Nuclear engineers have long known of increased risks from high burn-up fuels, but scientists at Argonne have been sounding the alarm about storage dangers in recent years after their research ( pdf) showed high burn-up fuels may result in fuel rods becoming more brittle over time.
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But even when the alternative is to burn fossil fuels, the wind game likely wouldn't exist without tax breaks.
Currently, over sixty percent of households in Africa burn biomass fuels, like wood, crop residue, charcoal and dung every day.
They propose a way of making electricity companies which burn fossil fuels pay a minimum price for the pollution they create.
If governments ever decide to get serious about climate change, they will take actions which make it less profitable to extract and burn fossil fuels.
Having shut down almost all nuclear plants, Japan is importing more oil (up 26% YoY September) and LNG (up 11.4%) and converting plants to burn these fuels.
Controlling black carbon by giving poor people cleaner ways to burn various fuels could not only forestall a decade or two of global warming, it would also save hundreds of thousands of lives currently blighted by smoke and disease.
On the environmental side, when you burn these fossil fuels, you're really seeing carbon dioxide into the air.
Because they often burn high sulfur fuels, they produce about 50% of the global emissions of sulfur dioxide.
But questions arise as to whether it is more efficient to make hydrogen or just directly burn the associated fuels.
But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for electric power, new ways to conserve and distribute clean water for farming and gulping, and new ways get ourselves and our cargo around, so that we don't change the Earth's climates too much as we burn our fossil fuels.
New international regulations that require ships to burn low sulfur grades of fuel rather than the comparatively inexpensive bunker fuels most ships currently burn.
Given that the country has drastically reduced the number of operating reactors that could burn plutonium-based fuels to produce electricity, the excess plutonium would have to be stored.
To turn the ratio around: If you want to displace a unit of petroleum energy, you have to burn four-fifths of a unit in fossil fuels.
Carbon monoxide is produced when fuels such as gas, oil, charcoal, coal and wood do not burn completely.
Indeed, Arizona Clean Fuels, an organization that bills itself as committed to building newer and better refineries that burn gasoline more cleanly, has been through the wringer for a decade as it's tried to get a refinery up in the Yuma area.
Planning permission has already been granted for two UK power stations to burn bioliquids, including palm oil, and the government plans to promise future subsidies, without which the fuels are uneconomic.
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