Sentences with phrase «renewable biomass»

We make fuel cell systems that generate electricity from renewable biomass for people without access to an electric grid.

An important component of this project involves sourcing the appropriate renewable biomass to ensure that carbon pools are not being decreased throughout the lifetime of this project.

Purpose: To convene a small group of experts (~ 8 people) to support the direction, development and provide input on key issues related to sustainability analysis of electricity generation using renewable biomass for the four coal power plants in Ontario (Atikokan, Thunder Bay, Lambton and Nanticoke).

Tesoro expects that converting renewable biomass into biocrude will enable existing refining assets to produce fuels with lower... Read more →

Additionally, the use of CCS with renewable biomass is one of the few abatement technologies that can be used in a «carbon - negative» mode --- effectively taking carbon out of the atmosphere.

Tesoro expects that converting renewable biomass into biocrude will enable existing refining assets to produce fuels with lower... Read more →

Environmental Defense has also joined the effort, and has provided a carbon calculator to help determine how many tons of CO2 your lifestyle creates each year — the average American household checks in at about 10 tons, according the Environmental Defense — and from there, it's up to you as to which project you want to fund: a solar - irrigation project in Benin; forest restoration in Nicaragua; or helping the Brazilian ceramics industry switch to renewable biomass fuel.

These newly eligible commodities join corn, sorghum, rice, soybeans, oats, peanuts, wheat, barley, pulse crops, hay, honey, fruit, vegetables, nuts and renewable biomass already in the program.

This edition focuses on PNNL's biological and chemical sciences and engineering capabilities and how they are being applied to produce products and fuels from renewable biomass rather than petroleum.

Why It Matters: To upgrade renewable biomass sources into liquid fuels requires removing oxygen atoms, often from intermediately formed alcohols.

When coal, oil or diesel - fired energy generation is replaced by renewable biomass, fossil fuel carbon emissions are reduced significantly, and a range of co-benefits may also be seen.

The purpose of the project activity is to generate electricity using renewable biomass i.e. residual rice husk.

The project will source locally obtained renewable biomass consisting partly of landscape waste and other reclaimed materials.

With prominent leaders such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and George Washington Carver, other companies were developing synthetic products from renewable biomass resources, especially hemp.

For example, Buchanan Renewables biomass project in Liberia resulted in serious human rights, labor and environmental abuses, including sexual abuse by company employees of local women.

Since the Local Stakeholder Consultation meeting, ECOTRUST has been included under the Improved Cook Stoves for East Africa (ICSEA) Programme of Activities (PoA) which recently added a new methodology to allow ECOTRUST members to earn more carbon credits for shifting from a dependence on non-renewable biomass fuel to the use of renewable biomass as their primary source of fuel.

Renewable biomass energy produced from wood, the dominant biomass resource in Washington, is made from slash leftover from sustainable timber harvesting operations.

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

The goal, Collins said in a press release, is to «help ensure that federal policies for the use of renewable biomass are clear, simple, and reflect the importance of biomass for our energy future.»

Bio-based plastics: these are bioplastics derived from renewable biomass (for example sugar cane) and, in general, are compatible with conventional plastic during mechanical recycling.

You overlook the most absurd part of the bill in that in other parts of the bill it refers to trees as renewable biomass and you can get renewable energy credits for cutting them down and burning them.

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.