(Bloomberg) -- Drax Group Plc, the owner of western Europe’s biggest coal-fired power plant, said it is benefitting from a “very strong” position in forward electricity sales as commodity markets “remain challenging.” An energy commodity more vital than crude oil Coal may be the las...
Pros: food is plentiful and cheap Cons: depletes non-renewable resources; degrades soil air and water; puts 5 billion pounds of harmful chemicals into environment per year; major GHG emissions; unhealthy & unsafe food; unstable economics; etc. [Great slide from New Scientist paper showing 24 ...
Could you run down the pros and cons of light rail versus guided bus transport? Also, how do the costs of installing light rail using LR55 track compare to conventional track designs? Thanks. Best Hopes for low-cost transit infrastructure! AlanfromBigEasy on July 28, 2007 - 6:26am Permal...
I believe the cancellation is because Dominion is going back to coal fired power plants instead of switching to Ngas. Funny, I see lots of articles about how Dominion is abandoning fossil fuels with the pipeline cancellation, but they didn’t read that Dominion is just going back to coal. ...
Last year I took a look at the question "Should Natural Gas Be Used To Power New Zealand ?", after reading an article from NZ PEPA executive John Pfahlert arguing that New Zealand should be building new gas fired power stations instead of trying to become carbon neutral, and concluded that...
But one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capitalists thinks the time has come to test the pros and cons of basic income, a controversial scheme under which people are provided with a guaranteed income sufficient to cover basic living expenses whether or not they work. Go ahead, ...
The project took him to Washington State for a look at a successful fare-free transit system, and all over the Internet and libraries in search of information about the pros and cons of offering the public a free ride. The outcome is this five-part series, which he says gives him hope ...
again. At the same time as prices are going up, and UK domestic production going down, there is a move towards more gas-fired power stations in the UK (or perhaps, there ‘was’), and there is a big move amongst local govt in the UK towards more combined heat and power from ...
The pros and cons of nuclear have been discussed ad nauseum here before. Coal-fired plants have been polluting the commons with impunity, and it seems that comparatively clean nuclear generation capacity should be added and supported by government to keep the lights from going off. DaveMart on ...
The Pros and Cons of Carbon Dioxide Dumping Global Warming Concerns Have Stimulated a Search for Carbon Sequestration Technologies; C. Hanisch, Environmental Science and Technology, American Chemical Society, Easton, PA. Pilot Test Demonstrates How Carbon Dioxide Enhances Coal Bed Methane Recovery, La...