Sentences with phrase «gas as a generation»

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This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.
As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.
Not only are Millennials snubbing oil and gas because of its negative image, they also seek different job perks than previous generations sought, and in this regard, the oil industry will need to do more as it becomes increasingly obvious that Millennials want different things than what oil executives think they want.
EY's survey polled Millennials — the 20 - to -35-year-olds today — as well as Generation Z coming after them, and found that younger generations «question the longevity of the industry as they view natural gas and oil as their parents» fuels.
Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.
Southeast Europe should prepare for heatwaves later in May Coldest winter since 2012 has depleted European gas stores Germany is headed for record solar power generation next week as forecasters Continue Reading
As a key player in reducing greenhouse gases, carbon pricing is a crucial step towards building a credible climate action plan for many generations to come.
One option of subjecting MAP packing to a leak test is based on the generation of a vacuum and the implementation of carbon dioxide as a testing gas.
The main energy sources used in the industry are gas and electricity, but there is also significant use of diesel generation, and a growing interest and use of biogas and solar generation as alternatives in the face of conventional energy costs continuing to rise.
This system allows us to report energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation at a global and site level, as an absolute figure or per unit of production.
«The loss of significant offshore oil and gas tax revenues as the North Sea runs down will have a big impact on our economy, jobs and balance of payments, with significant increases in household energy bills — and a very adverse impact on the legacy for future generations in an independent Scotland,» he told EnergyVoice.com.
As coal fired generation is retired and intermittent renewables come online, the role of gas in our energy mix will become even more vital.
Some of this is gas generation, as the list below indicates.
They reopened as gas plants, which is new generation.
EMR is vital to attracting low - carbon technologies, as there's little doubt that if left alone, the market would veer towards a short - term approach — building more gas generation — at the expense of our long - term environmental and energy security responsibilities.
As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantAs an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plantas housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi - storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro - chemical and other process plants.
Ordinarily a permit for a natural gas fired generation facility is viewed as having lower air quality impacts than other fuels.
According to Ghana's Energy Commission, Ghana National Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1Gas Pipeline having 9.1 %.
The benefits such marsh gas systems provide seem to be as bright as the blue flame in the biogas burners — at least to the next generation like Yu, who treasures the remaining forest.
Exelon, headquartered in Chicago, is a $ 31 billion energy services and wholesale power firm with one of the nation's largest nuclear fleets, as well as extensive holdings in natural gas, wind and hydropower generation assets.
Superconducting cables minimize energy loss, and power - to - gas systems store excess electrical generation as hydrogen or methane.
«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.
Supernovas are extremely important for cosmic ecology because they inject huge amounts of energy into the interstellar gas, and are responsible for dispersing elements such as iron, calcium and oxygen into space where they may be incorporated into future generations of stars and planets.
The current code, known as NFPA 2, provides fundamental safeguards for the generation, installation, storage, piping, use and handling of hydrogen in compressed gas or cryogenic (low temperature) liquid form.
The study finds that by 2020, the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of electricity generation in certain areas will have improved by as much as 30 percent over 2010 levels.
The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.
Scientists figured out more than a decade ago how to make this specialized form of light through a process known as «high harmonic generation,» or HHG, which shifts laser light to much shorter wavelengths and shorter pulses by shining it through a cloud of gas.
«We are using emissions from gas - fired generation as our CO2 source at the pilot plant where we are making up to 10 tons a day,» he says.
As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all timeAs long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all timeas countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.
Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?
Thin sheets of diamond, grown -LCB- rom a low - pressure gas and doped with impurities, may serve as the basis for a new generation of electronic devices
The second generation of Magnox reactors, installed at Oldbury and Wylfa, use concrete pressure vessels, as do the advanced gas - cooled reactors that followed them.
As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.
However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040
The vast, filament - like clouds of dust and gas that will serve as the material from which the next generation of stellar bodies will coalesce, is represented in a dark red color, threaded throughout the image.
With nearly 900 billion tons of reserves, coal power remains an integral part of today's energy mix that includes renewables as well as gas power generation.
Park Systems, world - leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) today announced a webinar to provide next generation technology to improve oil and gas production in both traditional drilling and hydraulic fracturing for oil & gas producers and equipment manufacturers as they continue to pursue the latest developments in production efficiencies.
The year's incredible heat serves as a stark reminder of how much the Earth's temperature has risen due to the steady buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like power generation, transportation and forest clearing.
But these spectacular stellar death explosions signal star birth as well, as the blast waves condense gas and dust to ultimately form the next generation of stars inside the Tarantula Nebula.
Despite its success in gaining market share, natural gas as a replacement fuel for coal - fired generation, has several vulnerabilities.
They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The latest generation of models include interactive particulates and atmospheric chemistry and have those changing through time as well as the greenhouse gases (and solar and volcanoes etc.).
This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.
Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.
In a warming world, natural gas is often touted as a «bridge fuel» between carbon - laden coal and a full embrace of renewables for electric power generation.
As I said, I spent my first week flitting about the city without troubling the spark plugs at all and, even with the gas engine working as a Bunsen burner, my 300 - km - plus of sub-zero commuting required just 2.7 litres of gasoline for every 100 kilometres of urban crawl, ironically just about the same as I averaged in the first - generation VolAs I said, I spent my first week flitting about the city without troubling the spark plugs at all and, even with the gas engine working as a Bunsen burner, my 300 - km - plus of sub-zero commuting required just 2.7 litres of gasoline for every 100 kilometres of urban crawl, ironically just about the same as I averaged in the first - generation Volas a Bunsen burner, my 300 - km - plus of sub-zero commuting required just 2.7 litres of gasoline for every 100 kilometres of urban crawl, ironically just about the same as I averaged in the first - generation Volas I averaged in the first - generation Volt.
Nissan's only teased a video so far, but the next generation of its Titan full - sized pickup truck will have a new 5.0 L Cummins diesel V8 under the hood, as well as an available gas engine.
In an indication that the production version of the NMC will offer more than adequate performance, the concept in Beijing sports the same 217 - hp turbocharged 2.0 - liter direct injection four - cylinder gas engine as the seventh - generation Golf GTI.
Based on the fourth - generation Optima sedan, the hybrid version benefits from the same full redesign as the gas - powered model and targets a 10 percent improvement in fuel economy compared to its predecessor.
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