Sentences with phrase «about liquid fuels»

That was the point; if you are truly talking about liquid fuels the number is around 200 billion gallons a year.

You get maybe 5 % (and less if you are talking about all liquid fuels).

Not exact matches

Two years ago Musk showed a photo of BFR's fuel tank, capable of holding «1200 tons of liquid oxygen,» as a part of SpaceX's early announcements about the rocket.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

The following year, he and Colozza wrote a paper for the now - defunct NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) about the use of electrohydrodynamics, or ionized particles, as an alternative to liquid fuel for powering space vehicles.

Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.

There are only about 50 hydrogen fueling stations in the United States, and just a handful of those dispense liquid hydrogen.

Oxidation of hydrocarbon to CO2 releases about 478 kJ / mol C. That's the minimum amount you need to reduce CO2 to liquid fuel assuming perfect conversion.

This is all about making traditional liquid fuels to feed existing auto designs.

So, apparently, if I understand this correctly, the idea is really about a way that actually requires an independent source of energy (and a big one) in order to make liquid fuels and other hydrocarbon - based products in a relatively «carbon - neutral» way.

Andy, thank you for writing about synthetic liquid fuels made from dirty coal and other low grade fossil fuels.

Overall, biofuels now account for about 1 percent of the global liquid fuels market.

They spoke at length about Shell's existing push to produce liquid fuels from gas, most notably at the huge new gas - to - liquids plant in Qatar:

Biofuels remain a very minor player, accounting for about 1.4 per cent of the world's liquid fuel supply in 2013, the IEA's stats show.

Brazil actually only produces about 10 % of it liquid fuels from sugar cane: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/rapier/2006/0623.html

Since the volumetric energy density of ammonia is three times that of liquid hydrogen, and ammonia combustion can be exceptionally efficient (about the same as burning diesel fuel in turbodiesels), it may be true that a hydrogen economy based upon OTEC and ammonia may be close at hand.

When one takes into consideration the different efficiencies of liquid - fueled and electric propulsion, then where the rubber meets the road the cost of powering a plug - in hybrid with average - cost residential electricity would be about 40 per cent of the cost of powering the same vehicle with today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline, or, said another way, for the consumer to be able to buy fuel in the form of electricity at the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline.

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

The DoD is the largest consumer of liquid fuels on the planet, burning about 375,000 barrels a day to fuel over 500,000 vehicles, ships and aircraft.

People are even talking about turning coal into liquid fuel, which is a climate nightmare.

Worldwide, only about 1 percent of the consumption of transport fuels comes from liquid biofuels.

And what about the liquid hydrogen fuel used to power the Space Shuttle?

Biochar can be produced by pyrolysis at around 500 degrees C, either slowly (over days, the traditional approach e.g. in kilns), which results in about equal amounts of biochar (about 35 % of the original biomass), liquid and gaseous fuels; or rapidly (e.g. flash pyrolysis, in seconds), which gives less biochar (about 15 % converted) less gaseous products, but more liquid «bio-oil» products (about 75 %).

Transportation, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on liquid fuels produced from oil.

However, Carbon Sciences has developed a highly scalable process that provides a protected environment to organic biocatalysts, where they can go about converting CO2 into liquid fuels many times over with out «dying.»

A retired Air Force general talks with Midwest Energy News about his solar - powered Wisconsin home and the case for developing alternative liquid fuels.

They too have the diurnal problem under control — and they talk about the very high temperatures and pressures they obtain being used in other process to produce liquid fuels, which solve all the intermittency and transport problems (at a cost).

Will there be a negative comment about ethanol or liquid fuels in it?

At best CTL produces 2.3 barrels of liquid fuel per ton of coal (there is about 4 boe in a ton of typical bituminous coal).