Sentences with phrase «times more power plant»

In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and «oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation,» which would have allowed for three times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act.

Not exact matches

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Utilities can use batteries to make the grid more stable, and to avoid building new expensive and dirty power plants that they only operate during times of peak power demand.

** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).

It was a reference — borrowed, as noted several times in the trial, from «The Sopranos» TV show — to more than $ 300,000 in payments allegedly steered Percoco's way from a Syracuse development firm and an energy company with a power plant interest before the state.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which regulates nuclear power plants, is allowing the public more time to weigh in on how nuclear power plants are shut down as it considers changes to how the plants close, or decommission.

Dr. Stein said the Obama White House «has shown it has learned nothing» by promoting nuclear power plants at a time when much of the world is shifting away from them after the Read more»

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

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.»

A new technology might be able to strip the CO2 from power plant emissions, and generate more electricity at the same time

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.

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.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

«As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the carbon accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the earth much more than the direct emissions of the power plant.»

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.

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.

But this is certainly one reason: on average, 64 times more antioxidant power in plant foods than animal foods — but is this really a fair comparison?

On average, plant foods have 64 times more antioxidant power than red meat, poultry, fish, dairy, and eggs, but is it a fair comparison?

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, «The $ 2.2 Billion Bird - Scorching Solar Project» reported on how a solar power plant in California costs more than four times as much as a natural gas facility.

During peak hours, when the grid experiences a surge in usage, it's forced to use energy from outdated power plants that release far more carbon emissions than regular plants (sometimes up to 10 times more).

Because of inflation in the 1970s and more stringent safety regulation on nuclear power plants placed shortly before and after the Three - Mile Island accident in 1979, US nuclear plant construction times increased from around 7 yr in 1971 to 12 yr in 1980.

Obama has moved far more on power plants and auto efficiency than fuel prices (which are headed down of course), which simply shows that expectations and options evolve over time.

Via LA Times More on LCD and Plasma TV Energy Issues: Competition for LCD: Better Image, A Lot Less Power Plasma TVs Suck (Electricity) Energy Star Getting Tougher on TVs, Tests Them When Turned On Flat Screen TVs Worse For Climate Than a Big Coal Plant

Last month, in an interview with James Kanter of The Times and International Herald Tribune, the new head of the energy agency, Maria van der Hoeven, discussed one point made in the report today — that concerns raised by the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant could continue to dampen expansion of nuclear power and add to the challenge of avoiding a big accumulation of carbon dioxide, saying: «Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature to 2 degrees Centigrade.»

Located just 38 miles north of New York City, should the 2 GW power plant have an accident on the scale of that which took out the Fukushima plant in Japan, other new analysis by NRDC shows that it would be 10 - 100 times more costly — Fukushima is estimated to cost at least $ 60 billion to clean up — requiring the evacuation of millions, should a fallout plume extend southwards.

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

So we are back to your «plan B» of «buying more time» by adding new fossil fuel fired power plants when new capacity is required (regardless of what James E. Hansen thinks of this option).

The codes also achieve more than six times the emissions reductions as 100 nuclear power plants.

Gases fed into the grid are ever more diverse: natural gas and LNG from various origins, biomethane and hydrogen from Power to Gas plants result in permanently increasing in local and time - related fluctuations in gas quality.

Upon Mr. Pruitt's confirmation, the Trump administration intends to waste little time issuing directives scaling back high - profile EPA regulations, including a rule cutting carbon emissions from power plants and another bringing more bodies of water under federal jurisdiction, according to several people close to the administration.

Close to 3 out of 4 African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant, and African - American children have an 80 percent higher rate of asthma and are nearly three times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers.

The public filings reveal, however, that the maximum amount Atlantic Coast can charge any customer is more than three times the amount that another company, Transcontinental, can charge for pipeline capacity that services the exact same power plants as Atlantic Coast.

This is because the same capacity nuclear plant generates three times more power than a wind turbine.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

And McMahon adds: «Cars and appliances last a long time, 15 to 20 years, and power plants and buildings even longer — 50 years or more.

Electricity from a CSP plant costs more than twice as much as does electricity from an NGCC power plant, and a CSP plant costs nearly ten times more to construct than an NGCC power plant.

As time goes on, the rate of burning in the power plant stays the same, but the CO2 accumulates, so by the end of the year, the greenhouse gases will be heating the Earth much more than the direct emissions from the power plant.»

Put another way: One dollar spent subsidizing Fitzpatrick could thus leverage almost three times as much clean electricity as a dollar spent on renewables subsidies — and deliver far more reliable power than wind farms and solar plants do.

All rich countries would have to commit now to build no more coal - fired power plants and phase out existing ones in the next 2 - 3 decades (carbon capture and storage simply will not be ready in time), and the same commitment would need to be made within a few years by China, India, Brazil and other big developing countries.

The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

In the wake of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is looking to harness more of its offshore wind, a resource plentiful enough to meet national electricity needs nearly three times over.

The cost of integrating large, conventional power plants onto the power system in Texas is more than 17 times larger than the cost of reliably integrating wind energy.

Utilities prefer wind energy because the intermittent production at the wrong time of the day becomes a token excuse to build more fossil and nuclear fueled power plants.

Thus, transporting the electricity produced by the Ouarzazate solar plant to the European market would be 91 to 149 times more expensive than generating the power.

Coal and nuclear power plants, in particular, draw many times more water.

A night - time load such as Skyonic's plant would allow the CCGT to produce a bit more power, moving it slightly upward on its efficiency curve.

For example, higher coal prices due to carbon taxing will lead cost - minimizing power grids to more heavily dispatch lower - emitting natural gas power plants in the short run, and to switch increasingly to zero - carbon wind and solar generation over time.