Sentences with phrase «powered by pollution»

World's first manned airplane powered by hydrogen takes flight U.S. aircraft maker Boeing announced this week that it had completed the world's first manned flights in an airplane powered by pollution - free hydrogen.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

It has made up the supply shortfall by importing power from neighboring provinces via the grid, raising fears that the capital is exporting its pollution to surrounding regions.

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

The province needs a carbon pollution reduction plan that closes the gap to its climate targets and builds a sustainable economy powered by renewable energy and energy efficiency.»

Nuclear power stations produce hardly any atmospheric pollution and provide by far the safest way to generate energy (with the possible exception of gas).

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

The challenge to technology to solve the problem of sufficient energy to power continuing increase of economic activity is complicated by the heightened concern to reduce pollution and especially to avoid disastrous changes in weather.

Cars can be powered by electricity and thus emit far less pollution, but the production of this electricity is almost always polluting or otherwise environmentally destructive.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its -LSB-...]

It would eliminate all climate - changing pollution by 2050, including from power plants and cars, build more mass transit and do more to encourage electric cars.

Indeed, China's rapid emergence as an economic power since the early 1980s has been accompanied by growing concerns over its environmental impacts, particularly in terms of pollution.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

New York will end an agreement with New Jersey allowing companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution standards, a decision that follows accusations by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New JePower Ventures power plant in New Jepower plant in New Jersey.

Gahl says his group's report finds inspections of power plant sites and their smokestack emissions are down by 44 %, and inspection of potential water pollutions sites have plummeted by 74 %.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

Gianaris» platform focuses on fighting pollution from power plants, preventing terrorism and attacks by sexual predators and consumer protection for airline passengers, while Arcabascio's campaign focuses on job creation, more hospitals, deregulation of insurance companies and education reform.

That was despite a 17 percent decrease in power - sector emissions, which was offset by rising pollution from industrial, commercial and residential sectors.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

The technology, called carbon capture and storage, or CCS, collects planet - warming carbon pollution produced by power plants and permanently removes it from circulation.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing polluPower Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollupower plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollupower plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

President Trump's budget released this morning aims directly at programs addressing climate change by eliminating funds for the Clean Power Plan and «reorienting» U.S. EPA on air pollution.

And much of the technology needed to cut the world's black carbon output already exists, including pollution traps that can be installed on diesel engines and solar cookstoves that replace models powered by burning wood or dung.

Without CCS, the IEA estimates that reducing global pollution would cost $ 2 trillion more by 2050, and yet few besides Southern Company, U.S. taxpayers and customers of Mississippi Power are paying for it.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

The goal is to cut current pollution levels (estimated by the states at 188 million metric tons emitted annually) from the 200 - plus power plants in the region by 10 percent by 2019.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost - effective way, by replacing coal - fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.

Findings show carbon pollution from power plants can be cut cost - effectively by using wind, solar and natural gas

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

The low - carbon electricity produced by such reactors provides 20 percent of the nation's power and, by the estimates of climate scientist James Hansen of Columbia University, avoided 64 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution.

Large swathes of China are affected by chronic air pollution from factories, vehicles and coal - burning power plants.

In a press release, Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific adviser for the American Lung Association, said, «Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.&rpower plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.&rPower Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.»

Tall smokestacks, built to alleviate pollution close to power plants, may contribute to the regional air problem by causing emissions to stay suspended long enough to react and produce other, more harmful pollutants.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

These children lived in neighborhoods that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, had excess nitrogen dioxide and tiny air pollution particles that are generated by automobiles and power plants, formally called particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5).

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

Thanks to its computing power, the scientists were able to simulate pollution levels hour by hour for 39 hypothetical summers.

The study is based on a unique empirical setting, in which a power plant located on the border between two states has polluted the downwind state for years with its pollution spillovers scientifically proven by the downwind state and also by the federal government.

The report, produced with Greenpeace India, uses power plant data compiled by former World Bank air pollution analyst Sarath Guttikunda, founding director of a Delhi - based organization focused on sharing scientific information called Urban Emissions.

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

The environmental pollution caused by petroleum is reason enough for an environmentally - conscious society to use solar or wind power.