Sentences with phrase «traditional coal plants»

He is confident, however, that even for traditional coal plants the cost of CCS can be reduced to $ 20 per ton.

Extracting CO2 from traditional coal plants is much less efficient than from gasification plants, where coal is first turned to a gas and reacted with water to form CO2 and hydrogen.

Even as China continues to rely on traditional coal plants for power generation, it is turning to gasification of low - rank coals to build its middle class and to make products like fertilizer and plastics, he explained.

The coal doesn't have to be mined; the facilities on the ground are much smaller than traditional coal plants with boilers or IGCC plants.

This year, the World Bank, the U.S., the U.K., and several Scandinavian countries have all pledged to no longer fund traditional coal plants abroad, representing a sea change in energy financing.

He is strongly opposed to traditional coal plants and would use whatever means necessary to stop new plants from being built, including a ban on new traditional coal facilities.

Among the details: a design that has a lower cost than traditional coal plants, capability to be load - following, and with an efficiency higher than 40 %, well above the current average of 33 % for a traditional coal plant.

Such plants operate at higher pressures and higher efficiencies than traditional coal plants.