Sentences with phrase «power drilling technology»

His team developed light, low - power drilling technology that will work in temperatures colder than liquid nitrogen.

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As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

Gerald Nix, recently retired geothermal technologies manager at the NREL, believes that improving exploration and drilling technologies could make geothermal power cheaper than coal, however.

But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including developing the technology behind fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.

100 + GW of steady state power available that could utilize existing oil and gas drilling technology.

Communities must decide whether the carbon - reducing benefit of using natural gas in power generation outweighs the fear of new drilling technologies.

Drawing on the latest technologies, including those used by oil and gas companies in drilling and in enhanced oil recovery, the team estimated that enhanced geothermal systems could be used to develop 100,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity in the United States by 2050, a capacity equal to 250 coal - fired power plants.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue said the association is kicking off a $ 15 million - a-year plan to persuade lawmakers to support more drilling, nuclear power and clean energy technologies.

Denver Business Journal: The boom in oil and natural gas production in North America, largely due to the new technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is changing the balance of power across the world, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told attendees at the Vail Global Energy Forum.

However, those solutions are in fact real and have been proven to provide the energy needed to power our economy, and, they, or at least fossil fuel technology, was developed largely without government assistance — there was no tax code available to to abuse when Rockefeller drilled his first well and built his first refinery, and the government of the mid to late 1800s was not writing checks to private industry for anything with the possible exception of defense related expenditures.

On the other hand, Barack Obama — while not ruling out the use of greater nuclear power, clean coal, or even offshore oil drilling with qualifications — has expressed much greater confidence in the ability of renewable energy technology to supply a greater percentage of our energy needs in a shorter time period.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

Not only are students across the country frequently using technology for basic skills (for example, middle school students are mostly using computers for drills and practice exercises, not data analysis or other activities that really take advantage of computing power and sophisticated software), schools aren't looking at the returns on their technology - related investments.

It was during this decade when advances in seismic, downhole sensors and drilling technology, alongside more powerful and more available computing power, started to make their mark.

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