Sentences with phrase «burn fuel imported»

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

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Japan has pursued fast - breeder technology, through which a reactor can produce more plutonium than it burns in hopes of cutting or eliminating imports of nuclear fuel.
No oil is imported and no fossil fuels are burned when you go whale watching with us.
In addition, our nation's dependence on imported energy has increased, and the effects of burning fossil fuels on the global environment are becoming a major concern.
Inglis touts a carbon tax as a classic win - win - win because it makes the nation less reliant on oil imports from enemies, creates homegrown clean technology jobs and cleans up air sullied with pollutants from burning fossil fuels.
Domestic emissions are only one part of Australia's contribution to climate change, which also includes emissions from the burning of fossil fuel exports (which dwarf domestic emissions) and emissions from the manufacture of imported products.
Same thing for imported oil that's shipped thousands of miles from foreign countries, burning dirty bunker fuel and diesel fuel, a major cause of black carbon soot.
He also stated the Dominican Republic imports fossil fuels so people «will not go out into the forest and cut down trees to burn»: [33]
Beginning in 1965, electric power companies began building generating plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil made from imported crude.
in conclusion a study that would be interesting and relivent would be that of city imports such as foods that people and pets eat and turn into calories which in turn become heat and fuels that are burned becoming heat and also electric energy consumption.
Supporters of domestic ethanol call it a cleaner - burning fuel than gasoline that offsets oil imports from autocratic regimes abroad and creates American jobs.
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