Sentences with phrase «source wood fuel»

Europe's forests are often highly regulated, so European power companies have had to look abroad to source wood fuel, turning to the largely unregulated forests of the American South for fresh supplies.

Not exact matches

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

Coke does not mention fuel, yet wood was the principle energy source, equivalent to petroleum today.

Five of the six families involved in the pilot project received a multi-fuel burning stove, with waste wood fuel as the primary heat source.

More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.

By the mid-1800s, coal gas and solid coke had replaced candles, animal oils, and wood as the most important sources of light, heat, and cooking fuel in many European and American cities.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

Until then Range Fuels will source its wood chips from whole trees — not a waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.

Europe depends heavily on wood - based fuels to meet its goal of sourcing 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

Fortunately for the case of using wood for cooking many remote villages are benefitting from solar cooking ovens to reduce reliance on wood as a fuel source.

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Carbon monoxide is produced by liquid or solid fuel sources like a gas burning appliances or a wood burning stove.

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Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

The largest sources are the burning of fossil fuels, agricultural fires, and residential heating and cooking with wood and coal.

The American Lung Association recommends continuing research on the health effects of burning wood and other biomass sources, and the technologies to reduce the emissions associated with the combustion of these fuels.

Around 95 % of Ugandan households use wood fuel as a primary energy source for cooking.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

Some sources of heat are inexpensive on running cost (solid fuel, wood or coal boilers), others work silently (electric, gas / oil boilers) and some are more environmentally friendly (biomass boilers).

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

New systems using old fuel sources, like wood, are sometimes surprisingly efficient.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Protecting and restoring forests — Ending forest destruction will involve reducing wood and paper consumption, boosting recycling, and providing alternative fuel sources to wood.

In a rising trend, countries, especially in the European Union and United Kingdom, are converting existing coal - fired power plants to burn wood — a renewable, albeit controversial, fuel source.

Since wood fuel is here to stay, at least for now, scientists from the Center of International Forestry Research (CIFOR) wanted to find out how countries in the region prioritized this energy source as part of the climate actions they intend to take under the Paris Agreement.

Florida's push for increased reliance on renewable sources of energy has encouraged the addition of 250 + Megawatts of wood - fired electrical power generation, to be fueled

The basis of the flawed logic leading to U.S. wood being burned to power Europe, conservationists say, is an accounting formula: According to E.U. policy, wood pellets are considered a carbon - neutral fuel source, based on the principle that regenerating forests will eventually recapture the carbon released when the trees were cut.

Although there more quickly renewable sources of biomass for cooking than wood, a 50 % reduction in fuel usage compared with other tradtional stoves is something to take seriously.

By allowing myself some flexibility with heating sources, I'm able to keep my wood consumption down to a level that (I hope) will allow me to fuel the stove primarily, maybe even totally, with downed wood from my surrounding woodland.

At the end of its service life, wood flooring can be burned as fuel or recycled (Source: University of Wisconsin Wood Products Program Solid Wood Flooring Life Cycle Analysis).