Sentences with phrase «fuel cycle study»

«Right now, there are no good options for utilities,» said Charles Forsberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, who is the executive director of MIT's nuclear fuel cycle study.

Not exact matches

The NCC's concern for energy issues dates back to fall 1974 when the Division of Church and Society (DCS) asked Margaret Mead and René Dubos to chair a study of the implications of using plutonium as fuel in the nuclear cycle.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Such report shall include a response to the International Atomic Energy Agency study entitled «Thorium fuel cycle - Potential benefits and challenges» (IAEA — TECDOC — 1450).

The experiments have provided invaluable data that will be used to validate codes and nuclear data for advanced fuel cycles, as well as to derive reactor kinetics parameters for studies of transient / accident phenomena for these fuels.

Finally, studies have shown that leucine promotes energy partitioning from fat cells to muscle cells, thereby decreasing energy storage and encouraging the body to burn fat cells as fuel, with one large study providing irrefutable evidence that leucine supplementation fuels the citric acid cycle which facilitates fat oxidation.

This study uses a life cycle costing (LCC) methodology to identify when hydrogen can become economically feasible compared to the conventional fuels and which energy policy is the most effective at fostering the penetration of hydrogen in the competitive fuel market.

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In a news release one of the co-authors of the new study, James E.T. Channell of the University of Florida, echoes that point, saying: «The problem is that now we have added to the total amount of CO2 cycling through the system by burning fossil fuels.

All such «life cycle» studies attempt to estimate all the carbon emissions created by producing and burning ethanol, including carbon released from soil by plowing and from fuel burned in planting, harvesting and refining.

He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past twenty years.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

Full - fuel - cycle GHG emissions estimates for reformulated gasoline pathways by LCA study.

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Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».

As many comparative studies have done before, the analysis includes an assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the fuel cycle (primary production, extraction, transportation, refining, and vehicle operation) for each of the modes includes in the tool.

Most studies project that second - generation liquid biofuels from perennial crops and woody and agricultural residues could dramatically reduce life cycle greenhouse gas emissions relative to petroleum fuels.

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The report of a major European study of the external costs of various fuel cycles, focusing on coal and nuclear, was released in mid 2001 — ExternE.

A 2014 Department of Energy study found that exporting U.S. LNG will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, because U.S. natural gas consumed in Europe or Asia has lower life - cycle GHG emissions than power generation from locally sourced fossil fuels.

The Foundation for the Study of Cycles is still chugging along, apparently fueled by stock - market techies.

The study is not a life cycle analysis, so it is also important to remember that fossil fuels used to transport oil palm products and emissions from the processing plants also produce greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

A recently released total fuel cycle analysis for maritime case studies shows that natural gas fuels reduce some air quality pollutants substantially, and reduce major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions slightly, when compared to conventional petroleum - based marine fuels (low - sulfur and high - sulfur).

Producing electricity from solar cells reduces air pollutants and greenhouse gases by about 90 percent in comparison to using conventional fossil fuel technologies, claims a study called «Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles», to be published this month in «Environmental Science & Technology».

Most life - cycle analysis studies show that a significant majority of a vehicle's environmental impact comes from the fuel it burns (on the order of 80 % +), with the rest for manufacturing and disposal.