Sentences with phrase «of liquid transportation fuels»

The center conducts research on the production of liquid transportation fuels via artificial photosynthesis, which utilizes solar energy, water and carbon dioxide, DOE said Tuesday.
«I think it's reasonable to be shooting for providing 50 percent of our liquid transportation fuel with sustainable fuel.»

Not exact matches

If we were trying to make liquid transportation fuels to replace all transportation fuels in the U.S. and you try and do that from corn it would take a facility three times the size of the continental U.S..
Ultimately, this facility may be able to convert as much as 1,000 metric tons of biomass per day into liquid fuel; the goal is to build a commercial - scale facility that would churn out 50 million gallons (189.2 million liters) of transportation fuels per year.
In that case, we do nothing and suffer the consequences of dealing with a burgeoning demand for liquid transportation fuels globally without offering any alternatives to petroleum.
Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.
Created in 2007, the Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs) work together to address the most significant challenges standing in the way of affordable, sustainable and scalable advanced liquid transportation fuels.
Dr. Aaron Appel, who is leading the efforts to rationally design catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion PNNL's Institute for Integrated Catalysis, shared his team's work on two groups of catalysts that are involved in the first step of turning carbon dioxide into liquid transportation fuels.
As to transportation or industry the truth is there is no other portable energy source that offers quite the concentration of energy or the abundance found of the original bounty found in liquid fossil fuels.
David Adam of The Guardian reported over the weekend on the first international conference on «coal to liquids,» in Paris, at which a host of officials from around the world excitedly described a host of new coal - to - liquids initiatives aimed at securing flows of transportation fuel in a world facing high oil prices for a long time to come.
Question asked: «What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?»
What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?
If this trend is robust, use of natural gas in transportation, either through direct use or following conversion to a liquid fuel, could in time increase appreciably.
One of the most important take - home points, to me, was the authors» endorsement of a rising role for natural gas as a feedstock for producing liquid transportation fuels.
The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.
The growth in transportation energy demand is likely to account for approximately 60 percent of the growth in liquid fuels demand worldwide over this period.
Nearly all the world's transportation fleets will continue to run on liquid fuels, which are abundant, widely available, easy to transport, and provide a large quantity of energy in small volumes.
In a new working paper, WRI calculates that providing just 10 percent of the world's liquid transportation fuel in the year 2050 would require nearly 30 percent of all the energy in a year's worth of crops the world produces today.
H2O and CO2 can supply the feedstock for all the liquid fuels currently used for transportation, which are just various molecular recombinations of hydrogen and carbon.
We are conducting our own research efforts into alternative energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation fuels.
Bullfrog Power's green fuel is an earth - friendly, renewable alternative to liquid fossil fuel, allowing climate - conscious Canadians to reduce the environmental impact of their transportation.
«In terms of energy policy and the potential to shift transportation away from liquid fuels to the electric grid, PHEVs may prove to be nothing short of revolutionary.»
Just to add to one of your comments, the cost to replace the existing transportation, liquid fuel distribution system with electricity throughout the USA would be enormous.
JCAP researchers are focused on achieving the major scientific breakthroughs needed to produce liquid transportation fuels from a combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, using artificial photosynthesis.
Muller does not believe that the problem is related to transportation, nor that we are approaching a «Hubbard Peak» on oil (since we have lots of coal and this can easily be converted to liquid fuels with existing «clean» technology).
The term output means some or all of the liquid or gaseous transportation fuels produced from the project, as specified in the loan agreement.
Despite rising fuel prices, use of liquids for transportation increases by an average of 1.1 % per year, or 38 % overall, from 2010 to 2040.
In the transportation sector, in particular, liquid fuels continue to provide most of the energy consumed.
The transportation sector accounts for 63 % of the total increase in liquid fuel use from 2010 to 2040, and the remainder is attributed to the industrial sector, where the chemicals industry continues to consume large quantities of petroleum throughout the projection.
The term qualified coal - to - liquid facility means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce at least 10,000 barrels per day of transportation grade liquid fuels from a feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the capture, transportation, or sequestration of by - products resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).
In a new report, «Biofuels for Transportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughlTransportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughltransportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughly 8 % by 2022.
A Berkeley Lab - led team is working to re-engineer an enzyme for the efficient conversion of methane to liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels.
Adding insult to injury electricity, even were it free to produce at centralized generation facilities, can not practically replace liquid hydrocarbon fuels for lack of distribution capacity to local consumption and lack of storage capacity for transportation.
Transportation, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on liquid fuels produced from oil.
As we consider buildings as the largest source of GHG emissions in developed societies, we must consider the largest liquid chemical consumer of fossil fuels: transportation.
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Here's how this could happen: Without Renewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rise.
No doubt the same thing is happening along much of the west coast of Canada, which is why China's sanctioning of coal to liquid technology to produce transportation fuel is directly significant to North Americans, and why it is so important to help China become more reliant on efficient processes and products.
Southern Research Institute has entered into a $ 1.5 - million cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy to test an innovative method for producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass, thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal - to - liquid (CTL) and coal - biomass - to - liquid (CBTL) processes.
Solar power, nuclear energy, and coal are primarily useful for generating electric power, but these energies do not provide liquid fuels needed for transportation or mechanized agriculture, nor do they provide raw materials for manufacturing of 300,000 products, including fertilizer.
Pay attention, because this next one has some serious implications for energy and transportation policy, and infrastructure: According to research just published in the online edition of Science, rather than converting energy crops to liquid fuel for use in an internal combustion engine, it is far more efficient to convert them to electricity to power vehicles.
The EDF scenario (Eeh) implies that aircraft account for 39 % of the transportation energy usage and require 45 % of the world's liquid fuel production.
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