Sentences with phrase «energy as an alternative fuel»

although it wasn't until 2006 that ethanol blend E85 was classified by the US Department of Energy as an alternative fuel source.

Methane is also the principal constituent of natural gas and, therefore, when captured, this waste product can be put to a productive use as fuel for the generation of electrical energy as an alternative fuel to natural gas, fuel oil, or coal.

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Dr. James Sandercock, trained as a microbiologist before getting involved with biodegradable plastics and making fuel - grade ethanol for vehicles, is Chair of NAIT's Alternative Energy Technology program.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

What's the long - term outlook for crude oil as the global economy is slowly transitioning away from fossil fuels to alternative energy?

ANNE THOMPSON: A lot of people were warming up to the idea of nuclear energy as a carbon - free alternative to fossil fuels.

One reason for this push is the consequences of the alternatives: pollution from fossil - fueled power plants shortens the life span of as many as 30,000 Americans a year; coal and hydraulic fracturing threaten the environment and water supplies; and oil dependence undermines the nation's energy security.

Air Force energy director Dave King hopes that by 2016, 300 million gallons of that total will come from alternative sources such as biofuels, a move that he argues will increase the stability of the force's fuel supply and reduce its vulnerability to cost fluctuations.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

The environmental impacts of alternative energy need to be balanced against the impacts of the energy they replace, such as fossil fuels driving global climate change, Schimel said.

Thanks to the organism's creation, synthetic biologists are learning more about customizing cells, such as for development of highly effective drugs and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

Some of the dialogue focused on the global energy crisis, as scientists are charged with finding alternatives to fossil fuels.

«This investigation helped in bridging the gap between hydrochar being considered as a potential energy source toward the development of an alternative renewable fuel,» Gross explains.

Plant - derived biofuels such as ethanol offer renewable - energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

The RAND investigation was limited to alternative fuels, as opposed to the whole of energy use across the Department of Defense.

This a big step forward in the search for alternative, greener fuels Paolo Bombelli As the global population increases, so too does energy demand.

These centers will mobilize the enormous talents and skills of our nation's scientific workforce in pursuit of the breakthroughs that are essential to make alternative and renewable energy truly viable as large - scale replacements for fossil fuels.»

A case study documented by Dr. Mary Newport discusses ketone bodies, an alternative fuel for your brain, which can be produced when your body converts fat (as opposed to glucose) for energy.

This could be a beneficial property in any ketogenic diet as a decrease in glucose levels in the blood causes the body to break down alternative energy fuels such as ketones.

Plus, if your body is used to burning fat as fuel, then it will easily turn to your stored fats as energy alternatives.

This is known as a caloric deficit, and it forces the body to burn some alternative fuel source for energy instead.

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

Sustainable alternative energy should find something besides the globe's natural climate regulatory mechanisms, the sun, the winds, and the water, or else run into unacceptable unintended side effects as the scale of the sustainable efforts reach the magnitude necessary to replace fossil fuels.

And, as with the corn - ethanol debacle unfolding before our eyes, the alternatives to fossil fuel will simply never fill the gap between current and assumed future demand and supply of energy.

BAU will achieve this goal as alternative energy sources are made more reliable, more robust (i.e. PV panels that maintain 80 % for 80 years or so), and cheaper to mass produce; and as fossil fuels become harder to extract and more expensive.

If fuel prices stay the way they've been (that is, expensive and becoming more so), we can expect to see more funding for magnificent developments in alternative fuels (sadly, one of which is coal) as they supplant oil as an industrial, commercial and transportation energy source.

Blessed will be the countries (such as Germany) that will use rising fuel prices as the impetus to switch to alternative, renewable energy sources, but don't get your hopes up because America, China, India, Brazil and Russia will not likely follow suit.

Similarly, the Energy Commission's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development activitFuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development activitfuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development activities.

Low fossil fuel prices tend to hurt the economic viability of low - carbon energy alternatives, and thus are generally regarded as a negative development in the fight against climate change.

Old fossil fuel - based plants are being shut down while alternative technologies such as rooftop solar are increasingly being taken up, leading to further rifts in the wider energy sector.

Further dissemination of state - of - the - art technologies to increase thermal energy efficiency and electric energy efficiency and the use of alternative fuels including biomass as well as to reduce clinker content in cement is needed.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

Biomass is increasingly being viewed as a viable alternative to fossil fuels and a way to boost Africa's renewable energy transition.

Recent reports on the current status of the reserves of fossil fuels point to a the need to switch to alternative energies such as Solar Power.

Notice, by the way, that the issue here isn't just about pushing «renewable energy» as an alternative to fossil fuels.

While other measures are also essential — including technological solutions, personal lifestyle changes and policies to reduce fossil fuel use and develop alternative energy — the positive impact of each of those is reduced and may even be completely cancelled out by adding emissions from hundreds of millions of new people as our population increases.

We are conducting our own research efforts into alternative energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation fuels.

Jorge's main business focus has been the development of Renewable Energies, as the alternative to traditional use of fossil fuels.

And after Macfarlane spoke, Steve Sawyer, the secretary - general of the Global Wind Energy Council, was outlining how wind energy was a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels in places such as Brazil, the US (compared to coal), and in parts of Europe (compared toEnergy Council, was outlining how wind energy was a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels in places such as Brazil, the US (compared to coal), and in parts of Europe (compared toenergy was a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels in places such as Brazil, the US (compared to coal), and in parts of Europe (compared to gas).

But while poor countries should get priority when it comes to selling fossil fuels, when it comes to using them, they should be viewed as an energy source of last resort, after alternatives have been seriously explored.

Jacobson was specifically attempting to exclude nuclear power from the energy mix, which is one of the reasons he got pushback from some of the saner environmentalists who accept nuclear as the only remotely viable alternative to fossil fuels.

We can't start to stop using fossil fuels as our primary energy source without a viable alternative.

As of now, there is no viable large scale alternative energy (especially transportation fuels) source, and the Chinese and Indians show no sign of getting on board.

The report said a combination of different measures would be the most cost - effective way to reduce shipping emissions, including renewable energy and alternative fuels such as advanced biofuels, methanol, ammonia and hydrogen.

As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources — a 15...

In addition, he believes that if we want to genuinely reduce our carbon footprint, the current renewable energy sources are too expensive and unreliable to work as genuine alternatives to fossil fuels.

But, there are also, of course, other options, there's energy efficiency, there are alternative sources of supply, such as solar and wind, and there are even switches to other sources of fuel, such as natural gas.

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