Sentences with phrase «fuel plants into»

My post addressed the idea of using algae to recycle emissions from fossil fuel plants into new biomass, which could be used a number of ways.

I think greater renewable penetration forcing fossil fuel plant into greater intermittency is exactly the direction we should be heading, preferably with them moving into the backup role in a planned way.

«This way Global Thermostat can turn a fossil fuel plant into a carbon sink that reduces atmospheric carbon — namely, a carbon - negative power plant.

Not exact matches

Plutonium and uranium are converted into chemical compounds called oxides, and mixed together in fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants.

Then summer and fall brought intense heat that dried out these plants, turning the greenery into fuel.

In recent years, oil and gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on plants that turn LNG back into gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

What we put in our body is a message to how we're choosing to fuel it each day, and although each of us may choose different options than each other, all of us would benefit by incorporating as many whole plant - based foods into our routines as possible.

But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi called the analysis «more misguided and cherry - picked propaganda that fails to take into account the skyrocketing energy bills, increased reliance on dirty - burning fuels, hundreds of lost New York jobs and setbacks in this state's nation - leading efforts to combat climate change that would occur if these plants shuttered their doors.»

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

We are engineering sugarcane, the most productive plant in the world, to produce oil that can be turned into bio-jet fuel.

She also said that citizens should realize that whether they are cutting down trees or burning fossil fuels, they are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than plants can remove.

Within a few years, we could be capturing the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and recycling it into fuel.

Now, researchers think we could be on the cusp of a CO2 - recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants — and maybe even directly from the atmosphere — and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.

One initiative that is slow off the mark is the transformation of the underground Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, which housed about 2700 centrifuges for enriching uranium, into an international physics center.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

A fuel - producing plant on the surface of the moon would then launch tankers of fuel into space, where they would enter gravitational orbit.

Critics say the technology to turn fibrous, waste plant matter into fuel has been much slower than industry projections (ClimateWire, July 29).

As people burn fuels — in cars, power plants and factories — nitrogen is released into the atmosphere and absorbed by plants.

At the end of their useful lives, they would be converted in thermal depolymerization machines into short - chain fuels, fertilizers, and industrial raw materials, ready for plants or people to convert them back into long chains again.

Such organelles as mitochondria, for instance, generate fuel; in plant cells, chloroplasts manufacture sugars to break down into that fuel.

In its test in its Danbury lab, the company plans to mix carbon dioxide, air and nitrogen to simulate coal plant emissions and then shoot those gases into a fuel cell stack.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

«Plant - inspired power plants: Pitt study outlines framework for developing catalysts that turn excess atmospheric CO2 into new source of liquid fuel.»

Banta imagines siting bacteria farms near coal plants to convert troublesome carbon emissions into valuable fuel.

Another objective of the project is to find new proteins that can help in turning plants into fuel.

Imagine a power plant that takes the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) put in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and converts it back into fuel.

«With virtually no energy input, we convert a mixture of plant - derived fatty esters and bio-ethylene, another chemical compound, into fuel,» the professor says.

The idea of using the sun to make a liquid fuel has been kicking around ever since Melvin Calvin elucidated the chemical steps by which a plant turns sunlight into sugar, for which he won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

It is the nation's first dedicated biorefinery, employing high heat to turn plant matter into oil, followed by chemical catalysis to upgrade that oil into a usable fuel, just like the much larger refinery down the road.

THE very compound that keeps plants standing tall has been redesigned to make them easier to break down and turn into fuel.

Closed vats might produce pure strains of such high - oil species for feeding into large ponds to grow sufficient supplies, says systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has been analyzing the fuel potential of microscopic plants.

New technology converts all kinds of plant waste into usable fuel — and is part of a growing array of technologies aimed at island energy independence

Fossil fuel burning power plants are still too good of a deal to bother investing $ 2 billion into wind turbines.

CCS has been slow to take off, but dozens of projects are underway, including numerous pilots in the Great Plains, many of which pump CO2 from fossil fuel power plants into dwindling wells to drive out residual oil.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

Given the potential benefits, Congress has provided $ 10 million in funding — and the DOE has asked for $ 30 million more — to develop a second facility employing the process, as well as millions more for similar cellulosic biorefineries, such as the Range Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., that converts wood waste into fuel.

In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.

In other words, the plant growth should act like a sink, absorbing the gas released into the air by burning fossil fuel.

Or personal manufacturing plants that turn yard waste into fuel.

When plants are turned into fuel and then burned, the carbon released is just what the plants absorbed, potentially offsetting the emissions.

Plants have been doing this for quite some time, splitting water's hydrogen apart from its oxygen, but our efforts to turn water into a source of free hydrogen fuel by mimicking them have borne no fruit.

As temperatures rise, stored carbohydrates in the plants» rhizomes are converted into mobile forms to fuel growing tissues.

Water is being deliberately circulated through each reactor every day to cool the fuel within — but the plant lies on a slope, and water from precipitation keeps flowing into the buildings as well.

Tom Clements, southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator of Friends of the Earth, said the fuel in pool No. 4 was hotter than in the plant's other pools because it had more recently been transferred into the pool.

Longtime oil refiners UOP have a new refining process that turns plant oils into jet fuel — that has, in turn, been used to power everything from a commercial jet to an F / A -18, dubbed the «Green Hornet.»

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.