Sentences with phrase «plant efficiency from»

Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»

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Gore believes that «the cost savings from large plants is canceled out by the loss of efficiency and productivity that comes from employees not knowing each other well.»

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

I learned more about increasing manufacturing efficiency from spending 30 minutes in a poultry processing plant than I learned from any formal process improvement program.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

Trees and other plants absorb minerals from the soil with great efficiency.

They are taken up by plants again with such efficiency that the water that runs from the undisturbed Amazonian rain - forest is virtually the same as distilled water in composition.

People who know edible wild plants still garden for efficiency's sake, and similarly a lot of us could benefit from a discussion of growing our own bugs.

A weight indicator that can remotely receive transmissions from a scale could help plants achieve greater efficiency, claim manufactures.

«We're increasing water efficiency at bottling plants, we're reducing emissions from our truck fleets and we are recycling more and wasting less.»

Our coverage is worldwide — we capture the latest technologies and developments and report on everything metal packaging: from market trends in different geographic markets, to price volatilities in raw materials, to plant efficiencies and sustainable manufacturing techniques.

And an additional 1,500 megawatts through energy efficiency and modernization of exisiting power plants by fixing current constraints that prevent certain plants from operating at full capacity, without building new power lines or new power plants.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

By Marie Rohde The cost of a project to maximize efficiency at the Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant has in five years mushroomed from about $ 105 million to more than $ 144 million.

«The efficiency was terribly low, way worse than you'd expect from plants,» Liu says.

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«It's hard for the plants not to benefit from that by having a higher water - use efficiency.

(The admirable original bill is designed to increase fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks, encourage production of biofuels, and provide funds to develop technology that will capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.)

And the improved designs could reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants by 4.5 million tonnes over the same period, says the government's Energy Efficiency Office (EEO).

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Rice plants took up inorganic arsenic from water and soil with dismaying efficiency: at 10 times the rate of other grains.

The biggest reason is that China has fewer environmental and efficiency standards for its factories and plants and generates more electricity from coal and other non-renewable sources, the authors said.

For a 1 gigawatt power plant, a 1 percent improvement in efficiency saves 17,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to removing more than 3,500 vehicles from the road.

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Using infra - red gas analysers connected to a miniature controlled environment chamber, Dr Samuel Taylor and Professor Steve Long, at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) simulated a sudden increase in sunlight following shade, and measured the time it took for the plant to regain its maximum photosynthesis efficiency and take full advantage of the extra energy from light.

Already, the CEC (set up in 1975 in the wake of the nation's first oil crisis) balances new energy demands — such as screening new power plants on the basis of at least 23 different impacts, ranging from economics to air quality — with efficiency efforts.

At the top of the list are two landmark climate regulations developed under former president Barack Obama: one, now on hold pending a lawsuit, would reduce emissions from power plants; the other, already in place, sets aggressive fuel - efficiency requirements for vehicles up to 2025.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

New work from the lab of Dominique Bergmann, honorary adjunct staff member at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology and professor at Stanford University, reveals ways that the systems regulating the development of stomata in grasses could be harnessed to improve plant efficiency and agricultural yPlant Biology and professor at Stanford University, reveals ways that the systems regulating the development of stomata in grasses could be harnessed to improve plant efficiency and agricultural yplant efficiency and agricultural yield.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

Now, engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are improving the efficiency of smaller plants, designing a new receiver that can absorb much more sunlight.

From Bhikki to Balloki: GE and Harbin to Deliver Second High - Efficiency HA Gas Power Plant for Pakistan

The final rule lowers its estimates of reductions that can be made from building block one — efficiency improvements in generating plants — from 6 % to 2 - 4 %.

Kind of similar to the whole nitrate / nitrite conundrum where plant - sourced nitrates (from beets and arugula) get metabolized in the stomach and re-sent to the mouth where, instead of becoming carcinogenic nitrosamines (as is what happens when you consume nitrates from meat), they become NO and increase our oxygen efficiency.

When measuring the quality of proteins, meaning, the efficiency with which the proteins of these different foods are used within the body, it is found that the weight gained from animal protein is greatly larger than any possible weight gained from plant protein.

A lot of menopause supplements also contain phytoestrogens from soy and other plants, but their efficiency is still unknown.

The company will make a series of changes to improve efficiency and speed at the assembly plant, and also will move assembly of the Japanese - market Toyota Ractis from Iwante to a different plant in Japan.

«It is a testament to what we've been saying about this plant all along — that the skills and efficiency of the workers at the plant make it worth keeping open,» reads a statement from Unifor president Jerry Dias.

When it comes to America and goes on sale at an as yet undetermined price, the 2015 e-Golf will represent a factory once written off as uncompetitive and a company in the midst of transformation, determined to reduce energy use and material waste in its plants, to use lightweight, hot - formed steel wherever possible, and to scrape away every gram of excess metal from engine components for better efficiency.

Buyers will choose from three new power plants, including a 2.5 - liter 4 - cylinder, a 3.5 - liter V6, and a dramatically improved gas - electric hybrid system promising efficiency that approaches the vaunted Toyota Prius.

This increased efficiency and margins at many of these plants for the long - term but the benefits have not been seen due to weak demand from the European market.

Carbon credits are tradable units that often relate to emissions reduction or sequestration activities, such as tree planting, improving energy efficiency or capturing methane from landfill.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

That coal gas fired power plants must be shut down by 2050 and replaced with whatever works, from nuclear, hydro, renewable, energy efficiency, and massive demand reductions across the board.

Resources spent building new nuclear power plants means resources diverted from other efforts — conservation, efficiency, wind, PV, biofuels, geothermal, mass transit, less car - oriented communities — that would produce more results faster.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

Indeed, Jacobson estimates that the opportunity costs of nuclear — the CO2 emissions that result from not using the resources consumed by expanding nuclear to expand renewables and improve efficiency instead — exceed the total CO2 emissions from the entire nuclear power plant lifecycle.

Cap - and - dividend assumes that the decreasing supply and rising price of carbon will shift private investment from new coal burning plants to wind, solar, conservation and efficiency, and that public investment will not be needed for these purposes.

From the inherent efficiency of eating plant - based foods directly, rather than processing them through animals, to the importance of avoiding factory farms, a vegetable - heavy diet has a lot going for it.