Sentences with phrase «produced by power plants»

Andreas Antonopoulos, for example, points out that bitcoin mining can be used to consume the excess energy produced by power plants «that would be otherwise wasted.»

With emissions from our carbon - based economies rising, scientists at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory are developing way to prevent CO2 produced by power plants and industries from ever entering the atmosphere, and they are exploring ways to take CO2 out of the environment.

That means overproduction of power during daylight hours, as the country's ample solar energy floods onto the grid along with electricity produced by power plants.

The billions of tons of coal combustion waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.

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

Not exact matches

«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.

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

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

Though green - energy organizations are facing hurdles in getting access to capital markets, wind plant or solar power builders, who are producing green energy, are highly benefitted with enormous profit rates by the use of this efficient trading platform.

The Folkstone, Kent - based company — the longest - running plant - based business in the UK — produces its non-GMO, organic and no - added sugar products in a dedicated vegan factory that is free from nuts, gluten, dairy, egg, fish and other allergens, and is powered by 100 % renewable electricity.

The GWE anaerobic technology plant employed at the plant produces sufficient green energy (methane) from its closed anaerobic reactor to power a designated steam boiler and cut the brewery's overall energy consumption by about 15 per cent.

Mr. Obagmey believes the amount of gas that will be produced by the plant will be «enough to take care» of the power needs of the 10 regions in Ghana.

Hawkins says studies from his supporters say a solar plant at the base would produce electricity far below current prices, helping business and industry in the state that have been hurt by high power prices.

«These zero emissions credits will represent the emissions - free value of energy produced by the nuclear power plants specifically,» said Scott Weiner, deputy for markets and innovation at DPS, at Thursday's meeting.

It also produces 2,000 megawatts of power, or about a quarter of the power for New York City and the lower Hudson Valley and would be replaced in the near future by gas - fired plants.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation

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.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) tool produced by the Center for Global Development, updated and released this week, shows that seven of the world's 10 dirtiest power plants are in Asia — though none in China.

The new biofuel product made by the BRIL researchers produces a product that has less alkali and alkaline earth metals, allowing them to be used at power plants.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

They predicted how much global warming would be produced by different kinds of power plants during and after their period of operation.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

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.

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.

The Stanford scientists suggested roofs covered in photovoltaic panels would do a better job, by producing electricity that then obviates the need for more fossil fuel — burning power plants.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

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.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

It is Morocco's first utility - scale solar energy plant, with the goal of supplying power to over 1 million Moroccans by 2018 and helping Morocco produce 42 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generaPower & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generapower generation.

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

The partnership between Mercedes - Benz and Infiniti also means that the Infiniti Q30 will almost certainly be powered by the 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder designed by Mercedes and produced by Infiniti at the new Decherd powertrain plant.

Outputting 640 hp (470 kW) at 8,000 rpm and producing 600 Nm of torque at 6,500 rpm, it is distinguished by a new bronze manifold that draws on the heritage of previous special edition engines such as the Diablo 30th Anniversary power plant.

The car was powered by a third generation 450 bhp version of the 5.9 litre V12 developed from that in the V12 Vanquish; initially produced by Cosworth Technology in the UK, the production of which moved to the Aston Martin Engine Plant in Cologne, Germany in September 2004.

Produced at Nissan's plant in Tochigi, Japan, the sixth generation GT - R comes powered by a 3.8 - litre handbuilt twinturbo V6 engine, mated to a six - speed automatic gearbox, developing 562bhp and 637Nm of maximum torque.

Recently, the plant started to produce the Mercedes - Benz SLS AMG and a small series of the B - Class powered by a fuel cell.