Sentences with phrase «from liquid coal»
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
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Section 2 (1) of Bill 12 refers to refined products which (oddly) do not fall under the primary production from natural resources, which are defined so as to include crude oil and natural gas but, «not a product resulting from refining crude oil, refining upgraded heavy crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude oil.»
These excluded products consisted of «manufactured products» (inapplicable in the present context) and products «resulting from refining crude oil, refining upgraded heavy crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude oil».
Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.
Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel — liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.
Congressional and industry proponents of coal - to - liquid plants argue that the same technologies that may someday capture and store emissions from coal - fired plants will also be available to coal - to - liquid plants.
Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.
China is following suit, according to a news story in the same issue of Science, launching the Erdos coal - to - liquid plant in Inner Mongolia that will capture some of its 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions and use it to flush out oil from nearby fields.
But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.
These alternatives include liquids from both renewable (plants) and nonrenewable (coal and natural gas) sources that are better than an oil refinery on a greenhouse gas (GHG) life - cycle basis.
«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later, of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock, if allowances or offset credits were retired for the greenhouse gases that would have been emitted from their combustion; and
Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.
A new assessment of the viability of coal - to - liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and... Read more →
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts
However, peak oil means a double whammy — it reducec GHG emissions from oil, however, there is the danger, that we switch to coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, tar sands and oil shales, just because increases in energy efficiency, solar and wind output are not enough to counter population increase, decrease in oil availability, and increase in total energy consumption...
David Adam of The Guardian reported over the weekend on the first international conference on «coal to liquids,» in Paris, at which a host of officials from around the world excitedly described a host of new coal - to - liquids initiatives aimed at securing flows of transportation fuel in a world facing high oil prices for a long time to come.
Andy, thank you for writing about synthetic liquid fuels made from dirty coal and other low grade fossil fuels.
Coal Plans Shift According to Chemistry World, a publication of Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry, China's National Development and Reform Commission has ordered a stop to all but two projects being planned to generate liquid fuels from cCoal Plans Shift According to Chemistry World, a publication of Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry, China's National Development and Reform Commission has ordered a stop to all but two projects being planned to generate liquid fuels from coalcoal.
«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»
The energy required to convert coal to liquid fuel doubles the amount of carbon dioxide released compared to fuels refined from oil.
One major constituent of haze is particle pollution, such as dust, liquid drops, and soot from burning fuel or coal.
On the flip side, the Defense Department is also studying how to make liquid fuels from coal.
Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.
«Using and liquefying coal is an available technology, but under current conditions, there would be a great deal of CO2 released from making liquids out of coal.
Others have been distancing themselves from subsidized coal to liquids and other hairbrained schemes.
The price of gasoline, and of liquid fuel made from coal, would reflect the carbon tax, which would pay the cost of taking that carbon back out of the atmosphere.
No one is proposing to make all liquid fuels from coal.
The team used detailed process simulations, lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analyses, and cost analyses in a comprehensive analytical framework to assess 16 alternative system configurations that involve gasification - based coproduction of Fischer - Tropsch liquid (FTL) fuels and electricity from coal and / or biomass, with and without capture and storage of byproduct CO2.
We still need liquid fuels for a long time to come, but making them from coal is an unsustainable solution.
It is now necessary to start reducing the cost of liquid fuels with their production from coal.
As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.
Gas or liquid fuel from coal could eventually be cleaner to produce but it is not so yet.
The production of liquid fuels from coal will very likely become an important part of the hydrocarbon energy mix of the future, provided that technical and environmental obstacles are overcome economically.
Authorizes the EPA Administrator to study: (1) the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products; and (2) the GHG emissions resulting from such uses.
-- The term «fossil fuel» means natural gas, petroleum, or coal, or any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material, including consumer products that are derived from such materials and are combusted.
«(A) The Administrator may conduct a study to determine the extent to which petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas are used as feedstocks in manufacturing processes to produce products and the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from such uses.
Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel
To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 million barrels per day from 2010 to 2040, including the production of both petroleum (crude oil and lease condensate, natural gas plant [NGPL], bitumen, extra-heavy oil, and refinery gains), and other liquid fuels (coal - to - liquids [CTL], gas - to - liquids [GTL], biofuels, and kerogen).
Real Climate defines «aerosols» as ``... solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, consisting of (in rough order of abundance): sea salt, mineral dust, inorganic salts such as ammonium sulfate (which has natural as well as anthropogenic sources from e.g. coal burning), and carbonaceous aerosol such as soot, plant emissions, and incompletely combusted fossil fuel.»
The term coal - to - liquid fuel means any transportation - grade liquid fuel derived primarily from coal (including peat) and produced at a qualified coal - to - liquid facility.
The term qualified coal - to - liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of transportation grade liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the capture, transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).
Publication date: 2009-06-01 First Published: Natural Resources Research Authors: R.C. Milici Abstract: The production of liquid fuels from coal will very likely become an important part of the hydrocarbon energy mix of the future, provided that technical and environmental obstacles are overcome economically.
Collecting liquid carbon dioxide by pipeline from large plants powered by coal is designed to allow steel, cement and chemical industries to continue to operate without making climate change worse.
Alternative liquid fuels include ethanol, biodiesel and methanol, and synthetic gasoline and diesel made from natural gas, coal, or other feedstocks.
The carbon dioxide emissions associated with coal - to - liquid fuel are roughly double those from conventional oil.
As petroleum becomes progressively more scarce and expensive the production of liquid fuels from coal will become steadily more economically attractive.
Most of the new GTL capacity will come from the conversion of Sasol's coal - to - liquids plant in Secunda, South Africa, to a GTL facility.
They are working to protect communities from toxic coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.
Dr. Ramage chaired the National Acdemies reports «The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs», «Resource Requirements for a Hydrogen Economy», «Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass», and «Transitions To Alternative Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Plug - In Hybrid Electric Vehicles».