In that case, we do nothing and suffer the consequences of dealing with a burgeoning demand
for liquid transportation fuels globally without offering any alternatives to petroleum.
Third, we want alternatives
for liquid transportation fuels: glucose, agricultural waste products, lumber waste products.
While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes
for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.
Not exact matches
Dr. Aaron Appel, who is leading the efforts to rationally design catalysts
for carbon dioxide conversion PNNL's Institute
for Integrated Catalysis, shared his team's work on two groups of catalysts that are involved in the first step of turning carbon dioxide into
liquid transportation fuels.
«There is a pressing need
for a game - changing approach to produce alternative, drop - in,
liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.
Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel
fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «
fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete
for the
transportation dollar.
David Adam of The Guardian reported over the weekend on the first international conference on «coal to
liquids,» in Paris, at which a host of officials from around the world excitedly described a host of new coal - to -
liquids initiatives aimed at securing flows of
transportation fuel in a world facing high oil prices
for a long time to come.
Nor does it apparently intend to directly, materially * reduce * the CO2 in the atmosphere (i.e. the reason
for «creating»
liquid hydrocarbon
fuels would primarily be
for transportation, so burning them would re-release the CO2, uncaptured, back into the atmosphere).
Question asked: «What ideas are out there
for shaping
transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand
for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?»
What ideas are out there
for shaping
transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand
for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?
One of the most important take - home points, to me, was the authors» endorsement of a rising role
for natural gas as a feedstock
for producing
liquid transportation fuels.
According to a latest Daimler report
liquid fuels will continue to play a major role in the trucking
transportation sector
for the foreseeable future.
The growth in
transportation energy demand is likely to account
for approximately 60 percent of the growth in
liquid fuels demand worldwide over this period.
Biofuels:
Liquid fuels and blending components produced from biomass feedstocks, used primarily
for transportation.
One is electricity
for use in homes, buildings, and industry and the other is
transportation, which is powered primarily by
liquid fuels (gasoline and diesel) from oil.
H2O and CO2 can supply the feedstock
for all the
liquid fuels currently used
for transportation, which are just various molecular recombinations of hydrogen and carbon.
«I think it's reasonable to be shooting
for providing 50 percent of our
liquid transportation fuel with sustainable
fuel.»
Despite rising
fuel prices, use of
liquids for transportation increases by an average of 1.1 % per year, or 38 % overall, from 2010 to 2040.
The
transportation sector accounts
for 63 % of the total increase in
liquid fuel use from 2010 to 2040, and the remainder is attributed to the industrial sector, where the chemicals industry continues to consume large quantities of petroleum throughout the projection.
The term qualified coal - to -
liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of
transportation grade
liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows
for the capture,
transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).
The problem is
liquid fuels for the
transportation sector not electricity to recharge your iPhone.
In a new report, «Biofuels
for Transportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughl
Transportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand
for biofuels in the road
transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughl
transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the
liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughly 8 % by 2022.
A Berkeley Lab - led team is working to re-engineer an enzyme
for the efficient conversion of methane to
liquid hydrocarbon
transportation fuels.
It would also be interseting to use coal and nuclear together to make
liquid fuels for transportation.
Adding insult to injury electricity, even were it free to produce at centralized generation facilities, can not practically replace
liquid hydrocarbon
fuels for lack of distribution capacity to local consumption and lack of storage capacity
for transportation.
While ground
transportation can be moved to batteries or perhaps natural gas or even hydrogen, the future need
for liquid fuels would still persist
for aircraft as far as I know.
Transportation, which accounts
for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on
liquid fuels produced from oil.
Dr. Ramage chaired the National Acdemies reports «The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs», «Resource Requirements
for a Hydrogen Economy», «Alternative
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass», and «Transitions To Alternative
Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Plug - In Hybrid Electric Vehicles».
There are no reasonable alternative
liquid fuels for land, sea and air
transportation needs.
The number of miles of public roads and streets most recently certified by the Department of
Transportation as eligible
for distribution of
liquid fuels funds under the act of June 1, 1956 (1955 P.L. 1944, No. 655), referred to as the Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocatio
liquid fuels funds under the act of June 1, 1956 (1955 P.L. 1944, No. 655), referred to as the Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation
fuels funds under the act of June 1, 1956 (1955 P.L. 1944, No. 655), referred to as the
Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocatio
Liquid Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation
Fuels Tax Municipal Allocation Law.
Southern Research Institute has entered into a $ 1.5 - million cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy to test an innovative method
for producing
liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass, thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal - to -
liquid (CTL) and coal - biomass - to -
liquid (CBTL) processes.
Solar power, nuclear energy, and coal are primarily useful
for generating electric power, but these energies do not provide
liquid fuels needed
for transportation or mechanized agriculture, nor do they provide raw materials
for manufacturing of 300,000 products, including fertilizer.
Pay attention, because this next one has some serious implications
for energy and
transportation policy, and infrastructure: According to research just published in the online edition of Science, rather than converting energy crops to
liquid fuel for use in an internal combustion engine, it is far more efficient to convert them to electricity to power vehicles.
An alternative to batteries
for energy storage and
transportation is hydrogen, which weight -
for - weight stores more energy than traditional
liquid fuels.
The EDF scenario (Eeh) implies that aircraft account
for 39 % of the
transportation energy usage and require 45 % of the world's
liquid fuel production.