Sentences with phrase «into fuel for energy»

Wind power is a great way to generate clean renewable energy, and the innovations in wind technology being pursued over the last year or so are a reminder that with the right tools, we can turn the movement of the air above us into fuel for our energy - hungry lifestyles.

Metabolism through Exercise: As most people know, the word metabolism refers to the body's ability to turn food into a fuel for energy.

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Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

BOSTON — President Donald Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossils fuel contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

Your body processes the nutrients found in apples into adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which is fuel for your cells, and they use it for everything that requires energy in your body.

When you turn off access to glucose, a primary fuel source derived from eating carbohydrates, the body taps into its own fat stores for energy.

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

Of course, oil means energy, which means that higher oil costs will translate into higher prices for just about everything, not just at the fuel pump.

In order to compare farming systems, they are subdivided into emissions due to burning of oil and fuel (direct energy) and the use of oil and fuel for the production and transport of fertilizers, machinery and synthetic pesticides (indirect energy).

They help convert our food into fuel for our body, providing more energy throughout the day.

The Government needs to act urgently and we are calling on Gordon Brown, who only recently pledged to ensure that he will do everything to eradicate fuel poverty, to use the additional VAT receipts he will receive from the price increases and direct them into energy efficiency schemes for the fuel poor.»

Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossil fuels contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), has called on the Chief Executive Officer of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST), Alfred Obeng, to step aside for a full - scale investigation into the alleged sale of contaminated fuel.

Though high - volume hydraulic fracturing in Michigan is limited today, the U-M study takes into account the possibility that it could become more widespread due to a desire for job creation, economic growth, energy independence and lower - carbon fuels.

His model took into account both an individual plankton's body size and its metabolism's dependence on temperature to quantify how much energy it takes to fuel all the genetic changes that must occur in order for a new species to emerge.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) conducts research into novel nuclear fission fuels and technologies.

For one, to convert algae into fuel, producers centrifuge the algae - laden water to separate the two, and that takes «a fair amount of energy,» Clarens said.

Efforts such as GreenGen bode well for resolving those complaints, but China is also moving ahead with efforts to turn coal into liquid fuel — a costly transformation that emits twice as much CO2 as does simply burning the black rock and consumes yet more energy.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

Insulin - like growth factor promotes cell division and growth, while insulin shunts fuel consumed either into immediate energy use or into storage for a later time.

A new experiment releases more energy than is pumped into fuel — a major milestone — but a long journey still remains for sustainable energy from fusion

Once a meal has supplied the body's immediate energy needs, any unused fuel gets converted into long molecules called triglycerides, which are dispatched to fatty tissue where they wait for a signal that the body needs them.

The scientists are part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, whose goal is to convert CO2 into high - value chemical products like liquid fuels.

That's because fermenting corn into ethanol delivers less liquid fuel energy for internal combustion engines than does burning the kernels to generate power for electric motors.

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

The editors respond: We thought the numbers in Dukes's study were fascinating for what they reveal about the amount of raw biomass needed to create a gallon of gasoline; however, due to space constraints, we could not go into greater detail about fossil - fuel production and energy usage.

The trailer for the Navy Energy and Environmental Readiness Division's project energyMMOWGLI — Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet — launches viewers into this world of constrained fuel supplies and a handicapped military.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

«In addition, detailed knowledge of the chemical steps involved in making methane could lead to major breakthroughs in designing energy efficient catalysts for converting methane into liquid fuels and other chemicals.»

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

Nitrogen - doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the key reaction in fuel cells that transform chemical energy into electricity, according to Rice University researchers.

For instance, carbon dioxide enables energy storage by reacting with hydrogen gas — called the hydrogenation process — transforming the mixture into higher energy liquid compounds such as methanol that can be easily transported and used as fuel for caFor instance, carbon dioxide enables energy storage by reacting with hydrogen gas — called the hydrogenation process — transforming the mixture into higher energy liquid compounds such as methanol that can be easily transported and used as fuel for cafor cars.

He also highlights progress, challenges, and strategies for developing catalysts to convert solar energy into energy - packed fuels as efficiently as possible.

For Millikan, «stored solar energy» must have meant fossil fuel, a tank of which today could be exchanged for enough cash for what was then a down payment on a 1931 Ford Model A. Fossil fuels, of course, are just aged and tenderized organisms that long ago converted sunlight into energy or fed on organisms capable of converting sunlight into enerFor Millikan, «stored solar energy» must have meant fossil fuel, a tank of which today could be exchanged for enough cash for what was then a down payment on a 1931 Ford Model A. Fossil fuels, of course, are just aged and tenderized organisms that long ago converted sunlight into energy or fed on organisms capable of converting sunlight into enerfor enough cash for what was then a down payment on a 1931 Ford Model A. Fossil fuels, of course, are just aged and tenderized organisms that long ago converted sunlight into energy or fed on organisms capable of converting sunlight into enerfor what was then a down payment on a 1931 Ford Model A. Fossil fuels, of course, are just aged and tenderized organisms that long ago converted sunlight into energy or fed on organisms capable of converting sunlight into energy.

The first step in such an electrolytic approach is splitting CO2, a tough, stable molecule, into oxygen and carbon monoxide (CO), a slightly more energy - rich molecule that can form the basis for hydrocarbon fuels like methanol.

There they will measure the photocatalytic activity for the oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions, as occur when light energy is successfully used to break water down into useable fuel.

One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.

The research comes out of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub established in 2010 to develop a cost - effective method of turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) is funding research into solid - state materials for improved batteries and fuel cells.

If you REALLY want to dig deep into fossil fuel projections, here is the You tube recording of a presentation September 22nd 2014 by Adam Sieminiski, the Administrator of the EIA, on this very report (the International Energy Outlook for 2014).

At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists mapped the reaction that turns wind - generated electricity into fuel and the amount of energy needed for each step.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electrEnergy (GEH) believes that PRISM offers the most efficient, clean, cost - effective option for turning nuclear waste into low carbon energy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electrenergy; while also managing used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium by converting it into electricity.

The mission of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis is to develop a comprehensive understanding of molecular electrocatalysts that efficiently convert electrical energy into chemical bonds in fuels, or the reverse, convert chemical energy from fuels into electrical energy.

Mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside cells that convert glucose in the cell into molecules of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which serve as units of energy for fueling the various workings of the cell.

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.

«These results should help motivate the search for new energy sources, such as wind and solar, that can fuel economic growth without releasing dangerous carbon dioxide into the environment.»