Sentences with phrase «fuels formed millions»

Every element in the complex, beautiful illustrations supports the informative text, which offers a welcome, long - term perspective on the subject: how fossil fuels formed millions of years ago and how their use affects the planet today.

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With the first close of the $ 30 - million goal already secured solely from private investors, the Fund is pleased to announce its first two investments: GreenMantra, which has developed a proprietary technology platform to convert plastics into chemicals and other fuels; and Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), which is on track to create low - cost energy sensors that form the backbone of a smarter grid by providing real - time, highly granular data measurements.

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

Water does not perish, nor require millions of years to form as do fossil fuels.

Because oxygen is critical to many forms of life and geochemical processes, numerous models and indirect proxies for the oxygen content in the atmosphere have been developed over the years, but there was no consensus on whether oxygen concentrations were rising, falling or flat during the past million years (and before fossil fuel burning).

The mergers that formed NGC 1316 led to an influx of gas, which fuels an exotic astrophysical object at its centre: a supermassive black hole with a mass roughly 150 million times that of the Sun.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some time, particularly as demand for energy grows worldwide.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

The stars within Hodge 301 formed together tens of millions of years ago and as the massive ones quickly exhaust their nuclear fuel they explode.

William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com June 4, 2013 In a surprising form of defiance, Chrysler has said no the demand made by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall 2.7 million Jeep Grand Cherokees and Liberties due to fuel tanks that could catch on fire in a rear end accident.

Burning fossil fuels which took hundreds of millions of year to form within hundreds of years.

During the 1980s, fossil fuel use and cement manufacturing emitted an average of 5.4 billion (5,400 million) tonnes of carbon (in the form of CO2) per year.

We're taking natural materials — fossil fuels buried in the Earth, which took millions of years to form — and we're using them in a pretty unnatural way: burning them and releasing that hidden carbon back into the system in the form of CO2 so fast that the Earth doesn't know how to handle it.

Stored in fossil fuels (decayed plants), such as oil, natural gas, and coal Limited amounts of these fossils fuels b / c formed over hundreds of millions of years.

Biomass is a renewable energy source not only because the energy in it comes from the sun, but also because biomass can re-grow over a relatively short period of time compared with the hundreds of millions of years that it took for fossil fuels to form.

Fossil fuels are sources of non-renewable energy, formed from the remains of living organisms that were buried millions of years ago.

Fossil fuels are formed in Earth over a period of roughly 300 million years.

Those 30 million, million tonnes of accumulated excavation, ore and manufacture can be seen as the physical residue of the colossal exploitation of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels that is returned to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to trigger global warming and potentially catastrophic climate change.

Fossil fuels such as crude oil and bituminous coal can take more than a million years to form.

Over millions of years, different types of fossil fuels formed — depending on what combination of organic matter was present, how long it was buried and what temperature and pressure conditions existed as time passed.