Sentences with phrase «hydrocarbon energy sources»

Although both are hydrocarbon energy sources, mining and burning coal has a far, far greater impact on the environment than does recovering and burning natural gas.

Not exact matches

The driving sources of energy are changing as we move from a hydrocarbon fuel focus toward renewables.

Hydrocarbons drilled out of the ground remain the world's greatest energy source, at least with regard to price and utility.

But I could imagine a day when the entire energy mix is fueled by renewable energy sources, and then all of the hydrocarbon products — consumable plastics, the fuels that you need for long - term energy storage and heating your home in the winter — all of that could be derived from CO2 conversion.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

«There's demand for energy going up but also a lot of innovation going on across the energy sector, with new sources of hydrocarbons as well as alternatives,» he says.

Despite the explosive growth of renewable sources of electricity, making hydrocarbon building blocks and high energy density fuel sources in a renewable fashion is a major challenge.

An overview of global patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of energy, including the relative and changing importance of hydrocarbons, nuclear power, renewables, new sources of modern energy

So, apparently, if I understand this correctly, the idea is really about a way that actually requires an independent source of energy (and a big one) in order to make liquid fuels and other hydrocarbon - based products in a relatively «carbon - neutral» way.

There are not many details about the source of the energy to create the hydrocarbon bonds.

When used as a source of energy to manufacture hydrocarbons such as methane and liquid fuels, as you point out solar panels can only do this in the daytime.

Given the scale of energy demand, and the relatively small base from which renewable energy sources begin, hydrocarbons such as oil and natural gas will necessarily continue to play a predominant role.

Once hydrogen production is converted to a non-fossil source (probably electrolytic or thermochemical splitting of water, powered by nuclear energy) and all industrial hydrogen (for things like the Haber Process) sourced thus, it would probably be better to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels (either methanol, or Fischer - Tropsch petrol or diesel) than attempt to use hydrogen directly.

Price of Oil: When oil prices were low, the vast amount of additional water and energy (and greenhouse gas pollution) needed to scrub and process these sorts of hydrocarbons into something suitable for market was simply uneconomical compared to conventional sources of crude.

He contends that we are «squandering the opportunity of a generation, through blind opposition to our three most potent sources of power: hydrocarbon energy (coal, oil, and gas), nuclear energy, and hydroelectric energy.»

I don't believe we'll burn enough fossil fuel to cause catastrophic warming before alternative energy sources make the Holy Hydrocarbon Bond more valuable as structure than for its inherent energy.

The least disruptive technology would replace oil - derived hydrocarbons with liquid hydrocarbon fuels derived from CO2, water, and a clean energy source, such as the sun, leading to a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

But at some point, while fossil hydrocarbons will still be a valuable resource, if it takes more energy to get them into the tank or the power plant than is provided when we burn them, they will no longer be a source of energy.

Published on April 30, 2018 Natural gas, called «the prince of hydrocarbons» by some, is an increasingly important fuel source in the world energy system.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

I might point out that electric currents passing through matter tend to increase the energetic state of the matter, though if you only use hydrocarbons as a source of energy, then of course that limits the number possible insights.