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But does nt this argument also apply to replacing coal fired power with nuclear and NG back - up for extreme peak demand?

HERO is also performing detailed engineering feasibility studies into the potential for replacing coal fired power plants with EGS

Even more importantly, if we replace coal fired power stations with renewable energy, we will greatly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are one of the main causes of climate change and ocean acidification.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve human health by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired power plants with emissions - free technology.)

Also, if newer greener energy technologies can reasonably replace our baseline power needs from coal - fired power plants then coal demand will decline further.

Ultimately, the replacement of old, highly polluting coal - fired power plants by nuclear reactors is essentially no different from deciding, after putting sentimental considerations aside, to replace your inexpensive and reliable — but obsolete — 1983 Olds Omega with a 2007 Toyota Camry or BMW 3 Series sedan.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

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.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal - fired power plants.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Yohe estimates the cost of achieving a more modest goal of holding warming to roughly 2 degrees C at a cost of 0.5 to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for the U.S. by 2050, thanks to the expense incurred by, for example, replacing existing coal - fired power plants with renewables or retrofitting them with carbon - capture technology.

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

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.

Most of that change will have to take place in the developing world, whether replacing China's new coal - fired power plants or building wind, solar or geothermal facilities to power development in African countries.

They include the central government's commitment to replace heavily polluting coal - fired power plants, which are blamed for wrenching air conditions in China's cities, with non-emitting resources such as wind, solar and hydropower.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

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?

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

Whether it's turning off a light when leaving a room or building windmills to replace coal - fired power plants, stopping global warming could be a matter of survival.

In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.

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.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

• New coal - fired power plants would only be permitted when they replace existing coal - fired capacity (so they would not increase the total capacity) unless they were completely clean, i.e., unless they had a way of removing carbon dioxide from emissions.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

What will need to be replaced in the next 30 years are aging fossil fuel infrastructures like outdated coal - fired power plants.

I have used these numbers to calculated how many deaths might be avoided in Australia by replacing coal - fired power with wind energy.

The Obama Administration's «Clean Power Plant» would also prematurely shutter U.S. coal - fired power plants and replace them with wind, solar, and natural gas - fired power plants, raising electricity prices to U.S. consuPower Plant» would also prematurely shutter U.S. coal - fired power plants and replace them with wind, solar, and natural gas - fired power plants, raising electricity prices to U.S. consupower plants and replace them with wind, solar, and natural gas - fired power plants, raising electricity prices to U.S. consupower plants, raising electricity prices to U.S. consumers.

[iii] The coal - fired power plants were replaced by natural gas, nuclear power, wind power, and electricity demand reductions.

Similarly, countries that have built nuclear power plants have tended to replace the least efficient coal - fired plants.

The threatened early termination of Liddell is one reason that the Monash Forum has gone on the offensive — a fired - up group of 30 National and Liberal MPs are determined not only to prevent that event, but also to ensure that Victoria replaces its recently closed 1,600 MW Hazelwood plant, with a High - Efficiency Low - Emissions coal - fired plant, to prevent blackouts and bring power prices back to earth in that state.

be blowing somewhere, then a coal - fired power station could be replaced by wind sources that are 100 % reliable.

Biocoal replaces ordinary coal without requiring major refits of coal - fired power plants.

The utility wants to replace three retiring coal - fired power plants with the new natural gas plant in St. Clair County.

The hole left by the failure of contracts - for - closure should be replaced with a new policy to close coal - fired power plants and replace them with renewable energy.

For example, in late 2004, Duke Energy, one of the country's largest utilities and most experienced builders, started planning a pair of coal - fired power plants to replace several built around the middle of the last century, at Cliffside, in western North Carolina.

On February 1, the government pledged to decommission all reactors and replace them with 45 new coal - fired power plants equipped with the latest clean coal technology.

Switching to electrified vehicles and replacing existing coal fired power stations may be a good first step.

Taking capacity factors into consideration and using the above data on land usage, to replace the energy from all 274 gigawatts of coal - fired capacity that the United States currently has with wind power would require a land area consisting of almost the entire state of Washington — over 12 times the land area that the coal - fired units require.

Advocates of a carbon - free grid claim that wind and solar can replace all of our nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

Natural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emit CO2.

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

Electricity generators have chosen natural gas for its affordability and reliability, often replacing coal - fired power plants and emitting up to 56 percent less greenhouse gases than coal for the same amount of electricity.

If we closed down all our coal fired power stations and build nuclear power stations to replace them it would cost us billions and billions of dollars.

Three solar projects at 74.5 MW - AC each will replace a 250 MW coal - fired power plant which the utility plans to shut down.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

Between 2010 - 2020, rapid near - term investment in natural gas electricity - generating capacity can progressively replace Australia's dirtiest coal - fired power plants for baseload power.