Sentences with phrase «so liquid fuels»

The bulky heavy tank and reduced range are not attractive, so liquid fuels with the same infrastructure range and convenience make more sense.

Not exact matches

While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.

«And these liquid hydrocarbons made by the alga are currently found in petroleum deposits, so we are already using them as a source to generate fuel.

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.

These rockets — powered by ionized xenon gas — produce very low thrust compared with their solid - or liquid - fueled cousins, but use so little propellant that they last much longer.

The oil companies do have control of the liquid fuels market, however — so at the end of the day, what the biofuel folks are looking to do is to take market share away from probably the most powerful industry in America, and arguably in the world.

Fuel gauges used on Earth work in the presence of Earth's gravity (the liquid fuel must sit at the bottom of a container), so on spacecraft (which operate in microgravity), engineers had to come up with another sysFuel gauges used on Earth work in the presence of Earth's gravity (the liquid fuel must sit at the bottom of a container), so on spacecraft (which operate in microgravity), engineers had to come up with another sysfuel must sit at the bottom of a container), so on spacecraft (which operate in microgravity), engineers had to come up with another system.

«What it does is it takes different sorts of fuel materials such as plutonium or used nuclear fuel, it casts that into a metallic fuel, it puts it in a reactor that has liquid sodium as a coolant — and if you have liquid sodium as a coolant then the energies of the neutrons are higher so you can use a different fuel source.

Diesel injectors require high pressure fuel in order to achieve proper atomisation; liquids don't burn, so the fuel needs to enter the cylinder in very fine droplets in order for a clean burn to...

Diesel injectors require high pressure fuel in order to achieve proper atomisation; liquids don't burn, so the fuel needs to enter the cylinder in very fine droplets in order for a clean burn to occur.

Gas enters the fuel injectors in a liquid form, and is converted into a mist, which is then sprayed into the cylinder so that it can burn quickly and efficiently.

So, apparently, if I understand this correctly, the idea is really about a way that actually requires an independent source of energy (and a big one) in order to make liquid fuels and other hydrocarbon - based products in a relatively «carbon - neutral» way.

They don't give the details of their system, so it is hard to analyze, but my guess is that one could drive 8 times farther on the electricity they use compared to the liquid fuel they produce.

«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»

Nor does it apparently intend to directly, materially * reduce * the CO2 in the atmosphere (i.e. the reason for «creating» liquid hydrocarbon fuels would primarily be for transportation, so burning them would re-release the CO2, uncaptured, back into the atmosphere).

Question asked: «What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?»

What ideas are out there for shaping transportation choices as China, India, Mexico, and other countries race toward prosperity so they avoid the traps of sprawl, of ever - growing demand for liquid fuels, of the insulation from community that comes when you're camped alone on a congested freeway?

So, if you could create liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some other type of fuel for cars.

So it was encouraging to get news from the annual National Biodiesel Conference that progress continues on turning waste products into liquid fuel.

• Strong R&D focus on inexpensive ways to convert energy and ambient CO2 to fuel, so that when the cost becomes feasible it can be rolled out to use extra solar capacity to generate the gas or liquid fuel needed by the backup turbines.

Gas or liquid fuel from coal could eventually be cleaner to produce but it is not so yet.

Trucks take 40 % of our liquid road fuel, so if we can run them 90 % on natural gas we are ahead of the game.

In fact those synthetic organisms can pull carbon out of the atmosphere and store it liquid forms that could, if we so desire, be put into the fuel tanks of extant internal and external combustion engines like trains, planes, automobiles, and electrical generation plants.

If it were a plug - in version operating on upgraded lithium batteries so that 20 - 30 mile trips could be undertaken on its overnight charge before it began utilizing liquid fuel at all, it could be obtaining in the range of 1000 mpg (of petroleum).

«But these liquid fuels emit even more carbon dioxide than oil, so the end of oil can mean an increase in coal and even more carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, and even more rapid onset of dangerous climate change.»

Peter, the amount of carbon one requires to replace liquid hydrocarbon fuels is huge, the levels of DIC are low and so one would require staggering amounts of sea water and would discharge staggering amounts of carbon denuded sea water.

So, you know, I believe that there's a role... a plug - in hybrid, if we can get low - carbon liquid fuel, there completely complementary with a plug - in hybrids.

So, just how do we get to energy security - to the point where, by 2030, 92 percent of America's liquid fuel needs is supplied by a combination of U.S. and Canadian sources?

To get liquid fuel from gas, CO2 needs to be broken up so as to extract the carbon atoms in order to make new hydrocarbons (the building blocks of fuel).

So I was wondering if this can be avoided with the Th - type power plant, or perhaps more generally, the concept of fuel used in a liquid state as suggested in the link from the Brave New Climate site (I think it's under Blogroll — just look for Thorium)-- which allows easier processing of fuel and removal of some isotopes.

No doubt the same thing is happening along much of the west coast of Canada, which is why China's sanctioning of coal to liquid technology to produce transportation fuel is directly significant to North Americans, and why it is so important to help China become more reliant on efficient processes and products.

So if 100 billion tons of coal in Montana were converted to liquid fuel it would produce 230 billion barrels of oil (Saudi Arabia size resource).

Some argue that we need liquid fuels, and we have large amounts of coal and natural gas, so it does not matter if we use an inefficient way of converting these fuels to a liquid form.

I agree with you (and another poster IIRC on an earlier thread) that the energy cost of end use systems has to be accounted for in some manner, especially when comparing energy alternatives (i.e. liquid fuel or solid fuel, electricity and so on).

Undoubtedly these are early days, and many challenges remain in creating truly sustainable biofuels, and certainly in creating truly sustainable aviation — but unlike land and sea transportation, airlines have very few if any alternatives to liquid fuels, so initiatives like this are an encouraging sign that aviation may be able to weather the inevitable transition to a post fossil - fuel economy.