Sentences with phrase «fueled plants through»

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

Not exact matches

The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

Full of fiber, plant protein, and healthy carbohydrates to fuel you through an amazing day.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

Bio-jet fuel can be produced from various plant materials, including oil crops, sugar crops, starchy plants and lignocellulosic biomass, through various chemical and biological routes.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

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.

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

Stomata are the gatekeepers to plants: When open, carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis, but water is allowed to escape through the process of transpiration.

Through previous research, black liquor has been gasified more than 26,000 hours in the LTU Green Fuels pilot plant in Piteå.

In the springtime, there is a dramatic removal of carbon from the atmosphere as plants absorb carbon dioxide, using it through photosynthesis to fuel their growth.

Potentially invasive species like Arundo donax have to go through additional regulatory requirements in order for the plant to be registered as a possible renewable fuel source.

The NuScale Power Module ™ and power plant design enhances the intrinsic physical protection and security of the plant through the elegantly simple design, elimination of large break loss of coolant accidents, and full reliance on passive systems to cool the reactors and spent fuel for extended periods without the need for AC power, DC power or additional water following an upset condition.

Burning fossil fuels through cars and coal plants is exacerbating the presence of ground - level ozone gas in the air we breathe.

You have of course solar energy, which we know today, but also through photosynthesis all of the fossil fuels depend on the power of the sun being trapped in these plants.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

The popularity of vegetarian diets has been fueled by the success stories of athletes who are world champions and also vegetarians, and the good news is that it's easy to get enough protein through plants like nuts, beans, peas, edamame, and more.

That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities — and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell - building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

Unlike fossil fuels, however, the plant sources of bioenergy sequester carbon, through photosynthesis.

«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.

Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through fuel use requirements, pricing provisions, programs in fossil energy research and development, and government «cost - sharing» for clean coal plants.

Through Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), previously unreachable oil is made available when the CO2 emitted by fossil fuel plants is pumped into the oil basin, where it is captured underground within the local geology.

This can be achieved through a combination of renewables, nuclear power, and use of CCS at fossil fuel plants.

By reducing carbon emissions through renewable fuel sources, we can reduce environmental degradation; by planting campuses with native trees, shrubs, groundcover, and grasses, we can reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our streams and watersheds.

A plant in North Dakota that was conceived as part of a synthetic fuels project in the 1970s takes the excess carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, and pipes it through to an oil field in Saskatchewan, where it is used to force oil to the surface.

Comments from the FERC's newly minted quorum indicate that Perry's proposal to compensate coal and nuclear plants for stockpiling 90 days of fuel won't glide through the commission.

What might be most significant about the U.S. commitment is that it details how we plan to achieve our carbon pollution goals through existing programs like the fuel economy standards for cars and trucks and upcoming rules to limit greenhouse gases from power plants.

Carbon emission reductions could be achieved through energy conservation, increased use of renewable and other non-emitting energy or fuel switching from coal to natural gas in existing power plants.

African American communities, including workers, are most likely to be exposed to the pollution from fossil fuel based energy production through coal plants, oil and gas refineries, as well as pollution from energy production through nuclear facilities and waste incinerators.

Through the instrument and system of carbon offsets, COTAP enables you to pay the poorest people in the world for planting and maintaining trees which sequester the carbon dioxide which you generate through your lifestyle activities which require the burning of fossilThrough the instrument and system of carbon offsets, COTAP enables you to pay the poorest people in the world for planting and maintaining trees which sequester the carbon dioxide which you generate through your lifestyle activities which require the burning of fossilthrough your lifestyle activities which require the burning of fossil fuels.

Ethanol is an alcohol - based alternative fuel made through a distillation and fermentation process using plant crops, like corn.

You also might be wondering how the project's electric vehicles can be claimed «zero emissions,» considering they will be powered by electricity, which is most commonly created through fossil fuel - powered plants.

The project benefits the local community by preventing odor in the surrounding areas, improving air quality through reduction of volatile emissions, and displacing fossil fuel dependency at the ethanol plant.

Here's how it works: Waste heat, a byproduct of any fossil fuel or nuclear plant operation that is typically vented into the air through cooling towers, is carried by water pipe to a vortex engine facility nearby.

«Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration», the fourth report in the CEF publication series, examines electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological formations.

Storm water run - off will be reduced by filtering through the soil, fueling the plants, and evaporating.

Compared to existing New Jersey state subsidies for solar at fifty times this amount per megawatt - hour, the proposed help for nuclear plants would provide outstanding environmental protection value while paying for itself through lower fossil fuel bills and retained in - state jobs and tax revenue.

Nuclear, fossil fuel, and concentrated solar power plants require methods for cooling plant equipment and / or cooling steam; this is often accomplished by cycling through large quantities of water, although technologies for «dry cooling» exist as well.

«Wind energy's major cost declines have, and will continue to be, critical to opening up new opportunities throughout Canada — whether it is to support the coal phase - out, or to fill an emerging power supply gap as nuclear power plants are refurbished in Ontario, or to help the northeast United States reduce its reliance on fossil - fuel powered generation through clean electricity imports from Quebec or Atlantic Canada.

To make fuels for nuclear power plants, we have to go through the whole process of uranium mining, transporting, and disposing.

We can without much effort or reprogramming provide an environment where natural competition is stifled (think of GM plants not effected by Round Up) and through reprogramming shift the metabolic goal to production of hydrocarbon fuels which is anti-survival in other circumstances.

BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

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«Our fuel cells utilize the chemical energy stored in plants to directly produce electricity through a reaction that is essentially a mirror of the plant's natural process of photosynthesis.

Through photosynthesis, plants convert carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into the fuel they need to grow, locking up carbon in their branches, stems and leaves in the process.

During the past 500 years or so, human activities have released mercury from its relatively stable and water - insoluble form (cinnabar) in rocks and soil through mining, fossil fuel combustion, and other activities, and so have increased the portion of mercury that is actively cycling through the atmosphere, surface waters, plants, and animals as it changes chemical and physical form.