Sentences with phrase «wave power plant»

A medium - sized wave power plant has been successfully tested in storm waters in the Black Sea.

It is estimated that the wave power plant will produce...

The small town of Mutriku in the Basque region of Spain is the first in the world to open a commercial wave power plant.

It is estimated that the wave power plant will produce about 300 kilowatts, enough to provide 10 % of Mutriku's energy needs.

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That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

When a frigid cold wave knocked out 50 power plants in Texas during February's Super Bowl week, utilities had to impose rolling blackouts across entire communities with a «blunt ax,» said Robert Shapard, CEO of Dallas - based Oncor, the state's largest transmission company.

It doesn't take a lot of arithmetic to figure out that 2030 is the beginning of a big wave of retirements of nuclear power plants.

Its waves also wrecked a coastal power plant, triggering a nuclear disaster.

This highly mathematical study tries to find constraints when an event in a power plant, say a pressure wave, can be traced to a source fluctuation (fuel or oxygen).

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Existing power stations near the end of their working lives are ready to be decommissioned, while a new wave of plants has been given the go ahead.

We love seeing vegans making positive media waves, and what better way to showcase the health benefits of plant - powered living than Mike's awesome running career.

Plant your foot on it, though, and the entire car seems to gather itself and burst forward on a surge of power that feels like surfing a gnarly Hawaiian wave.

As for the power - ups there are three new additions, the Super Horn, which emits a defensive shock wave and can be used to fend off even a blue shell; the Piranha Plant, is held in your character's hand and chomps at any nearby rivals and items; and the Boomerang, which can be thrown up to three times to attack your enemies.

Today, we have limits in place for arsenic, mercury and lead, but we let power plants release as much carbon pollution as they want — pollution that is contributing to higher rates of asthma attacks and more frequent and severe floods and heat waves.

This highly mathematical study tries to find constraints when an event in a power plant, say a pressure wave, can be traced to a source fluctuation (fuel or oxygen).

For example, because of the latest wave of US EPA regulations having nothing to do with climate change it is estimated that 50,000 MW of old coal fired power plants will be shut down.

Seal levels keep going up, more natural lakes are drying up and desert areas like Kern county suffer frequent heat waves because of coal power plants.

Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal - fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its «green» and «climate protection» policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

Overall in 2030, J&D envision 50 % of global power demand will be met by wind, 20 % by concentrated solar thermal power, 14 % by solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants, 6 % by solar PV on rooftops, 4 % each by geothermal and hydroelectric, and 1 % each from waves and tides.

So premise of such study would be the fact that that government would waving these environmental laws and also be looking a way to streamline governmental approval, so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to building nuclear power plants.

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Exacerbated flooding of low - lying power plants and equipment, as well as structural damage to infrastructure due to wave action

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A 64 - megawatt solar thermal power plant completed in 2007 in Nevada, a similar one under construction in Spain, and a 300 - megawatt facility proposed in Florida represent the new wave of these facilities.

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After a wave of protests and resistance from civil society and the climate movement in Berlin, the last lignite - fired power plant in the city finally shut down on the 24th May 2017.

METI is also supporting a joint venture with the industrial and academic sectors of a combined offshore wave power and marine current powered - generation plant, with commercialization scheduled for 2016.

As a result, the European Commission may contribute up to Euro 1.37 million [US$ 1.75 million] toward the deployment of a 2 megawatt (MW) full - scale wave - energy power plant off the coast of Portugal, subject to successful contract negotiations and completion of the internal, formal selection process.

But research now indicates the Sea of Japan is suitable for the use of wave - power technology, while marine current technology would be better suited for power generation plants in the Pacific Ocean or the Inland Sea.

With the drought and heat waves that have beset Texas, the increasing demand for electricity for cooling and fresh water for irrigation and livestock has created serious challenges for these power plants.

Now the world is facing a tidal wave of new power plants fired by coal, experts say.

It is one of cause and effect — more carbon expelled from power plants results in more heat waves, super storms like Hurricane Sandy, and respiratory diseases like asthma caused by toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.

In a statement released Friday, Southern Company, the Atlanta - based parent company of Alabama Power, said the soot regulations, in combination with a wave of other regulations for power plants, are «disappointing and will potentially make energy less affordable.&rPower, said the soot regulations, in combination with a wave of other regulations for power plants, are «disappointing and will potentially make energy less affordable.&rpower plants, are «disappointing and will potentially make energy less affordable.»

Future energy mix will include biofuels for selected applications but the bulk will come from free sustainable cleaner sources such as Hydro, Sun, Wind, Geothermal, Waves and from many new up - to - date nuclear power plants.

Across the country, water demand from power plants is combining with pressure from growing populations and other needs, and is straining our water resources — especially during droughts and heat waves.

But meeting the world's total energy demands in 2030 with renewable energy alone would take an estimated 3.8 million wind turbines (each with twice the capacity of today's largest machines), 720,000 wave devices, 5,350 geothermal plants, 900 hydroelectric plants, 490,000 tidal turbines, 1.7 billion rooftop photovoltaic systems, 40,000 solar photovoltaic plants, and 49,000 concentrated solar power systems.

... 328,000 new onshore 5 MW wind turbines (providing 30.9 % of U.S. energy for all purposes), 156,200 off - shore 5 MW wind turbines (19.1 %), 46,480 50 MW new utility - scale solar - PV power plants (30.7 %), 2,273 100 MW utility - scale CSP power plants (7.3 %), 75.2 million 5 kW residential rooftop PV systems (3.98 %), 2.75 million 100 kW commercial / government rooftop systems (3.2 %), 208 100 MW geothermal plants (1.23 %), 36,050 0.75 MW wave devices (0.37 %), 8,800 1 MW tidal turbines (0.14 %), and 3 new hydroelectric power plants (all in Alaska).

Stephen Salter at Edinburgh University is working toward that possibility his Edinburgh Duck, a wave powered desalination plant.

We estimate that ∼ 3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, ∼ 49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, ∼ 40,000 300 MW solar PV power plants, ∼ 1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, ∼ 5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, ∼ 270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, ∼ 720,000 0.75 MW wave devices, and ∼ 490,000 1 MW tidal turbines can power a 2030 WWS world that uses electricity and electrolytic hydrogen for all purposes.

AL: In India, where you go to places where communities that are resisting, especially near coal - fired power plants that have had a big wave of resistance in the last five years, people are so excited to talk about their struggles.

99.99 % of all power we see on earth (plants growing, animals moving, winds and waves moving, light and heat) are a result of solar energy.

What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal - fired power plants is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations as well as leading climate scientists and state governments.

Recent analysis from Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson finds Hawaii can economically meet 100 % of its energy needs with 14 % residential rooftop PV, 9.7 % PV power plants, 7 % concentrating solar power plants, 12 % onshore wind, 16 % offshore wind, 9 % commercial and government rooftop PV, 1 % wave energy, 30 % geothermal, 0.3 % hydroelectric, and 1 % tidal energy.

Finally, Danish company Floating Power Plant is developing a 10 MW commercial version of their Poseidan prototype hybrid wave / wind device.

Ideally, every nation should commit to spending 0.05 percent of its gross domestic product exploring non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, be they wind, wave or solar power, or capturing CO2emissions from power plants.