Sentences with phrase «burned by their gas»

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The primary cause has been competition from cleaner - burning natural gas, which has been made cheaper and more abundant by hydraulic fracturing.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

«We're avoiding greenhouse gases by turning natural gas into a long - lasting product that can be recycled, as opposed to burning it.»

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burninBurning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burningburning coal.

The first is climate change, exacerbated by the greenhouse gases we encourage by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests, and farming the way we do (particularly for meat production).

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.

Breakthrough: A power plant efficiently and cheaply captures carbon released by burning natural gas, avoiding greenhouse - gas emissions.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

Whereas today most British Columbians burn natural gas to heat their homes, 15 years from now many of those furnaces will be replaced by high - efficiency heat pumps — electric units that transfer heat from outside your home to warm the air indoors, and work even when it's much cooler outside.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

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.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

We would have to recognize that it is an open system sustained by a continuous input of gases from the environing atmosphere and from the burning material, and giving off heat energy into the environment.

From Reuters, «chlorine gas turns to hydrochloric acid in the lungs and can kill by burning the lungs and drowning victims in the resulting body fluids.»

Therefore, circulating steam beneath the griddle plate is used to heat the cooking surface; not electric elements or gas burners that can cause temperatures to fluctuate by up to 100 °F on the griddle surface, causing burning and fluctuating cook times.

Therefore, circulating steam beneath the griddle plate is used to heat the cooking surface, not electric elements or gas burners that can cause temperatures to fluctuate by up to 100 °F on the griddle surface, causing burning and irregular cook times.

Have the carbon smokes of the last transfer window not exhausted by now after the engine had been switched off, and the gas has stopped burning.

Second, the environmental tradeoff between cloth diapers and disposables is so slight, and so hard to discern, that a fair analysis must take into account such relatively minor factors as the water and pesticides used to grow the cotton; the gas burned by the delivery truck; and the electricity and water used by parents who clean the diapers themselves.

For years, Nigeria has actually been burning vast quantities of gas, which is a by - product of crude oil extraction and can not be brought to potential markets like Europe as easily as oil.

Cuomo announced a deal in December 2013, subsequently approved by the PSC, to provide the coal - powered Dunkirk plant with $ 20.4 million a year to help renovate it to burn natural gas.

His biggest test is to finally stop promoting the burning of natural gas by banning fracking,» said Hawkins.

At noon, leaders from four municipalities will join Ratepayer and Community Intervenors at a press conference to cal on Cuomo to reject a proposal by Cayuga Operating Co. to continue burning coal at the Cayuga plant and to add gas - fired capacity, Town of Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga St., Ithaca.

What we are really seeing is impoverished, sick families, desperately fleeing one conflict only to walk straight into another: homes burnt out, women attacked by armed police, young children tear - gassed.

The plant, which used to burn garbage, will now be converted by the Cuomo administration to natural gas from fracking fields in other states.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

Ventless: If your idea of the best gas fireplace insert or the best propane fireplace insert involves clean burning and use of all of the heat given off by the fire, then you'll want to be sure it's ventless.

The most direct method to make energy consumption more sustainable is for a user to generate its own power by, for example, installing solar panels or by burning waste gas.

His home was among the most industrial and polluted communities in the nation, routinely blasted by burning gases and thick smoke from the refinery, and next to chemical plants, a commercial port frequented by huge diesel ships and a slew of shuttered factories left over from the city's World War II shipbuilding days.

Massachusetts approves the construction of a new power plant to burn natural gas, but only if it reduces emissions over time and shuts down by 2050

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

And if all our oil, natural gas, and coal resources are burned, «that could raise CO2 levels by a factor of ten,» says Tans.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

In other words, the plant growth should act like a sink, absorbing the gas released into the air by burning fossil fuel.

Because neutral hydrogen gas would absorb such a signal, the observation means that neutral hydrogen must have already been burned away by other galaxies, Hu says.

The electricity is often produced by burning fossil fuels, and the refrigerant gases also exacerbate climate change.

This gas is also released by the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, including gasoline.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.

Most of that cost arises from the thermodynamics of separating CO2 from flue gas emitted by burning hydrocarbons.

The spacecraft actually burned the last of its fuel in January, but in April, NASA engineers squeezed out a little extra thrust by venting on - board helium gas, which was used to pressurise the fuel.