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Existing power plants will spew 300 billion more tons carbon dioxide during use
2014-08-26 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Existing power plants around the world will pump out more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide over their expected lifetimes, significantly adding to atmospheric levels of the climate-warming gas, according to UC Irvine and Princeton University scientists. Their findings, which appear Aug. 26 in the journal Environmental Research Letters, are the first to quantify how quickly these "committed" emissions are growing -- by about 4 percent per year -- as more fossil fuel-burning power plants are...
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Old power plants put India in 11th slot in energy efficiency
2014-08-07 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Germany is the global leader in energy efficiency while ageing power plants and inefficient ways of electricity generation and industrial practices put India at number 11 in the latest energy efficiency ranking of the world's 16 largest economies. The United States, having second highest per capita energy consumption in the world, comes at the 13th position behind countries such as China, France, Japan, UK, Canada and Australia among others. Besides the US, four other countries South Korea,...
See Power Plants Most Vulnerable to Flooding
2014-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It doesn't take rising seas for electric power plants and other energy infrastructure in the U.S. to flood. Major 100-year floods can do that without the help of climate change. The U.S. Energy Information Administration's new mapping tool announced Wednesday shows how such a flood could drown some of the nation's most critical energy infrastructure -- power plants, oil and gas wells, solar power installations, etc. U.S. Energy Information Administration map of the flooding potential in Tampa,...
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Will new EPA plan push power plants to fire coal companies?
2014-06-24 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kapitall: On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Clean Power Plan, which would cut carbon pollution by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. A bit of background: In 1997, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change collaborated on the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty binding participating countries to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The United States signed the Protocol but did not ratify it, making it one of 4 UN members not party to the Protocol...
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Pakistan surges into coal-fired power plants meet energy demand
2014-06-11 04:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Plans announced by the Pakistani government to more than double the country's power output by building upwards of 15 coal-based power plants have drawn strong criticism from environmentalists who fear the consequences for the environment and the health of the country's population. The government plans to generate around 15,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from coal-powered plants over the next few years is designed to meet a chronic energy shortfall, according to the federal water and power ministry....
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