Sentences with phrase «making hydrocarbon fuels»

But last year, Nocera reported that his team had engineered bacteria called Ralstonia eutropha to feed on the H2 and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and combine them to make hydrocarbon fuels.

One solar strategy that does look interesting is Nate Lewis's proposal to make hydrocarbon fuels from sunlight:

I find Nate Lewis's proposal to make hydrocarbon fuel from sunlight to be intriguing:

Not exact matches

And there is no reason to think that the R. eutropha could not be made to generate other products — perhaps complex hydrocarbon molecules like those found in fossil fuels or even the whole range of chemicals currently synthesized from polluting resources, such as fertilizers.

«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.

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

We are perfecting a new technology that makes hydrocarbons — the same components found in petroleum fuels.

Because the process makes a blend of hydrocarbons, it does not lack the aromatic compounds that seal aircraft engines, like the biojet fuel produced from camelina oil by UOP.

«We're making hydrocarbons that look just like the hydrocarbons from fossil fuels,» such as heptane, isooctane and others, Cortright says.

That's because the core of making jet biofuel is much the same as the core of making conventional fuel: hydroprocessing, or the adding of hydrogen to existing hydrocarbons in order to remove oxygen and other impurities as well as build the right molecule.

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.

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.

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.

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

Fossil fuels are made of hydrocarbons; when they don't burn completely, they are released into the air.

Hydrogen can be made in 2 ways that I know of — from hydrocarbon fuels, and using electricity to perform the electrolysis of water.

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.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

IV: The carbon dioxide and hydrogen are reacted together to make a hydrocarbon mixture, the reaction conditions being varied depending on the type of fuel that is required.

Clean, renewable, nearly cost - free hydrocarbon fuel made directly from sunlight and CO2 is just the tip of the iceberg — the low hanging fruit in this transformative technology.

Oils made from algae usually have to be refined into fuel following a batch process, but helioculture produces fuel directly — either ethanol or hydrocarbons — that do not need refining.

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.

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).

If liquid fuels are needed, the electricity can be used to make H2, and normal catalysis can produce hydrocarbons.

Biofuels E.Coli, It's Not Just for Food Poisoning Anymore: Bacteria Tapped to Produce Diesel Fuel You Got Bacteria in My Gas: Engineering Microbes to Make Hydrocarbons New Algae Biofuel from Sapphire Energy «Chemically Identical to Gasoline»

Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their money out of «risky» fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»