Sentences with phrase «with nuclear electricity»

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Putnam County is provided with the majority of its electricity from the nuclear Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County.

The Lib Dems have also led the way with proposals for energy efficiency in our homes, and for green electricity generation without reliance on nuclear power.

That gets us to half the cost for electricity in the decade 2020 - 2030 then if we stick with fossil and nuclear fuel.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

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.»

With more wind power, new nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, and increased efficiency, electricity industry group says significant greenhouse gas reductions possible

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

With what EPRI calls a «full» portfolio of technology options, including new nuclear, expanded wind power and carbon capture, the price of electricity in current dollars would climb by 80 percent in 2050.

At the same time, nuclear reactors are still the only option for generating electricity on a large scale with no carbon emissions.

Germany's electricity mix is rapidly changing, with renewables on the way in and nuclear (potentially) heading out.

Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28 - nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years.

They built a huge nuclear industry, producing both bombs and electricity with unsafe reactors and sent the waste to leaky dumps and accident - prone reprocessing plants.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniWith more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burniwith electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

Some scientists propose creating power sources and electricity by igniting fusion reactions with lasers that trigger nuclear fission that can consume spent nuclear fuel.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

Currently 435 nuclear reactors operate around the world, with an electrical generating capacity of approximately 370 gigawatts (GW), providing about 17 percent of the world's electricity.

In contrast with electricity generated from coal or natural gas, nuclear power contributes little to greenhouse gas emissions and could therefore help in the effort to reduce global warming.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

The idea remains that fast reactors, which get their name because the neutrons that initiate fission in the reactor are zipping about faster than those in a conventional reactor, could offer a speedy solution to cleaning some nasty nuclear waste, which fissions better with fast neutrons, while also providing electricity as a by - product.

For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.

Dolly was cloned using the technique of «somatic cell nuclear transfer,» when a nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilized egg that has had its nucleus removed, and is then shocked with electricity to start cell growth.

«With a design that can extract energy from used nuclear fuel to generate electricity, our Prism advanced reactor technology is a game - changer,» he said.

«Manchester is a growing center of expertise for the civil nuclear energy sector, so we're delighted to work with them on PRISM, which we believe is the best way to manage the U.K.'s plutonium stockpile efficiently, securely and safely while generating low - carbon electricity at the same time.»

In a world with increasing energy demand nuclear fusion can play a role as it has the potential to be a sustainable and powerful electricity source free of CO2 emissions.

Nowadays, with talk of expanding the share of nuclear power in the electricity - producing world, debate about the remaining amount of uranium on earth has resurfaced.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.

That's because the cost of renewable energy has plummeted and in many cases is competitive with fossil fuel - and nuclear - generated electricity.

In one decade (1977 — 1987), France increased its nuclear power production 15-fold, with the nuclear portion of its electricity increasing from 8 % to 70 % [231].

As the country's largest source of emissions - free electricity, America's nuclear plants power our lives with clean, reliable electricity.

In one decade (2001 — 2011) Germany increased the non-hydroelectric renewable energy portion of its electricity from 4 % to 19 %, with fossil fuels decreasing from 63 % to 61 % (hydroelectric decreased from 4 % to 3 % and nuclear power decreased from 29 % to 18 %)[231].

It «s hard to summon much wonder when Superman goes mano - a-mano with Nuclear Man, a Lex Luthor creation with a static electricity problem.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

How do you deal with the fact that wind electricity is competitive with fossil fuel and nuclear electricity NOW and is still coming down?

Bart, I am basing this on the fact that nuclear currently generates 20 % of US electricity, with higher percentages in France and Japan.

An Energy Department review of geothermal sources last year said we might be able to generate as much electricity by 2050 that way as is now produced with nuclear plants.

It examines questions about the safety and costs of nuclear power relative to coal and other choices for electricity generation, along with the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and emissions of greenhouse gases relative to other energy sources.

I would add that feeding «11 billion humans on half as much topsoil» has pretty much ZERO to do with generating electricity, which is all that nuclear power (or wind turbines or solar panels) are good for, so that is a complete non sequitur.

The way to decrease emission from oil is to increase miles - per - gallon standards for light vehicles and eventually to electrify light vehicle transportation while at the same time shifting away from coal to produce electricity to sources with much lower emissions (gas, wind, nuclear).

Ramping up a massive effort to replace electricity generation with solar and nuclear, for example, will take decades and cost far more than most people realize.

According to the State Bureau of Statistics, 80 percent of electricity in China is generated from coal with contributions from hydro at 17 percent, nuclear 2 percent and «wind and other» at a measly 0.7 percent.

According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with the IEA and one of the report's authors, «19 % of global electricity generation is taken for lighting — that's more than is produced by hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from natural gas.»

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 levels.

Although you state you support nuclear, you seem to have a much better understanding of the anti-nuclear talking points than of the facts about nuclear — such as safety and costs (compared with other electricity generating technologies).

So nuclear generation is not as safe and it is more expensive than it would have been if it had been allowed to compete and develop on an equal footing with other electricity generation technologies.

Remove all the impediments we've imposed, over the past 50 years, that are preventing nuclear electricity generation from being cost competitive with fossil fuels.