Still, ConEdison Solutions said Chelsea Piers' annual purchase of wind offsets 13,344 metric tons of electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of taking 2,856 cars off the road, or planting 12,300 acres of trees.
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These savings can be quantified as an approximate reduction of 8,500 tons of paper, 20m megajoules of electricity, 1m litres fuel oil and 1m litres of water over the course of a year, simply by rethinking the packaging.
In addition to disposing of garbage and reducing landfill space, WTE generates 500kWh of electricity per ton of waste – roughly the same amount of power generated by a third of a ton of coal.
Duke is also building a generating station in Edwardsport, Ind., that will run on coal but will convert it to a gas first, allowing much higher production of electricity per ton.
We estimate that if all fabs in Taiwan achieve the same level of SEC as the best performer (i.e. lowest SEC level), annual energy savings and emissions reduction in Taiwan could be expected to reach 228,561,645 kWh of electricity and 149,426 tons of CO2 emissions, respectively.
The project would need overwhelming priority, as it was estimated to require 20,000 workers, many of them highly skilled, 500,000 tons of steel, and 500,000 KW of electricity.
The results indicated that a small plant in Bushehr Province in southern Iran which burns 140,000 tons of waste annually can produce approximately 62 GWh of electricity in conjunction with 2.27 million tons of distilled water.
Recycling one ton of aluminum saves 14,000kWh of electricity – compared to making aluminum from raw materials – more energy than the average household uses in a year.
