Sentences with phrase «fuel produced power»

If the country's economy grows enough then the target could be hit, provided industry becomes more efficient in its use of fossil fuel produced power, even if total carbon emissions actually rise.

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A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

An environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks, the feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

The swept volume of one combustion chamber is calculated («swept volume» being the space available for the fuel mixture before combustion; generally speaking, the more space, the more fuel and the more power produced), then multiplied by the number of cylinders in the engine.

Heath said nuclear power produces spent fuel rods which are radioactive and require constant maintenance.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

Among other adjustments that could help double fuel economy are turbocharging with smaller, more efficient engines that produce the same level of power; advanced heat management and cooling systems, which reuse the heat produced in the engine for energy; weight reduction, including broader use of high - strength steel that is already in some cars today; better aerodynamics; more efficient air conditioners, transmissions and lighting devices (including headlights); and increased electrification leading to full hybridization with electric motor and regenerative breaking — all of which currently exist.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

For the future, look to radical solutions like glucose - based fuels, smart storage, or tiny mass - produced nuclear power plants.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tFuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tfuel) that powers them.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

It can be produced from fossil fuels or renewable sources, it can be used to generate power or transportation fuel, and it can help to clean up the natural gas supply.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner energy use in fuel - cell powered devices, including vehicles.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

The board is a DC / DC converter that evens out the power generated by the fuel cells, which fluctuates with the amount of sweat produced by a user, and turns it into constant power with a constant voltage.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

Clean electricity could produce hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.

Nuclear power and most renewable forms of energy do produce greenhouse gases, and this is recognised in Britain by the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation.

The spent fuel produced by nuclear power plants will emit harmful radiation for hundreds of thousands — even millions — of years.

That flexible - fueling advantage has, however, enabled Sunnyvale, Calif. - based Bloom Energy to sell some 120 natural gas — fuel SOFCs, stand - alone heat and power units that produce both electricity and heat for a local site, to green - minded Fortune 500 corporate plants and state university facilities — notably, subsidized distributed power demonstration projects in California.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

At issue is whether renewable energy supplies, such as wind power and solar photovoltaics, produce enough energy to fuel both their own growth and the growth of the necessary energy storage industry.

Other issues for a power reactor will be developing a reaction chamber that can withstand intense neutron bombardment for years on end and discovering a way to produce the fuel capsules quickly and cheaply (a reactor may consume a million or more capsules every day).

As for the fuel, more than 45 million metric tons (45 billion kilograms) of the lightweight gas is produced every year as part of making fertilizer, chemicals and the gasoline used to power cars today.

Professor Edwards added: «Instead of burning fossil fuels, leading to CO2, we use them to generate hydrogen, which with fuel cells produces electric power and pure water.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

As a zero - emission fuel, the hydrogen can be recombined with oxygen to produce electric power on demand, such as onboard a fuel - cell vehicle.

These rockets — powered by ionized xenon gas — produce very low thrust compared with their solid - or liquid - fueled cousins, but use so little propellant that they last much longer.

Salehi claims their deaths emboldened, rather than deterred, Iran's nuclear establishment, and insists that Iran's enrichment program was intended only to produce fuel for civilian power reactors.

The aim now for Daimler and its allies is to ensure that the number of fuel - cell powered vehicles running on generatively produced hydrogen is constantly increasing, demonstrating the market maturity of the fuel cell solution.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

The Buckeye Bullet team at Ohio State University has produced several of the fastest alternative fuel vehicles in history, including a battery - powered racer that surpassed 300 mph in 2010.

Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.

The muscles are powered thermally by temperature changes, which can be produced electrically, by the absorption of light or by the chemical reaction of fuels.

There is no longer any question of its scientific feasibility: near breakeven (the state at which the fusion power produced equals the power consumed to sustain the plasma) has been demonstrated with actual fusion fuels in Princeton's nearly 20 - year - old Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR).

The contaminated sites, on floodplains in the upper Colorado River basin, operated from the 1940s to the 1970s to produce «yellowcake,» a precursor of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants and weapons.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

Critics point out that it's expensive to produce the fuel cells and they don't store a lot of power.

A microbial fuel cell — which generates power by feeding organic matter (which saliva has lots of) to bacteria, which, in turn, produce electrons — was a natural candidate for their projects.

And so I think that the logic, you know, the logic of fossil fuel was a centralizing one, it occurred in a few places, it was highly efficient to take it to other centers, easy to transport, you can take it some centralized place, and burn it in mass quantities, produce power that you then distributed widely.

Those alternatives operate fewer hours of the year, but with no burden of fuel cost or fuel - disposal problems the price of power they produce could be low enough to squeeze nuclear power out of the mix.