Sentences with phrase «fuel production at»

It would seem downright irresponsible to increase taxpayer handouts to spur fossil fuel production at a time like this.

The clinical manifestation of aging and inflammation is ultimately one of the loss of fuel production at the mitochondrial level.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)- Federal officials have pledged $ 75 million for the study of harnessing solar energy for fuel production at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

Not exact matches

«While the increase in U.S. production of crude oil and the reduced U.S. demand for transportation fuels will likely reduce the demand for total U.S. crude oil imports, it is unlikely to reduce demand for heavy sour crude at Gulf Coast refineries.»

At Exxon, weak refining results were coupled with lower oil production, fueling concern about Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods» turnaround plan for the world's largest publicly traded oil producer.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

While initial production at Gorgon was plagued by some technical hitches, Chevron reported that production early this year had been much stronger, fuelling expectations of significantly stronger cash flow in 2018.

The increase in the quarter was broadly based across components, with particularly large rises recorded in exports of «other mineral fuels» and non-monetary gold, as production commenced from the 4th LNG train at the North - West Shelf and at a range of new gold mines, including the Telfer redevelopment.

The ideal algal strain flourishes in the simplest of production environments at the lowest possible cost without a necessary dependence on fossil fuels to maintain high yields — an affordable approach that can be practiced most anywhere.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

At least 70 percent more calories would be available if farmers shifted from growing crops for feed and fuels to food production

Hydrogen seems to be an excellent and clean energy vector, and catalysis is expected to be at the core of the new developing technologies for the production, storage, and burning of hydrogen in fuel cells.

One option is to truck it in from centralized production facilities located primarily along the Gulf Coast, where hydrogen is used at oil refineries to desulfurize fuels.

Honda will receive a small credit for producing CNG cars under the new fuel economy rules for 2017 - 2025 but in the meantime intends to keep production steady at around 2,000 to 3,000 at its plant in Greensburg, Ind..

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

«It's an interesting approach to using the sun for manufacturing and fuel production,» says Ellen Stechel, manager of concentrated solar technologies at Sandia National Laboratories.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Now, using computer simulations, James Carothers and his colleagues at JBEI have sped up the RNA design phase, creating computer tools that will help researchers design molecules to precisely control gene expression in bacteria to optimize fuel production.

Chewing on a bran muffin (there are full kitchens and abundant munchies in all four of the El Segundo buildings), Musk waves a hand at the production floor, where technicians built the Falcon I's space - grade 2219 aluminum alloy fuel tank, its first - stage engine, dubbed Merlin, and the upper - stage engine, called Kestrel.

Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San Diego called «Food and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel production.

The first U.S. production in nearly 30 years of a specialized fuel to power future deep space missions has been completed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.

At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.

At the moment, only five percent of the world production of diesel fuel makes use of this process, because it is cheaper for companies to use more polluting substances.

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

In this case, they used production pathways also developed at JBEI previously, and produced d - limonene, a precursor to jet fuel.

«When you look at what our ethanol production is and compare that against what our demand for transportation fuels is, we won't get there,» says Virginia Lacy, a biofuels consultant at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy policy organization in Colorado.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

A team of researchers at MIT is developing an alternative that could provide similar protection for nuclear fuel, while reducing the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold.

We urge Congress to set a cap on fossil - fuel production before Copenhagen, phase in a price on carbon at its source and send the proceeds back to the taxpayer.

From a climate perspective, there is some good news about the likely decline in the growth of fossil fuel production discussed by others at the panel, Tans said.

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

Because platinum is at the center of many clean energy and green chemicals production technologies, such as fuel cells, catalytic converters, and value - added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum - copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes, she added.

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

«Neutron scattering can be very useful in developing improved fuel cells and batteries and in the future production of electric vehicles», according to The Director of Science at ESS.

In one sentence: PNNL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) researchers, zoomed in at the highest resolution yet on these problematic carbon - based deposits, which are vital to fuel production and other processes.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Connecticut - based FuelCell Energy (FCE) has applied for a prospective pathway for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for the production of hydrogen fuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POFuel Standard (LCFS) for the production of hydrogen fuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POfuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

Both are aimed at production of hydrogen and other fuels from solar energy.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)-- DE-FOA-0000981 — on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil - Spec jet fuel production using coal - to - liquid (CTL) fuel technologies.

Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil production company and leading algal synthetic biology company, will feature a Jeep Liverty fueled by the world's first algal - based renewable diesel, SoladieselRD ™, at CALSTART Target 2030...

Dr. Amber Hotto a researcher and Biology 101 instructor at BTI observed Laura introduce biomolecules to her class while discussing the global need for sustainable fuel production.

Prescreening of candidate alloys for the production process that will be exposed the harsh hydrogen - rich environment at elevated temperatures could be carried out using this suite of property / performance equipment that was designed for studies involving hydriding of nuclear fuel cladding.

Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

The U.S. efforts abroad to tackle climate change have been counter-balanced by Trump's aggressive push at home to increase production of the fossil fuels scientists blame for global warming.

Katie Randolph is a Technology Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fuel Cell Technologies Office where she manages a wide range of hydrogen production, delivery, and storage research and development projects.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

«There's no doubt at all that the BLM leases significant areas for the production of fossil fuels, and there are certainly greenhouse gases associated with the production and consumption of those fuels,» Muller said, adding that federal government is trying to reduce some of those emissions.

Members of JCAP and JPL helped co-organize a workshop on the «production of oxygen and fuel from CO2 using sunlight», which was held at Caltech from June 28 - July 1.