Sentences with phrase «of natural gas heat»

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A trillion cubic feet of natural gas is enough to heat 15 million homes for a year, the U.S. Energy Department says.

LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.

The device allows business owners to modify their behavior and save on costs of everything from water and electricity to natural gas and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrouGas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrougas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Whereas today most British Columbians burn natural gas to heat their homes, 15 years from now many of those furnaces will be replaced by high - efficiency heat pumps — electric units that transfer heat from outside your home to warm the air indoors, and work even when it's much cooler outside.

With tensions in Middle East heating up and U.S. production of both crude and natural gas growing, here are some interesting strategies to take advantage of potential energy market moves.

Sales of electricity, natural or artificial gas and home heating fuels for residential use are taxed at a 4 % rate.

If you expect a heat wave — or a cold snap — you can anticipate some movement in the price of natural gas in the short - term.

Factors impacting natural gas value include seasonal variations (since natural gas is used to generate electricity and heat / cool homes), severe weather disruptions (such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, a key natural gas - producing region in the world), and alternative energy developments.

If the heat wave does in fact break and injections begin to increase more in line with the historical weekly builds the large overhang of natural gas in inventory that has been limiting any significant rally in natural gas prices this summer could possibly then turn into a deeper bout of selling.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

Natural gas is used as the primary heating fuel in about half of U.S. households, and prices can rise rapidly when extreme weather comes.

They are considered an engineering tour de force because their only source of energy is natural gas — conveyed by a single steel umbilical cord — which is then generated into heat and power.

The standard version of the entirely automatic waffle oven comes with 48, 60, 72, 80, 88 or 90 waffle irons and natural gas or propane heating.

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

The two companies worked together to design a tankless natural gas - powered water heating system for use in the high - demand environment of a fast service restaurant.

We have cut our use of electricity and of natural gas, propane, and heating oil by:

As natural gas gets diverted for home and other heating this winter, the head of New England's electricity grid is warning about possible future risks to the region's power.

HEAP Emergency Benefits for households whose main source of heat is natural gas or electricity can be applied for beginning January 2, 2015.

About 89 percent of the households in Erie County heat with natural gas, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

«Algonquin will continue with its construction, in accordance with the FERC Certificate, to meet the project's critical construction timeframes and safely transport additional supplies of clean, reliable, domestic natural gas to heat the region's homes and businesses,» she said in a prepared statement.

The department has been sitting on a number of key decisions as well, including approvals of natural gas pipelines, an underground gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes and crude oil heating facility for the Port of Albany.

Regardless, solar is the only answer and wont solve everything which is why is vital for NY to have an abundant supply of Natural Gas so that we can heat our homes and drive NYs economy.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

A new heat - recovery system may further reduce natural - gas consumption to just a third of what it was two years ago.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

By heating and jostling the permafrost, the researchers have now managed to extract significant amounts of methane — the primary component of natural gas — from the field.

In California alone, 19 percent of all the electricity and 30 percent of the natural gas is used to move, treat, and heat water.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

When hooked up to the average 500 - megawatt natural - gas or coal power plant, the vortex engine could produce an extra 200 megawatts of energy just by putting the excess heat to use.

At the heart of the project is the conversion of Decin's Bynov heating plant from burning brown coal to natural gas.

«New type of nanowires, built with natural gas heating.»

«New type of nanowires, built with natural gas heating: Research team developed a new simple nanowire manufacturing technique.»

Compared to cleaner heating sources such as natural gas, these dirty fuels produce high levels of particulate matter, exposure to which is linked to asthma, obesity, developmental delays, and other health problems.

«Methane leakage from natural gas production costs U.S. industry $ 5 billion to $ 10 billion a year,» NASA noted, not quantifying the additional costs of artificially heating up the Earth's atmosphere.

They agreed to endorse the World Bank's Zero Routine Flaring initiative to reduce wasteful burning of natural gas at production fields, and to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are industrial gases with a high potential to trap the earth's heat.

Significant leaks of heat - trapping methane from natural gas production sites would erase any climate advantage the fuel offers.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

The BLM estimates that some 8.9 trillion cubic feet (252 billion cubic meters) of natural gas lies under the Roan's rocks, or approximately enough to heat four million homes for 20 years.

The process converts roughly 50 percent of the natural gas to acetylene — the other half is burned for the heat that drives the process, which still releases CO2 into the atmosphere — and nearly all of that acetylene to ethylene, and then ethylene to fuel.

Here is how it works: The natural gas is cracked with heat — produced by burning some of the natural gas to generate temperatures from 2,700 to 3,300 degrees Fahrenheit (1,480 to 1,815 degrees Celsius)-- into acetylene, a simple hydrocarbon.

The researchers found replacing old oil - burning furnaces for residential heating with new natural - gas - burning models yielded emissions savings of up to 48 percent.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

Temperatures last year broke a 2015 record by almost 0.2 C (0.36 F), Copernicus said, boosted by a build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and by a natural El Nino weather event in the Pacific Ocean, which releases heat to the atmosphere.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

BURNING UP The heat radiated by burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, shown, is overshadowed within months by the greenhouse gas effect of the released carbon dioxide, new research shows.

They found that most of the methane in the atmosphere around Boston comes from natural gas delivered to the area for heating and cooking.