Sentences with phrase «power than developed countries»

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The developing countries depended on advice, investments, loans, and grants more from former colonial powers than on the international financial institutions.

The fad is that the economically developed countries are in a better position than others to take the advantage of globalization and at the same item dictate policies and guidelines to increase their bargaining power.

These sites, if fully developed, have the potential to produce 950,000 megawatts — more than the country's total power needs in 2007, according to EPA data.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Solar power may be more reliable than wind power; Germany's efforts in developing solar (and wind) power suggest it may be, given the amount of cloudiness that country experiences.

Developing countries now are much more capable of building and running nuclear power plants than US, UK, France, Germany, Russia were 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago.

The ability to earn saleable credits under the mechanism inspired the registration of more than 8,000 projects and programmes in 111 developing countries, everything from clean cookstove projects, to wind power projects, to large industrial gases projects.

Installing solar panels for individual homes in the villages of developing countries is now often cheaper than it is to supply them with electricity by building a central power plant and a grid.

As the story goes, beyond - the - grid solar companies are providing power to rural places in developing countries where the grid hasn't yet reached and at a lower cost than other available options.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP estimates based on the purchasing power of currencies rather than on current exchange rates; such estimates are a blend of extrapolated and regression - based numbers, using the results of the International Comparison Program (ICP); PPP estimates tend to lower per capita GDPs in industrialized countries and raise per capita GDPs in developing countries

The article has such gems such as: «In developed countries, solar power has become cheaper than new nuclear power.»

Promoting green energy, however, requires dealing with a broad array of tough challenges, such as lowering costs that are higher than in many other countries, enhancing the power grid and developing more efficient storage batteries.

This means that if the government of a developing country spends money on a solar power station it will be able to supply less energy to its impoverished populaton than if it invested in, for example, coal.

The demand for financial resources to finance solutions is huge - $ 2,100 billion for power generation in developing countries alone in the next 30 years, and that to do little more than keep pace with population growth, leaving far too many still without electricity.

The power needs in their near - future will also be far greater than today, so today's existing natural gas infrastructure won't do as much to address power variability as it does in developed countries (and developing countries generally have little or no existing nuclear baseload power to help out).

Your statement was «my political views are that I find it difficult to accept that the major western powers are trying to enforce, on countries which are much poorer than they are, actiions that will disadvantage the citizens of those countries in their efforts to attain the standards of living approaching those of the developed world.»