Sentences with phrase «instead of a natural gas»

At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for combustion instead of the natural gas.

If faced with the choice of shutting down either a typical coal plant or a typical gas plant and methane leakage from the natural gas plant is below about 2 percent of total fuel, there would be a short - term climate benefit to shutting down the coal plant instead of the natural gas plant, the team found.

Soon, these boilers will run on swine biogas instead of natural gas.

Not exact matches

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

For years, it developed engine components that enabled trucks to burn natural gas instead of diesel.

So, instead of fighting this battle in hindsight, we just said we are not even going to have a natural gas pipeline coming in to the factory, so we didn't even build it.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

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«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

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Instead of looking for ways to locate and extract more natural gas, Woods said residents should explore renewable energy and conservation.

Instead of investing in pipelines that could lock the state into decades of using natural gas, the «bridge» should be energy efficiency improvements, he said.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

Facing pressure from opponents of a proposed inner - city natural gas - fired power plant to help run Empire State Plaza, the state Power Authority is revisiting whether alternative energy could instead be used, even though it has already publicly dismissed that as infeasible.

State regulators have approved a deal that will re-energize a western New York power plant, repowering the Dunkirk power plant using natural gas instead of coal.

The plan includes wind farms offshore from Long Island instead of the proposed liquified natural gas export facility.

Instead (in terms of fossil fuels) it is more likely to reduce your consumption of coal and natural gas.

The market liberalization means that Mexican power producers could more easily buy cleaner, cheaper natural gas from abroad instead of burning domestic oil.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

Keeley said the market «isn't delivering to us what we actually want,» but instead is providing a «flood of electricity from super-cheap natural gas, which is cleaner than coal but isn't really clean.»

Instead of regulating carbon at the many smokestacks where emissions occur, the group recommends regulating by cap - and - trade permits directed «upstream» at the wellheads, mine mouths, and import points where oil, coal, and natural gas enter the economy.

Now a new process offers hope of turning that stranded natural gas into something useful and transportable instead: gasoline.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Typically, using natural gas instead of coal or oil will result in a 50 % reduction in carbon emissions.

Instead of using natural gas or oil and as an alternative to incurring high electricity bills, geothermal energy works to draw off the Earth's core.

And now we get Promised Land, which finds him playing a natural - gas company spokesperson whose selling of the hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) technique to small - town rubes instead leads him to conclude that — gasp!

The concept shares the same basic plug - in hybrid setup as the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera, but using a turbocharged 1 L 3 - cylinder natural gas - powered engine as its range extender instead of General Motors» current 1.4 L gasoline engine.

There's also a new, 110 - horsepower compressed natural gas version of the Civic now offered in all 50 states, instead of just four as it was a couple of years ago.

As for power, the current North American Ford Transit Connect makes do with just a pair of engine options: a 1.6 L EcoBoost four - cylinder, or a normally - aspirated 2.5 L four - cylinder that can be configured to burn compressed natural gas or propane instead of petrol.

Though costly, the standard Hemi engine can be retrofitted to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of gasoline.

Even running passenger cars on natural gas instead of gasoline is probably on the borderline in terms of climate,» Brandt said.

[T] he analysis finds that powering trucks and buses with natural gas instead of diesel fuel probably makes the globe warmer, because diesel engines are relatively clean.

And, new power plants with the various anti-pollution technologies (and / or, in many cases using natural gas instead of coal) are much cleaner than the older plants.

Last year, more than 150 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle produced legislation providing incentives to use clean - burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil.

This problem is exacerbated as we neglect our own substantial coal supplies and instead rely on soaring imports of foreign natural gas.

Instead of investing in repowering the in - basin plants and relying on natural gas peakers to balance the system, LADWP would need to learn to use energy efficiency, demand response and battery energy storage.

Professor Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Teesside University said: «If the EU is to transform its energy system to align with the Paris temperature and equity commitments, it can not continue with business as usual and must instead initiate a rapid phase out of all fossil fuels including natural gas.

U.S. carbon - dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the country is making more electricity with natural gas instead of coal.

If you assume that all the savings in fossil fuel use only displaced natural gas use instead of some other aggregation of fuels then emissions would have been only 5 % higher.

Purportedly set up to represent «small, independent oil and natural gas producers,» instead «Energy in Depth» is funded by some of the largest oil companies on the planet, such as Chevron, BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

Increase premature deaths from air pollution by replacing nuclear plants instead of coal plants with natural gas;

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

Instead of attempting to throttle the economic growth of western civilization I believe efforts should be concentrated on developing more efficient energy sources such as exploiting our plentiful natural gas reserves.

If we invest in natural gas instead of nuclear, we are stuck with the investment for 40 years.

The company plans a three - year phase out of all natural gas - powered production equipment that may emit methane, replacing it with lower - emission designs that use compressed air instead.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

«instead of blaming man - made greenhouse gas emissions, climate catastrophists should see natural disasters for what they really are: natural.»