New types of tiny combined heat and power plants are able to turn about half the energy in fuel into electricity, almost matching the efficiency of huge generators.

新型的小规模热电联产机组，能够将燃料中大约一半的能量转化为电力，其效率已与大型发电机的效率相若。

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Yet China is building almost as many nuclear power plants as the rest of the world combined.

然而中国正在建设的核电站数量几乎与世界其他国家和地区在建核电站的数量加在一起差不多。

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All four big German operators are working hard to replace their nuclear capacity (about a quarter of their combined total) with renewable power or gas-fired plants.

德国所有的四家核电运营商正在努力，用可再生能源以及气电发电厂来替换他们的核发电能力(这是合计发电总数的四分之一)。

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The 80% efficiency seen in combined heat and power plants, known as cogeneration plants, is ideally suited for large institutions--universities, hospitals, airports--that have extensive electricity and thermal energy demand in a concentrated area.

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GreatPoint relied on widely available technology wherever possible, including the fluidized-bed reactor, common in power plants across the country, in which pulverized coal is combined with oxygen so it burns more efficiently.

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