Oil and natural gas would no longer be
needed as the feedstock for transportation fuel production.
Not exact matches
Astronauts would only
need «
feedstock» material, such
as plastic or metal, to make new tools or spare parts on the fly.
Industries that use coal
as a
feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals
need such materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.
Production begins at Idaho National Laboratory, which stores the existing inventory of neptunium - 237
feedstock and ships it
as needed to ORNL.
It discriminates both on its face, and
as applied, against transportation fuels and fuel
feedstocks imported from outside of California with the intended effect of (i) promoting in - state production of transportation fuels, and (ii) «keep [ing] consumer dollars local by reducing the
need to make fuel purchases from beyond [California's] borders.»
Our nation's world - class refineries provide fuels and petrochemical
feedstocks needed to manufacture thousands of everyday products, such
as plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and more.
As wind, solar, and other energy sources come to meet civilization's energy
needs, use of perennial biomass may shift to clean cookstoves and
feedstock for paper, bioplastic, and other bio-based products.
The annual harvest is used
as feedstock for local village - scale charcoal retorts (thus minimizing haulage energy
needs) with simple fairly efficient retorts converting about 67 % of the wood's carbon to charcoal, with the rest mostly going into hot hydrocarbon gasses that hold around 28 % of the wood's energy potential.
Conventional ethanol production is energy - intensive, expensive, and time - consuming
as the barley malt or other material being brewed
needs to be heated up
as a mash in
feedstock pre-treatment.
To generate offsets, however, a farmer would
need to prove that the cost of
feedstock is above and beyond «business
as usual», and that the benefits of adding the mixture to the feed probably won't pay for itself.