Sentences with phrase «very coal units»
By creating a demand for this supposedly dispatchable power, the policy discourages the retirement of the very coal units that AEMO has identified as ill - suited to our needs.
https://theconversation.com/ Not exact matches
Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.
I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.
The new coal plants (per the German government) have been long planned to replace very old and low efficiency units with new coal units which are approaching ~ 50 % efficiency.