Sentences with phrase «fuelled electricity generating»

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Under an agreement with Russia, the United States was to convert 34 metric tons of plutonium into fuel for civilian reactors that generate electricity.

It described a scenario whereby gas begins to replace coal and oil as a transportation and electricity - generating fuel and satisfies a dominant share of new demand.

Coal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electricity.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

It should be the fuel of the future as you can burn it in a car or furnace, use it to generate electricity.

That's why it is expected that by 2020, only 22 % of electricity will be generated from the fossil fuel.

These companies are either utilities that significantly use fossil fuels to generate electricity, or are coal and natural gas suppliers.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Mike Bambridge will be on hand to discuss these latest wastewater and green energy technologies that not only clean wastewater to top world standards, but also extract biogas to substitute for fossil fuel in boilers and to generate electricity.

The proven GWE anaerobic technology has been demonstrated in more than 300 projects completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

One ton of COD (chemical oxygen demand) digested anaerobically generates 350Nm3 of methane, equivalent to approximately 312 litres of fuel oil, or generates about 1,400 kWh of green electricity.

«One ton of COD (chemical oxygen demand) digested anaerobically generates 350 Nm3 of methane, equivalent to approximately 312 liters of fuel oil, or generates about 1,400 kWh of green electricity.»

The bill language also proposes changes to the Internal Revenue Service code that would terminate fossil fuel subsidies, extend renewable electricity production tax credits for wind - generated electricity and permanently extend a business energy investment tax credit for solar or wind energy technologies.

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.

But once it's produced, gas is a far cleaner fuel than coal for generating electricity.

A microbial fuel cell, for example, could generate electricity by capturing electrons from the bacteria on electrodes instead of the rocks that these organisms evolved to breathe.

A new approach to tiny fuel cells implanted in rats enables the devices to generate electricity for months using sugar in the rodents» bodies

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

Biodigesters won't quite generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing waste and water contamination.

Wind turbines already generate electricity almost as inexpensively as fossil fuels.

Partly because of that drive to keep drawing greenhouse gas - producing fuels from the ground, the U.S. lags far behind Germany in the share of electricity generated from renewable sources.

This week in Science Advances, he offers one answer: a fuel cell that generates electricity while converting carbon dioxide into a commodity chemical.

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

China opens one large coal - fired power plant a week on average to generate enough electricity to service its 1.3 billion population and fuel industries that manufacture cheap goods for the U.S. and Europe.

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

They are, after all, a fossil - fuel based material and burn extremely well — so on a positive note, they could generate electricity and improve energy self - sufficiency.

At night the hydrogen and oxygen could be used by a fuel cell to generate electricity.

«Biomass to liquid fuel, electricity for charging of a battery or generating hydrogen, [those are] really our options,» he says.

Some people charge their battery electric cars by plugging into the power grid, which delivers electricity generated largely from carbon - emitting fossil fuels.

Solar energy fuels the growth of the algae, which are then dried, ground up into a fine powder and burnt in the engine to generate electricity.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

Scientists have shown that fuel cells implanted in rats can successfully generate electricity from sugar in the rodent's bodies.

Platinum is also crucial to the reactions in fuel cells, which combine hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity.

Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.

Hydrogen fuel cells, which expel only water and heat as waste, are an appealing way to generate clean electricity, but the present technology relies on expensive platinum catalysts.

Foremost in their minds was the potential of solar power to generate electricity without the greenhouse gas emissions that come from fossil fuels.

Already companies such as Nanosolar claims that they can match prices with fossil fuel generated electricity, at least in manufacturing.

But such solid - oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can efficiently combine everyday fossil - fuel natural gas with oxygen from the air — without burning — to generate electricity on a small scale.

However parity with fossil fuel generated electricity is not the end point of PV generation - it is the economic start.

Propane fuel was burned inside a chamber, and the pressure from the resulting combustion products distorted a dielectric elastomer diaphragm, generating electricity.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

The hydrogen passes through a membrane and combines with oxygen in the fuel cell, generating electricity and waste water.

The primary method thus far has been for public or private utilities to construct large scale centralized projects to generate and transmit the electricity required to fuel economies.

It is this reaction that causes the fuel cell to generate electricity.

Chemist Don Gervasio and colleague Sonja Tasic, both at Arizona State University in the US, set out to develop a fuel cell that would generate more electricity for its weight than the best batteries, and would also work at room temperature.

There, they react with molecules in the fuel, generating water, carbon dioxide, and electricity.

Researchers have long looked for simple systems to combine protons and electrons to form H2, a carbon - free fuel that can be burned directly to power cars or run through a fuel cell to generate electricity.