real alternatives to coal power plant?
m_c asked:
anyone know any real solutions or alternative energy to the coal power plants? if you have and answer can you give me the location city, country of where it is located at, so i can look into it
and links or websites would be much helpful
anyone know any real solutions or alternative energy to the coal power plants? if you have and answer can you give me the location city, country of where it is located at, so i can look into it
and links or websites would be much helpful
incinerators!!! they turn trash to ENERGY.
i don’t know anything about it, but google it.
hope i helped you!!!
Nuclear power plants… several already working in the U.S and 80% of electric is that way in France…it is the only solution…
there’s wind farms, hydroelectricity, and solar power, to name a few.
there is a solar plant being built in my county actually, it’s being put on top of a buried landfill. also there are two waste to energy facilities under construction. i live in clyde, north carolina. which is haywood county. it’s very small. hope this helps!
solar is the best
Solar has no running costs unlike coal plants which require massive amounts of water, coal, oil for lubricating turbines, replacement of worn moving parts etc. All you have to do is put them there and they will continue to produce electricity free of charge indefinately
tidal energy - The Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
hydroelectricity - The Hoover Dam
solar energy - Germany
wind power - Texas
geothermal - Iceland and New Zealand
wave power - Portugal
nuclear power - France
biomass energy - Texas
natural gas - Russia
solar power plant, wind power
As of now the only thing that can replace coal is nuclear power. Wind, tide, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric do not produce enough power to meet current demands. If they did work then you would see renewable energy in widespread use. There is a reason you don’t see “green” clean energy producing facilities everywhere.
Nothing can produce power as cheap as coal. It is numbers game like everything else in the world. Renewable energy has a long way to go before it works. Renewable energy is a joke until technology improves. I am a liberal Democrat and I support groups like Green Peace and The Sierra Club. These groups are unrealistic dreamers when it comes to energy needs.
Coal is dirty and severely damages the environment, but we need it. In fact we need more coal powered energy plants in America. Coal will save the United States once again just like it has done in the past.
The truth about coal: It is wicked bad for the environment, but the alternative (using oil) is much worse. Do your own research you will and you will see both sides of the green vs. coal argument have valid points.
Did you know a home in the Northern United States can supply all of its heating needs with $130 in coal for an entire winter? Due to inefficient power transmission infrastructure in America it would coast $3000 to do this with electricity.
Don’t believe the hype coal is GOOD for America. I am a very liberal democrat and I side with Greenpeace on most issues.
Coal does NOT produce 100% of the electric power now in use in the US. No reason any other power source should need to produce 100% of the power either. Geothermal heat pumps could cut the energy requirements for heating/cooling buildings by 75% Since that is where 60% of the countries power goes towards it would be a great first step. Add in proper insulation and double pane insulated windows on the south facing walls of buildings and removing most windows from the northern sides of buildings, another 10% in energy savings could be had. Solar water heaters can work even in the winter (at least a little bit) in most of the US. Then there are energy saving appliances (dish/clothes washers, frig/freezers, clothes lines and even the horrible CFL’s). Don’t forget the power strips to stop vampire electric useage equal to 30% of many full power needs. Businesses too can use many of the same technologies too. With just the technology already available that I’ve mentioned we’ve negated the need for the 50% of the countries power now produced by coal fired power plants. Want to cut out natural gas and nuclear instead of the coal? We still need fewer coal plants if we’d just make them more efficient- currently around 20% before the loss over powerlines.
Solar thermal can create energy for 3-4 days steadily even at night and during cloudy weather with the correct heat storage setup currently being implamented in some areas. Add in variale wind power and that timeframe can be streached even further. In some places the wind is more reliable than coal fired plants, so that is another resource of baseload power. Then there’s deep hydrothermal potential available throughout 99% of the lower 49 states.
Don’t get me wrong, I own coal stock and love to see people like you who don’t believe there is any alternative, but there is.
Currently 50% of our nations electricity is generated from coal. In reading other responses, I saw where people made the assumption that since solar is a free source of fuel that electricity that comes from solar must be free as well. Actually, electricity generated by solar is three times the cost of electricity that comes from coal. $.18/kwhr to $.06/kwhr. If you want to go renewable, hydro is the cheapest and is actually cheaper than coal. Wind is very cost competitive but tends to not generate electricity when it is really need during mid day. They are working on storage right now for it but have not yet found ways to make that storage cost competitive. Nuclear is perhaps the most cost competitive fuel source. I believe that on average it is. While renewables are becoming more cost competitive, coal is becoming cleaner. We have an abundant source of both. It will be interesting to see if coal plants become emission free first and remain cost competitive, or if renewables become cost competive first. Hopefully, we get both.