大多数公用事业公司并直面这个问题,而是试图通过增加电站的燃烧效率使得消耗每一公吨煤炭或制造每一公吨二氧化碳时能够获取更多的电能。
Most utilities tackle the problem indirectly, by attempting to improve the efficiency of their plants, and so to squeeze more electricity from each tonne of coal consumed or carbon dioxide produced.
但是麦格理证券商品分析师亚当·沃辛顿指出,印尼正在建设燃煤发电站,其将在2011年之前消耗掉额外的2千万吨左右的煤。
But Indonesia has coal-fired power stations under construction that will absorb an extra 20m tonnes or so of coal by 2011, points out Adam Worthington, a commodities analyst at Macquarie Securities.
美国的104座核电站提供了我们所消耗的8%的能源。
The United States has 104 nuclear power plants providing 8 percent of our energy.
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