Sentences with phrase «use by gas»

Use by gas producers has also been flat for decades, though higher prices could drive greater efficiencies and lower consumption.

That's in part because the identity of the chemicals used by the gas industry for drilling and fracturing are protected as trade secrets, and because the EPA, based on an exemption passed under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, does not have authority to investigate the fracturing process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

It would still pick up heat from direct conduction, as Gary Moran has insisted; and it would not be correct to say that there would be NO interaction with radiation (another point by Tom Vonk): if there are lower - energy bands, they will be used by the gas to absorb photons.

Similarly the methane stuff is also flypaper for wackos — but more from the horrible - we're - all - gonna - die side (and, you know I'm suspicious they're being set up by the emergency drumbeat used by the gas industry that's already ramping up to drill for gas in the Arctic, particularly in Russia; it's a two - for - one if they can get some kind of credit or payment for «alleviating the methane emergency» and sell the gas too.

We compared the gas used by gas furnaces with the gas used at the power plant to operate a heat pump.

Not exact matches

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

$ AGN is committed to doing our part to reduce climate change: decrease energy consumption, greenhouse gas, water use & waste by ~ 20 % in 2020

He points out that: «Total has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, notably by ending continuous flaring and using the associated gas locally.

Perth - based data management company Tape Ark has completed a world first for the oil and gas exploration industry by demonstrating real - time seismic data acquisition using cloud storage rather than traditional tapes.

Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.

The carmaker had sought to delay the consumer - fraud trials because of comments made by Melkersen, including remarks in a Netflix documentary where he compared emissions testing on monkeys to the Nazi use of poison gas in World War II.

Meanwhile, in addition to the mountains of trash to be tapped, there are plenty of other sources of methane — stranded gas wells, coalbed methane, and even the biogas emitted by cow manure — that Prometheus plans to capture and put to use.

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

The facilities make large gas turbines and turbine generator sets used by power plants.

«The United States is gravely alarmed by continued allegations of the use of chlorine gas by the Syrian Regime to terrorize innocent civilians, this time in Idlib Province near Saraqib,» the US State Department said in a statement on Monday night.

They were eating a lot of profit by using the gas - guzzling Beer Wagon to personally pick up and deliver the suds.

Designed by Fitzsimmons Architects, the Oklahoma City regional office of natural gas company BP Lower 48 uses lots of wood, stone, and natural colors, and textures to create an organic look.

Using new gas - injection technology that creates gas bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall, the company reduced the amount of plastic that goes into each container by 15 %, which works out to about 275 tonnes of plastic a year.

As described by the Energy Department, LNG is principally used for transporting natural gas to markets, where it's turned back into a gas and distributed for a variety of uses, including running nat gas vehicles.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrouGas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrougas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

But by «fracking» horizontally in stages from a single drill hole and using sand to prop open the cracks, Mitchell now recovered unprecedented volumes of gas.

China's goal is to use natural gas for 10 percent of its needs by 2020, and it needs LNG to meet that demand.

The term «gas - lighting effect» has been used to describe behaviours by which a sociopath will attempt to erode her opponent's reality.

While that study is in progress, the early data suggests that by getting «more butts in seats» — a phrase that has become a mantra at Uber's San Francisco headquarters — car - pooled services may already be reducing traffic, gas use and automobile emissions.

According to one Pembina Institute report, using data compiled by Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada, buildings account for about 11 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

The province's oil and natural gas revenue is projected to shoot up by 54 per cent to the highest level in three years, but those three years combined will be equal to what a good year used to be for Alberta's coffers.

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

China is placing a 15 % tariff on sparkling wine; steel pipe used by oil and gas companies; and fruits and nuts including apples, walnuts and grapes.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per capita in each city and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

After all, gas - powered vehicles, which use catalytic converters to control emissions, are expected to be surpassed in sales by electric vehicles, which do not require palladium, as early as 2040.

Like anyone along the route of proposed oil or gas pipelines, Rosinski was in a position where, had she not signed the agreement, her land would have been taken anyway by virtue of eminent domain — a right the government can assert to seize private property for public use.

At the start of 2018, about 60 % of California's natural gas vehicle fleets used renewable natural gas, and that number is expected to reach 90 % by year end.

Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per driver in each county and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used...By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used...by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used... →

Meanwhile, although China will continue to burn lots of coal, it will begin shifting to gas including by tapping into its own tight gas reserves using new fracking technologies.

Johnson explained that the gas oracle — today used by popular wallets such as MyEtherWallet, MetaMask, Shapeshift, and others — calculates transactions costs for users based on fees paid in the most recent ethereum transactions.

While Neo is being used for providing voting rights within Neo platform, also representing the shares of NEO that you own, Gas represents a token created by NEO.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

PetroDollars, launched by New York - based Signal Capital Management, allows individuals and organizations to use a peer - to - peer exchanged digital currency that's backed by the value of crude oil and natural gas, announced Monday it will hold an initial coin offering of up to $ 700 million...

Moving forward, South Korea needs to maintain the momentum behind its effort to become the Northeast Asian hub for natural gas trade by building a large - scale commercial storage facility for natural gas and using international cooperation programs.

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NEC collected or estimated megawatt hour («MWh») generation data for each portfolio project and used region - specific eGRID emissions factors maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to determine the greenhouse gas («GHG») intensity of each MWh offset by its investments.

Don't get me wrong, if there is a gasoline rewards credit card that is worth more to you than 2 travel points per $ 1 then, by all means, apply for it and use it for when you buy gas.