Sentences with phrase «capturing valuable fuel»

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But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to Markets program intended to encourage industries to capture «fugitive» emissions of the one heat - trapping greenhouse gas that is a valuable fuel, methane.

Ultimately, the captured carbon dioxide should be converted to fuels and valuable feedstock chemicals, Yaghi said.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

A potentially game - changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissions before they are vented into the atmosphere and then, powered by solar energy, convert that carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products, including biodegradable plastics, pharmaceutical drugs and even liquid fuels.

In addition, the process uses waste CO2 as a feedstock, allowing industrial emitters to produce valuable fuels rather than discard emissions or employ costly measures for capture and sequestration.