Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel recovery»
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The plant's water recovery plant exceeded its designers» high expectations in its first year of service while also providing valuable biogas for boiler heating, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.
Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.
The water recovery plant also provides renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.
Other environmentalists also criticize the idea of reducing emissions from one fossil fuel to release more of another via oil recovery.
And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.
Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil - fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.
Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.
But the eventual recovery from this El Niño won't bring us back below 400 ppm, because its impact will be dwarfed by the global consumption of fossil fuels, pushing CO2 levels ever higher.
The participants in the CSLF meetings repeatedly stressed that the problems facing CCS systems are not technological in nature, as the major components of CCS systems have been commercialized over decades of related fossil fuel refining and enhanced oil recovery activities.
Meanwhile, shale gas «fracking» and the potential recovery of methane hydrates from the ocean floor demonstrate that there is a great deal of R&D left to do in the fossil fuel sector.
Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.
Meanwhile, Tesla deployed solar to Puerto Rico as it began its recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria, quickly restoring power to a Children's Hospital on the island at a time when conventional fossil fuels were offline and electrical grids were down.
It has moved from an entirely fossil - fuel - based combined heat and power plant to a 70 % more efficient electric heat recovery system.
Stanford University Central Energy Facility boasts a first of its kind heat recovery system, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and fossil fuel and water use (Credit: Tim Griffith)
Through Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), previously unreachable oil is made available when the CO2 emitted by fossil fuel plants is pumped into the oil basin, where it is captured underground within the local geology.
Mary Christina Wood & Dan Galpern, Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay to Restore a Viable Climate System, 45 Envtl.
Increased recovery of these materials into fuel could significantly reduce the nation's dependence on landfill disposal while also decreasing the use of fossil or other types of conventional fuels.»
Systems study for the removal, recovery, and disposal of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power plants in the US
«Recent work indicates that recovery from a large input of atmospheric CO2 from burning fossil fuels will result in an effective lifetime of tens of thousands of years».
The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.
The problem is it won't be the cheapest without major technological breakthroughs in safe nuclear power generation and / or fossil fuel reserves become so depleted the cost of recovery makes the price surpass that of current nuclear power generation.
The central heat sources can be waste - heat recovery at industrial processes, waste - incineration plants, cogeneration power plants or stand - alone boilers burning fossil fuels or biomass.
And the California Public Resource Code permits «the owners or operators of -LSB--RSB- wells to utilize all methods and practices known to the oil industry for the purpose of increasing the ultimate recovery of underground hydrocarbons,» declaring it the «policy of this state» to maximize fossil - fuel production.
As it becomes increasingly clear that we can't even burn all of the existing fossil fuels reserves we already have, financial experts are sounding alarm bells about companies sinking vast amounts of money into exploration and recovery of fuels that will eventually become worthless.
Each evaluation will discuss key factors in the reserves and the ultimate recovery of each fossil fuel resource.
Shortages will drive prices making recovery of presently marginal sources and types of fossil fuels feasible.
Moreover, waste prevention, minimization, material recovery, recycling and re-use represent a growing potential for indirect reduction of GHG emissions through decreased waste generation, lower raw material consumption, reduced energy demand and fossil fuel avoidance.