Sentences with phrase «traditional fuel plants»

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In winter months, when demand for heat cranks up, there are two reserve systems: an additional heating plant fueled by wood chips, and another (rarely used) furnace that burns traditional oil.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

CAM plants can flourish here by conserving water more effectively than traditional crops — they capture carbon dioxide from the air at night and convert it to malate, which fuels photosynthesis during the day.

The small footprint of the NuScale Power Modules plant and the low profile of the reactor building due to below - grade placement of the NuScale Power Modules and spent fuel pool offer a greatly reduced target size relative to traditional LWRs.

Both aSMR designs share fundamental features, such as high energy neutrons, liquid sodium cooling and metallic fuel, which provide inherent safety performance and more economically competitive plant architecture compared to traditional water - cooled reactors.

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

CSP can be piggybacked on to a fossil fueled traditional plant, since — though while one harvests the sun, the other burns oil — both use that heat to turn the same turbines to make electricity.

«We have to make our traditional fossil - fuel plants more flexible.

But in the long run, as the U.S. and the world double down on fighting climate change, renewable and more - local power sources are expected to multiply as traditional fossil fuel plants age out.

Traditional grids invented by Thomas Edison draw supplies from a handful of generators fueled mostly by coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, which can run around the clock.

He said that «as long as producing carbon pollution carries no cost, traditional plants that use fossil fuels will be more cost - effective than plants that use nuclear fuel.»

The traditional model has been that electric load (electric demand) drives electric generation... your factory turns on, and you have to turn on a fossil - fuel burning power plant.

PDF) entitled «Disruptive Challenges» in January 2013, outlining the threat that distributed energy generation presents to the traditional utility industry business model of selling electricity from large, centralized, mostly fossil fuel power plants.