Sentences with phrase «plant emissions roughly»

And the Clean Power Plan is expected to have a serious impact on the electricity sector, reducing power plant emissions roughly 20 percent from today's levels by 2030.

Not exact matches

The next step will be scaling up the whole unit, making it capable of capturing CO2 emissions associated with 235 megawatts of the plant's power, or roughly one fifth of its output, Sherrick says.

By accounting for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, scientists have calculated that oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.

Keystone XL itself would exacerbate that — the U.S. State Department notes that the greenhouse gas emissions from just the pipeline's pumps would be 4.4 million metric tons per year, roughly the same as one average U.S. coal - fired power plant.

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

~ 13 times less than land use changes (3.4 gigatons) ~ 11.5 times less than light - duty vehicles (3.0 gigatons) ~ 5.3 times less than concrete production (1.4 gigatons) ~ 2 dozen 1000 MW coal - fired power plants (2 % of the world's coal - fired electrical generation) Or, roughly the same CO2 emissions as Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Poland or South Africa.

What we found is that the currently existing power plants around the world — unless they are retired early or retrofitted so that their emissions are captured — can be anticipated to emit roughly 300 billion tons of CO2 in the future.

Some 60 per cent of our emissions have been taken up in natural sinks by, in roughly equal parts, dissolving into the ocean and by being taken up by plants growing faster on land.

Assuming that 500 gigawatts of solar power may be needed to meet a future climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Hernandez's team found that a region of California roughly equal to the land area of South Carolina may be needed to accommodate all the new solar power plant development.

For example, the cost of Southern Company's Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle plant (designed to capture 65 % of carbon dioxide emissions) has risen from roughly $ 2 billion in 2006 to well over $ 5 billion as of mid-2014.

Further, Roughly 6.2 gigatons of the 9.8 gigatons of annual carbon emissions is being transferred into the environment going into the ocean or plant life.

This is roughly the equivalent of a large carbon emissions - free power plant becoming functional somewhere in the world every day.

If New York loses its nuclear power plants they will be replaced by fossil fuels, and greenhouse emissions from the state's power sector would skyrocket roughly 50 percent.

Another way to look at it - this will reduce the plant emissions by roughly 1,000 metric tons or the equivalent of taking 190 cars off the road.

P.S. Notice I said power plants are (roughly) one - third of US greenhouse - gas emissions and transportation is another third.

If this nuclear generation were replaced by coal - fired power plants (Scenario 1), the country's CO2 emissions would rise by roughly 317 million tons, 26 percent of current emissions.

Coal - fired electric utility emissions vary depending on the technology and coal used at each plant, but are roughly 50 % elemental mercury, according to EPA.