Sentences with phrase «scale fuel production»

For large - scale fuel production we foresee that a solar hydrogen plant will be much bigger, like a 100 MW solar tower.

The discussions in Paris — and elsewhere — breezily circumvented the potential climate impact of large - scale fuel production this way by noting that the carbon dioxide could be captured, compressed, and buried.

These can help drive production costs down until other energy costs rise to make large - scale fuel production worthwhile.

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Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

A Solution In Motion No matter how fast and guilt - free this Audi feels, revolutions aren't guaranteed and they don't happen overnight: A lot of the technology that is required to scale up the production of green fuel is still in development, and green fuels in general need statutory mandates to attain popular use.

Furthermore, we would need a large - scale production process,» such as 100,000 liter tanks to allow mass production of microbial fuel.

However, these next - wave fuels have not yet reached commercial - scale production, although a number of projects are under development.

Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined on site.

For large - scale, sustainable nuclear energy production to continue, the supply of nuclear fuel must last a long time.

Commercial realization of this potential will require advances in strategies to reduce non-renewable inputs, such as inorganic fertilizers and fossil fuels, and monetary costs of large - scale production of marine microalgae, she says.

Small - scale gold production and residential heating from other fossil fuels are other major sources.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

BNFL, which runs a pilot MOX fabrication plant and plans to begin full - scale production in 1997, has already flown MOX fuel to Switzerland.

Competition between food and fuel crops means that large scale bioethanol production is therefore controversial.

California is in a record breaking four - year drought, so using water to generate fuel seems counter intuitive; however, a little water splitting goes a long way in terms of energy production, said Chengxiang Xiang, co-leader of JCAP's prototyping and scale - up project.

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)....

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

In a paper recently published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, a team led by chemical and biological engineering Professors Christos Maravelias and George Huber outlined a tool to help engineers better gauge the overall yield, efficiency and costs associated with scaling solar - fuel production processes up into large - scale refineries.

Unless the current oil mega-corporations decide to leverage their monumental assets on wide - scale clean production of hydrogen, it's destined to remain a regional alternative fuel experiment.

Mercedes GLC F - Cell has been confirmed as the company's first large scale production fuel cell model.

Honda has long been a leader in hydrogen fuel cell models, but real large scale production of these zero emission vehicles has been delayed due to the high cost of manufacturing...

If fuel cells prove to be the way of the future, Hyundai will be ready for green production on a global scale.

It shows that a fully rebated fee of $ 49 / ton CO2e on the production of fossil fuels would provide the lowest 10 % on the income scale a 9 % net raise on per - person after tax income.

The food versus fuel debate has put large - scale biofuel production in a squeeze in recent years, but competition with food crops is just one drawback for which biofuel crop production is criticised.

In their paper, the researchers note that use of lignocellulosic biomass as a feedsstock could enable large - scale production of these fuels with concomitant significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the potential for eventual cost parity with petroleum - derived fuels.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

If this forecast is correct, it will take a long time or big technological innovations on the production side to induce large - scale fossil - fuel production from high - cost areas such as the Arctic Ocean, regardless of sea - ice conditions.

Also, given the rate of production and absorption, do you have a link to support the assertion that CO2 will ever get to 2000 ppm before we run out of fossil fuels or are forced to scale down?

Biomass - to - liquids company ClearFuels Technology Inc. and Hughes Hardwood International, Inc. have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the development of a commercial scale biorefinery facility for the production of renewable jet or diesel fuel.

Seeker, it's quite possible to produce biodiesel on the scale needed to replace fossil fuel use, only in most countries (even the USA, but not Australia) that would displace food production too much (see Nassau Senior's introductory remarks on machinery not affecting food availability in his classic work on «Wages»).

The fuel savings make it a winner for fleet sales, which is what it will take to scale production and bring costs down.

Having demonstrated the technical feasibility of solar thermochemical jet fuel production under operating conditions similar to industrial scale, the next step will be to get help in much more massive scaling up.

Industrial - scale jet fuel production from solar thermochemical splitting would be disruptive for the fossil fuel industry.

That may be changing, well, actually, since global warming is being down played and the economy sucks, it will take longer, but cheap solar panels (nanosolar) and relatively cheap hydrogen fuel cells (Ballard power package handling units in production) with small to medium scale electrolyzers are pretty close even with not so great hydrogen storage options.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

The present most rapid pathway for carbon emissions reductions involves an urgent build - out of renewable and non-carbon based energy systems to replace all fossil fuels with a focus on wind, solar, and electrical vehicle economies of scale and production chains.

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

It could be relevant in some fossil fuel production sectors that might remain as well, but only on limited scale.

In 2007, Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning introduced legislation that would set the stage for large - scale production of transportation fuels from coal.

Solar Chemistry Research Task II provides a platform for international cooperation to advance solar - driven thermochemical processes for the production of fuels and materials [1][2], and to demonstrate — at an industrial scale — their technical and economic feasibility.

Most advanced routes for solar production of hydrogen, syngas, and liquid fuels have been demonstrated at pilot scale.

Because of the variable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable nature of wind production, backup fossil - fuelled generation has to be run simultaneously to stabilize the grid on an increasing scale as more wind production is added.

Over just the last decade, biofuels have grown by the equivalent of half a million barrels of oil a day; with new large - scale biofuels production facilities coming online every year, biofuels made from sustainable non-food based fuels resources could save an additional million barrels of oil a day by 2035.

Alcohol fuel production is ecologically sustainable, revitalizes farms and communities, and creates huge new opportunities for small - scale businesses.

Yet, whatever the breakthroughs, the actual impact on fuel use for the next 20 years will be incremental due to the time it takes to get large - scale mass production up and running and the massive scale of the global auto industry.

The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

For the first time, Renewables 2017 looks at an accelerated case forecast for biofuels that assumes additional investment in new production capacity in Brazil; scaling up fuel distribution infrastructure in the United States; and roll - out of a blending programme in India.

In the early twenty - first century, with its very high rates of fossil fuel production, the scale of depletion, particularly of oil and gas resources, creates a particular predicament here.