Sentences with phrase «substitute for liquid fuels»

Obviously wind power was not an immediate substitute for liquid fuels to drive motor vehicles, but as petroleum shortages began to manifest themselves, many utility and industrial users who were using coal or natural gas, began to seriously consider wind power as a substitute.

But we have plenty of ways to use non-liquid energy sources as substitutes for liquid fuels and our ability to do that substitution will improve as assorted technologies advance.

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.

Substituting biofuels for marginal fossil - based liquid fuels results in the avoidance of significant GHG emissions that are not currently accounted for in the European Renewable Energy Directive (2009 / 28 / EC), according to a new analysis by the consultancy Ecofys.

Electricity will substitute for fossil fuels for heat and produce transport fuels (e.g. liquid fuels from sea water).

Ethanol is just one of those liquid fuels that appears like a carbon - neutral substitute for crude oil, but it doesn't really fit the bill.