Sentences with phrase «fueled power plant using»

In 2003 President Bush announced FutureGen, America's project to build a coal - fueled power plant using CCS.

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In addition to well sites, Berggren says, «we're seeing more and more midstream applications» — for example, conditioning the fuel for use in a power plant or local gas distribution networks.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

To use MOX fuel rods, civilian power plants would have to modify their reactors, requiring lengthy relicensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The fuel for a power plant can be used for a bomb if it's enriched to a much higher level.

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.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

The New Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it rightPlant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it rightplant - derived ethanol inside it right now.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

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.

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.

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

Also, while electrolysis uses a renewable feedstock (water), burning fossil fuels at a power plant to run an electrolysis machine undermines the fuel's low - carbon attributes.

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.

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

After about three years of service, when technicians typically remove used fuel from one of today's reactors because of radiation - related degradation and the depletion of the uranium 235, plutonium is contributing more than half the power the plant generates.

Other algorithms — including one that scans for certain pore shapes using techniques derived from facial - recognition software — then seek out the best candidates for absorbing carbon dioxide from the flues of fossil - fuel power plants.

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.»

In the interim — which could stretch for a century — used fuel rods will remain where they are: at nuclear power plants themselves either in spent fuel pools or in giant concrete casks on pads.

Instead of sequestering carbon dioxide after it is emitted by cars and power plants, grab it from the air and reduce it to hydrocarbon fuels for us to use.

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.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

Germany has 17 nuclear power plants that are using, or plan to use, MOX fuel.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has cleared the Perry nuclear power plant in Ohio to begin using GNF2 high performance fuel.

The January 1997 Record of Decision stated that surplus plutonium would either be immobilized or used as fuel (Mixed - Oxide or MOX) in commercial power plants and the waste would all be disposed in a Nuclear Waste Policy Act repository.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generaPower & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generapower generation.

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

Many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Molten salt reactors use fuel dissolved in a molten fluoride or chloride salt which functions as both the fuel (producing the heat) and the coolant (transporting the heat away and ultimately to the power plant).

By 2030, the U.S. would see carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants using fossil fuels fall by 30 percent below 2005 levels if the Clean Power Plan, announced on June 2, is finalized in power plants using fossil fuels fall by 30 percent below 2005 levels if the Clean Power Plan, announced on June 2, is finalized in Power Plan, announced on June 2, is finalized in 2015.

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.

In ENUSA we manufacture nuclear fuel in our Juzbado facility (Salamanca), where the activities focus on procurement of the uranium and components required for the process and on the engineering and manufacturing of fuel assemblies for Spanish and European nuclear power plants, using the most innovative technologies and latest market advances.

The governor of Japan's Fukui Prefecture, Issei Nishikawa, was cited by JAIF as saying: «The national government needs to resolutely develop a plan, given that little progress has been made in selecting sites for the final disposal of used nuclear fuel from the commercial nuclear power plants operated by the country's electric power companies.»

The global warming gases derived from human activity are produced by fossil fuels used in cars, in industry and in power plants, the agricultural production and the burning forests.

Tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, and use of a major advanced power plant technology aimed specifically at increasing the vehicle's environmental responsibility, were all taken into consideration, said the World Car Awards (WCA) organization.

Mobility may be enhanced in future tanks by the use of diesel - electric or turbine - electric series hybrid drives — first used in a primitive, gasoline - engined form with Porsche's Elefant German tank destroyer of 1943 — improving fuel efficiency while reducing the size and weight of the power plant.

The 320i, like its more powerful siblings, also makes use of Stop - Start technology that shuts down the engine while idling, saving what would be wasted fuel, and restarting the power plant when the brake is released.

We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / READINGS (* solo or two - person) Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2.0, Center and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2018 CV, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2017 * Artist's Rendering (DISTRESSED, RELAXED), AXENÉO7, Quebec, 2017 * You can tell that i'm alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York, 2017 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2016 Self - Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room — or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8 - 11, Toronto, 2016 * Self - Titled (w / Aryen Hoesktra & Shane Krepakevich), Modern Fuel, Ontario, 2016 Local Tide (curated by PARALLELOGRAMS and Francesca Capone), S1, Portland OR, 2016 Double Visions, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2015 From Line to Constellation, Granoff Center, Providence, 2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, 2015 Use Values, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, New York, 2015 An Earthquake at the Race Tracks, Museo de la Cuidad, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 2014 Classroom, NY Art Book Fair, PS1, New York, 2014 Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, 2014 Milieu, Skol Centre des Arts Actuel, Montreal, 2013 * More Than Two (Let It Make Itself)[w / Josh Thorpe], The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013 Cultural Fluency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 2013 Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012 Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener - Waterloo, Canada, 2011 On Printed Matter, [w / Josh Thorpe], Printed Matter, New York, 2011 * Around YYZ [w / Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2010 - 11 * House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010 Reading the Garden [w / Josh Thorpe], Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, 2010 * Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2009 On Convenience [w / Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto, 2009 * Vehicle [organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2008 AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2007 Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2007 Tales from the Cyclop's Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, 2007 Unsurprising Geographies [w / Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2006 Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006 a / s / l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2006 * RESIDENCIES Interrupt 3, Brown University, Rhode Island 2015 SHIFT, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2014 - 15 Artist - in - Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2013 - 14 Visiting Scholar, NYU Advanced Media Studio, 2013 - 14 The Decapitated Museum, The Banff Centre, 2012 Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, The Banff Centre, 2008 AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, 2018 - 19 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — The Decapitated Museum, 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009 University of Toronto, Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 09 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 08 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, 2008 University of Toronto, David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2007 NSCAD University, Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, 2006 New Brunswick Arts Board, Arts Scholarship, 2005 WRITING «Panorama of Our,» Plot, Claudia Weber, ed., 2015 «Anodyne: or X of Demarcation,» Rearviews II, Xenia Benivolski & Danielle St - Amour, eds., 2014 «On Printed Matter» Artefact:, C Magazine C122, 2014 «Lana Turner Has Collapsed!

Still, the technology used in current - generation CCS projects to capture CO2, amine absorption, is inadequate for a widely deployable solution to decarbonizing the world's fossil - fueled power plants.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

It is even not shameful that we tried originally to put the power plants that use this fuel away from population centers so as to minimize damage from the truly dirty emissions.

India cancelled an Enron power plant when they didn't use coal, and instead produced an expensive natural gas plant with fuel from Africa.

And, that we could use that pile of money to reach geothermal energy to replace fossil - fueled power plants all over the planet.