Sentences with phrase «fuel producing states»

With Democrat majorities and «moderate» Republicans (including John McCain) on board, the only obstacle to draconian «carbon'taxes and / or cap - and - trade (another form of taxation) will be the reluctance of Congressmen from fossil - fuel producing states to go along, and a strong public challenge to climate Alarmism by Realist scientists.

Without action in the industrial Midwest and the fossil - fuel producing states, we are not really doing the job.

Not exact matches

Perry said the United States can achieve this future only by casting aside the «energy pessimism» of past generations, which held that the United States could not produce new fossil fuels cleanly or affordably.

AMATA, Mexico (Reuters)- Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

That could imperil the United States» ability to create good - paying jobs for future generations, relegating the country to producing food, fossil fuels and financial services, while China extends its lead as the world's largest manufacturer.

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 economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

There is a bill in the legislature that would require the state to divest from companies that produce fossil fuels, but it has not gained support among both majority conferences.

It said the project would produce $ 115 million in business, and that the state would receive more than $ 1 million in rental income and «significant» revenue from fuel taxes and fees.

If we devoted 23 million acres in the southeastern United States to lipidcane with 20 percent oil, we estimate that this crop could produce 65 percent of the U.S. jet fuel supply.

Last April natural gas tied coal as the top electricity - producing fuel in the United States (each generated 32 percent of the total).

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.

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.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

Some plants, such as soybeans, also store fats and can be used as fuel sources, but Bruce Rittmann, Vermaas's colleague at Arizona State, argues that photosynthetic microbes produce nearly 250 times more fat per acre.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

California's energy woes have again focused attention on our reliance on fossil fuels, which produce about 85 percent of the energy consumed in the United States.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 barrels per day in the United States in 1999) and is almost exclusively used as a fuel component in motor gasoline.

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.

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 challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge panel.

In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat - trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year.

«[The] work shows that it is indeed possible to produce fuels from sunlight safely and efficiently in an integrated system with inexpensive components,» states Lewis, the leader behind the project.

The EMS (Earth and Mineral Science) Energy Institute at Penn State has developed a conceptual novel process configuration for producing clean middle - distillate fuels from coal with some algal input with minimal emissions.

For two decades, up to 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States was generated by fuel fabricated using low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

A Florida State University researcher played a major role in a new discovery in how to produce pure hydrogen, a green energy fuel, by splitting water.

During these metabolic states, biotin is needed to produce new glucose for fuel through gluconeogenesis.

Long - distance produce hauling — fruits and vegetables in the United States are transported an average of 1,500 miles — emits greenhouse gases, spews diesel exhaust, and consumes fossil fuels.

The Honda VFR800 is a fuel injected sport touring motorcycle first produced by Honda in 1998, since 2002 in the United States also called Interceptor.

The 1.8 L i - VTEC engine uses state of the art engineering technology to produce an impressive 143hp, yet it still receives excellent fuel - efficiency ratings and a Partial Zero - Emission Vehicle rating, all on regular gasoline.

Passion and state - of - the - art technology, both at the heart of all the new Maserati engines that will be mounted on the next generation of Maserati vehicles, have produced engines that are not only more powerful than ever, or more exciting to drive than ever — but also more fuel efficient than ever before.»

[8][6] The fuel injection system was part of the engine's exhaust emission controls, in addition to a secondary air injection system and two catalytic converters; Honda also produced a state - specific version of the Fury to meet the California Air Resources Board emissions standards.

Democrats from states that produce or depend on fossil fuels have been slow to buy into the climate bill.

One article I was recently reading stated that hemp seed oil produces a cleaner buring fuel (nearly 90 % burn, with considerably less ash and CO2 production) than any fossil fuel (33 % burn at the most efficient)

One article I was recently reading stated that hemp seed oil produces a cleaner buring fuel (nearly 90 % burn, with considerably less ash and CO2 production) than any fossil fuel (33 % burn at the most efficient) and was actually banned because the oil industry (and the rope industry, as hemp weave made a stronger and less expensive rope than current materials) decided to push their congresscritters to close it down because hemp could make Marijuana.

The United States produced 16.2 billion liters of fuel ethanol in 2005, nearly surpassing Brazil to become the world's largest fuel ethanol producer.

The Council of the American Physical Society believes that the use of renewable energy sources, the adoption of new ways of producing and using fossil fuels, increased consideration of safe and cost effective uses of nuclear power, and the introduction of energy - efficient technologies can, over time, promote the United States» energy security and reduce stress on the world's environment.

The United States, with the world's largest coal reserves, continued to churn out the most carbon - intensive fuel, producing 1 billion tons of coal from its mines in 2012.

Many of the wind turbines needed to back out fossil fuels in electricity generation worldwide could be produced in currently idled automobile assembly plants in the United States alone.

In December alone, Germany installed nearly as much solar capacity as the United States has in total, fueled by the subsidies that solar companies admit sometimes made it possible not to worry whether there was sufficient demand in a given area for the power they would produce.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

Indonesia's state - owned Pertamina signed contracts to upgrade 5 of its refineries to produce 50 ppm fuels (down from 500 ppm) and the government adopted Euro4 / IV equivalent vehicle standards nationwide for implementation in 2018

Though as with another recent study targeting ExxonMobil, the methodology has raised significant questions and the researchers who produced the report are closely connected to efforts that have had a stated purpose of doing damage to the fossil fuel industry.

The nationwide market would initially cover only China's vast, state - dominated power generation sector, which produced almost half of the country's emissions from the burning of fossil fuels last year.

«We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.»

And then there is the notion that I have that the state of knowledge (and the growing price of carbon based fuel) is ripe for the development of non-carbon based sources of energy which would be available almost everywhere, and frankly weaken the position of all the unstable oligarchically ruled oil producing nations (I've heard Israel is very interested in green energy for that reason).

The United States produces mainly biodiesel and ethanol fuel, which uses corn as the main feedstock.

There are around 116,000 gasoline stations in the United States, so any serious attempt at producing fuel - cell vehicles will require a huge investment in fueling stations.

In the United States, some 60,000 tons of nuclear waste have already been produced, and existing reactors add some 2,000 metric tons of spent fuel annually.