As a reporter for the Times noted in her article, the lessons talked about the benefits of coal and the pervasiveness of power plants fueled by it, but omitted mention of the environmental and economic trade-offs, such as toxic waste and greenhouse gases.
The rebels are also said to have cut off electrical power to parts of the city, having taken control of three power plants in the neighbouring town of Boali.
If the people in the Great Plains are going to be subsidised to do something, does it not make more sense to subsidise jobs in the construction and assembly of power plants and the generation of clean power rather than an unhelpful distortion in the world's agricultural markets?
The geared turbofan has put Pratt in the enviable position of supplying the most power plants for the most popular airliners for the next couple of decades: single-aisle jets that will absorb much of the travel boom in emerging markets.
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Most of this decrease was due directly to the decreasing use of coal in power plants and the increase in combustion of clean-burning natural gas.
But we will be making sure that the next generation of them, the next set of power plants to be built for example, will be low or non-carbon emitting.
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Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.
The Blythe Solar Power Project is the largest of nine big solar power plants licensed over the past nine months by the California Energy Commission, and it comes with a price tag to match.
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Solar thermal power, which is the most economical form of solar power production, additionally consumes at least double the water of conventional power plants.
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The rise of solar power in Germany is directly related to the country's phase-out of nuclear power plants -- however in Japan, the issue of nuclear power is back in the news.
Such laws also slow the construction of power plants, contributing to the rolling blackouts that crippled South Africa in 2008.
The emissions implications of increased wind power penetration is to a large extent determined by the portfolio of other power plants.
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The chief justice has struck down government decisions on matters such as gasoline prices and the commissioning of power plants, invalidated government appointments, and summoned its officials to answer to the Supreme Court over allegations of corruption and mismanagement.
Even on the energy front, despite the closing of nuclear power plants, Exxon Mobil has acknowledged the fragility of the Japanese economy.
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As Hurricane Sandy smashed into the northeast of the United States, nuclear power plants in its path were on the minds of many.
But these efforts will not immediately offset the amount of power the eight forgone plants were expected to produce, meaning that new power plants, particularly coal plants, will be needed to fill the energy deficit.
Quite a few interests made considerable profits by the construction of nuclear power plants over the last 40 years.
Given the challenges of financing major capital projects like power plants in the midst of the Great Recession, South Africa and the national utility, Eskom, have turned to the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank for assistance in financing new electric power stations.
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France generates 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear, and its state-owned firms are world leaders: Paris-based EDF is the largest operator of nuclear power plants worldwide, while Areva is the largest provider of nuclear services and technology.
Under the terms of the deal, TXU said that it would not build eight of its 11 proposed coal-fired power plants, winning the approval of two key environmental groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense.
Another test flight, warned defense chief Norota Hosei, would prompt Tokyo to suspend funding for the construction of nuclear-power plants in North Korea, cornerstone of the U.S. engagement policy.
There have been questions about the financial viability of new nuclear power plants as a result of the coalition agreement pledge to only allow them "provided they receive no public subsidy".
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Earth Hour does lessen the electrical load of power plants to some extent, thus making a small contribution for that hour by lessening the amount of coal burned.
The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which began a little more than 10 years ago in response to the Bush administration's plan to build hundreds of coal-fired power plants, has successfully opposed the vast majority of proposed new plants and helped to retire 130 of the dirtiest, most-polluting existing coal plants in the United States.
The recession and a surge in the number of new power plants brought online had cut the prices it could charge for generating electricity--its core business--from a peak of 25 cents per kilowatt-hour (in California, December 2000) to 2.7 cents a year later.
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.
The new group will be the world's biggest exporter of coal for power plants, and the largest producer of zinc.
Similarly, attaching thermoelectric devices to the flues of power plants could generate more useful power.
With this aim in mind, the company is constantly working to improve its technology so as to increase the efficiency of power plants.
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It is now working on regulations to mitigate the danger, to be applied to big, stationary sources of emissions such as power plants over the course of next year.
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