that each and ever one if those coal fired power stations being built in China and India are about as clean as that fat chick in a brothel and will end up devastating the ecology around each if those sites.

Assuming that this electricity is from a brown coal fired power station 23g of unnecessary CO2 is released to the atmosphere.

With about 90 % of the carbon emissions from our electricity sector coming from coal fired power stations, Australia will need to look beyond just coal towards the full spectrum of available energy solutions.

In India up to 40 percent of our current CO2 emissions comes from coal fired power stations.

Yet he also announced the Liberal Party should stop quibbling about coal fire power stations and rally behind Turnbull.

Here is the rocky situation for the coal fired power stations, situated 27 miles SW of Houston.

My proposal is to create an artificial CO2 dome in a pristine area, for example by relocating the emission point of a coal fired power station.

Air pollution from coal fired power stations result in 24 deaths and 225 serious illnesses per Terrawatt - hour (TWh) of electricity generated.

«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»

Seriously — if this heat pile up and CO2 radiative trapping of heat really worked AND it is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then Engineers — who are actually smart unlike climate scientists — would have easily built a «Greenhouse gas coal fired power station.

Very roughly Electricity costs from existing Australian coal fired power stations might be say $ 25billion / TWh and from existing European and US nuclear plants (Gen II) say the cost is the same, i.e. $ 25billion / TWh.

Switching to electrified vehicles and replacing existing coal fired power stations may be a good first step.

I have worked in a coal fired power station on a short stint.

Another factor at this time was accusations from Scandinavia that acid rain eminating from UK coal fired power stations was killing all their trout.

The aim of the walk was to press for the replacement of the coal fired power stations at Port Augusta with solar thermal.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

He then went on and linked it with forcing the closing down of «the coal fired power stations at Port Augusta and probably much of the capacity of the gas generation at Torrens Island».

I see your point to a certain degree, however I have several argument against what you say, because I happen to live in very close proximity to several large coal fired power stations, I would have thought we people living in this are deserved a discount on our electricity bill compared to those living much further away?

Personally if I were in a position to do so (and couldn't build nuclear or preferably coal fired power station to provide desperately needed power quickly) I would invest in research to develop a combined tidal and wave power unit.

The Productivity Commission produces figures that show each 2kW air conditioning systems requires around $ 7,000 of added infrastructure investment — made up for $ 4,000 in distribution (in neighbourhoods), $ 1,400 in transmission (from the central coal fired power station), and $ 1,600 in generation costs (gas fired peakers).

Reports of China opening a huge new coal fired power station every week belie the reality - China is the new global powerhouse for renewable energy.

If we closed down all our coal fired power stations and build nuclear power stations to replace them it would cost us billions and billions of dollars.

You know full well that the World Bank, IMF and other big lenders have refused funding to help these third world countries build coal fired power stations, under the guise of the anti-CO2 scam.

Would be much better to run a cable from a coal fired power station and use reliable, clean, non-polluting electricity.

Our energy is very expensive and because the EU has forced us to close down coal fired power stations etc, we are very very close to the total remainng energy capacity of our remaining power stations.

They're very used to funding new roads and new coal fired power stations.

Compare this with the estimated cost of geosequestration of carbon dioxide from coal fired power stations of around US$ 50 / tonne.

The take up rate would stop the natural increase in electricity generation required for increasing numbers of dwellings and in several years their would be a decline in electricity output from the coal fired power stations to equal or match that required by industry and commerce.

A report recently released by the IEA Clean Coal Centre has shown that Asian economies are adding a significant share of high efficiency low emission (HELE) coal fired power stations to their energy mix.

You have negligible economies of scale, just a bigger, linearly costed version of my own systemic problem, a problem I dump on my neighbours and our brown coal fired power stations.

(He was right in that SA's wind power has made the coal fired power stations less profitable.)

Ditto for the conversion of coal fired power stations to gas fired.

In Australia at least, the operators of coal fired power stations have two unfair economic advantages over sustainable electricity:

Even more importantly, if we replace coal fired power stations with renewable energy, we will greatly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification.

A report recently released by the IEA Clean Coal Centre has shown that Asian economies are adding a significant share of high efficiency low emission (HELE) coal fired power stations to...

Technology like this is fantastic, it should be expanded (although I am doubtful that it can be expanded to the size of a coal fired power station at the same price point).

Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution from coal fired power stations and many others were from indoor cooking fires using coal.

And don't forget to make the point that the 10 coal fired power stations are being built to replace the nuclear power plants Germany is being forced to close down by the irrational, extremist, loony greenies:)

If the discount rate to use in estimating the damage costs for CO2 emissions is 1 %, then why aren't we using 1 % discount rate in evaluating whether to build nuclear or coal fired power stations?

Coal fired power stations appear to be making huge profits from Australia's new carbon tax, while passing costs to consumers

Some 60 older USA coal fired power stations do NOT meet 1970 (Nickson's) standards and should be closed or up graded in 2012.

Not only is privatisation politically toxic, but the government has already undermined any possible credibility on the issue with speculation that it will finance a new coal fired power station, along with Snowy 2.0 and other interventions.