Sentences with phrase «of producing liquid fuels»

Hey, I'm sure some bright person will eventually come up with a clever way of producing liquid fuels out of gravel or seawater or chicken gizzards or something.

Artificial photosynthesis offers the promise of producing liquid fuels that are renewable and can be used without exacerbating global climate change.

Not exact matches

Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid hydrogen fuel — a mix of deuterium and tritium — would produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

«Power - to - liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide: Pilot plant produces first synthetic fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide / KIT spin - off ineratec supplied key component.»

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.

The study provides a vital clue to that coupling: placing the catalyst in a proton - packed liquid with plenty of water produces hydrogen fuel quickly and efficiently.

In an artificial photosynthetic system, the oxidation of water molecules into oxygen, electrons and protons (hydrogen ions) provides the electrons needed to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water.

Powering the Hero HX250R is a 249cc, single - cylinder, 4 - valve, liquid - cooled and fuel - injected engine that produces a peak power of 31 BHP at 9000 RPM with 26 Nm of peak torque, mated to a 6 - speed manual transmission.

Study finds that biofuel crops grown on marginal lands could produce up to half of world's current liquid fuel consumption without impacting crops

Although liquid LPG injection generally produces more power, Holden justified vapour injection on the grounds of lower fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions, reduced pumping and parasitic losses, and start - up reliability in hot weather.

The bike draws power from a 749cc 4 - cylinder liquid - cooled and fuel - injected motor, that produces 112 HP of power and 81 Nm of torque.

They don't give the details of their system, so it is hard to analyze, but my guess is that one could drive 8 times farther on the electricity they use compared to the liquid fuel they produce.

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.

In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted for 62 % of new domestically - produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted for 38 %.

Therefore 90 % of the liquid fuels used to produce the ethanol is from fossil fuels.

Brazil actually only produces about 10 % of it liquid fuels from sugar cane: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/rapier/2006/0623.html

As defined in Title 26 of the US Code (The Internal Revenue Code of 1986), refined coal means a fuel which is a liquid, gaseous or solid fuel produced from coal (including lignite) or high carbon fly ash, including such fuel used as a feedstock; and is sold with the reasonable expectation that it will be used to produce steam, resulting in a qualified emission reduction.

Biomass gasification could be used either to produce electricity (e.g., use biomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels program.

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.

it seems a waste of a resource to bury it in the Antarctic when it could be combined with hydrogen to produce an endless supply of cheap liquid fuels.

Carbon capture from air seems simple and industrially scalable — see for instance http://www.carbonengineering.com/ — but it seems a waste of a resource to bury it in the Antarctic when it could be combined with hydrogen to produce an endless supply of cheap liquid fuels.

In thermochemical conversion, liquid fuels are produced through a process that involves heating wood and bark in the absence or minimum presence of oxygen.

According to EIA, the quantity of oil and other liquid energy sources produced by the three countries could outpace their liquid fuels consumption as soon as 2020.

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.

The term output means some or all of the liquid or gaseous transportation fuels produced from the project, as specified in the loan agreement.

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).

Now, scientists at Harvard have developed the «bionic leaf 2.0,» which increases the efficiency of the system well beyond nature's own capabilities, and used it to produce liquid fuels for the first time.

These can be harvested and used in fuel cells to generate electricity, but now, with the help of an engineered bacteria, the hydrogen can be used to produce liquid fuels.

Biochar can be produced by pyrolysis at around 500 degrees C, either slowly (over days, the traditional approach e.g. in kilns), which results in about equal amounts of biochar (about 35 % of the original biomass), liquid and gaseous fuels; or rapidly (e.g. flash pyrolysis, in seconds), which gives less biochar (about 15 % converted) less gaseous products, but more liquid «bio-oil» products (about 75 %).

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

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.

The Texas panhandle for instance is ideal and just a tenth of it can produce all the liquid fuel the United States currently consumes at yield / acre currently achieved in pilot plants.

Now, scientists have developed the «bionic leaf 2.0,» which increases the efficiency of the system well beyond nature's own capabilities, and used it to produce liquid fuels for the first time.

By managing technology in this way, all of our liquid fuel can be produced from domestic resources.

Transportation, which accounts for about 40 percent of the world's energy use, relies overwhelmingly on liquid fuels produced from oil.

This is how we can produce massive quantities of domestic biofuel and solve our liquid fuel demand: We could remove the starch from ALL of our feed corn (instead of just part of it) to make more ethanol.

The use of nuclear energy to produce liquid fuels is very economic at this point of time, and whilst the production of hydrogen from nuclear electricity is expensive the cost can be reduced by using high temperature steam from nuclear reactors for high temperature electrolysis.

Martinez points as another issue the fact that as a way to mantain their power, liquid fuels producing companies - also distributors - will try to control the coming scenarios, favoring fuels produced at big scale instead of those that can be generated and consumed locally.

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.

So if 100 billion tons of coal in Montana were converted to liquid fuel it would produce 230 billion barrels of oil (Saudi Arabia size resource).

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.

At best CTL produces 2.3 barrels of liquid fuel per ton of coal (there is about 4 boe in a ton of typical bituminous coal).

The bionic leaf is able to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and then with the help of hydrogen - loving bacteria, produce liquid fuels and potentially many other products.