Sentences with phrase «power plants do»

No existing coal power plants do.

Here's an important energy milestone: For the first time since 1979, America's cars, trucks, and airplanes emit more carbon dioxide than its power plants do.

In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and «oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation,» which would have allowed for three times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act.

Though the capital costs of ZCA2020 are much higher than BAU, more money is saved because solar power plants do not need a constant supply of coal and gas for fuel.

By Guilhem By Harvey 12 Pros and Cons... Although hydroelectric power plants don't cause pollution, they use up a lot space and destroy a lot of wildlife due to flooding which also causes /

Nearly all solar power plants will require some amount of water, just as nearly all conventional power plants do.

Then again coal power plants do produce pollutants and emissions and since coal power plants in some places are slowly being replaced by wind turbines I guess they do reduce emissions in the whole equation of things.

Many natural gas - fueled power plants do not have a backup fuel source (typically oil) on site.

Biomass power plants do emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, but they release no more than what is naturally in the carbon cycle as trees are planted, downed — by man or nature — and replanted.

Question: how many fossil fuel power plants do you think are running on standby at any time in Germany?

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plants do.

Smart home and smart grid technologies can help balance the energy demand throughout the day so that back - up power plants don't need to be used.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Furthermore, Audi is claiming «zero global emissions» — referencing the fact that electric vehicles drawing their electricity from power plants do have an emissions footprint.

The high temperatures and pressures typical of nuclear power plants do not occur.

Because this is not the case, our research reactor does not have a reactor pressure vessel as nuclear power plants do.

The microscopic particles sifting from freeways and power plants don't just harm your heart and lungs.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

After all, once operating, nuclear power plants burn nothing and therefore emit no carbon dioxide as fossil fuel — burning power plants do.

Further, in many cases power plants don't sell electricity direct to consumers, but instead sell it to delivery companies who buy it on consumers» behalf.

I love that AWS going down means like... someone's smart egg tray can't order more eggs and someone else's nuclear power plant doesn't work.

As a result of the discussions, a consensus emerged that Ghana has faced power challenges for the past several years due to the fact that thermal power plants did not have enough fuel resources to fire power generation plants.

For example, the BECCS idea of taking carbon from power plants does not account for the massive emissions from all other sources — such as the tailpipes of our cars.

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.

How does this new UK nuclear power plant do in your calculations then?

«Bioenergy advocates often claim that CO2 pollution from wood - burning power plants doesn't harm the climate, because biomass is sourced from «forestry residues» (tree tops and branches left over after the tree trunk is taken away for sawtimber or pulp).

Chernobyl spilled as much radiation as a coal fired power plant does in 7 years and 5 months.

Not exact matches

That user, CCPKA, did an eye - opening «Ask Me Anything» on Saturday that talked about being a kid in the north of Kiev, Ukraine, about 60 miles from the Chernobyl power plant.

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

What we really need to do is focus on the big purchases — like cars and power plants — and provide the information and financing to help people make better choices.

And if we waited until the end of each power plant's lifespan to replace it with clean energy, we could be done in 25 to 50 years.

Finally, the U.S. rules do not, at this stage, affect existing coal - fired power plants — those GHG curbs will likely come next year.

How plants do this remains unknown, but probing that mind - blowing mystery stands to lead to the next breakthrough in solar power.

«Working at power plants nowadays, it's very, very strict in how they would do a job that'd incur radiation exposure to an individual,» Semones said.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

Bigger plants, represented by bigger circles in the chart, don't seem to be producing cheaper power.

Whether it's fish farms and the dirty pact Campbell has with Alcan in the northwest, fish farms up and down the coast, proposed LNG plants on the north coast, the wiping out of the unique ecology at Eagleridge in West Vancouver, the transmission lines in Tsawwassen, the Gateway project, especially though not exclusively in Delta, the abandonment of the Cambie Street merchants, private power smashing the environment around the province or the stealthy but persistent privatization of BC Hydro, the premier has enraged British Columbians not just for what he's done, but for his callous indifference to the wishes of people.

Hydro SHOULD be saying, «If you DO get your LNG plant going, use your own power first, then come and ask us for more.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

In 2013, Richard told Bloomberg that, «Marathon maintains the position that PREPA does not need restructuring, that it is a corporation with valuable assets if it was slightly more efficient and built its own power plants on the island.»

Scientists and energy experts say that a distributed grid that doesn't rely on a single power plant for energy generation could help vulnerable island regions such as the Caribbean weather strong storms like Irma or Maria.

If you had done your analysis right then it would have led you to believe that many of the largest companies in Japan, especially the owners of the nuclear power plant, would have seen a decrease in the value of their stock price.

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

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I do feel that plant based foods definitely have the power to heal you.

Caryn Hartglass: Yeah, so we just had a heavy half hour talking about the power of plant - based foods and what they can really do for us.

As you know I don't call myself vegetarian or vegan but plant - based recipes are my core diet and I strongly believe in the power of veggies and a mostly plant - based diet.

My plant - powered goal in life, and as The Kitchen Girl, is always to create entrees with so much flavor and texture that people don't feel like they're missing out on non-plant ingredients.

I don't think they're supposed to though, hello — eggless, grainless...... but but but these are whole food cup cakes, 100 % plant powered and healthy as hell — they're not meant to be like those other «plastic» muffins.

I did cheat and used dairy milk and sprayed my baking dish with oil, but I'm still new to plant powered eating.