Sentences with phrase «of aging power plants»

But as one panel asked, how quickly can the United States end the process that allows hundreds of aging power plants from sucking up enormous amounts of water that kill billions of fish annually?

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In 1972, at age 15, he was involved in a community group that opposed a nuclear power plant proposed for two miles north of New York City (a proposal that the utility company quickly withdrew).

Under the brute force of the Category 4 storm, the aging and poorly maintained power plants and transmission lines sustained such significant damage that nearly a month later, power has only been restored to 26 percent of the island.

Skeptical lawmakers will take another look today Cuomo's plan to invest billions of dollars of ratepayer money into aging nuclear power plants.

Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.

LIPA's long - awaited review of current and future power needs cites a $ 5 billion price tag in recommending against an overhaul of two aging power plants and canceling a decision to build a large plant.

Making the final comments before an amendment was withdrawn to help the aging Millstone nuclear power plant, State Representative and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R) argues for a full debate for the controversial amendment on the final day of the legislative session.

The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.

Cuomo's Democratic Party primary challenger Cynthia Nixon posed for photos with admirers and greeted participants at the rally, which began outside an aging power plant located in one of Albany's poorest and predominately African - American neighborhoods downwind from the State Capitol.

Cuomo's Democratic Party primary challenger Cynthia Nixon posed for photos with admirers and greeted participants at the rally, which began outside an aging power plant located in one of Albany's poorest and predominately African American neighborhoods downwind from the state Capitol.

On that basis, environmentalists like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep aging nuclear power plants online.»

Lawmakers will also dig into a proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, a plan that delights critics of the aging facility and worries others concerned about lost jobs and power.

The nuclear industry's decline was hastened by the cheap price of natural gas and costly repairs to aging power plants.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.

LONDON (Reuters)- Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars.

Europe's ageing nuclear fleet will undergo more prolonged outages over the next few years, reducing the reliability of power supply and costing plant operators many millions of dollars

In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

In late 2013 Dr. Dean Ornish got lots of attention for a study that suggested that lifestyle and dietary changes such as practicing meditation, yoga, and eating more plants could help lengthen telomeres, which effectively had the power to reverse the aging process.

So they can protect the rest of the cell, protect our DNA, but they can't get inside the power plants of our cells, so may be helpless to slow down the aging process.

Luxurious, silky color powered by plant - derived Phyto - Pigments instead of artificial dyes, and with age - defying serum technology to enhance cheeks and face.

Massage in a few drops morning and night and watch how the power of plants is all you need to reduce the signs of aging.

«After suffering a car accident at the age of 17 and seeing how my mother treated my scars, I found it fascinating that she did it with the power of plant oils that came from the earth.

Ageing nuclear power stations and coal power plants need to be replaced by lower carbon forms of power.

Despite the fact that we are nearly a decade into the age of clean burning diesel fuels, many Americans continue to have an aversion towards family cars with diesel power - plants.

His work has been included in numerous exhibitions including The Invisible Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON; The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON; The New Age Show, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Intimate Strangers, The Art Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, ON; AIDS Timeline, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Homogenius, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON and The State of Being, Canada Pavillion, Expo» 86, Vancouver, BC among others.

An important figure in early 20th century American art, the painter and photographer Charles Sheeler was - along with Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)- the leading exponent of Precisionism, a style of architectural painting that combined the hi - tech aesthetics of Futurism with the sharp geometrics of Analytical Cubism in the depiction of factories, power stations, warehouses and other industrial plant, of the new technological age.

At the same time, he produced compelling images of Machine Age New York for which he is best known: Art Deco skyscrapers, sleek locomotive engines, and majestic power plants.

While working in this mode, he produced powerful and compelling images of the Machine Age: skyscrapers, factories, and power plants, images that established his reputation as a leading figure in American art.

Clearly, students at Ruthlawn Elementary School in South Charleston, W. Va., (near one of the first American experiments aimed at pumping carbon dioxide from a power plant into the ground) are part of Generation E, as I've taken to calling folks of all ages who are pursuing ways to smooth the path toward a stable prospering human population on a bountiful planet.

Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPower Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPlant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the ppower capacity in the regions surrounding the plantplant.

The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.

The average age of U.S. power plants is 36, Davis said.

Nuclear power provides 60 percent of US carbon - free electricity generation, but existing plants are aging and only one is under construction.

The aging 2,000 megawatt nuclear power plant, located 25 miles north of New York City, has presented numerous threats to the safety of over 20 million residents and the environmental health of the area.

By 2025, the average age of coal power plants in the U.S. is projected to be 49 years.

The agency is targeting power plants — the largest stationary emitters of greenhouse gases — as well as the nation's aging infrastructure.

Japan's reboot of nuclear power, expected to begin early next year, is set to punish oil imports the most as utilities slash the use of their highest - cost fuel and shut aging oil - fired plants, a survey of Japan's nine biggest power companies showed.

Natural gas would provide the second - level of load - balancing with Victoria's aging brown coal - fired power plants remaining on standby to handle high seasonal loads.

Though nuclear power plants are still being built in some countries and governments are talking them up in others, the reality is that we are entering the age of wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

«We can power Australia with the wind, sun, and water for a cost similar to replacing the ageing coal and gas plants that are nearing the end of their lives now.

This is the same line of thinking that left us with hundreds of aging nuclear power plants without the resources for their decommissioning.

The review also notes that coal combustion remains the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution in the Czech Republic and highlighted the benefits of retrofitting existing coal - fired power plants with cost - effective emissions controls, and replacement of ageing plants with high - efficiency technology.

... The document shows Trump advisers contemplating ways to keep aging U.S. nuclear power plants on line, including by addressing concerns about the long - term storage of spent radioactive material.

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