The result has been, particularly in poor countries, the building of more inefficient, old style coal fired power stations.

More windmills or more coal fired power plants.

Germany is providing lavish support for the construction of new coal plants.

And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal fired gas plants.

China is now estimated to build two new coal fired power plants each week.

From 1996 to 2000, China also closed down many coal fired power plants that were producing less than 50 MW of power.

So how else could we replace the coal fired power plants?

OMV also operates two gas fired power plants in Romania and Turkey.

It's the only college which is fully solar electrified.

On the other hand, both China and India are rich in coal, which in turn largely determines the energy mix.

Clean coal technologies were at least 25 percent more efficient than traditional coal fired power plants.

Where this will lead the world can be seen even today China already has the world s most ambitious scheme for expanding nuclear energy, and every year it builds coal fired power plants whose electricity output is roughly equivalent to the capacity of the entire British power grid!

(b) Substantive services the secretariat will provide substantive and technical assistance to the annual sessions of the Committee on Energy and to the working parties on coal gas and on electric power.

Even the most modern and advanced conventional coal fired power plants emit over 15 times more CO2 per unit of electricity than renewable energy systems, and more than twice the amount of efficient gas fired power stations.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is pumped to a conventional steam generator to produce superheated steam for a turbine generator as used in any conventional coal, oil or nuclear power plant.

It's 80 times better in energy consumption, and it's powered by biofuel, by Weetabix.

Suffice it to say that the operating nuclear power stations account for more than 30 per cent of the total amount of electric power produced in Ukraine.

Natural gas fueled power stations can be fired up rapidly and are therefore often utilized at peak demand times.

Oil was replaced by coal, especially for power production and the oil consumption was reduced significantly due to energy savings and changes in consumption and supply system, e.g. introduction of combined heat and power.

The first stage operated at lower voltage and provided the energy for the second stage to spark at a higher voltage.

And the other thing that's pretty cool about the technology is that it only transfers energy to things that work at exactly the same frequency.

It is little wonder, then, that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who two years ago described the expansion of coal fired power plants as his worst nightmare, now calls coal a great natural resource.

China uses coal, a particularly CO2 intensive fuel, for 70 of its commercial energy supply, while coal accounts for a third of America s total energy. China is now estimated to build two new coal fired power plants each week.

When new coal fired power stations are built, they are likely to continue operating for as long as half a century, locking the world in to high levels of emissions.

We're not going to create the clean energy economy when one side beats the other, we're going to win when we all come together for solutions that work for all of us.

They actively promote carbon intensive energy and deter green investment.

Traditional morality faded away as technology multiplied productive power.

Kamen states that his company DEKA is now working on solar power inventions.

Did you ever think we'd be flying coal and tomatoes in these crates?

Those wires carry 13 thousand amps when the machine is working in full power.

Whereas a coal burning plant, a normal one gigawatt coal plant, burns 80 rail cars of coal a day, each car having 100 tons.

An electric car powered with that electricity will emit 21 more CO2 than a gasoline powered car.

It is little wonder, then, that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who two years ago described the expansion of coal fired power plants as his worst nightmare, now calls coal a great natural resource.

Whereas a coal burning plant, a normal one gigawatt coal plant, burns 80 rail cars of coal a day, each car having 100 tons.

So it would work as well, for example, in a power plant or in an automobile factory.

Here's your brute force approach. Once you get through your brute force approach, then you just rip off whole mountaintops. And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal fired gas plants. That is probably not the best use of bioenergy.

Many coal fired power plants would be uncompetitive if they were required to internalize these costs.

Taiwan has three nuclear power plants, and, like the plant at Fukushima, they directly face the ocean.

But in a gallon of gasoline, you have, effectively, thousands of years of sun power compressed into a small space, so it's hard to make the numbers work right now on solar, and to remotely compete with, for example, natural gas, fracked natural gas.

Today s solar power plants might cost an extra 0.10 kilowatt hour compared to coal, but such plants will be much less costly in the future because of improved technology.

The Canadian economy was in recession, above average winter temperatures were experienced in many regions of the country and high water levels allowed hydro electricity to temporarily displace electricity normally produced from coal fired generators.

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The answer to this can be found in embodied energy.

NEW YORK The solution to manmade climate change depends on the transition to electricity production that, unlike burning oil, natural gas, and coal, emits little or no carbon dioxide the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming. Low carbon electricity can be produced by solar, nuclear, and wind energy, or by coal burning power plants that capture and store their CO2 emissions.

Hyundai is going to provide a collection of 32 Tucson fuel cell vehicles, which are powered by UTC Fuel Cell power plants.