There are 87 waste to energy plants in the U.S., compared with 433 in Europe.
Today, 20% of our electricity is provided by 104 nuclear energy plants in the United States.
Already, the world's 700-odd waste-to-energy plants generate more power than all its wind turbines and solar panels put together.
Recycling rates there are two to three times America's, and the rest of their trash goes to waste-to-energy plants.
Ecuador and Nicaragua are working more closely with Brazil in helping to construct hydroelectric energy plants and chemical industries, respectively.
In China, many waste-to-energy plants may create more waste than they save because they use coal to burn trash.
He says half of the ash coming out of U.S. waste-to-energy plants is glass and metal, stuff that can be recycled.
The biggest success story may be Singapore, which has four waste-to-energy plants that can process 7, 600 tons of waste per day.
Ragnarsson says Iceland should help develop geothermal energy plants overseas, in Africa, the United States and even near the aluminum mines in Australia.
Nuclear energy plants are very difficult to build because they have an extremely high initial cost outlay, which generates financial risk.
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Long-term, Zell is excited about the waste-to-energy plants he has acquired.
The government's support for new coal and energy plants and its backing for a new runway at Heathrow airport showed these promises to be hollow, she continued.
Even America is thinking again: in 20-odd states that require utilities to generate a proportion of their power from renewable sources, waste-to-energy plants count towards the goal.
With old coal power stations being closed down Britain needs new energy plants - and wind farms, gas and nuclear power stations are seen as the answers.
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Tractabel, a Belgian power giant, notes that it initially built waste-to-energy plants in Britain to take advantage of policies that gave favourable commercial breaks to renewable technologies.
The economics of these waste-to-energy plants hangs on two things.
The researchers used a database of more than 16, 000 energy plants to determine which underused plants were likely to make up a power shortfall if specific nuclear plants were closed.
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In many countries power from landfill gas or waste-to-energy plants (like the one at Spittelau, outside Vienna, illustrated above) attracts subsidies of one kind or another because it saves emissions.
To that end, its city hall is covered in solar panels and there are plans to fit cosier insulation to local-government buildings, build four waste-to-energy plants and buy 500 hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2010.
If the trials of the grey box prove successful, it will allow new renewable energy plants such as the farm in Roscrow to connect without the need for expensive grid reinforcement, said Roger Hey of WPD's Future Networks team.
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Major infrastructure projects onshore between 50MW and 100MW include onshore windfarms, biomass plants and energy from waste plants.
In addition to nukes, OR-SAGE also examines advanced coal with carbon capture and storage, solar and compressed air energy power plants.
The proposed power plants would simultaneously provide energy to seawater desalination plants in the Middle East and North Africa.
Christine Jacobs is an operations executive who managed power plants for NRG Energy and Exelon and Pharmaceutical plants in the Americas for the former Rhone Poulenc Rorer while raising three children as a single mother.
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He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.
He notes that many species of algae pack a far denser punch energy-wise than the plants now used as energy crops.
However, this form of energy requires expensive plants to turn the gas into liquid at source.
And a new study confirmed suspicions that electric cars that are powered by energy from coal plants have a heavy carbon footprint.
At the moment, however, there are only two compressed-air energy-storage plants in the world (one in America and one in Germany), and neither was built to make use of wind power.
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