In your standard fossil-fuel power plant, the inefficiency begins when the coal or gas ignites.
For decades the company's energy business has been focused on fossil-fuel power plants or nuclear energy.
Over the long term, insists Tanti, wind power will be competitive with fossil fuel power even without subsidies.
That boost is reflected in how much natural gas was pulled out of storage to fuel power plants and furnaces.
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
That would mean a mixture of renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel power stations that capture and store the carbon dioxide they produce.
Climate change can be addressed without recourse to generating power from fusion since there are already many alternatives to fossil-fuel power plants.
Some of these developers are established engineering and construction firms in the power plant business, or they are owners of fossil fuel power plants.
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Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.
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There's even a "white tag" market: When I install a more efficient light bulb, I can sell that efficiency gain to the fossil fuel power plant, just as if it's a green tag.
For solar energy, according to the report, the near-term goal is for solar electricity to be competitive with retail electricity rates, with a long-term goal to compete with central fossil fuel power plants.
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Until the day when the world can supply its colossal energy needs with 100% renewable energy, we need to decarbonise existing fossil-fuel power production, and CCS is a vital part of the carbon abatement strategy.
With the share of natural gas used to fuel power plants expected to keep rising, gas producers are saying that between 29, 000 and 62, 000 miles of new pipeline is needed over the next 25 years.
Algae can be fed from waste-streams of CO2 from fossil-fuel power stations as a carbon elimination strategy and can also decontaminate groundwater, so there is a potential mix of environmental solutions in aid of a common goal of fuel beyond oil.
The second is a minefield because the technical responses make a rich mix, ranging from "it's not a problem because if you have enough wind turbines they compensate for each other" to "you need a fossil fuel power station on standby for every wind farm".
Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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Their fuel purchasing power enables them to provide value to customers and strengthen their brand.
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The creative energy that emanates from the Valley could fuel the power needs of a small country.
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It is true that coal remains cheap, and is the favoured fuel for power stations in industrialising Asia.
One of these days, we'll be making fuel to power our automobiles from wood chips, to switchgrasses, to agricultural wastes.
EVs don't need fuel to power them, which means no tailpipe emissions.
If it closes, that means more fossil fuel will power the state.
Angel investors were happily providing financial fuel to power the flourishing enterprise.
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The institution says 80% of the gas needed to fuel British power stations will come from distant and "politically unstable" countries by then.
The Israeli government sent in cooking gas, medical supplies and fuel for power plants and generators, said a spokesman for Israel's Coordination and Liaison Administration.
"This combination of two outstanding companies is a natural fit, " explained Johnson, citing cost saving due to fuel purchasing power and the dispatch of generating plants.
American Electric will utilize the pipeline to fuel its power plants, which will be converted from coal-fired to natural gas in order to comply with tightening environmental standards.
He also said the government is pushing ahead with Rokkasho as part of a national energy policy that seeks to reduce overall plutonium stockpiles by processing them into the fuel to power reactors.
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