Sentences with phrase «of synfuels»

Congress withdrew funding from the United States Synfuels Corporation, and most forms of synfuels production never grew to global significance.

But in the early days of synfuels, as Exxon defended them as a costly but plausible solution to oil scarcity, it sidestepped the carbon problem.

The 50 — 50 blend of synfuel and JP - 8 fulfilled all 40 of the Air Force's fuel performance criteria, including coming through in extremely high and low temperatures.

Not exact matches

The natural gas - derived synfuel performed perfectly in both planes during ground tests, flights and even during cold starts in the dead of winter in Minot, N. Dak..

Still, the combination of factors involved: energy security, diversity of supply and the environment may sustain commercial aviation's interest, though its overall goals are smaller — certifying synfuel blends next year, full synfuels by 2010 and biofuels in 2013.

Although such synfuels may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, depending on how they are produced, they will deliver some independence from the tyranny of petroleum.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

«Can we go all - out on efficiency and renewables * fast enough * to keep world (US) real GDP at least flat... and not end up, out of desperation, burning a lot more coal to keep the lights on and do CTL synfuels... with bad results.

And actually, that can be done with bio-fuels or synfuels made renewably, so it's not much of an exception.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

As early as November, 1979, Shaw had told Harold Weinberg in a memo on atmospheric research that environmental groups «have already attempted to curb the budding synfuels industry because it could accelerate the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere.»

Nor, it appears, did Exxon elaborate on the link between synfuels and global warming in annual reports to shareholders filed with regulatory agencies in those early days, when synfuels remained at the heart of the company's long term ambitions.

Some of the viable «synfuel» processes use a variety of feed stocks including general garbage to make the process cost effective.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

The company was banking on synfuels to meet growing demand for energy in the future, in a world it believed was running out of conventional oil.