Sentences with phrase «on aging power plants»

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Former software exec James Sheppard relies on cloud - based technology to power a vibrant, eco-friendly countertop business that's thriving in an industrial - age automotive plant.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

Making the final comments before an amendment was withdrawn to help the aging Millstone nuclear power plant, State Representative and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides (R) argues for a full debate for the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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Utah environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a revised plan for clearing the skies over the state's national parks, but to environmentalists» dismay it would do nothing to further cut emissions from aging coal - fired power plants.

But in the long run, as the U.S. and the world double down on fighting climate change, renewable and more - local power sources are expected to multiply as traditional fossil fuel plants age out.

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.

... 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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He would place a moratorium on relicensing of the country's aging nuclear power plants — from which we currently get about 20 percent of our electricity.

The report was drafted by young people aged between 16 and 25 who visited power stations, nuclear plants and projects promoting renewable energy sources to investigate the issues at first hand and met with experts, industry, pressure groups and innovators, to look at how we can keep the lights on in 2050 while reducing carbon emissions.

Phasing out the United States» entire nuclear power supply by 2030 would increase the country's carbon dioxide emissions by at least 5 % and as much as 13 %, depending on what mix of power plants replace the aging nuclear units.

Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.

Many aging, water - intensive coal - fired power plants are vulnerable to energy - water collisions, which can have a significant impact on electricity production.

97 % of people on the planet have been brainwashed to believe they need to go back to burning dung to power their laptop so that we can slow down the growth rate of plants and speed up the transition to a normal period of climate described as an ice age.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.