Sentences with phrase «polluting coal power»

Wind power replaces some of this polluting coal power and therefore save lives.

Not exact matches

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

The Chinese ones are for the most part built with the latest technology to capture polluting particles, while the picture in India is more mixed, said Laszlo Varro, head of IEA's Gas, Coal and Power Markets Division.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

Solid waste often lacks proper disposal, waterways have been polluted, and the air quality has plummeted, largely due to the coal - fired power plants that serve as the country's primary source of energy.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

Rather, it draws electricity from states across the U.S. West, including from coal - fired power plants as far away as Idaho — a problem that may get worse as California shuts down its own most polluting power plants.

Geothermal energy is a consistent and reliable resource that is ideal for replacing baseload power sources such as polluting coal plants.

«Frankly, it can not be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon - intensive 50 - year - old coal - fired power stations,» Amber Rudd, the country's energy secretary, said in a statement.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

Four hundred years later, the government is suppressing the people, steam and coal powered machines are polluting the air, and Cain Ashton is resurrected into another body (a previously occupied body, to be more exact) to begin his quest for the 7 pieces of his spirit he probably shouldn't have lost to begin with.

Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel, emitting around twice as much carbon dioxide as gas when used to generate power.

Hope the Communist Party in China will use its strict totalitarian control to mandate that all factories stop polluting, as well as mandating that coal and gasoline for power needs of homes, factories and cars and trucks and buses be phased out ASAP.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

This is untrue, except that, by adding the element of confusion to the mix (which most skeptics do well), progress to find environmentally - friendly alternatives to high - polluting infrastructure and industries (such as coal - fired power plants and Hummers) is slowed due to political inertia.

Thousands of coal workers marched in Berlin last month to protest against plans to slap a levy on the oldest and most polluting power plants, which unions say could put 100,000 jobs at risk.

In the early 1970s, Energy Probe saw nuclear power as a relatively clean and economic alternative to coal, then a highly polluting form of electrical generation.

In this page I will deal mainly with the burning of Australian coal for power generation, called thermal coal; the burning of high - grade coal, called metallurgical coal, while not generally so polluting does add to the problem.

Ninety - eight of the nation's 100 most - polluting power plants in terms of total carbon dioxide emissions are coal plants, the study found.

A staggering 80 percent of China's electrical power is derived from highly - polluting coal combustion.

Backed by powerful oil, coal, and gas companies, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed repealing America's Clean Power Plan, which would allow these companies to keep polluting our air and destroying our climate — regardless of what it means for everyday citizens or our planet.

«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic pollution from coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries combined.»

There are no health problems caused by wind turbines known to science and wind farms save lives by displacing air polluting coal - fired power stations.

In Copenhagen, the major polluting governments — including the United States and China — signed a nonbinding agreement pledging to keep temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius above where they were before we started powering our economies with coal.

Modi, who stormed to power at May elections pledging to reform the economy, said he was determined to meet the energy needs of India, which suffers regular blackouts and is heavily reliant on polluting coal to produce electricity.

In some of these countries there is little or no coal - powered generation at present; building coal plants is likely to prevent the development of other, less polluting energy sources and lock in high emission power structures for years to come.

The Coal Blooded Action Toolkit is a step - by - step guide on how - to take action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of coCoal Blooded Action Toolkit is a step - by - step guide on how - to take action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of cocoal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of color.

If particulates are captured at the smokestack, then why do India and China, with their high % of coal fired power, have the most polluted cities on earth?

(1) A long - time supporter of nuclear power as a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, which has made him unpopular with environmentalists, Lovelock has now come out in favour of natural gas fracking (which environmentalists also oppose), as a low - polluting alternative to coal.

With new coal power plants planned and rapid industrialisation underway, Iskenderun Bay is fast becoming the most polluted region of Turkey.

Some of the highly polluting Ukrainian coal power plants are connected to the European grid and export electricity to Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Poland.

Fossil fuel power plants like oil, coal, and gas not only pollute but must have a constant delivery of fuel, which can be a challenge where transportation and pipeline infrastructure is underdeveloped.

Clean, renewable energy sources — including wind, solar and geothermal power — do not pollute our air or our water and will never run out, unlike coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels.

A $ 30 - a-tonne carbon tax would make gas — which is about half as polluting as coal when burnt — the preferred fuel for new power stations.

However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal - fired power actually pollutes more — a lot more.

The government's central problem is that, as well as being polluting, coal - fired power is not well suited to the problem of increasingly high peaks in power demand, combined with slow growth in total demand.

Yes, Springer, if Oklahoma's wilted crops had just been fed more of that CO2 plant food, the farmers would be thanking God for polluting spewing coal power.

BNEF expects the nation's coal - power capacity in 2040 will be about half of what it is now after older plants come offline and are replaced by cheaper and less - polluting sources such as gas and renewables.

Wind - generated electricity should replace electricity from coal - fired power plants, the most polluting power source.

Also, mercury from coal - fired power plants is polluting rice in China.

Washington, DC — The World Bank is expected to vote tomorrow, April 8, on whether to approve a $ 3.75 billion loan that would help South African utility Eskom build the 4800 MW Medupi coal - fired power plant, which would be one of the world's largest and most polluting.

Coal mining destroys habitat and pollutes our air and water, while coal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifCoal mining destroys habitat and pollutes our air and water, while coal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifcoal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifers.

The European Commission has today published new standards for Europe's most polluting power plants, including many large coal - fired power stations.

The groups intervened in lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency's climate plan addressing new and existing power plants, countering a group of coal companies, polluting power generators and allied state attorneys general that sued to block the first - ever standards limiting power plant carbon pollution.

The majority of energy generated today is from highly polluting and often politically destabilizing sources including coal, gas, oil, and nuclear power.

Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with «permission to pollute» -LSB-...]

the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.