Keeping a lot of CO2 out of the atmosphere would require a costly expansion of the technology to
many more power plants and other industrial facilities.
He continued, «As pending regulations on carbon emissions
shutter more power plants, studies have estimated America's consumers could be paying an additional $ 366 billion to $ 407 billion.
Am I really supposed to persuaded that the path to lower future CO2 concentrations is by building
more power plants with smokestacks that dump CO2 into the atmosphere?
In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and «oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation,» which would have allowed for three
times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act.
The EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule would have
pushed more power plants to implement technologies like these to control their emissions.
The U.S. shale gas boom has flooded the market with cheap natural gas, encouraging utilities to build
more power plants that burn gas instead of coal.
More nuclear power plants,
more power plants or more anything in general to tackle energy demand, is no solution and only creates more problems later on.
At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build
more power plants.
These standards conserve electricity and natural gas and prevent the state from having to build
more power plants.
Good examples of this are, for example, power companies paying or subsidizing compact fluorescent bulbs so they didn't have to build
more power plants, or building code insulation requirements, or fleet mileage, etc..
They are too afraid to say that we should not be using the atmosphere to dispose of greenhouse gas pollution, so they argue for building
more power plants that use the atmosphere to dispose of greenhouse gas pollution.
If the problem is that we have too many power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere, I am highly skeptical that the way we are going to solve this problem is by building
more power plants that dump greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere.
It would give them a much bigger incentive to go build
more power plants.»
Because electrical systems must be built to deal with that highest range of demand, operators will have to address these increases by either building
more power plants, developing better battery storage capacity or convincing consumers to shift some of their use to off - peak hours.
«There's so much free sun and free air, and if we could harness it, we wouldn't need
any more power plants,» said Andrew Hertzler, an Amish farmer selling flowers and plants and solar user.
So
the more power plants you've got in or around your state, the more toxic it's likely to be.
This is important to understand, because many people think that electric cars automatically mean that we'll need to build
more power plants.
But utilities really like EVs because they will sell a lot more electricity without the expense of building
more power plants.