Sentences with phrase «replace electricity from coal»

Wind - generated electricity should replace electricity from coal - fired power plants, the most polluting power source.

Not exact matches

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, says the world must replace the 40 percent of its electricity that comes from coal with a like amount from wind, with 1.5 million wind turbines rated at two megawatts each.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

Where would the electricity come from to replace the electricity provided by these coal fired plants?

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

The figures illustrate how renewable sources replace coal in electricity production, which shrinks from 30 to 16 percent across the scenarios, while gas remains relatively constant.

I believed the share of the target that needed to be achieved from fossil fuel use could be achieved by nuclear power largely replacing coal for electricity generation and natural gas largely replacing petrol and diesel for land transport (including buses, long haul transport and cars).

China plans to ask companies to replace electricity generated from their own coal - fired plants with renewable energy, the National Development and Reform Commission said last month.

Anyway, it is interesting that you can wrap your head around a statement like this (basically, electricity produced by gas / nuclear prevents production from coal and thus saved emissions), but are unable to understand that renewables do exactly the same (replacing emissions from coal) and they even do it more effectively than gas and way cheaper than nuclear.

They clearly can not replace the electricity from their nuclear reactors with electricity from wind and solar, so they are building new coal - fired power plants and importing coal from the US: that's the «smutzig» part.

IF hemp were legalized, since hemp is SUPERIOR to other available natural resources, a few petrochemical monopolies would no longer be feasible... including monsanto's GMO cotton business that consumes HALF of the petrochemical pesticides sprayed in the USA, Hearst's deforestation business would no longer profit from destroying our forests, and we would no longer need Rockefeller's fossil fuels - because we can replace coal (electricity) with hemp pyrolysis, and we can replace gasoline with vegetable oil methanol, and dupont's toxic plastic business would be replaced with non-toxic, biodegradable, stronger, lighter, hemp plastics like they're already using to make Mercedes car parts.

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

The two nuclear reactors would generate 18 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity annually, replacing 86 percent of South Carolina's electricity from coal.

Even if it is nominally replaced by renewable power, a kilowatt - hour of renewable electricity that replaces lost nuclear electricity is a kilowatt - hour that is not available to displace coal and gas from the grid.»

Electricity production from coal in the United States has dropped significantly, replaced by increased generation from natural gas and wind power.

Since the wind - generated electricity mostly replaced coal, we can say that this would have reduced greenhouse gas emissions from electrical generation by roughly 3.4 million tonnes.

The authors have failed to demonstrate that it is reasonable, technically feasible or economically viable to attempt to replace 59 % of U.S. coal - fired electricity generation with hundreds of thousands of windmills that are intermittent, unpredictable and unreliable in an attempt to increase wind energyís contribution to U.S. electricity supply from less than 1/10 of 1 % to 30 %.

Costs of burning coal from DSS Management Consultants Inc. and RWDI Air Inc., Cost - Benefit Analysis: Replacing Ontario's Coal - Fired Electricity Generation (Ontario, Canada: April 2005), pcoal from DSS Management Consultants Inc. and RWDI Air Inc., Cost - Benefit Analysis: Replacing Ontario's Coal - Fired Electricity Generation (Ontario, Canada: April 2005), pCoal - Fired Electricity Generation (Ontario, Canada: April 2005), p. v.

But no new generation is planned to replace it, so Boulder will just import electricity from other coal - sourced plants in the area.