Sentences with phrase «good bridging fuel»

Gas is a very good bridging fuel to get there as it has less than half of the emissions, for instance, that coal has and also much less than oil has.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says nuclear power is not the best bridge fuel to use in achieving greener energy sources.

Shale natural gas is our best bridge fuel, the country is awash in cheap natural gas.

Not exact matches

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

«With the offer by Exelon to provide a fuel bridge, Entergy has nothing to lose by joining with other stakeholders and the state to develop a clean energy standard, the resolution of which will occur well before their decision needs to be made to refuel the plant,» Denn said.

The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

The issue was well known but little studied: methane does not hang around in the atmosphere for long, so scientists had assumed that the odd leak would not undermine its use as a bridge fuel.

To fuel this fire, I like Bridge of Spies quite a bit; better than War Horse, but not more than Munich, in my opinion.

The driveshaft to the rear diff runs through what used to be the spare wheel well and the petrol tank - Audi had to develop an all - new «saddle» fuel tank to bridge it.

Using this new information as well as other independent studies on methane emissions published since 2011, and the latest information on the climate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridge fuel.

If Germany could fight WWII on synthetic fuels from coal, and the US has enough coal to make enough electricity for the entire world for hundreds of years, wouldn't that be a good cheap «bridge» to some sort of viable solar / hydrogen next gen world?

Andy himself has moved to the right and only rarely mentions any «solution» but «bridge fuels», along with bringing in «moderates» (Pielke, forsooth, and Hoerling et al.) but does do a good job of collecting and presenting a variety of source material.

Taking this into account, natural gas really doesn't fare nearly as well as the «bridge fuel» it was once touted to be.

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

To those wealthy, developed producers that have mastered a particular expertise in oxymorons (clean coal, oil pipelines to support climate action, natural gas as a bridge fuel etc...), ECO's message is simple: In with the good and out with the bad.