Sentences with phrase «modern coal power plant»

This implies that efforts to improve rural electrification for instance — even if the power is generated in a modern coal power plant — could still reduce net climate warming because of the impacts on reducing ozone, methane and black carbon.

cogen will produce electric power for less than a modern coal power plant.

2) A modern coal power plant powering an electric drive car produces less CO2 than gasoline.

Our modern coal power plants are much cleaner than the days of old and are arguably cleaner than burning oil when you factor the whole picture in.

Not exact matches

Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new coal plants to pump almost double that level of carbon emissions,

Environmentally friendly modern concretes already include volcanic ash or fly ash from coal - burning power plants as partial substitutes for Portland cement, with good results.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

It's why China has been retiring coal plants for decades — at first in favor of ultrahigh efficiency modern supercritical coal plants that delivered twice as much power per unit of pollution produced, and now increasingly solar and wind.

I can do a lot more at less cost by building nuclear power plants or converting coal fired generators to modern gas - fired ones.

I personally would not count on all the SUVs and coal - fired power plants in the world to save us from a modern Little Ice Age, if that's what Nature wants to throw at us.

At power plants, combustion of coal produces a medley of air pollutants, especially in older plants that lack modern emissions control equipment.

Even worse, Ameren, the local electric utility, operates 4 three coal - fired power plants in the St. Louis metro area, 3 of which run without modern pollution controls.

China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient power stations but it is also building large, modern and more efficient (HELE) coal - fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE) coal technology.

Action is being taken on this now with the government recently announcing plans to close old, inefficient coal fuelled power plants and replace them with modern high efficiency technology.

An excellent study by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT, coal, peat and CHP plants, and 17 % of electricity generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

Buschhaus is a modern power plant site and our high - quality coal will also ensure the economic operation of the power plant in future.

What will happen when China installs modern filtering systems on a massive scale in its vehicles and at its coal power plants?

Bush made changes to coal fired power plant regulations by going to congress based on what modern technology.

That's why projects such as Adani's Carmichael mine development in Queensland remain essential, because they will supply high quality coal into India for use in modern HELE power plants.

Wind and solar have major problems with reliability, cost, and adverse health and environmental impacts that their proponents gloss over, whereas emissions from modern, highly efficient coal - fired power plants with stack gas cleanup consist almost entirely of water, CO2, and nitrogen.

Modern coal fired power plants are actually very, very clean.

But Increases Ones Which Cause Acid Rain The bad news is that if you take the entire lifecycle of a CO2 - burying plant — the «cradle to grave» pollution which takes into account the extra energy required mine additional coal and bring it to the power plant — emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxides were 40 % greater than a modern coal plant not set up to capture carbon.

«New power plants, both natural gas and coal - fired, can minimize their carbon emissions by taking advantage of modern technologies,» Ms. McCarthy will say Friday, according to her prepared remarks.