Fifty years ago, Japanese electricity was generated by smaller, discrete coal- and oil-fired plants.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
Chemical plants, oil depots, and nuclear plants will be more tightly guarded.
While attacks on critical infrastructure are relatively rare, recent months have seen viruses and other malicious programs hit control systems at oil treatment plants and other facilities.
Plenty of studies show we can run the economy on clean energy and shut down our coal, oil, nuclear and gas plants in the lifetime of the existing stock.
It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
Existing coal- and oil-fired power plants must reduce average emission levels of the least 12% of current plants.
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That change, called the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT, rule requires that coal- and oil-fired power plants reduce pollutant emission rates significantly.
Yet most Democrats, notably senators Obama and Biden, refuse to support two initiatives that would create hundreds of thousands of highly skilled, well-paying U.S. manufacturing and construction jobs: a new push for nuclear power plants and more oil and gas exploration and production.
That improved capability had helped it protect itself against subsequent attacks on oil terminals and other manufacturing plants.
The conventional route to biodiesel consists of extracting oil from plants and converting it to the methyl esters of fatty acids that are present in the lipid-components, known as triglycerides.
The primary alternatives such as coal, oil and natural gas power plants also pose dangers to nearby residents who breathe in fine pollutants released by the combustion of these fuels.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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Over the past week, computer experts in Italy, Russia and the US have posted details online on a clutch of vulnerabilities they have found in various SCADA packages used to automate installations as diverse as power stations, water purification plants, oil refineries, food factories, breweries and steel plants.
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Less than 2o years ago, electric generation was primarily the domain of oil, coal, and nuclear plants.
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The company is also anticipating more demand for its nuclear plants as oil and natural gas prices skyrocket.
The government is betting on a higher oil price and on new hydroelectric plants, which will cut spending on subsidies for imported energy.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
It invests with Stakhanovite zeal in impressive but uneconomical facilities, such as oil refineries, steel mills and fertiliser plants.
Stuxnet is tailored to target weaknesses in Siemens systems used to manage water supplies, oil rigs, power plants and other utilities.
The idea of obtaining more energy from off-shore and Arctic oil and gas deposits and accelerating the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants will continue to receive at least presidential lip service.
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.
The administration estimates the savings will be equal to 1.8 billion barrels of oil and shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants.
Outside of oil and gas, Hunt owns stakes in power plants in the Northeast, transmission lines in Texas, including a 150 megawatt cross-border line with Mexico built in 2007.
Just as raw as the accounts of the unhappy PUAs ("pick-up artists") are the faux-testimonies doing the same job as the shills and plants of the 1890s snake oil market.
Any policy to reduce heat-trapping pollution will inevitably target the main sources of Americans' energy: the coal burned by power plants for electricity and the oil that is refined to run automobiles.
She paused to tell stories about the trail and the area, pointing out an old rig that tried drilling for oil in the 1970s and describing the way the native plants have developed.
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