Sentences with phrase «fossil hydrocarbon fuels»

Production costs and GHG emissions for fossil hydrocarbon fuels.

It is also understood that burning fossil hydrocarbon fuels increases the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and that this is likely to affect our climate.

Not exact matches

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

And there is no reason to think that the R. eutropha could not be made to generate other products — perhaps complex hydrocarbon molecules like those found in fossil fuels or even the whole range of chemicals currently synthesized from polluting resources, such as fertilizers.

There are over 100 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil, coal and tar, which are readily released into the environment when fossil fuels are burned.

Using these tools, Carothers expects that bacteria can renewably produce hydrocarbons already in use today, like diesel and jet fuel, creating «drop - in» replacements for fossil energy.

When humans burn hydrocarbons, or fossil fuels, the carbon reacts with oxygen.

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

Keasling's method feeds agricultural waste such as cornstalks and wheat straw to E. coli bacteria engineered to break down the sugars and produce biologically synthesized hydrocarbons that burn and function just like those in fossil fuels.

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).

«We're making hydrocarbons that look just like the hydrocarbons from fossil fuels,» such as heptane, isooctane and others, Cortright says.

Electric power plants that burn fossil fuels release hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides.

The study adds to earlier evidence that mothers» exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels and other organic materials, are linked to children's behavioral problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

The fossil fuels that we use contain carbon and hydrocarbons, and in the combustion of these fuels, carbon dioxide is released along with energy.

Schwietzke said it's also important to account for the emissions from all the fossil fuels that are produced in a given shale gas field because many wells produce oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons.

The asymptotic condition in the case that all hydrocarbons are used to extract hydrocarbons is then that the net entropy gain per unit area and unit time from fossil fuel extraction has to exceed the net rate of entropy gain per unit area and unit time from purely solar flux cooling:

Right now we have ramped up our economies to match the availability of energy in the form of fossil fuels — hydrocarbons — and, hence, CO2 emissions.

Fossil fuels are made of hydrocarbons; when they don't burn completely, they are released into the air.

And it should be noted you obviously failed to account for a simple fact about fossil fuels: They happen to be bio-based hydrocarbon products.

In those states the energy economies may be based on different hydrocarbons, but the political and cultural pressure to sustain the myth of sustainable fossil - fuel extraction is every bit as great.

4) A new UN climate treaty would limit fossil fuel use by developed countries, place no binding limits or timetables on developing nations, and redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries that claim they have been harmed by emissions and warming due to rich country hydrocarbon use.

Such unsustainable and destructive technologies, like fracking to exploit hydrocarbon and subsidies on fossil fuel must be eliminated.

But, but, but, haven't we been told that hydrocarbons are fossil fuels?

BBD writes - «Finite fossil hydrocarbon reserves (note I do not limit this definition to «fuel») plus robust physics of radiative transfer, plus paleoclimate evidence plus uncertainty are, together, more than sufficient grounds to justify the rapid reduction in fossil HC use.»

Cumulative fossil - fuel production with normal fits for hydrocarbons (ultimate 4.8 Tboe, 10 % 1975, 90 % 2066) and coal (ultimate 2.5 Tboe, 10 % 1960, 90 % 2088).

Finite fossil hydrocarbon reserves (note I do not limit this definition to «fuel») plus robust physics of radiative transfer, plus paleoclimate evidence plus uncertainty are, together, more than sufficient grounds to justify the rapid reduction in fossil HC use.

The financial think - tank says the fate of US coal should serve as a warning to investors in other fossil fuel markets worldwide who fail to prudently read a structural shift away from hydrocarbons and blindly continue to invest in assets that are in increasingly in danger of becoming stranded.

Fossil fuels - Carbon - based fuels from fossil hydrocarbon deposits, including coal, peat, oil and naturaFossil fuels - Carbon - based fuels from fossil hydrocarbon deposits, including coal, peat, oil and naturafossil hydrocarbon deposits, including coal, peat, oil and natural gas.

«Recent data from NSF - funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil - fuel related emissions of both methane and ethane, two of the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, declined at the end of the twentieth century... causes of the decline in methane emission rates to the atmosphere have been puzzling scientists for some time.

We support the cost - effective control of real pollutants associated with the use of fossil fuels — for example, fly ash, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur or smog - forming volatile hydrocarbons.

Fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon which contains carbon and hydrogen, and when it is burnt the carbon forms carbon dioxide and thehydrogen forms water.

Over 60 million tonnes of hydrogen are produced every year for a range of industrial purposes, including ammonia production, hydrocracking (breaking complex hydrocarbons into lighter fuels), and removing sulfur from fossil fuels.

Hydrocarbons, the energy components of fossil fuels, are 100 % organic, as in organic chemistry.

Natural Gas — A gaseous fossil fuel that occurs naturally underground and consists of methane and other hydrocarbons.

I don't believe we'll burn enough fossil fuel to cause catastrophic warming before alternative energy sources make the Holy Hydrocarbon Bond more valuable as structure than for its inherent energy.

Part of the answer must be that the fossil fuel industry is much bigger than the halogenated hydrocarbon industry, and its lobbying power much greater.

And the California Public Resource Code permits «the owners or operators of -LSB--RSB- wells to utilize all methods and practices known to the oil industry for the purpose of increasing the ultimate recovery of underground hydrocarbons,» declaring it the «policy of this state» to maximize fossil - fuel production.

Of course, to me the ideal answer is direct solar power → Fuel, such as methane (to replace natural gas) or liquid hydrocarbons (to replace fossil).

First of all, fossil fuels are hydrocarbons and hydrocarbons contain hydrogen that gets converted to water vapor upon combustion, so our current fossil fuel burning is already producing plenty of water vapor.

Fossil fuels Natural resources, such as coal, oil and natural gas, containing hydrocarbons.

One of the hard parts about fighting CO2 emissions, vs. all the other emissions we have tackled in the past (NOx, SOx, soot / particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, etc), is that we simply don't know how to combust fossil fuels without creating CO2 — CO2 is inherent to the base chemical reaction of the combustion.

All other fossil - fuel emissions represent unburned hydrocarbons, the technology for capturing which has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few decades.

Fossil fuels are, of course, also very inefficient converters of solar energy, «the production of fossil hydrocarbon recovers at best close to 1 % but commonly just 0.01 % of the carbon that was initially present in the ancient biomass whose transformation yielded oil and gas.&Fossil fuels are, of course, also very inefficient converters of solar energy, «the production of fossil hydrocarbon recovers at best close to 1 % but commonly just 0.01 % of the carbon that was initially present in the ancient biomass whose transformation yielded oil and gas.&fossil hydrocarbon recovers at best close to 1 % but commonly just 0.01 % of the carbon that was initially present in the ancient biomass whose transformation yielded oil and gas.»

Coal is the first fossil fuel in the gun, because it is has a higher carbon content than oil (composed of hydrocarbons).

Those shale gas cheerleaders also fail to take into account the huge fossil fuel subsidy their favoured hard to get at hydrocarbon gets.

Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their money out of «risky» fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»

Fossil fuels were not the problem, but their «harmful emissions,» said Al - Naimi, who represents the hydrocarbon - rich Middle Eastern kingdom at UN climate talks and stepped down as chairman of national oil company Aramco in 2015.

There is four basic methods of obtaining pure (not extracted from fossil fuel hydrocarbons) hydrogen.