Sentences with phrase «make liquid hydrocarbon»
Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«And these liquid hydrocarbons made by the alga are currently found in petroleum deposits, so we are already using them as a source to generate fuel.
But chemical companies have also long had the technology to convert the primary hydrocarbons in natural gas — methane, ethane, and propane — into alcohols, the liquid starting materials for plastics, fuels, and other commodities made by the train load.
Titan is believed to have vast hydrocarbon oceans and rivers made of liquid methane at temperatures that would preclude the possibility of existence of Earth - like organisms.
That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»
Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.
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.
Bitumen is made of hydrocarbons — the same molecules in liquid oil — and is used to produce gasoline and other petroleum products.
To get liquid fuel from gas, CO2 needs to be broken up so as to extract the carbon atoms in order to make new hydrocarbons (the building blocks of fuel).
What I was saying is that if you have solar power, just put it in the grid and if you need liquid hydrocarbons, it is easier to make them from the natural gas you just saved.
If liquid fuels are needed, the electricity can be used to make H2, and normal catalysis can produce hydrocarbons.