For example, even before the new proposed levels were announced, Colorado's Front Range region is out of compliance with the current rules, «driven largely by emissions from
fossil fuel processing.»
Finally, solar power benefits public health by not contributing to the pollution created at every step in
the fossil fuel process — from the extraction wells and mines through the pipelines and at the smokestack.
Not exact matches
While this company's bond did not directly invest in increasing
fossil fuel output, refineries are still
processing fossil fuels and any investment in making refineries more efficient, as this bond is aiming to, will likely extend plant operating lifetimes and therefore indirectly increase emissions over time.
Crude oil's secular bear market trend matches up very well with the underlying transition
process from
fossil fuels to alternative energy.
They give us a paycheck to help them milk the wealth from our land in the form of
fossil fuel, minerals, raw materials and food; pay us to
process it into pretty, Twinkie - packages of stuff that we «just can't live without», and then sell it back to us and others at a profit that puts them on easy street.
We are enlaved by: debt,
fossil fuels, materialism, factory farmed and
processed «food,» news propaganda, belief systems, and our medical system
If
fossil fuels and global warming are among your concerns, consider seeking a chocolate product that was grown and
processed nearby.
The proven GWE anaerobic technology has been demonstrated in more than 300 projects completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace
fossil fuels in
fuelling boilers and
processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.
Climate change: the
fossil fuels we consume in our value chain
process to operate our facilities, manufacture our products, and transport them to our customers, creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace
fossil fuels in
fuelling boilers and
processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.
Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for
fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also
processes waste streams to high recycling standards.
«The quantities of methane produced by anaerobic digestion can diminish or even completely replace the use of
fossil fuels in the production
process,» says Mike Bambridge.
Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of
fossil fuels in the production
process.
The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining,
processing and
fossil -
fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.
The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop
processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace
fossil fuels used in production
processes.
NO electricity or
fossil fuels are used to run our
processing plant.
Air pollution has historically been caused by industrialisation and the consequent proliferation in the use of «
fossil fuels» (and therefore sulphur dioxide emissions) in the industrial
process.
On August 4 th, The Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Bill, 2016, was passed into law, after a long and extensive consultative
process, aimed strengthening and improving the legal environment governing the exploration and production of
fossil fuel.
And the groups want to see the a transition
process for workers that moves New York away from
fossil fuel plants that is locally driven.
The «transition» from
fossil fuel isn't something that will be made... its a
process that had already begun!
The
process of moving from
fossil fuels to renewable energy will advance as the costs of using renewable energy starts to matches the costs of using
fossil fuels...
Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration
processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various
fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.
«This is certainly true for
fossil fuel - related approvals, where there is a clear causal connection between each phase of the
fossil fuel supply chain (production, transportation,
processing, and end - use) and the emissions from these activities can be estimated with existing tools and data.»
Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical
processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before
fossil fuel burning).
Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production
process will improve this advantage over other
fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.
A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to
fossil -
fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical
processes that underpin all life on Earth.
Now a group of researchers led by Steven Kuznicki at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and Anthony Ku at General Electric think they can be used to screen out the carbon dioxide produced when
processing or burning
fossil fuels.
The low price and abundance of
fossil fuels prevents a lot of companies from investing in the expensive trial and error
process of researching new catalysts.
The power plant wouldn't burn
fossil fuels and would actually reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere during the manufacturing
process.
America's midsection has experienced an uptick in quakes due to part of the hydraulic fracturing
process: Wastewater from the
fossil fuel extraction is pumped deep into the ground, causing faults to separate and slip.
But the
fossil fuel is not renewable, and the
process releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.
The
process can reveal new deposits of
fossil fuels and other important information — and now industry has permission to use air guns off the U.S. east coast.
Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch
process synthetic
fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such
fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.
We achieved that by tapping the energy in
fossil fuels, in the
process turning a carrying capacity problem into a climate change problem.
So even though the natural
processes, the vegetation, the bacteria, the soil are enormous fluxors of carbon, in fact there are larger fluxors of carbon than our
fossil fuel release, but we can see that they would have been in balance for the 10,000 years going back in time.
There is always going to be some local need for
fossil - based
fuels, you know, in industrial
processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.
Using carbon dioxide to pump out more
fossil fuels — and permanently storing the gas in the
process — might sound counterproductive to limiting climate change because those
fuels, when burned, put more CO2 into the atmosphere.
Today's anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are around 36 billion tons annually, of which 29 billion are the result of
fossil -
fuel combustion and industrial
processes, and another seven billion or so are to the result of tropical deforestation.
Photographer J. Henry Fair has documented the landscapes left behind by the industrial
processes that feed the world's
fossil -
fuel addiction — as well as many of the necessities and luxuries of modern life that energy makes possible, from plastics to paper towels.
The catalyst the researchers have developed effectively drives the
process of combining CO2 with hydrogen to produce methane (the main component of the
fossil fuel natural gas) and water.
Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a
process that has enormous potential to replace
fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based
fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.
Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow,
fossil fuel - producing
process).
But Virent has added its
process to the list of tools to convert plants into
fuel, joining fermentation, Fischer - Tropsch and pyrolysis, and thinks it can compete with
fuel from
fossil oil at prices at or above $ 70 per barrel.
A new company has found a way to produce polymers from genetically engineered microbes that feed on sugars, replacing
fossil -
fuel based
processes
Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive
process that may not actually save a lot of
fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.
Addressing concerns about keeping the
process carbon - neutral, Paul Dauenhauer, another graduate student working on the project, notes that while methane is a
fossil fuel, there are other ways to heat the catalyst that don't involve burning petrochemicals.
The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the
process as well as increased
fossil -
fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
This unconscious
process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere — albeit in a minuscule volume compared with burning
fossil fuels.
Fossil -
fuel power plants are a ready source of carbon dioxide for this
process.
«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning
fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial
processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.