Sentences with phrase «capturing much oil»

Most of the experts were not impressed with the chances of the berms capturing much oil, the commission report recounts.

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He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

Most important with respect to carbon capture and storage (CCS), the Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota has pumped as much as two million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year to the Weyburn oil field in Saskatchewan since 2000.

Additionally, Hill said, much of the potential for carbon capture and sequestration involves a process not considered by the study — enhanced oil recovery.

Much has been said about the 10 - year - long manhunt to capture and kill bin Laden but if, buffoonish, Bush Jr, wasn't so hell bent on drilling for oil and finishing his dear old pappy's lucrative business in Iraq then that time wouldn't have passed.

Overall, I have yet to see anyone rebut the simple calculations of Vaclav Smil, the resource and risk polymath at the University of Manitoba, who has shown how capturing and processing just a small percentage of today's CO2 from coal combustion would require as much pipeline and other infrastructure as is now used globally to get oil — a costly commodity — out of the ground.

Vaclav Smil at the University of Manitoba has calculated that capturing, compressing and storing just 10 percent of current CO2 emissions — here and now — would require as much pipeline and plant infrastructure as are now used worldwide to extract oil from the ground.

Aside from making it impossible for surface ships to stick around the site and work on fixing the well and capturing as much oil as possible, a hurricane would violently spread the oil everywhere in the Gulf and maybe even help it reach the loop current.

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

Two fossil fuel facts define the basic actions that are required to preserve our planet's climate: (1) it is impractical to capture CO2 as it is emitted by vehicles (the mass of emitted CO2 is about three times larger than the mass of fuel in the tank), and (2) there is much more CO2 contained in coal and unconventional fossil fuels than in oil and gas.

With this data, it is possible to calculate a rough approximation of how much CO2 will be created by each kilogram of CO2 captured from a CCS coal plant, and used to enhance oil recovery.

Historically, direct air capture has been largely framed as overwhelmingly expensive or impractical at commercial scale by carbon capture experts, due to the challenge of capturing the dilute CO2 in the air (exhaust streams of power plants and other industrial facilities like oil refineries, steel mills, and cement plants have much more concentrated CO2 steams).

The IPCC sees CCS capturing as much as 60,000 million tonnes in 2100 (blue bar, below right), a scale 15 times that of the world's current oil industry.

There has been much ado about flashier carbon - capture systems, like geologic sequestration, which involves collecting carbon dioxide and injecting it deep below the Earth's surface — into depleted oil or gas wells, for example.

Isakower said at a time when oil and natural gas production has risen dramatically, methane emissions have fallen because of industry leadership, investment in new technologies and incentives to capture as much methane as possible for delivery to consumers:

Much of the damage wrought by the BP oil disaster will be more along those lines — the deadliest impacts will take place in ways no photographer can easily capture.

So even though BP is capturing 15,000 barrels a day, it's still unknown how much oil is escaping into the Gulf.

I complimented them on their concern for the public's interests, however, all I got is a stammer, long silent pauses, meaningless words of explanation but no substance when I suggested that other big interest groups serving the public such as banks, oil companies, trust companies, insurance companies and the like have certainly not captured their attention as much as CREA.