Sentences with phrase «plants cost almost»

Coal transportation costs are prohibitive and «clean coal» plants cost almost as much as nuclear plants.

Not exact matches

The current proposition seems to be that the Hinkley plant will now cost double its original estimate, some # 14bn, and could require underwriting at a higher cost than most renewables, and over almost three times the period envisaged.

Surprisingly, when they placed the real plants on the graph according to their actual nutrient travel distances and total branch lengths, the plants fell almost perfectly on the Pareto curve, meaning that plants» networks of branches are finding the best balance between cost and performance for their particular environment.

New regulations from Ms. Jackson's reign of terror impact power plants, industrial plants, refineries, and vehicles, as well as the cost of almost all goods and services.

The Next Gen Heliostats appear to almost double in size by 2013 - 2014 from the ST3 heliostats used at Bikaner, and a conceptual 100 MW sized Power Tower Plant image shows the corners of the heliostat fields cropped into hexagonal shapes reducing the modular field cost and footprint.

Wind and solar have major problems with reliability, cost, and adverse health and environmental impacts that their proponents gloss over, whereas emissions from modern, highly efficient coal - fired power plants with stack gas cleanup consist almost entirely of water, CO2, and nitrogen.

Wisconsin state regulators vote unanimously to reject the Nelson Dewey Generating Facility expansion, citing concerns about global warming as well as the plant's $ 1.3 billion price tag, which had ballooned almost 60 percent from 2007 due to rising construction costs.

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.

According to a 2007 DOE report, dry - cooled CSP plants take up more space, cost almost 10 percent more to build and generate 5 percent less electricity.