Sentences with phrase «of hydrocarbon energy»

HF also demolishes the «peak oil and gas» mantra that we are rapidly running out of hydrocarbon energy, which further demonstrates that geologist Wallace Pratt was right when he said «Oil is first found in the minds of men.»

But environmentalist special interest groups oppose the practice, because it would expand America's supply of hydrocarbon energy, and they have whipped up alarm among Manhattanites by making unfounded claims that fracking would pollute New York City's water supply.

With the support of House leadership, Rep. Henry Waxman (D - Beverly Hills) pushed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a cap - and - trade energy rationing scheme designed to raise the price of hydrocarbon energy like gasoline.

A by - product of hydrocarbon energy production that «has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality» and remains the grand patsy and key driver of the climate crisis industry...

Publication date: 2009-06-01 First Published: Natural Resources Research Authors: R.C. Milici Abstract: The production of liquid fuels from coal will very likely become an important part of the hydrocarbon energy mix of the future, provided that technical and environmental obstacles are overcome economically.

In an effort to stabilize the climate, world governments have enacted thousands of regulations designed to suppress the use of hydrocarbon energy and instead promote the use of renewable energy.

The production of liquid fuels from coal will very likely become an important part of the hydrocarbon energy mix of the future, provided that technical and environmental obstacles are overcome economically.

These actions are intended to increase the cost of the hydrocarbon energy that powers our economy.

Not exact matches

Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»

Paris advocates assert that, despite President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the agreement, we face an inevitable transition to a multitude of new low - carbon energy technologies that will consign hydrocarbons — oil, natural gas, and coal — to history's dust heap.

Meanwhile, the world's nearly 8 billion people and $ 80 trillion economy depend on hydrocarbons to supply over 80 % of global energy; oil fuels 98 % of transportation.

PERTH - based hydrocarbon major Woodside Energy Limited has continued its drive to expand production and take advantage of surging oil prices.

Changing our focus from hydrocarbons to renewables and other forms of cleantech energy is a long - term project.

Right, as long as you personally can outlive longevity of finite hydrocarbon energies, why bother caring about or planning for what alternative energies our descendents are, with certain, going to need when we've exhausted and / or priced hydrocarbons out most people's reach?

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's data from 2010, 13 billion cubic feet of natural gas was used in petroplastic production, along with 190 million barrels of hydrocarbon gas liquids (this is a byproduct of oil and gas refinement).

The halcyon days of hydrocarbons were good to Western Canada, and the energy industry as a whole.

The driving sources of energy are changing as we move from a hydrocarbon fuel focus toward renewables.

Hydrocarbons drilled out of the ground remain the world's greatest energy source, at least with regard to price and utility.

At that St. John's meeting, premiers signed on to the Canadian Energy Strategy, which was parsed predominantly for its stance on pipelines and action on reducing hydrocarbon emissions, but also included language on better co-ordination of clean - energy electricity transmission across CEnergy Strategy, which was parsed predominantly for its stance on pipelines and action on reducing hydrocarbon emissions, but also included language on better co-ordination of clean - energy electricity transmission across Cenergy electricity transmission across Canada.

Since 2008, Argentina has been a net importer of hydrocarbons, mainly natural gas, which represents more than half of the country's energy matrix.

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

T. auensis isn't the only bacterium that makes hydrocarbons, but its byproduct is odd: Toluene is packed with energy, meaning an organism must expend a lot of energy to produce it.

But I could imagine a day when the entire energy mix is fueled by renewable energy sources, and then all of the hydrocarbon products — consumable plastics, the fuels that you need for long - term energy storage and heating your home in the winter — all of that could be derived from CO2 conversion.

But Keasling and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute think there is a better (not to mention faster) way to turn the energy in organic materials into hydrocaEnergy's Joint BioEnergy Institute think there is a better (not to mention faster) way to turn the energy in organic materials into hydrocaenergy in organic materials into hydrocarbons.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

If humans were to one day live under the yellow haze of the moon's skies, exploring its rolling dunes and ragged peaks or settling by the side of gently stirring hydrocarbon lakes, they would need energy to power their lives.

«There's demand for energy going up but also a lot of innovation going on across the energy sector, with new sources of hydrocarbons as well as alternatives,» he says.

Jones explained that over the years trace amounts of hydrocarbon contamination builds up inside the niobium cavities, lessening their ability to sustain high electrical fields, and thus decreasing the beam's potential energy.

Their ultimate goal is to find ways to use solar energy — either directly or via electricity generated by solar cells — to convert the end products of hydrocarbon combustion, water and carbon dioxide, back into a carbon - based fuel.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

Crude oil is an ever - varying stew of hydrocarbon bonds that release huge amounts of energy when they're broken.

The fossil fuels that we use contain carbon and hydrocarbons, and in the combustion of these fuels, carbon dioxide is released along with energy.

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.

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial spEnergy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one - pot process to produce gasoline - grade (C6 — C18) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)-- an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial spenergy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species.

The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is a chemical compound known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and similar compounds in some meteorites.

Researchers from three US national labs — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-- have performed the first, fully integrated assessment of the quality and yield of common feedstocks from the field to hydrocarbon blendstock production using the fast pyrolysis - hydrotreating pathway.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) updated its annual survey of US non-starch ethanol and renewable hydrocarbon biofuels producers.

March 8, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have received $ 1 million from the Department of Energy to improve the energy efficiency of copper - based catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into methane and other valuable hydrocarbon proEnergy to improve the energy efficiency of copper - based catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into methane and other valuable hydrocarbon proenergy efficiency of copper - based catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into methane and other valuable hydrocarbon products.

His responsibilities spanned the range of U.S. energy policies and programs — hydrocarbons, renewables, nuclear, and efficiency — including cybersecurity, project management, national security, and international cooperation.

The volume will only get larger, too: oil and gas producers use at least 7.5 million liters of water per well to fracture subterranean formations and release entrapped hydrocarbon fuels, a practice that has grown in the U.S. by at least 48 percent per year in the last five years, according to the Energy Information Administration.

An overview of global patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of energy, including the relative and changing importance of hydrocarbons, nuclear power, renewables, new sources of modern energy

Here is the reason why: A gasoline (petrol) molecule is made up as such: C8H18 (or 8 Carbon atoms and 18 Hydrogen atoms) Energy is obtained from the combustion of it by the conversion of a hydrocarbon to carbon dioxide and water.

It is obvious if we could work with a single hydrocarbon or at the worst a comparatively simple mixture of hydrocarbons, there would be a far greater opportunity of maintaining conditions for combustion that would yield a much larger percentage of useful energy as the fuel is consumed.

Publicly traded energy master limited partnership NuStar Energy L.P. (NS) completed the sale of its San Antonio refinery and associated terminal in Elmendorf, Texas to North American specialty hydrocarbons producer Calumet Speciaenergy master limited partnership NuStar Energy L.P. (NS) completed the sale of its San Antonio refinery and associated terminal in Elmendorf, Texas to North American specialty hydrocarbons producer Calumet SpeciaEnergy L.P. (NS) completed the sale of its San Antonio refinery and associated terminal in Elmendorf, Texas to North American specialty hydrocarbons producer Calumet Specialty...

And then you have solar chemical, which is where — without using a photosynthetic process; you're using a de novo process — photon energy equals some type of hydrocarbon.

Right now we have ramped up our economies to match the availability of energy in the form of fossil fuels — hydrocarbons — and, hence, CO2 emissions.

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.

There are not many details about the source of the energy to create the hydrocarbon bonds.

But, that doesn't mean we need energy that comes from buried hydrocarbons that, when burned, spew gigatons of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

The team at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) has created a system for using renewable energy to power the capture of CO2 and water, which is then transformed into liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used directly in gasoline engines.