Sentences with phrase «power plant the size»

A 4.5 percent decline of global electricity from clean energy is the equivalent to about 900 solar farms the size of one of the world's biggest (Topaz, in California)-- or 60 power plants the size of Diablo Canyon.

Not exact matches

37.5 megawatts is about the size of a small solar farm; a large natural gas or coal plant can generate several hundred megawatts of power.

Issue Size Increased Houston - based Calpine, an independent power producer with 93 plants and customers in 21 states, sold $ 2 billion of first - lien senior secured notes due in February 2021 with a coupon of 7.5 %.

Launched by brothers Jonathan and Alex Petrides, allplants have ignited the plant - powered movement over the past year — serving over 120,000 meals, quadrupling the size of their kitchen and becoming a community of over 50,000 people.

Because the Wankel is such a departure from normal automotive engines, an ongoing argument has developed over how to determine its displacement or «size,» and as long as the dispute is unresolved, few people will experiment with the power plant in big - time competition.

Offshore sequestration sites for carbon dioxide, while not major players with proposed capture projects on power plants yet, are considered a potential reservoir for the greenhouse gas because of their size and geology.

Researchers who have guessed at the size of the global conflagration suggest it is only a tiny fraction of what we burn in our factories and power plants.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

Even with abundant carbon and nitrogen to consume, the size of the plant and its limited access to fresh water make it almost inconceivable that it could even survive in the Arctic, let alone muster up enough power and mass to change the Earth's entire climate, saving our planet, perhaps, from a Venus - like, overheated oblivion.

It is a far cry from the standard nuclear plant — the size of a small town, cranking out enough electricity to power a major city — not to mention the even bigger plants going up in China and France.

While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging technologies in energy: micro-size nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test reactor I'm standing near.

By precisely calibrating the mirrors with computer algorithms driving shoe box — size motors, eSolar can build its sunlight - harvesting power plants with many more small, flat mirrors, roughly one square meter in size, as opposed to the large, curved specialty mirrors employed in other designs.

By comparison, today's simple cycle power plants (gas turbine generator only) operate with efficiencies ranging between 33 and 44 percent depending on the size and model.

«Larger sample size gives you more power,» said Jesse Poland, assistant professor in the Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy at Kansas State University.

But whereas a power plant is huge and costs hundreds of millions of dollars to build, SOFCs can be made to be any size.

But although multiple projects around the world examine or test aspects of CCS, few of them have been connected to a full - size power plant: one producing on average 500 MW and upward of 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a day — the core of the emissions problem.

The small footprint of the NuScale Power Modules plant and the low profile of the reactor building due to below - grade placement of the NuScale Power Modules and spent fuel pool offer a greatly reduced target size relative to traditional LWRs.

Davis - Besse has the two closest - to - meltdown «accidents» in the United States: the Tornado that cut off power, damaged the plant, and forced it to run on backup generators; and the «football sized hole» in the reactor containment.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

If nothing else, Carter shows us that living on plants is not just for endurance athletes or yogis but can positively impact heavy hitters in terms of their size, speed, agility, power, and quickness.

The plant is considered one of the supreme adaptogens in Ayurvedic medicine and recent studies have shown that it improves power output, muscle size and recovery during athletic training, reduction in fatigue and overall improvement in strength.

The facilities at the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant were designed to withstand strong earthquakes and tsunamis, but not to the strength and size experienced on March 11.

The pack includes: A long colourful display banner A cute display border with pictures of frogs and lily pads A Power Point about the life cycle of the frog - there are two different versions of this for younger / SEN children and older children Display labels with sentences about the different stages of the life cycle 10 question cards to add to add to displays A game to collect the missing parts of the sequence of a frog growing Life cycle posters showing the full life cycle - these are in colour and back and white Picture dominoes game A collection of songs and rhymes about frogs Spinner game - spin the special spinner and collect the missing parts of the life cycle Topic word cards to add to your display Frog jigsaws to cut out and reassemble Large arrows to add to your display to show the life cycle Large display pictures of the different stages of the life cycle of a frog - these are in colour and also black and white Matching pairs game Large pictures of different plants to use when creating a pond display Question worksheet - answer the questions about the life cycle Sequence woksheets in black and white and colour Sequence cards showing the different stages of the life cycle Counting worksheet - count how many tadpoles there are in each pond Wordsearches - 2 different life cycle themed wordsearches Word border sheet in colour and black and white - great for poetry writing or adding to the writing area A life cycle of a frog book to make Fact posters showing pictures and information about the different stages Colour photographs of the frog life cycle and different frogs Frog counting cards up to 10 A fact writing woksheet about frogs Large cute frog pictures and lily pads - great to use for numeracy activities Odd and even frog number line Number maze worksheets - follow the numbers to lead the frog to the lily pad A day in the pond worksheet A number line on frogs Phonemes on tadpoles Size ordering worksheets Frog colour posters An A4 word mat with words and pictures - great to use when writing about the life cycle of a frog Number bingo with cute frog pictures

The RX 350's upgraded power plant and advanced driver - assist systems, combined with the car's distinctive, aerodynamic form, give it performance credentials more in line with a crossover than with a full - size SUV.

Mobility may be enhanced in future tanks by the use of diesel - electric or turbine - electric series hybrid drives — first used in a primitive, gasoline - engined form with Porsche's Elefant German tank destroyer of 1943 — improving fuel efficiency while reducing the size and weight of the power plant.

Their similar size and four - cylinder power plants make them almost equals in the game.

Striking an ideal balance in terms of size and power, the affordably priced Pioneer 700 has a 675cc liquid - cooled, single - cylinder, fuel - injected power plant and a low - maintenance, beltless automatic transmission.

But the windmills killing birds does far less damage to the environment than a comparably sized (in terms of power output) coal or nuclear power plant.

For Illinois coal, the coal for one coal fired power plant has enough uranium alone for up to 103 nuclear power plants of the same size.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

The reduction in size, in turn, makes the whole system less expensive and faster to build, and also allows for some ingenious new features in the power plant design.

For example, a nearly identical plant proposed to be built about 100 miles north of California Valley Solar Ranch — it would be 247 MW in size and produce 666,000 MWh annually, according to a power purchase agreement [PDF] with Southern California Edison — will reportedly cost $ 600 million.

In the room air conditioning sector alone, improving energy efficiency of equipment by 30 % while simultaneously transitioning to low - GWP alternatives could save an amount of electricity equivalent to up to 2,500 medium - sized power plants globally by 2050, while providing climate mitigation of nearly 100 Gt CO2 - eq by 2050 from this sector.

At 516 - kilowatts (kW) in size, the solar power array will produce enough electricity each year to fully charge 54,750 Chevy Volt electric cars, which (aptly) GM assembles at the plant.

The size of hydroelectric power generators also varies; in fact, the largest plant in the United States is the hydroelectric plant at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, with a capacity of 7,079 MW.

If we build over 20000 OTEC plants (each about the size of the nearly 7000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico) deployed in the tropics, we could generate 5000 GWe of power and reduce the surface water temperature by 1C each decade.

Commercial Stimulation Services AltaRock's multi-zone stimulation can increase the economic gain at existing power plants by increasing reservoir size, capacity and life of the system.

I would not like a nuclear power plant of any size on my property as I wouldn't know what to do with the exhausted fuel rods.)

Solar power plants can take a number of forms and sizes.

Because of the size of a power plant and the complexity of the construction, a project manager will typically oversee several construction managers, who then supervise individual aspects of the construction.

In 2009 alone, the residential market doubled in size and three new concentrating solar power (CSP) plants opened in the United States, increasing the solar electric market by 37 percent.

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.

The processing may require sorting, removal of contaminants, short and / or long term storage, creation of a product (hammer mill or shredding) to create a certain particle size, processing into a pellet or a cube all before injection into the combustion chamber of an electric generating power plant.

It is estimated that the 204 - MW plant will provide electricity for about 94,000 average - sized New Mexico homes, or about 4 percent of PNMs total power production.

But as of September 2008 there are 10 large solar thermal power plants under construction or in development in the United States, ranging in size from 180 megawatts to 550 megawatts.

While the current impasse of air credits focuses on PM - 10, there are plans to create a separate and distinct particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in size (PM - 2.5) standard, which would likely be the focus of emission compliance issues for power plants.

These types of projects are also being promoted by the states and the power producer in an effort to reduce the demand and size of conventional power plants and lessen the strain on their grid.

Rooted in core knowledge of modern turbines and wind parks, combined with wind and irradiation resources and / or electricity storage, Vestas possess the know - how necessary to right - size hybrid power plants relative to project business case, while fulfilling grid requirements.