Sentences with phrase «conventional oil sources»

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On the supply side, two sources of growing oil production feed largely into the Midwestern market: Canadian production, both conventional and oilsands, and U.S. Bakken production in North Dakota and Montana.

In addition Carbon Tracker, a market friendly group, now informs investors that low oil prices will favor existing production from low carbon and low cost conventional sources.

* MCT Oil can also be used as a substitute for conventional oils in salad dressings, sauces or cooking as a source of beneficial fatty acids.

When more energy is spent getting at the oil than the energy you extract, you stop drilling, so I don't see much future for tar sands, deep sea wells, etc. once the conventional sources get too expensive.

To the carbon in conventional petroleum reserves you can add about 100 gigatonnes C from proved natural gas reserves, based on the same sources as I used for oil.

Despite this general optimism about shifting away from conventional oil, some sources of demand remain robust.

Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

But for most activists, the largest issue was climate change as oil from the tar sands emits more carbon than conventional sources.

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.

Like the airline bringing in a truck with a more powerful engine to tow that plane, the global economy is upping the ante from conventional sources of fossil fuels to even dirtier and more dangerous versions — bitumen from the Alberta tar sands, oil from deepwater drilling, gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), coal from detonated mountains, and so on.

Most unconventional energy sources have much lower efficiencies than conventional gas and oil, which operate at a combined energy - returned - on - investment ratio of about 18:1.

Over a century's worth of subsidizing fossil energy sources — not to mention roads, vehicle development and manufacturing, and transmission / distribution infrastructure — have underwritten the steady development and improvement of conventional energy sources and embedded coal, oil, and natural gas as the favored national energy inputs.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

Relative to conventional sources, shale oil typically produces more pollution to extract, though the extent depends on whether or not the operators avoid wasteful and unnecessary emissions.

Price of Oil: When oil prices were low, the vast amount of additional water and energy (and greenhouse gas pollution) needed to scrub and process these sorts of hydrocarbons into something suitable for market was simply uneconomical compared to conventional sources of cruOil: When oil prices were low, the vast amount of additional water and energy (and greenhouse gas pollution) needed to scrub and process these sorts of hydrocarbons into something suitable for market was simply uneconomical compared to conventional sources of cruoil prices were low, the vast amount of additional water and energy (and greenhouse gas pollution) needed to scrub and process these sorts of hydrocarbons into something suitable for market was simply uneconomical compared to conventional sources of crude.

As indicated earlier, the fully allocated cost of electricity produced from non-hydro «renewable» sources such as wind and solar energy is almost always higher than the cost of electricity produced from «conventional» sources (coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy and hydropower).

using the more «conventional» energy sources such as coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy or hydropower?

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Tar sands, tight oil, and other so - called «new» sources of oil are significantly more difficult and expensive to extract than conventional liquid oil.

They're also dirtier: producing a gallon of gasoline from unconventional oil can generate over twice as much pollution as it would have if produced from conventional sources.

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.

Furthermore, the Canadian tar sands oil, while certainly «dirtier» to extract than traditional oil sources, releases roughly 15 percent more CO2 per barrel than conventional oil.

Dilbit is harder to remove from waterways than the typical light crude oil — often called conventional crude — that has historically been used as an energy source.

In terms of additional greenhouse gas emissions, producing fuel from oil shale produces eight times the emissions of making fuel from conventional sources of petroleum.

Since oil palm plantations are typically planted on a 25 - year cycle, a carbon payback time exceeding 25 years makes palm - oil biodiesel a larger source of emissions than conventional petroleum.

Van der Veer went on to claim that the «well - to - wheels» carbon footprint of Canadian tar sand extraction — in which Shell is heavily invested, seeing 74 % profit growth in the second quarter of this year — was only 15 % higher than conventional sources of oil.

The Contents: Spectra's FAQ about the project tout natural gas as being «the cleanest burning conventional source of energy,» producing «45 % less carbon dioxide than coal and 30 % less than fuel oil when burned.

Solar energy is a great alternative to conventional and non-renewable sources of energy such as natural gas, coal and oil.