Sentences with phrase «alternative liquid fuels»

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

There are no reasonable alternative liquid fuels for land, sea and air transportation needs.

Ethanol plus all the other alternative liquid fuels represent our experiments with how we will deal with the enduring problem of depleting finite and non-renewable fossil fuels.

The only currently viable alternative liquid fuels — biofuels — have proven problematic for all sorts of environmental and economic reasons.

Alternative liquid fuels include ethanol, biodiesel and methanol, and synthetic gasoline and diesel made from natural gas, coal, or other feedstocks.

The bill extends through 2011 the $ 0.50 / gallon production tax credit for alternative liquid fuels derived from biomass, compressed or liquefied biogas, national gas and propane.

With immediate action and sustained effort, alternative liquid fuels can be available in the 2020 time frame, if or when the nation needs them.

Clean electricity and cleaner alternative liquid fuels have to progressively replace coal and fossil liquid fuel.

The «hard limit» of oil seems less hard and less of a limit — when there are many alternatives liquid fuels feasible at around the $ 100 a barrel mark.

Not exact matches

He said government will next week go to Parliament to seek approval for a Liquid Natural Gas contract as an alternative fuel for the country's plants, particularly those within the Tema enclave.

The agreement provides further opportunities for SNG to promote gas as a more reliable, cleaner and cost - effective alternative to liquid fuels in Nigeria.

Already, the first alternative fuel for jets has been certified for use worldwide by the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM)-- coal turned to liquid jet fuel by South Africa's SASOL.

Third, we want alternatives for liquid transportation fuels: glucose, agricultural waste products, lumber waste products.

The only likely exception to the rule against biofuels in transportation is the urgent need to decarbonise air transport, where low - carbon alternatives to liquid hydrocarbon fuels remain a distant prospect.

In that case, we do nothing and suffer the consequences of dealing with a burgeoning demand for liquid transportation fuels globally without offering any alternatives to petroleum.

There are some transportation needs that simply must have a low - carbon liquid fuel alternative.

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.

It could offer a convenient and portable source of hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications, potentially transforming the energy market and providing an alternative to batteries and liquid fuels.

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.

And, given the energy density of kerosene, there really is no alternative to liquid fuel either — with the exception of lightweight solar - powered drones, electric planes can not get off the ground.

A GE Energy Jenbacher gas engine is powering the world's first commercial landfill gas (LFG)- to - liquid natural gas (LNG) conversion facility designed to create alternative fuel for vehicles.

For the near - and mid-term alternative fuel options (i.e., hydrotreated oil from animal fats and vegetable oils, and FT liquids), electric power is not an important input to the production process, but hydrogen is.

«There is a pressing need for a game - changing approach to produce alternative, drop - in, liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.

Heterogeneous catalysis for controlling gaseous emissions from automotive and stationary engines, alternative energy using catalytic reforming of gaseous and liquid fuels to hydrogen for fuel cells, catalytic processes for upgrading carbon dioxide to useful products

This reports reviews the existing Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations that pertain to fueling systems to determine if changes to those regulations are necessary to accommodate the introduction of gaseous and liquid hydrogen as alternative fuel in commercial vehicles.

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.

Bush's proposal would be to increase our level of biofuels production by 35 billion gallons in the next 10 years (although some have informed me that this is actually for all alternative fuels, which would include coal to liquids).

The fact that liquid fossil fuels are becoming more scarce and therefore more expensive makes alternative energy studies a valid area of research.

We need all possible liquid fossil fuels for transport as we transition to alternative transport fuels.

Some of these are addressed in the present issue: the geopolitics of peak oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water crisis (Maude Barlow).

By now it should be apparent that EVs represent a complex and challenging (but it the face of the poor alternatives of liquid fuels, probably necessary) solution to our energy - climate crisis, with lots of institutional, technological and social considerations.

We are conducting our own research efforts into alternative energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation fuels.

«Every year, indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of 1.6 million people — that's one death every 20 seconds... In sub-Saharan Africa, the reliance on biomass fuels appears to be growing as a result of population growth and the unavailability of, or increases in the price of, alternatives such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas.»

Bullfrog Power's green fuel is an earth - friendly, renewable alternative to liquid fossil fuel, allowing climate - conscious Canadians to reduce the environmental impact of their transportation.

Alternative sources of liquid fuel and liquefiable gas fuel (elsewhere on this page — and biodiesel, gasohol, etc.)(In the Third World rainforest is being cleared to plant oil palms for biodiesel and food production, to the detriment of the global environment.)

alternative energy development, including bio fuels, coal - to - liquids, oil shale, tar sands, geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, and other renewable energy;

Bullfrog Power's green fuel is an earth - friendly, renewable alternative to liquid fossil fuel.

Even an electric technology that is mediocre in terms of energy efficiency can help avoid emissions from dirtier liquid - fueled alternatives.

Fuel and other flammable liquids are considered hazardous and, therefore, must be stored and disposed of properly, but many of them can be recycled or reused as alternative fuels.

And for those who placed their bets (and your tax dollars) on Algae as the replacement liquid alternative fuel:

Primus Green Energy Inc., an alternative fuel company that converts natural gas and other feedstocks directly into drop - in transportation fuels and solvents (earlier post), announced that its patent application covering its STG + liquid fuel synthesis technology has been allowed by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

«While it is important to analyze the climate change consequences of differing energy strategies, we must all remember where we are today, how world demand for liquid fuels is growing, and what the realistic alternatives are to meet those growing demands,» said Bob Dineen, the group's director, in a statement following the Science reports» release.

Bullfrog Power's green fuel is an earth - friendly, renewable alternative to liquid fossil fuel, allowing climate - conscious businesses in Canada to reduce the environmental impact of their...

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».

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

In an alternative world (perhaps not far - off) with relatively plentiful electricity and little oil, we might use electricity to make liquid fuels; in that world we would surely not use the same exchange rate — each kWh of gasoline would then cost us something like 3 kWh of electricity!

For the near - and mid-term alternative fuel options (i.e., hydrotreated oil from animal fats and vegetable oils, and FT liquids), electric power is not an important input to the production process, but hydrogen is.

I agree with you (and another poster IIRC on an earlier thread) that the energy cost of end use systems has to be accounted for in some manner, especially when comparing energy alternatives (i.e. liquid fuel or solid fuel, electricity and so on).

Undoubtedly these are early days, and many challenges remain in creating truly sustainable biofuels, and certainly in creating truly sustainable aviation — but unlike land and sea transportation, airlines have very few if any alternatives to liquid fuels, so initiatives like this are an encouraging sign that aviation may be able to weather the inevitable transition to a post fossil - fuel economy.

An alternative to batteries for energy storage and transportation is hydrogen, which weight - for - weight stores more energy than traditional liquid fuels.