Sentences with phrase «on biomass energy»
Most of our people, they depend on forest resources for their livelihood and in most cases they depend on biomass energy for cooking.
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This would reduce the traditional reliance on biomass energy, which is responsible for depleting forest cover and contributing to carbon emissions.
We also helped achieve key changes in laws and regulations on biomass energy to ensure forests are managed sustainably in their roles in providing renewable energy and sequestering carbon.
Not exact matches
The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.
Curt Whittaker, Managing Partner, has spent over 30 years in the renewable energy industry as legal counsel to developers, investors and lenders, working on landfill gas, wind, hydroelectric, solar and biomass development projects.
His Green New Deal calls for 100 % clean energy by 2030 (no natural gas, nukes, biomass) combined with a full employment job guarantee program based on a sustainable economy.
In an encouraging sign, the House recently voted to provide extra money to pay for its pork - barrel add - ons; the Energy Department's biomass request was fully funded.
It will also depend on the success of competing emission - free technologies — solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cell energy, among others — that promise less environmental impact.
That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.
Bourtourault, 31, is currently working on biomass and renewable energy for a leading French renewable - energy company.
Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United SEnergy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United Senergy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.
«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»
Cooperation with AVA Biochem is part of comprehensive KIT activities for manufacture of chemical energy carriers as well as intermediates from biomass with emphasis on so - called hydrothermal methods i.e. reactions in water at increased temperatures.
The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen progEnergy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen progenergy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.
«Forests in the United States are robust and sustainably managed, and climate science has consistently and clearly documented the carbon benefits of utilizing forest biomass for energy production,» Senator Susan Collins (R — ME), said on the Senate floor on 3 February, a day after lawmakers approved her amendment adding the wood - burning provision to the energy bill.
Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.
In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Under the supervision of Ling Liang, a process engineer, she worked on figuring out how effective lignin - derived ionic liquids, solvents used in a variety of renewable energy applications, would be for biomass pretreatment.
Ms. Estes is on the Board of Directors at Microvi Biotechnologies, a member of the Iteris Performance Analytics Advisory Council and an appointed member of the Biomass R&D Technical Advisory Committee at the US Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Materials chemistry, environmental chemistry; pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, research in environmental technologies, research on the more efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.
On the horizon, researchers are looking at amending soil with highly persistent «biochar» that is produced when biomass is burned under low - oxygen conditions to release energy.
Primus Green Energy Inc., developer of a proprietary process to produce gasoline and other fuels from biomass and / or natural gas (earlier post), will provide financial support to engineers at Princeton University for general research on synthetic fuels, which will include... Read more →
It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.
He has been a member of various federal research panels, served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for DOE on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels.
``... since we knew that the impact of the study could be high when successful, we decided to invest our time and effort on this new research project at the interface of biomass conversion and solar energy conversion.»
Impacts of Canopy Position and Nitrogen on Nitrogen Allocation and Photosynthesis of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Dan Wang, Mathew Maughan, Jindong Sun, Xiaohui Feng, Fernando Miguez, D.K. Lee, Michael Dietze, Aspects of Applied Biology 112, Biomass and Energy Crops IV Conference, pp. 341 - 351, September 2011.
We already have two biomass boilers and engine rooms on campus, the addition of this new Centre provides the facility for the development of professionally recognised training for this sustainable energy provision.»
Energy efficiency features include a biomass boiler for heating, PV arrays on the roofs of the teaching blocks and sports building, and sustainable drainage.
BRP focuses on hydroelectric power but also has experience with wind, solar, and biomass energy generation, and this diversity makes it one of the best dividend stocks for 2018.
Wiewed from the perspective of thermodynamics, energy - in / work accomplished / biomass supported / waste heat - out, it is a realistic constraint on the world.
In the latest development of large - scale biomass energy production, the Netherlands is now home to the world's largest biomass power plant running only on — yep, you got it — chicken manure.
Many indigenous territories have tremendous wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources, and there are varying opinions as to whether energy - related climate change mitigation activities are having a positive or negative impact on local and indigenous communities.
Agricultural and forest - based industries, in both developed and emerging economies, generate substantial quantities of biomass residue and waste that can be used for energy production, to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and support sustainable growth.
Despite the availability of clean and sustainable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and biomass, many states depend on outdated and dirty energy sources.
Modern biomass - to - energy technology means that locally - sourced biomass can be a clean, reliable and renewable energy source for the future, replacing fossil fuels in local industries and reducing their reliance on electricity grids.
This analytical report draws attention to the global energy access situation and highlights that three billion people still rely on traditional biomass and coal; with a striking two million deaths per year associated with indoor burning of solid fuels in unventilated kitchens.
There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»
The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.
Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»
Biomass energy also provides another way to sustain the economic viability of maintaining working forests on the landscape.
Critics of biomass energy generation have generally either misunderstood the science or relied on distortion to demonize it and downplay its benefits.
A team from the Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences reports on a pilot - scale biomass - gasification - reforming system with optimized catalyst to produce synthesis gas for liquid... Read more →
Forest thinning to improve forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests can provide woody biomass for additional renewable energy feedstocks.
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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, cellulosic biomass has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 86 percent compared to petroleum - based fuels, if it can be produced on a large - scale basis.
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Using biomass for energy may cut back on waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
Geography may determine which type of biofuel technology is most readily adopted in a specific region, depending on what type of feedstock and biomass is locally available, thereby maximizing local resources and minimizing the energy and cost required to transport these resources.
«We have a range of large scale renewable energy projects planned to come on stream at a range of sites over the next couple of years including biomass, PV, solar thermal & wind generation.
An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.