Sentences with phrase «advantage over gas»

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Alberta would still have a significant advantage over our prairie neighbours, as we have vast oil and gas deposits, low personal income tax, and no provincial sales tax.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

Methane lawsuit threat hangs over EPA's head Research by the Environmental Defense Fund has found that leakage rates must remain below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to carry a climate advantage over coal plants.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has a number of advantages over the chemical - laced water typically used as a fracking fluid.

Both teams took advantage of a phenomenon called the Sunyaev - Zel» dovich effect that occurs when light left over from the big bang passes through hot gas.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

However, natural gas has a number of advantages over the other main fossil fuels that give it the potential to substantially reduce our carbon footprint.

«But we're not going to do it if all we're going to see is a one or two mpg advantage (over the gas engines).»

The Prius c actually offers a couple of advantages over the regular Prius, including a lower price tag and better gas mileage according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

While the gas mileage advantage the 2018 Ford Focus lineup holds over the 2018 Toyota Corolla lineup isn't as stark as its power advantage, it's still an advantage.

Increasingly, the 5 - Series has an advantage over most of its rivals in that it offers more fuel - saving measures than most other sport sedans, with items such as Auto Start / Stop, turbocharging, direct injection and a special «Eco Pro» driving mode combining to provide significant gains in gas mileage.

The twin - scroll turbocharger design has several other advantages over traditional, single - scroll turbocharging systems, including: • Improved combustion efficiency • Low engine - speed efficiency • Kinetic exhaust gas energy is not wasted or trapped • Cooler cylinder temperatures • Lower exhaust temperatures • Leaner air / fuel ratio • Better pressure distribution in the exhaust ports and more efficient delivery of exhaust gas energy to the turbocharger's turbine Veloster's twin - scroll turbo has superior handling of exhaust gas separation at the turbine leading to improved low - end torque and faster transient torque response.

It does improve fuel economy over the comparable gas - only Malibu, but against the best of the competition, eAssist has limited advantages.

And increasingly so, the 5 - Series has an advantage over most of its rivals in that it offers more fuel - saving measures than most other sport sedans - with items such as Auto Start / Stop, turbocharging, direct injection and a special «Eco Pro» driving mode combining to provide significant gains in gas mileage.

Buick already has several huge advantages over most of the competition: The division's cars are built well, styled nicely, offer more safety features and get better gas mileage.

Looking at fuel economy and power output numbers, Honda's hybrid system offers little advantage over a high - revving, low - displacement pure gas engine.

A new Highlander Hybrid has a pretty serious price premium over the regular gas version of the Highlander, so if you really like this comfortable, family - friendly midsize SUV, and you're in the market for a new - to - you vehicle, perhaps you can use these relatively low resale values to your advantage and pick up a clean used Highlander Hybrid.

The results of this integrated analysis over a total distance travelled of 150,000 kilometres highlight, for example, a number of clear advantages for the natural - gas drive.

Even with the mileage advantage diesel engines have over gas engines, that was a pretty ominous gap.

Between these two cards and the Business Advantage Cash Rewards card, you should take a look at how much you regularly spend on gas and decide if you spend more on restaurants or at grocery stores to determine which card would offer you better rewards over time.

The intergalactic reality show it about two space oddballs travelling the cosmos trying to complete complex challenges, however they must do so with just one air hose which is connected to the both of them in where they need to pass the gas back and forth between each other, using the gas to shift body weight to your advantage is key in solving puzzles in over 50 levels spread over five... Read More»

But, again, the notion that gas holds no advantage over coal, in weighing the climate implications of energy choices, is fading fast (to my reading of the science and that of many others).

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

ProPublica has published a good update on concerns that existing practices for extracting and piping natural gas, through leakage, substantially cut into the fuel's substantial greenhouse - gas advantage over coal.

Once the first 20 municipalities take advantage of the program and convert to LED street lighting, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to be reduced by more than 42,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the next 15 years, equivalent to removing 8,840 cars off the road over this span.

Also, if fugitive methane emissions exceed 3 percent of total gas production, natural gas's climate advantage over coal disappears over a 20 - year time horizon.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

If, as Brulle declares, these groups are all «fronts» (his word) for oil, gas, and goal companies, those carbon - fuel companies are more devious than we thought, because they managed to completely take over, and turn to their advantage, national organizations with long histories like the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the Heritage Foundation — major national organizations that were advising Presidents long before Global Warming / Climate Change was ever heard of.

Gasoline, coal, and natural gas usage will inevitably decline as carbon's cost advantage over alternatives lessens or disappears.

Anthony Hobley, CEO Carbon Tracker: «Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal»

«Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.

More quietly (but in many ways worse), leaking wells, pipes, and storage reservoirs are estimated to emit enough greenhouse gases to cancel out the climate advantages of burning gas over coal, and increase smog.

This possibility gave EPA and CARB the advantage in closed - door negotiations with the auto industry over EPA's greenhouse gas / fuel economy regulations.

It's not clear yet what will replace diesel trucks, possibly natural gas for a while, although the greenhouse advantages of natural gas over efficient diesel engines are small.

Methane has the advantage over oil and coal of producing less carbon dioxide gas when burned.

Methane leakage diminishes the climate advantages of natural gas over coal.

However, the report also warned that while natural gas has carbon advantages over coal as a fuel source, the potential for leakages of methane may erode this benefit, as methane is a more potent greenhouse gas.

While natural gas offers clear advantages over coal, over-relying on it for electricity creates serious economic and public health risks for consumers and states and fails to provide a long - term solution to climate change.

The relatively low price of natural gas gives U.S. manufacturers an advantage over competitors in other parts of the world that rely on a more expensive oil - based feedstock.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.

Bike move advantages: lots of bodies, more fun, nary a drop of gas The bike move would likely lose its appeal for distances over five or six miles.

Not only is this a substantial quantity of product vanishing into the air (natural gas is primarily methane), it is also significantly higher than most previous estimates — including from industry — and would reduce or eliminate any advantage natural gas has over coal from a climate standpoint.

Methane is at least 34 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so methane leakage erodes the climate advantage natural gas has over coal.

When scientists evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources over their full lifecycle and incorporate the methane emitted during production, the advantage of natural gas holds true only when it is burned in more modern and efficient plants.

The company operates a power - to - gas plant at the site and it appears the advantages of lithium over gas will be evaluated through the ADS - TEC system's performance data.