Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels formed»

Over millions of years, different types of fossil fuels formed — depending on what combination of organic matter was present, how long it was buried and what temperature and pressure conditions existed as time passed.

Every element in the complex, beautiful illustrations supports the informative text, which offers a welcome, long - term perspective on the subject: how fossil fuels formed millions of years ago and how their use affects the planet today.

When organisms die and are buried, carbon becomes locked in the soil, where fossil fuels form.

Not exact matches

«Water is required for all different forms of energy production, for the production of fossil fuels, biofuels, concentrated solar power.»

It could even take the form of an investment in carbon capture and storage technology to allow fossil fuels to be part of the future energy mix.

The shift away from pure fossil - fuel engines has been so fast that 2017 sales of cars using some form of electric battery power topped out at 52 percent, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

The short form would be: fossil fuels bad.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

«New pipelines to transition to clean energy» is Canada's own form of climate denial Watching Prime Minister Trudeau celebrate President Trump's executive order reviving the Keystone XL pipeline got me thinking: how is it that our «progressive» Canadian leader is siding with the climate - denying U.S. president on major fossil fuel expansion?

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.

The less we use fossil fuels and other forms of polluting or dangerous energy the better.

By applying fossil fuel energy, new machines, and new forms of organization to production, far more goods could be produced by a given work force.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

Made up of experts form the investment, energy, environmental and legal industries, the panel will advise DiNapoli on ways the state's more than $ 200 billion pension system can reduce its investments in fossil fuel companies while increasing investments in clean energy.

Moving forward with a campaign pledge to unravel former President Obama's sweeping plan to curb global warming, Trump today is set to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half - dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.

Vermont's governor and state treasurer have different ideas about the subcommittee being formed to investigate fossil - fuel divestment for the state's $ 4 billion retirement fund.

Expensive as they are, fossil fuels are still the cheapest form of energy.

Water does not perish, nor require millions of years to form as do fossil fuels.

Today more religious institutions around the world have pledged to some form of fossil fuel divestment than any other class of institution, said Harper.

Audience question: Big oil and big coal argue that the transition from a fossil fuel — based economy to a clean - energy economy will come at a severe economic cost in the form of jobs.

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).

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Perhaps low oil prices are a practice run for life under climate change, when fossil fuels have to be forsaken, driving down their prices and driving companies to produce cleaner forms of energy.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

CO2 is formed when any kind of organic material or fossil fuel, such as natural gas, petroleum, coal or gasoline, is burned.

A crew of a dozen sailors, a geophysics professor, and two graduate students, we were combing the ocean floor for buried methane hydrate, an ice - like form of natural gas estimated to be more abundant than fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels — the hydrocarbons known as peat, coal, oil, and natural gas — are formed from the constituents of deeply buried and preserved organic matter.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

«My research is primarily centered on converting us from a fossil fuel - based infrastructure to a renewable - or solar - based infrastructure so we can rely on renewable forms of energy that don't pollute the world at all.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

The jury is still out on whether hydrogen will ultimately be our environmental savior, replacing the fossil fuels responsible for global warming and various nagging forms of pollution.

Although a number of substances form particles, the Harvard group suspects that byproducts of fossil fuel combustion are the most dangerous.

Now, locked in limestone that was formed in shallow seawater offshore of the supercontinent Pangaea, scientists have found an isotopic signal to support a sharp drop in pH. The catastrophe holds a cautionary lesson: Due to the burning of fossil fuels, today's oceans are acidifying at an even faster rate than they were at the time of the extinctions, although it hasn't yet persisted nearly as long.

Germany's «Energiewende,» the effort to transition away from nuclear and fossil fuels toward renewables, is likely to continue no matter what coalition forms.

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

Acid rain arises when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOx), emitted by burning fossil fuels, react with water droplets in the air to form sulfuric and nitric acid.

Fossil fuels, which are technically forms of stored energy, pose plenty of problems in their extraction, refining, distribution and delivery.

The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO2, a «greenhouse gas» contributing to global warming), as well as heat.

Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.

Eliminating clouds from the dimming equation now leaves little doubt that human activity, in the form of a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions over the same half - century period, has entrenched China in a foggy haze that absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

sulfur dioxide A pollutant made of sulfur and oxygen that forms when fossil fuel is burned.

Human decisions have introduced additional perturbations to the carbon cycle, in the form of fossil - fuel burning, cutting down forests, and land use changes, just to name a few.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

The energy in fossil fuels is also a result of photosynthesis because fossil fuels are formed from the remains of plant and animal matter.

The organic aerosol particles that coat the toxic hitchhikers are wafted into the atmosphere through emissions from trees (like those that produce the smell of pine trees), and burning biomass and fossil fuel to form a semi-solid sap - like casing surrounding and protecting the particle's payload from breaking down in the atmosphere.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.