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These changes are necessary for lung function, as the tissues can stiffen and become less effective at cycling gases in and out when they follow the same pattern for too long.

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For GE, the deal will help it focus more on the oil and gas sector, especially in North America, while shielding the parent company's earnings from the energy industry's boom and bust cycles.

The Combined - Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) arrived in the 1990s.

TransAlta officially opened its new 150 - megawatt combined cycle natural gas power station in South Hedland today, with Horizon Power as its sole foundation customer after Fortescue Metals Group backed out of an offtake agreement.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission has approved Dominion Virginia Power's plan to build a 1,588 MW, natural gas - fired combined - cycle plant in Greensville County, rejecting the assertion by groups representing independent Continue Reading

They combined the oil and gas business with Baker Hughes at the bottom of an oil cycle in an asset - light way.

I created the above chart of IPOs for 1990 - 2016 using Univerisity of Florida's Jay R. Ritter's data, Prof. Ritter uses a tight definition of IPOs which I believe is more helpful for getting a sense of where we are in the current bull cycle by excluding some noise, «follow - on offerings, oil & gas partnerships or unit trusts, ADRs (9 offerings), REITs», etc..

Cycle Capital Management invests in companies developing and commercializing clean technologies and striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, optimizing resource use, and improving process efficiency throughout a product's life cCycle Capital Management invests in companies developing and commercializing clean technologies and striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, optimizing resource use, and improving process efficiency throughout a product's life cyclecycle.

When composted, single serve coffee from compostable pods delivers a conservatively - projected 23 % reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, compared to conventional drip brewed coffee over its life cycle.

A new U.S. corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) study shows a significant 32 percent reduction per unit in the industry's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2006 and 2010.

Results of a Life Cycle Assessment performed by DuPont show 50 % savings in greenhouse gases for flexo vs. gravure printing.

Life cycle inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and use of energy and land in Brazilian beef production;

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

When babies bawl like this, they take in a lot of air, which creates gas and more pain, making them cry even more — fueling a vicious cycle that many parents struggle with on a daily basis.

While Nixon and Molinaro were competing for headlines and Hawkins was in the news after he was arrested protesting a gas storage facility on Seneca Lake, a number of intriguing figures seeking to unseat Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo have slipped under the radar, getting little or no press coverage so far in this election cycle.

Documents exclusively available to Citi News show that, the agreement for the 400MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant to be situated in Tema, will be executed by Early Power Limited, a company incorporated in Ghana only in October 27, 2014.

The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle Plant to be fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Natural Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

NRG is the largest taxpayer in Chautauqua County and the company's original proposal to repower the station with a combined cycle natural gas system was strongly supported by the city of Dunkirk.

A new study by Suzanne Baldwin, the Michael G. and Susan T. Thonis Professor of Earth Sciences, and Jayeshkumar Das, a research associate of Earth sciences, brings insight to how atmospheric noble gases, in particular argon and neon, cycle from the surface to the Earth's mantle, and back to the surface again.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.

But new research into the processes of nutrient cycling published today reveals how farmers could mitigate the effects of this harmful gas by boosting copper levels in fields.

Koblick was wearing a closed - cycle rebreather — a complex piece of gear that could supply breathing gas for longer periods in dives to 300 feet.

Because older wells typically produce less gas as they near the end of their life cycle, liquid unloadings happen more often in those wells than in newer wells.

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

A refrigerant is a compound used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change from a gas to a liquid and back.

«We expected an answer close to that, more or less, but Ralph Keeling was the first to provide the measurements,» says Pieter Tans, who heads NOAA's carbon - cycle and greenhouse - gas group in Boulder, Colorado.

Then the resulting waste gas, largely carbon dioxide and water, is cycled back into a boiler in a process that concentrates the carbon dioxide.

That means accounting for greenhouse - gas emissions due to all the processes from harvesting, milling, and printing to shipping, recycling, and stowing in landfills: looking at every step of the magazine's life cycle.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

There are also outstanding questions related to the real - world efficiency gains of natural gas fuels and the life - cycle emissions they produce based on methane leakage in the production process.

A similar integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant — in which coal is turned to gas before being burned — capturing the same amount would produce electricity for roughly $ 103 per MWh.

Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.

This includes, for example, how the atmosphere responds to increasing levels of greenhouse gases, how the gases cycle through the environment, and changes in water temperature and sea - levels.

In this cycle, jets shooting out of the galaxy's center heat a halo of surrounding gas, controlling the rate at which the gas cools and falls into the galaxy to form stars.

This artist's rendering shows a central black hole interacting with gas in the galaxy's halo to create a self - regulating cycle.

The second must - have for life is a recycling of gases and minerals from the planet's interior to its exterior — known as the carbon cycle — which keeps the atmosphere in balance over long periods so life can emerge and survive.

Because of the action of the black hole winds, Tetsuo's donated gas is rendered inert, preventing a new cycle of star formation in Akira.

The present result would also widen the range of both basic and applied researches on superconductivity, because the Tc of 50 - 60 K achieved in the present study is high enough to keep the superconducting state by using a closed - cycle - gas - type cooling system without liquid helium.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as wastIn addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as wastin the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

«With modest success in the technology management program, these cycles could compete with combined - cycle natural gas turbines and carbon capture and storage,» Dennis said.

Different low carbon technologies from wind or solar energy to fossil carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) differ greatly when it comes to indirect greenhouse gas emissions in their life cycle.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

The topping cycle reduces the amount of pollution produced when coal is burnt and also narrows the gap in efficiency between coal and gas - fired stations (Technology, 1 February 1992).

Building on its BP Solar business — which BP expects to hit revenues of $ 1 billion in 2008 — BP Alternative Energy manages an investment program in solar, wind, hydrogen and combined cycle gas turbine power generation, which the company predicts could amount to $ 8 billion over the next 10 years.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

The second step involved calculating Earth's energy balance for this time period, using estimates of greenhouse gas concentrations extracted from air bubbles in ice cores, and incorporating astronomical factors, known as Milankovitch Cycles, that effect the planetary heat budget.

Ponds and lakes play a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and are often net emitters of carbon gases to the atmosphere.