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Power Plants Try Burning Wood With Coal to Cut Emissions
2013-11-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Even as the Environmental Protection Agency considers requiring existing coal-fired power plants to cut their carbon dioxide output, some utilities have started to use a decidedly low-tech additive that accomplishes that goal: wood. Ranging in size from sawdust to chunks as big as soup cans, waste wood from paper mills, furniture factories and logging operations has been used with varying levels of success. Minnesota Power, which once generated almost all of its power from coal and is now trying...
The 10 biggest hydroelectric power plants in the world
2013-10-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
Hydropower is one of the oldest and most widely-used renewable sources of energy. China, the world's largest producer of hydroelectricity, operates two of the 10 biggest hydroelectric power plants in the world, including the world's largest Three Gor
Westinghouse and Sebata Group cooperate to develop nuclear power plants in South Africa
2013-10-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
Westinghouse has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South-African EPC company Sebata Group in preparation for the potential construction of AP1000 nuclear power plants in the country.
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Russia Floats Plan for Nuclear Power Plants at Sea
2013-10-23 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Back in the early 1970s, U.S. utility companies, frustrated with growing public unease about nuclear power that made it difficult for them to find sites for new plants, came up with a wild brainstorm. Why not put full-sized nuclear power plants on barges and position them offshore, where they wouldn't be in anyone's backyard, unless you counted fish? The scheme never took off, according to a recent article by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission historian Thomas Wellock. Financing proved to be as...
EPA annual GHG report shows emissions from power plants declined 10% from 2010 due to growing use of natural gas
2013-10-23 19:30:18| Green Car Congress
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