Not exact matches
Each km2 of farmland diverted to the monoculture of «Short Rotation Coppice» for mechanized harvesting and processing to
fuel power
stations — is that
much reduction of the host nation's food security.
If their goal of getting renewable power to 118,000
stations is reached, they will save as
much as 6.6 million gallons of diesel
fuel per year, and avoid as
much as 6.3 million tons of CO2.
I am all for making fossil
fuels cleaner, and
much work has already been done to make various fossil
fuel devices (coal - fired power
stations, internal combustion engines, etc) emit less pollution like NOx, SOx, Hg, Pb, and particulates.
When NG is pricey because we've burned too
much in power
stations the gas grid will still have a use as a vehicle
fuelling network.
Last year, more than twice as
much money was put into new capacity for renewables such as solar and wind power than into new power
stations burning fossil
fuels, according to a new analysis by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Efficiency is very important in the case of fossil
fuel power
stations because fossil
fuels are a finite resource — once we use them they are gone — and when burned they produce carbon dioxide and other substances that kill people and cause climate change and ocean acidification; so it is very important to get as
much electricity as we possibly can per tonne of fossil
fuel.
Much of Toronto's smog comes from coal -
fuelled generating
stations in the U.S. Midwest, and Ontario's giant Nanticoke plant.
Australian governments have always been willing to build transmission lines to serve new fossil -
fuel power
stations, why - if they are as
much in favour of sustainable energy as they claim to be - are they unwilling to build them for sustainable energy development?