Sentences with phrase «renewable fuels produced»

ClearFuels expects that the life - cycle carbon footprint of renewable fuels produced by ClearFuels - Rentech technologies can be near zero, depending on the feedstock and the alternate use of such feedstock.

Not exact matches

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

There are known microbes that can eat renewable resources and produce usable fuel, so why aren't companies commercializing that practice?

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

But that hasn't dissuaded the kingdom from shifting its long - term energy strategy away from fossil fuel imports in favor of domestically produced renewable energy.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

They must also recognize that renewables like wind and solar have zero fuel cost (and zero risk of fuel cost increases) and produce little waste.

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.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce eleRenewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce elerenewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

LS9, a biofuels company based near San Francisco that was co-founded by Church, has said it hopes to use MAGE to engineer E. coli that can produce renewable fuels.

The pioneering scientist / entrepreneur on biology's next leap: digitally designed life - forms that could produce novel drugs, renewable fuels, and plentiful food for tomorrow's world.

Partly because of that drive to keep drawing greenhouse gas - producing fuels from the ground, the U.S. lags far behind Germany in the share of electricity generated from renewable sources.

«We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 / gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.

«If all of this acreage was used to produce renewable jet fuel from lipid - cane, it could replace about 65 % of national jet fuel consumption.»

Hyundai Motor Co. is currently in the process of building a public fueling station in Chino, Calif., with «the capability» to produce hydrogen from electrolysis using renewable energy that's expected to open before the end of the year.

It can be produced from fossil fuels or renewable sources, it can be used to generate power or transportation fuel, and it can help to clean up the natural gas supply.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to producing real, carbon - free hydrogen fuel.»

The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

Hydrogen fuel itself can be developed relatively cheaply from natural gas, or produced from renewable sources of biogas or directly from water through electrolysis.

In Welsh's view, it's no coincidence that opposition to the U.S. renewable fuels policy has ramped up just as the three big cellulosic facilities — Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Dupont's Nevada, Iowa plant and the Hugoton, Kan. facility built by Spanish multinational Abengoa — are to begin producing the fuel.

Nuclear power and most renewable forms of energy do produce greenhouse gases, and this is recognised in Britain by the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation.

At issue is whether renewable energy supplies, such as wind power and solar photovoltaics, produce enough energy to fuel both their own growth and the growth of the necessary energy storage industry.

Gates has invested in several renewable fuels companies, including Pacific Ethanol and Sapphire Energy; the latter intends to produce gasoline from algae.

But a number of companies are starting up and growing, with the California - based Amyris, for example, which produces renewable specialty chemicals and fuels from plant sugars, employing around 400 people.

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

An EU - funded project developed innovative nanocatalysts to create an integrated modular and highly efficient process for producing fuels from renewable energy sources.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

Joule, the developer of a direct, single - step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels (earlier post), has extended its solar CO2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline - and jet fuel - range hydrocarbons.

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.

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent has established a strategic consortium with Tesoro, Toray, Johnson Matthey and The Coca - Cola Company focused on completing the development and scale up of Virent's BioForming technology to produce low carbon bio-based fuels and bio-paraxylene (a key raw material for the production of 100 % bio-polyester)....

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.

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Members of the biofuels industry are ready to meet the challenge of producing replacements for petrochemical fuels that will be cost - competitive and renewable, and will meet the increasingly stringent demands of the green revolution...

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

Artificial photosynthesis offers the promise of producing liquid fuels that are renewable and can be used without exacerbating global climate change.

«There is a pressing need for a game - changing approach to produce alternative, drop - in, liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.

The goal is to produce molecules such as hydrogen, methane and methanol, currently produced from fossil fuels, in a renewable way.

A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based natural gas, Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced in Canada from biogas facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.

The University of Wales in Newport has been involved in renewable transport for four years, producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil to fuel its campus maintenance vehicles.

Hydrogen (H2) is a renewable, domestically - produced, alternative fuel that can be used to create electricity.

Biodiesel is a clean burning, renewable alternative fuel that can be produced from a wide range of vegetable oils and animal fats.

Because it is produced from crops, it is a renewable fuel and reduces dependence on imported oil

«Most of the vehicles in Brazil are powered by ethanol, so I understand how a domestically produced renewable fuel can help the energy solutions of a nation,» said Fittipaldi, who previously drove the Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car at the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

It delivers similar performance as regular gasoline and is a renewable, domestically produced fuel made from the starch and sugar in agricultural products — primarily corn.

of torque (1,037 Nm) at 1,600 rpm — lower emissions and B20 biodiesel capability that promotes a domestically produced renewable fuel.

Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.

Cellulosic ethanol from grasses, sugarcane and algae probably offer the best opportunities going forward to produce clean, renewable fuel without impacting food supply.