Sentences with phrase «into useful fuels»

There are plenty of ways to convert biomass into useful fuels and chemicals.

Trees use sunlight to forge carbon dioxide and water into a useful fuel.

Not exact matches

Elements and compounds below the surface could be used to create fuel, including water, which can be split into useful hydrogen and oxygen.

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

At the end of their useful lives, they would be converted in thermal depolymerization machines into short - chain fuels, fertilizers, and industrial raw materials, ready for plants or people to convert them back into long chains again.

«The idea is to demonstrate that the combination of our pyrolysis and our upgrading technology provides superior economic returns for people who own biomass and want to turn it into transportation fuels,» Rekoske says — an effort that could be useful on other islands or even the U.S. mainland.

But untangling the complex chains of these polymers into components, which can be useful for liquid fuel and other applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics, has presented an ongoing challenge to science and industry.

This strategy led to the discovery of NIR luminescence and also paves the way for other types of nanoparticle alloys that are useful not only in imaging, but in applications like catalysis for the industrial - scale conversion of fossil fuels into fine chemicals.

Rice University chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst for fuel cells and other applications.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science led by Dr. James Liao have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

This understanding will provide the foundation for new «catch - and - consume» approaches in which carbon dioxide is not only captured, but also converted into useful products such as fuels.

JCAP is currently seeking additional funds to solve a key related challenge: How to transform hydrogen gas produced by artificial photosynthesis into a more useful fuel.

By combining the cellulose - breakdown and sugar - conversion steps, we are very close to a single - step method of converting raw biomass into a new platform chemical — a chemical you can readily turn into a transportation fuel or for synthesis of plastics and other useful materials,» said PNNL geochemist and study coauthor Jim Amonette.

Chemistry plays a key role in transforming these biologically - derived materials into fuels and other useful chemicals.

This breakdown of fat into useful energy is similar to the process that dietary carbohydrates undergo in producing glucose to fuel the body.

However, for someone like Shawn, trying to get more energy into fuel activity, a lower protein energy ratio might be more useful.

The interior is littered with useful features too, like a rechargeable and removable torch in the boot, an ice scraper in the fuel filler cap and an iPad dock that can be attached to the back of the front headrests or slotted into the drop - down armrest in the middle of the rear bench.

With its 23.5 - gallon tank, I was looking at just over 500 miles between fill - ups, which proved especially useful during the desolate drive through Nevada to Winnemucca, then up the lonely Highway 95 through Washington and into Idaho, where fueling stations were very few and far between.

Traffic data, weather forecasts, fuel prices, and other useful information are beamed into the vehicle via Sirius Travel Link.

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

This electric energy can thus not be compared on a 1:1 basis with the chemical energy in fossil fuels without taking into account the conversion efficiency of both forms of energy into a useful form (kinetic energy in this case).

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

I would note that Alex Trembath's useful intervention to this discussion provides insight into why we can expect global energy consumption will continue to grow, and tangentially why so much of that energy will be supplied by fossil fuels without an major breakthroughs in energy technology.

The current splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and bacteria in the water transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fuels or other useful chemicals.

It points to the current use of this process at a Conagra turkey processing facility in Carthage, Missouri, where a «20 million commercial - scale facility» is beginning to convert turkey offal into «a variety of useful products, from fertilizer to low - sulfur diesel fuel» at a potential average cost of «about 72 cents per gallon.»

The Fugitive Carbon in combusted fossil fuel exhaust can also be captured with the technology of Carbon Capture Utilization.This affordable technology transforms the CO2 into useful — saleable products.

JCAP is currently seeking additional funds to solve a key related challenge: How to transform hydrogen gas produced by artificial photosynthesis into a more useful fuel.

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science led by Dr. James Liao have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The 24 % efficiency that Mr Libby calculated is similar to the efficiency of coal - fired power stations and far ahead of the 15 % efficiency of internal combustion engine - powered cars in converting the energy in the fuel into useful power delivered through the wheels.

So you see, fossil fuels cause either catastrophic global warming or ice ages, depending on what is most political useful to scare the public into surrendering more liberty to government to control how you live.

Instead, scientists have turned to Moorella thermoacetica, a bacteria that resides at the bottom of very still swamps, silently breathing in carbon dioxide and excreting acetic acid (the acid in vinegar), which is a remarkably useful chemical that could be reacted into other valuable resources like fuels, drugs, or plastics.

The efficiency rating indicates the percentage of fuel used (wood) that transforms into useful heat to warm your home.