0
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How much power does brown coal produce?
2cans haha
How much pollutes does an average coal plant produce in 1 day?
Power plants fired by coal produce many pollutants (SOx, NOx, radiation, particulate, mercury etc.) the amounts vary by the size and fuel used at the site (not all coal produced the same contaminants). See the Links for data on typical coal plants.
How much carbon does coal fired electricity plants produce?
65% about Cheers M
Why are there more coal power plants then solar power plants?
There are more coal plants than solar plants because the cost per Mega-Watt is much less using coal than solar power, and currently coal is more efficient. The problem today is that in a environmentally conscious society coal is a 'dirty' fuel, and solar power is clean. That is why environmentalists are pushing for more Solar (and wind) power generation.
Do reactors produce less air pollution than coal plants?
Yes, much less
How much waste is produced by coal power plants per kWh?
There is around 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide waste produced by coal power plants. This is released by a natural gas.
What do coal power plants and nuclear power plants have in common?
They both employ steam turbine/generators operating on the Rankine cycle.They both produce similar amounts of radioactive waste:Nuclear power plants "burn" uranium or plutonium through nuclear fission. The amount of nuclear waste produced is about 3 metric tons per terawatt-hour.Coal contains small amounts of uranium and thorium, but you have to burn so much coal to produce the same amount of energy, that the total amount of nuclear waste produced by burning coal is about 2 metric tons per terawatt-hour.Some of this nuclear waste escapes or is dumped into the environment, so both power plants also irradiate you. Coal power plants actually irradiate you 100 times as much as nuclear power plants, since their waste is not as tightly regulated by the government:People are exposed to 5 person-rem/year from nuclear power plants.People are exposed to 500 person-rem/year from coal power plants.
Are coal power plants better than nuclear power plants?
They are more thermodynamically efficient because they produce higher quality steam. However they also produce a lot of carbon dioxide and other things like sulfur dioxide, that are undesirable, which nuclear plants don't produce. I don't think using the word 'better' can mean much, both have their advantages and disadvantages.
What are some benefits of a nuclear power plant?
Much cleaner than coal powered plants (no emissions) - although there is nuclear waste Produce relatively cheap energyProduces extremely large amount of energy compared to a coal plant
How do you you use the word coal in a sentence?
The older power plants used coal, but it polluted so much we try to use other methods.
Why do fusion and fission produce energy?
The heat produced by controlled nuclear reactions is used to operate steam turbines that generate electricity in nuclear power plants in much the same manner as coal or oil fired fossil fuel power plants, except the nuclear plants do not produce carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' released by burning fossil fuels.
How much eletricity do coal power stations produce?
In the US, 49 percent of total production of electricity
