Sentences with phrase «powered by methane»

It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.

Not exact matches

Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.

The GWE anaerobic technology plant employed at the plant produces sufficient green energy (methane) from its closed anaerobic reactor to power a designated steam boiler and cut the brewery's overall energy consumption by about 15 per cent.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

Green energy generators powered by biogas (methane) from waste water and wet pulp, transforming a problem to a profit.

«Methane from this process will also power a third boiler which will reduce our energy consumption by about 15 per cent» said Mr Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

An environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks, the feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Green energy generators powered by biogas (methane) from waste water at Del Monte Philippines transform a problem into to a profit.

Straus and a local mechanic spent eight years developing an environmentally - friendly alternative to diesel - fueled trucks: The feed truck's motor is charged from electrical power generated from methane gas produced by the cows» own manure.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

But thanks to plasma technology, one city's rotting rubbish will soon release far less methane — and provide power for 50,000 homes — because of an innovation in plasma technology backed by Atlanta - based Geoplasma.

The proposed main rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and methane, which could theoretically be extracted from soil on the moon or Mars.

By employing devices such as biogas storage domes, biofilters or combined heat and power co-generation systems, for instance, methane can be collected, cleaned and converted into heat or electricity that can then be substituted for most fossil fuels.

And both ecosystems will likely turn out to be powered by the same source of energy: microbes oxidizing ammonium, iron, sulfur and possibly methane in order to fix carbon.

Chemists have long sought an efficient, light - driven catalyst to power this reaction, which could help reduce the growing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere by converting it into methane, a key building block for many types of fuels.

The depicted cell consortia are composed of archaea and bacteria that, by combining their individual metabolic powers, together achieve oxidation of the greenhouse gas methane in the absence of oxygen.

The DemoSNG pilot plant constructed by the KIT will be used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green power.

Methane lawsuit threat hangs over EPA's head Research by the Environmental Defense Fund has found that leakage rates must remain below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to carry a climate advantage over coal plants.

Likewise, the production and destruction of oxygen, ozone, and methane is driven by chemical reactions powered by light, making the type of star important to consider as well.

The very worst impact from an exploratory «frack» would be the discovery of vast reserves of methane, which profit - hungry petroleum companies, aided and abetted by power - hungry politicians, would fall over themselves to bring to the surface and burn.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

Their ideas ranged from the Power Nap, a mattress pad - like device that captures thermal and kinetic energy while a person is sleeping, to a dome that removes methane gas generated by cows.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissPower Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

The bill would block the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, kill new methane regulations, prohibit regulation of lead in ammunition and fishing tackle and not allow the EPA to implement the Waters of the United States rule that is currently blocked by a federal court.

The digester expected to be operational at the Burrows Hall Farm by early this summer is the first in South Carolina, although Santee Cooper is already capturing methane from landfills to generate power.

Methane is produced by the trees and plants which have been submerged by the dam waters and is released when the water passes through the turbines of hydro - electric power stations.

For the United States, the commitment includes the Clean Power Plan to cut power sector emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030; efficiency standards for heavy - duty vehicles; methane standards and limits on Power Plan to cut power sector emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030; efficiency standards for heavy - duty vehicles; methane standards and limits on power sector emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030; efficiency standards for heavy - duty vehicles; methane standards and limits on HFCs.

The 35 - megawatt landfill - gas power plant planned by Puget Sound Energy and slated to draw methane from Seattle's landfill will join more than 100 other such power plants in operation in the United States.

All of the partner governments have agreed to take action to reduce the substances, for instance by fitting scrubbing equipment to coal - fired power plants or burn landfill gas — methane — for energy.

Marcellus Shale production is helping the Commonwealth to lower carbon emissions with $ 10.5 billion worth of new power natural gas - fired power plant investments, and as this latest study shows — those benefits aren't even close to being cancelled out by methane emissions from record production.

One intriguing large - scale hydrogen economy idea is an ambitious proposal for a gas pipeline across NE Asia, to be fed with hydrogen gas (plus some methane) produced by power from wind and geothermal energy sources, and in particular the large wind energy potential that exists along the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula.

Then again, to the extent that natural gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and fugitive methane emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2 emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.

The shale gas targeted by drillers is mostly made of methane gas — the fuel purchased by power plants and used for home heating and cooking, which is also a powerful greenhouse gas.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

The company is planning to build a power plant in California that turns the methane gas produced by cow manure into water, electricity, and hydrogen.

During its 20 - year lifetime, the Dovan digester project will keep an estimated 7,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted by fossil - fueled power plants, and it will prevent fugitive methane from manure storage equivalent to an estimated 22,000 tons of CO2.

Around half of our grid - based electricity could be supplied by means of a few very large power systems burning methane, either in the form of natural gas or the effluvium from underground coal gasification [the only way to employ coal cleanly, he argues], and burying the carbon dioxide they produce.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

If I were king, all new energy requirements would be met by small local, non fossil fuel power sources: wind, tidal, geo - thermal, methane capture, solar, etc..

For example, researchers at Stanford University came up with a smart way to cut the carbon footprint of wastewater treatment by taking advantage of the nitrous oxide (aka, «laughing gas») and methane created during treatment for powering the facilities.

Then the landfill was capped and covered, which allows Ayalon Biogas to collect methane produced by the still rotting garbage, which is used to power a textile factory.

For as little as $ 12 per ton of carbon offsets, brides and grooms can make a quick, easy investment in renewable energy by choosing one of three options: helping build new wind power projects, new family farm methane energy projects, or a combination of both.