Sentences with phrase «plant emissions amounted»

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After two years of negotiations and controversy, President Barack Obama on Monday afternoon officially revealed a finalized version of a plan to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants across the U.S. can emit.

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amounts.

The natural built - in stop - gap measures to deal with greenhouse gas emissions — the ocean, plants, etc — are simply not able to cope with the amount of emissions.

But he also measured all the infrastructural greenhouse gas emissions that support the product's fabrication; for example, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted while mining the coal, treating it and transporting it to the power plant.

EPA requires states to cut their power plant carbon dioxide emissions rates by varying amounts by 2030.

And advances in materials technology, such as hybrid ceramic / steel, can help boost the temperature — and therefore increase the efficiency and lower the amount of CO2 emissions — of new coal - fired power plants.

When the team combined OCO - 2 data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States with computer models of how emissions plumes would disperse, its estimates of those plants» emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal - burning power plants and vehicle emissions.

A company that needs to eliminate 1,000 tons of emissions from its ledger might pay for a project that will plant enough trees to absorb that amount of carbon dioxide.

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

Building a huge solar power plant and then saying that «offsets» CO2 emissions from a coal - fired plant is nonsense — the only way to offset CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon in the ground, permanently.

Those costs could come through taxes on emissions, caps on the amounts of emissions, bans on new coal - fired plants, or some combination of methods.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.

Babcock sells a roughly equal amount of environmental systems to power plant owners who want to reduce emissions of various pollutants.

The Sierra Club has created a New Coal Plant Tracker, a state - by - state guide to where new coal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other information.

In the last few days, three online tools have been launched, showing links between utilities and Appalachian mountaintop coal mines, a list of proposed coal - burning plants and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from thousands of power plants and utilities around the world.

Plants are color coded (red is bad) based on the amount carbon dioxide emissions created per unit of electricity.

For example, if we stop building new coal - fired power plants without CCS, and if we quickly develop CCS technology, we can help the entire world avoid generating huge amounts of emissions from coal.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

Put another way, ExxonMobil telling us about modest emissions reductions in its own facilities is a bit like a large cigarette manufacturer telling us it has reduced smoking in its own plants and offices (by a modest amount) even as it continues to market and push cigarettes to everyone else in much larger volumes.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

Until now, power plants have been allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

Geothermal plants emit only a tiny fraction of the emissions that fossil fuel powered plants do, and there is a seemingly endless amount of heat near the Earth's surface that remains untapped for power production.

But he pulled Massachusetts out of RGGI after he failed to get a limit placed on the amount of money power plants would be charged for exceeding their emissions limits.

To do so, means cutting the carbon emission intensity of power plants - that is, reducing the amount of CO2 that is spewed out for each megawatt generated.

Most of these emissions can be reduced through pollution controls — sometimes by a significant amount — though many plants don't have adequate controls installed.

But of course mt is right: given the current emissions no amount of tree planting would make a dent.

One potential solution to the current impasse involves establishing a fixed amount of emissions for new power plants from which credit - satisfying permit requirements could be provided to supplement those from market sources.

Key to President Obama's climate legacy, the rules required each state to slash a specified amount of emissions from its power plants.

Beyond our internal carbon footprint reductions, our solar rooftop systems and power plants operate without generating greenhouse gas emissions, and therefore our customers» use of SunPower systems avoids many times the amount of greenhouse gases generated in their own manufacturing and delivery operations.

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

At present, there is no uniform national limit on the amount of carbon emissions that new power plants can emit.

Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in supporting controls on carbon emissions, TXU is betting $ 10 billion on 11 new coal power plants that will produce huge amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.

Still, geologic carbon sequestration represents an enticing way to reduce the nation's amount of greenhouse gas emissions, Falta said, and an opportunity to lessen the environmental impact of coal - fired power plants.

«They've convinced certain legislators in Congress to vote for legislation written by biomass industry lobbyists that would force EPA to treat tree - burning power plants as if they have zero carbon emissions, claiming that as long as US forest stocks are stable or growing by any amount, this offsets the carbon pollution pouring from the smokestacks of wood - burning power plants.»

In calculations for Slate, Michael Shellenberger, one of the founders of the «ecomodernist» philosophy that advocates for a technology - focused approach to tackling climate change that includes support for nuclear power, figured out that «under Sanders» proposal to not re-license nuclear plants, U.S. carbon emissions would increase by a minimum of 2 billion tons, about the same amount as the U.S. produces each year making electricity.»

Last week, we issued a report revealing that certain plants, primarily in China and likely in Mexico, are emitting significant amounts of HFC - 23 into the atmosphere, making them some of the largest point sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

If the Paris Accord is to limit emissions, then how come India, China and the rest of the developing world get to spew out virtually unlimited amounts of CO2 from coal fired power plants?

Carbon - emission standards limiting the amount of CO2 that a new power plant can spew are in place in a handful of states.»

Previously, power plants were allowed to dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere — no rules were in effect that limited their emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming.

EIA has recently revealed in a new report that certain plants in China are releasing significant amounts of HFC - 23 into the atmosphere, making them some of the largest point sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

I have a simple technical question for PE or anyone who knows: When you ramp down a coal plant to 50 % — do you «ramp down» also the amount of coal burned = amount of emissions?

HELE technologies are a group of technologies developed to increase the amount of energy that can be generated from a coal plant while decreasing emissions.