Nuclear heat should be provided to all the required chemical processes
for producing liquid fuels.
Not exact matches
A catalyst made with thallium (orange) readily converts methane (gray and white molecule) into
liquid methanol, a starting point
for producing commodity chemicals and
fuels.
Chemoautotrophic «Knallgas» bacteria can utilize H2 / CO2
for growth under aerobic conditions, and have great potential to directly
produce liquid fuels from CO2 and / or syngas [1, 2].
«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.
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.
In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted
for 62 % of new domestically -
produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted
for 38 %.
Cheap electricity provides water and
produces liquid fuels for energy carriers
for transport
fuels.
Biofuels:
Liquid fuels and blending components
produced from biomass feedstocks, used primarily
for transportation.
Carbon capture from air seems simple and industrially scalable — see
for instance http://www.carbonengineering.com/ — but it seems a waste of a resource to bury it in the Antarctic when it could be combined with hydrogen to
produce an endless supply of cheap
liquid fuels.
Liquid and gaseous
fuels can be
produced from firewood and other organic matter,
for example garden waste and shit.
Electricity will substitute
for fossil
fuels for heat and
produce transport
fuels (e.g.
liquid fuels from sea water).
front - end engineering and design
for facilities that
produce liquid fuels from hydrocarbons and other biological matter.
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).
Now, scientists at Harvard have developed the «bionic leaf 2.0,» which increases the efficiency of the system well beyond nature's own capabilities, and used it to
produce liquid fuels for the first time.
Develop advanced oxygen production systems
for use in gasification plants that will result in a significantly lower cost compared to conventional processes
for applications to
produce power with carbon capture or
liquid fuels with carbon capture.
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.
The Texas panhandle
for instance is ideal and just a tenth of it can
produce all the
liquid fuel the United States currently consumes at yield / acre currently achieved in pilot plants.
Now, scientists have developed the «bionic leaf 2.0,» which increases the efficiency of the system well beyond nature's own capabilities, and used it to
produce liquid fuels for the first time.
Transportation, which accounts
for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on
liquid fuels produced from oil.
The use of nuclear energy to
produce liquid fuels is very economic at this point of time, and whilst the production of hydrogen from nuclear electricity is expensive the cost can be reduced by using high temperature steam from nuclear reactors
for high temperature electrolysis.
It is an energy transformation that would
produce liquid fuels at a lower energy cost than,
for example, the Navy's new
fuel - from - seawater technology.
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.