Sentences with phrase «than nuclear»

Wind energy creates 30 % more jobs than a coal plant and 66 % more than a nuclear power plant per unit of energy generated.

Power plants that depend on natural gas can make electricity more cheaply than nuclear plants.

Other than nuclear power, there is now no feasible large scale potential source of energy.

I am 55 and I expect that within my lifetime, wind and solar will be generating a larger share of the world's electricity than nuclear power does today — perhaps much larger.

In fact coal ash (waste from coal burning) is also radioactive and poses a greater health hazard to nearby communities than nuclear waste.

Are they really that much more expensive than a nuclear path?

Wind gets 17 times more in subsidies than nuclear.

According to the film, those who can control the world of computers can hold power more destructive than any nuclear weapon.

Those economics look even worse than nuclear economics, especially with key federal renewables subsidies sun - setting over the next few years.

Unfortunately wind has the highest fixed costs in spite of costing less per MW of capacity than nuclear.

Which is a far cheaper process across the board than nuclear facilities when all costs are considered.

The least - cost solar option would require 400 times more land area and emit 20 times more CO2 than nuclear power.

I can't imagine a worse solution than the nuclear one.

For the moment, large - scale solar and wind are roughly similar in price and lower than nuclear and fossil fuels.

But despite the market's not yet recognizing the benefits, the decentralized low - or no - carbon generators turn out to be greater in capacity and output than nuclear power worldwide.

This simplicity absolutely works in the game's favour, allowing you to instantly pick up and play without being weighed down by a control scheme more complicated than nuclear physics.

Wind yields more energy, more jobs, and more carbon reduction per dollar invested than nuclear.

In 2016, renewables used for electricity production received $ 6.6 billion, or 33 times more, in federal tax preferences than nuclear.

Some would argue that natural gas has a lower carbon footprint than nuclear power if an objective comparison is made over the full product life cycle.

As this study shows, access to low - cost fossil fuels is in fact cheaper than nuclear.

Solar and wind receive many times more in subsidies than nuclear.

As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.

Using what's called true single molecule sequencing, Orlando lit up the A's, C's, T's and G's, one by one, to assemble the horse's genome — six times older than any nuclear DNA specimen ever sequenced.

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.

While not anywhere near the top, lawyers rank substantially higher than nuclear decontamination technicians (# 185), garbage collectors (# 194) or butchers (# 196).

It is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that nuclear war, either by accident or because of uncontrollable escalation, is not likely to be prevented.

The mtDNA has a much higher mutation rate than nuclear DNA, which by itself might imperil species survival, because most DNA mutations are deleterious.

In 2010, wind's year - on - year installed capacity growth was fifteen percent and the industry remained ahead of schedule for achieving its goal of providing twenty percent of U.S. electricity by 2030, «faster than the nuclear industry ramped up to make twenty percent of America's electricity in the last century,» Kelley said.

On average, a solar farm must cover an area 150 times larger than nuclear to generate the same quantity of electricity as a nuclear plant; wind farms must cover an area 750 times larger.

Germany, for example, is a country that is not particularly warm or sunny, but is nevertheless the world leader in solar energy, generating more electricity with solar than nuclear power in July 2015.

«This should feel more like a cruise ship than a nuclear submarine.»

Fossil fuels operating normally kill far more people than nuclear plants do when they malfunction.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

Interestingly, depending on the coal they burn, some coal plants emit more radiation into the atmosphere than any nuclear fission reactor.