Sentences with phrase «gas nonrenewable»

Not exact matches

We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.

«Put as little as 20 percent biofuel into nonrenewable fuels — coal - to - liquid and gas - to - liquid — you can be carbon neutral in a mix,» CAAFI's Altman says.

These alternatives include liquids from both renewable (plants) and nonrenewable (coal and natural gas) sources that are better than an oil refinery on a greenhouse gas (GHG) life - cycle basis.

In the Classroom: Use poems to jump - start a discussion of earth's renewable resources — including air, plants, water, and animals — and nonrenewable resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Sadly, it will be either gas taxes and / or diminishing supplies of this nonrenewable resource that will encourage consumers to stop driving and wasting energy, and, in effect, reduce the «pressure at the pump».

Outspokenly; nonrenewable energy sources; which include oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium - are the primary world's energy supplier today and will still remain the major source of world's energy for a foreseeable future.

Just like oil, natural gas is a finite, nonrenewable resource.

Natural gas is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that is composed of several different gases, with methane making up the biggest portion.

According to Prentice Hall's guide to Earth's resources, nonrenewable resources «include coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.»

Others, such as petroleum and natural gas, are available in limited quantities and are considered nonrenewable.

23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute — acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel

If the MRET stays at 20 % (however defined) by 2020 that cuts out nonrenewable gas and nuclear.

Today's children can't take for granted a future powered by nonrenewable resources such as oil and natural gas.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.