Sentences with phrase «oil burning power»

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These bio-fuels — which are clean burning with a high oil content, according to Kay — are then sold to businesses in the U.K. and used to power both buildings and transport.

The Saudis have a legitimate reason to want nuclear power: Their domestic energy demand is growing rapidly, and burning crude oil is an expensive and inefficient way to generate electricity.

· The oil - conservation adjustment (OCA), sometimes called the power - conservation adjustment, reflects the utility's need to burn coal, a more expensive fuel, during certain months.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

The electric company, PREPA, relied on selling bonds to pay for the imported oil it burned at its power plants.

The will to overlook accelerated climate change caused by the extraction of tar sands oil, the destruction of the carbon sink that is / was the boreal forest, and the continued burning of fossil fuels to power trips to the corner store for a creamy, etc..

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

Fracking and natural gas are better choices for power generation then burning coal and oil and until we have cleaner sources of energy will do.

Assemblyman James Skoufis said he'll introduce legislation to block Competitive Power Ventures from burning fuel oil in its Wawayanda power plant next Power Ventures from burning fuel oil in its Wawayanda power plant next power plant next year.

New York must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent by 2030 and the emissions - free power produced by Indian Point won't easily be replaced by plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil.

The market liberalization means that Mexican power producers could more easily buy cleaner, cheaper natural gas from abroad instead of burning domestic oil.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

Environmentalists and others have called for oil companies to capture the gas, which could be used to generate power or recover even more oil, rather than burn it off or release it into the atmosphere.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired pPower Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired ppower plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

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.

When we burn oil or gas to generate power (such as electricity or to fuel cars), we add CO2 to the air.

When the oil wells produce more oil — say, because a new well has become a gusher — the power - plant burns more oil in order to maintain the proper pipeline pressure.

Imagine an oil well facility connected by pipeline to an oil - burning power - plant.

- Coconut oil is «a miracle food for weight loss», increasing your calorie - burning power by 50 %.

She can work magic, changing the scale of an oil - burning candle - powered toy boat so she and Sosuke can navigate the newly - flooded town.

Even familiar power ups, such as the flame shield, take on new abilities as Sonic flame dashes through the air and then burns the environment — wood and oil, for example, light instantly, opening new pathways of destroying potential ones, depending on how you use them.

Some were legitimate excuses to just stop the oil burning and get home and then there were the ones that have been like that for years, ``... a guy told me it would stop the oil burning and leak but then it made a loud noise and just doesn't have the power it used to...» Yes people turbos need oil, clean oil too let me add, synthetic would be nice while I'm at it.

How much to replace piston ring on Vauxhall zafira 1.6 petrol sometime loss power up hill cos to bad piston ring car burning oil?

Long term oil burning could also lead to an exhaust system restriction (assuming catalytic converters) which would reduce power.

When climbing prolonged uphills (not necessarily stiff), the engine starts burning a lot of oil and the power drops significantly.

Runs And Shifts Great, 184,000 Highway Miles, Good Tires & Brakes, All Power Options Work Fine, Gets 30MPG, PA State Inspected Until 10/2016, Doesn't Smoke Or Burn Much Oil, Smoke & Pet Free.

While we were playing with Audi's smaller V8 - powered diesel Q7 (thanks to the folks at Honeywell), it looks like the multi-ringed brand was working on taking the rocket - powered powerhouse of an SUV to a whole new oil - burning level with the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI.

Even the oil burning sound track is on point, almost invoking an ethereal quality as it lays the power down.

Standard equipment included power - assisted rack - and - pinion steering; power - assisted front - disc and rear - drum brakes; AM / FM stereo radio with four speakers; 6,000 - rpm tachometer; 85 - mph / 140 - kmh speedometer; ammeter; engine - temperature gauge; oil - pressure gauge; digital clock; graphic systems monitor module that can warn of unclosed doors, burned - out head - or taillights, low fuel level and low brake fluid; special - value package including electrically powered door locks, premium sound package, and speed control.

The central challenge is that the world's powers, both the established ones and the emerging giants, China and India, face ballooning energy appetites, a finite atmosphere, and no menu of affordable energy sources — yet — that can substitute on a large scale for burning coal and oil.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

It's partly because, ironically, the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil, gas, to give us the energy in a very short period of time, dense forms of energy that enable us to send rockets into space, that enable us to power submersibles into the sea, and instrumentation that gives us communication.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

what drivel... the timing couldnt be better (for Rs) when oil prices are sky high and here is AlGo, the quintessential hypocrite who burns more fossil fuels and consumes more power than most would in a lifetime, propgandizing to the opposite...

Electric Power Plants are burning oill to create electricity, and oil is expensive.

That process takes 124 days for a crude oil - fired power plant and 161 days for a power plant burning natural gas.

Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)

The United States generates an average of 15 billion kilowatt hours of geothermal power per year (comparable to burning 25 million barrels of oil or 6 million tons of coal).

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

To achieve that target, countries will have to all but eliminate their emissions from burning oil, coal and natural gas and instead develop cleaner alternatives, such as solar and wind power and petroleum - free transportation.

Second, the oil - burning power plants will probably continue to operate to supply Guatemala's growing energy demands.

In the fiscal year ended March 31, Japan's big utilities burned 18 % less oil — mostly opting for cheaper coal — after oil for power use hit a 16 - year high the previous year.

Climate change — and, forthat matter, the enormous present - day health risks associated with burning coal, oil, and gas — simply dwarf any legitimate risk associated with the operation of nuclear power plants.

But just because it's fossil fuel consumers like power plants and drivers who ultimately burn the coal, oil and gas that emit greenhouse gases, that doesn't let the producers off the hook, she added.

Eligible CO2 sources include power plants that burn coal, natural gas, or oil and industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, oil and gas production facilities, iron and steel mills, cement plants, fertilizer plants, ethanol distilleries and chemical plants.

Before uranium fission, all submarines were powered by oil burning diesel engines.

The carbon dioxide that is building in the atmosphere, at least in part, gets there through human emissions of carbon dioxide that are the by - product of burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) to produce the vast majority the energy that has powered mankind's industrial and technical ascent since the Industrial Revolution.