Sentences with phrase «replace nuclear energy»

The new South Korean administration says it will increase natural gas imports to replace nuclear energy.

And gas - fired plants can never replace nuclear energy if deep - decarbonization is the goal.

Not exact matches

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

LNG will play its part in this dynamic, offering a cleaner energy solution to the coal Japan is burning to replace its broken nuclear capacity and China is using to fuel its rapid acceleration through a phase of industrialization.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

Some believe that with nuclear fusion unlimited sources of energy will be ours and that we can chemically alter the earth's matter so as to replace exhausted resources with others.

The government has shown its commitment to replacing our ageing energy infrastructure, and the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) proposals are intended to provide the economic and commercial underpinning to investments in a range of low - carbon technologies, including nuclear.

The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said — a direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

Officials have warned that taking away nuclear power altogether — without an alternate energy source to replace it — would give fossil fuel industrial companies the opportunity to move in, setting New York even farther back in carbon emissions.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

1 TIM WOOLF ET AL., SYNAPSE ENERGY ECONOMICS, INC., INDIAN POINT REPLACEMENT ANALYSIS: A CLEAN ENERGY ROADMAP: A PROPOSAL FOR REPLACING THE NUCLEAR PLANT WITH CLEAN, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESOURCES 1 - 2 (Oct. 2012), available at http://www.riverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Synapse-Indian-Point-Replacement-Study-10-11.pdf

ALBANY — The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said, in a notably direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

Wind and solar energy will become major sources of power in New York — just in time to replace the 30 percent of the region's energy supplied by the Indian Point nuclear plant, which is closing.

They said if the plants close, the nuclear energy would be replaced by fossil fuels.

The plant's power production increased by about 27 percent, replacing about a quarter of the missing nuclear energy.

A deal is struck to close California's last nuclear power plant, replacing the lost electricity through renewables and energy efficiency

The U.S. Department of Energy's high - tech plan to replace nuclear testing with elaborate 3 - D computer simulations is seriously flawed

With new, eco-friendly technologies waiting to replace old - school nuclear or fossil - fuel turbines like this one, the energy industry is going to drastically change... eventually.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

But due to its lower cost, natural gas would also replace some low - carbon energy, such as renewable or nuclear energy.

Strategies for replacing light bulbs vary from place to place, depending on regional energy costs and the power - generation mix (i.e., coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewables).

For example, for the U.S. to derive one quarter of its total energy supply from nuclear would require building roughly 1,000 new reactors (both to replace old ones and expand the fleet).

To cut our emissions, fossil fuels need to be replaced with low - carbon energy sources such as nuclear power and renewables, and fossil fuel power stations need to be fitted with carbon - capture technology.

Safety first Nuclear power remains one of the few energy sources that can replace coal in China.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

Footnote * It's worth noting that Peter Raven was one of dozens of signatories to a 2014 «open letter to environmentalists on nuclear energy» endorsing this statement: «the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.»

That coal gas fired power plants must be shut down by 2050 and replaced with whatever works, from nuclear, hydro, renewable, energy efficiency, and massive demand reductions across the board.

In those figures KA is speaking about how much Nuclear is needed to REPLACE ALL FOSSIL FUELS ENERGY USE GLOBALLY.

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

Reducing CO2 emissions by replacing combustion with other energy sources (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.) is a much longer - range goal that would involve rebuilding most of our industrial infrastructure.

He concludes that replacing this energy would take a truly massive investment and a widespread, potentially intrusive deployment of alternative technologies, be they renewables, nuclear, or desert solar power.

While the climate situation is far worse than most people think, the options for quickly phasing out fossil fuel and nuclear energy and replacing them with clean renewable energy sources are much better than most people think.

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

«Even in the expected event that there are no important breakthroughs in the cost of nuclear power, the potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.

They all expect that somehow the technologies (whatever they are) will magically thwart the Second Law; that we will somehow replace tit - for - tat the current energy flow from fossil fuel with sunlight or nuclear or geothermal, you name it.

«Securing a Positive Climate Legacy Main How Japan replaced half its nuclear capacity through energy efficiency»

The US Energy Information Administration, Environmental Progress, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have all done studies showing that when nuclear plants close, they are replaced overwhelmingly by coal and natural gas, which would also happen if New York closed its nuclear plants.

Tom Steyer, a billionaire energy speculator, is bankrolling an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state's sole nuclear plant — which is also America's largest single source of clean energy — and replace it with fossil fuels.

What makes EP's investigation even more significant is the crucial role Brown played in legitimizing anti-scientific anti-nuclear ideology, and creating the anti-nuclear movement — one which has replaced nuclear plants with fossil fuels (under the guise of renewable energy promotion) in Germany, Vermont, Japan, Taiwan, and other nations around the world.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

Several sources say the energy company NRG has provided large contributions to BEST to kill nuclear and replace it with coal, in addition to natural gas.

Energy experts agree that Taiwan can not replace nuclear and fossil fuels with renewables.

Consequently, our proposed CES would include a percentage of natural gas when replacing existing coal capacity, 25 coal with carbon capture and sequestration, waste - to - energy, biomass, energy efficiency and nuclear power.

It seems to be saying because renewables probably can't completely replace carbon based energy sources then we shouldn't invest anything in them in addition to overlooking alternatives like nuclear.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear power.