Sentences with phrase «nearby coal powered plants»
Dolores shares how air pollution caused by a nearby coal power plant is affecting her daughter's asthma.
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This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.
In a greenhouse - like lab, carbon dioxide captured from a nearby coal - fired power plant flows into hundreds of tubes and becomes an essential food supply for microalgae.
If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.
Also 10 or so people jumped the fences and stopped the conveyor belt that fed coal from the mining site to the nearby power plant.
Meanwhile, agreements and plans for the construction of new coal power plants nearby are being made without the citizens of Gacko having the opportunity to express their opinion.
For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.
Think of this energy storage tank of potential solar power as akin to the pile of coal outside an old coal plant, or to the underground cavern full of natural gas waiting to be burned up above ground in the nearby power plant.
This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.