Sentences with phrase «fuel per ton»

At best CTL produces 2.3 barrels of liquid fuel per ton of coal (there is about 4 boe in a ton of typical bituminous coal).

The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

Not exact matches

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

Using our current fuel price of $ 620 per metric ton, we are currently estimating that lower fuel prices should benefit first half 2013 earnings per share by approximately $ 0.23.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

Burning coal produces more than 100 million metric tons of coal ash per yearthe gray or black sooty aftermath of our fossil fuel habit.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

Ultimately, this facility may be able to convert as much as 1,000 metric tons of biomass per day into liquid fuel; the goal is to build a commercial - scale facility that would churn out 50 million gallons (189.2 million liters) of transportation fuels per year.

Crab, meanwhile, was among the least energy - intensive species to catch in the Dalhousie study, whereas the fuel needed to collect a ton of lobster swung wildly — ranging from 5.3 gallons (20 liters) per metric ton in Iceland to about 38 gallons (144 liters) in Maine to 271 gallons (1,025 liters) in Norway.

Wild U.S. or Canadian salmon take an average of just over six gallons (23 liters) of fuel per metric ton to catch, releasing about 133 pounds (60 kilograms) of carbon dioxide.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

Process technology has improved steadily in the past 60 years, and since the 1970s, when most existing facilities were built, the amount of energy used per ton of ammonia (as both feed and fuel) has decreased about 30 percent.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

Atmospheric concentrations of the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas reached 381 parts - per - million in 2006 after emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels rose to 8.4 billion metric tons (1.85 x 1013 pounds) per year, according to figures from the United Nations, British Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Much like a car engine has multiple cylinders, GE's H - class turbines possess a ring of 12 or 16 combustors, each capable of burning nearly three tons of fuel and air per minute at firing temperatures exceeding 1,500 degrees Celsius.

I also calculated the depletion rate of fossil fuels, assuming that the current 8 billion tons discharged into the atmosphere represents the total loss per year of this resource (possibly overly optimistic).

M.I.T. nuclear engineer Charles Forsberg, another co-chair of the report, noted that a typical light - water reactor in the U.S. needs 200 metric tons of mined uranium resulting in 20 metric tons of uranium fuel per year.

Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.

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These reactions play a huge role in the catalysis - driven creation of common chemical platforms such as methanol, which is produced on the order of 10 million tons per year as raw material for chemicals production and for uses like fuel.

«This study shows that wildfires also emit three times more aerosol per ton of fuel burned than prescribed fires.»

Between the 80's and the 90's, man - made emissions of carbon from fosil fuels increased from about 5 billion tons per year to about 6.5 billion tons per year, which means a 30 % increase in how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere yearly.

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

Not only was the fuel efficient engine able to average 57 mpg, but it also manages to produce 187 - hp and a mindboggling 332 - lb - ft of torque — enough power to propel the two - ton luxury sedan to 62 miles - per - hour in 8.5 seconds.

Let's be clear: the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is nearly 17 feet long, weighs more than three tons and gets an EPA fuel economy rating in the low 20 miles per gallon.

This would lead to a saving of 326,000 gallons of fuel per year which in turn will lead to greenhouse gas emissions lessened by 3,208 metric tons a year.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

Between the 80's and the 90's, man - made emissions of carbon from fosil fuels increased from about 5 billion tons per year to about 6.5 billion tons per year, which means a 30 % increase in how much CO2 we put into the atmosphere yearly.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

If their goal of getting renewable power to 118,000 stations is reached, they will save as much as 6.6 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, and avoid as much as 6.3 million tons of CO2.

But because tons and power increased so much, the average new car sold in 2009 used only 10 to 15 percent less fuel per kilometer than one sold in 1990, when the present fuel economy standards maxed out.

It shows that a fully rebated fee of $ 49 / ton CO2e on the production of fossil fuels would provide the lowest 10 % on the income scale a 9 % net raise on per - person after tax income.

The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.

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This fuel typically has a heat content of 15 million Btu per ton or less.

The facility is a two ton per day biorefinery which uses corn stover as feedstock — meaning the residual corn leaves, husks, and stalks left after harvest are used as the raw materials from which the fuel is derived.

It would have covered 85 percent of greenhouse - gas emissions in the state, and, starting at $ 15 per metric ton of fossil - fuel emissions in the first year, and rising to $ 25 per ton in the second year, the tax would have risen 3.5 percent annually thereafter, up to $ 100 per ton by the middle of this century.

Those vehicle rules, which require a fleetwide fuel - economy average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, are projected by EPA to cut 580 million metric tons of greenhouse gases by 2030.

Indeed in southeast Australia, fuel loads are now around 30 tons per hectare, compared to around 8 tons in years past.

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

When all sources of black carbon emissions from diesel fuel combustion are considered, including farming and construction equipment, trains and ships, the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions can be as high as 50 million metric tons per year over the past 20 years.

... it appears that there exist within minable depths in the United States rocks with uranium contents equivalent to 1000 barrels or more of oil per metric ton, whose total energy content is probably several hundred times that of all the fossil fuels combined.

And you also knew, for example, that that an average gas driven car emitted 4.7 tons of carbon dioxide per year and an electric car would cut that in half even when powered from the current polluting grid, and much much less on a life cycle basis from a future global efficient renewable energy system displacing almost all fossil fuels.

«Coal eats nuclear's lunch over 20 to 30 years unless the carbon output of fossil - fuel - burning power plants is taxed at something like $ 100 per ton,» Holdren says.

Burn 1,000 gallons of fuel oil for heat releases 22.4 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon according to the EIA or 10.15 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

This is the context of technological possibility and the competitive economic advantage of zero fuel cost and zero emissions renewable energy for the pursuit of global sustainability and 3 tons of carbon per person per year as achievable goal combined with global cooling activities to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by soil building and biomass.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

A plan to help get to three tons is not simply to buy electric cars, but also to improve public transportation, bike sharing, installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure and car to home interconnection for millions of EVs to also help provide power into the electric grid, mandate phasing in of electric vehicles whose operating «fuel» cost is equivalent to less than $ 1.00 per gallon.

A personal CO2 limit of less than a ton per year does not even imply the right to buy that much fuel, because CO2 is only 27 percent carbon.

Hello Kip — alarm about the non-problem of CO2 diverts attention from the problem of real pollution — e.g., it is said that a single container ship as is used in global trade is the pollution equivalent of 50 million cars due to the burning of about 16 tons of low grade bunker fuel per hour.