Sentences with phrase «efficient oil or gas»

If you're a homeowner, when it's time to replace your heating or cooling system, consider choosing efficient electrical systems over less - efficient oil or gas - burning options.

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Scientists at San Diego — based Genomatica, Inc., have announced success in manipulating the bacteria to directly produce butanediol (BDO), a chemical compound used to make everything from spandex to car bumpers, thereby providing a more energy - efficient way of making it without oil or natural gas.

The Tufts researchers discovered that dispersing individual, isolated platinum atoms in much less costly copper surfaces can create a highly effective and cost - efficient catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of 1,3 butadiene, a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

Cheaper natural gas has pushed out older, less - efficient coal and oil generation; however, the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility or supply disruption.

This is 3 times more efficient than burning oil or gas for heat.

It is 3 times more efficient than oil or gas burners because of the second law of thermodynamics advantages of the Carnot refrigeration cycle.

While worn out oil furnaces or gas installations in households will be replaced by heat pumps which will be more energy efficient in the long term and again help lower energy bills.