Sentences with word «synfuel»

It even addresses ocean acidification: Zero emission synfuel from seawater.

Congress withdrew funding from the United States Synfuels Corporation, and most forms of synfuels production never grew to global significance.

«Instead, it will be used for greenhouses, producing synfuels, etc..

In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels.

Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel — liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.

Although such synfuels may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, depending on how they are produced, they will deliver some independence from the tyranny of petroleum.

The company was banking on synfuels to meet growing demand for energy in the future, in a world it believed was running out of conventional oil.

The DOE should just shut down its coal synfuels program entirely — the whole idea is ludicrous, expensive and incredibly polluting.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

The natural gas - derived synfuel performed perfectly in both planes during ground tests, flights and even during cold starts in the dead of winter in Minot, N. Dak..

Study finds co-producing FT fuels and electricity from coal and biomass with CCS delivers low GHG synfuels at lower cost and with less biomass than cellulosic ethanol

Oil shales and tar sands will also be deveolped and coal will be liquified to make synfuels.

'' Study finds co-producing FT fuels and electricity from coal and biomass with CCS delivers low GHG synfuels»

Fischer - Tropsch synfuels promise to provide a potentially cleaner fuel supply as well.

Tests began in November on the performance of the purer synfuel in the jet afterburner engines that are used for supersonic flight.

In addition to flying the C - 17 across the country — a plane powered by the same Pratt and Whitney F117 - 100 engine employed on commercial Boeing 757s — the Air Force in August certified its still flying 1950s - era B - 52 bombers to burn synfuel.

Oil prices at $ 100 per barrel are already well above the $ 40 per barrel level at which synfuel producing facilities break even, and even the $ 70 per barrel level that might make carbon capture economically feasible.

Moreover, the low - GHG - emitting synfuels produced by such systems would be less costly and require only half as much lignocellulosic biomass (or less) to produce as would cellulosic ethanol.

As early as November, 1979, Shaw had told Harold Weinberg in a memo on atmospheric research that environmental groups «have already attempted to curb the budding synfuels industry because it could accelerate the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere.»

The government did respond, with a costly synfuels program that ultimately folded as oil markets turned from shortage to glut and the technology proved to be unaffordable.

In a 21 - page speech, Meyer explained that a national synfuels program would require investing almost $ 800 billion (in 1980 dollars) over three decades.

The Europeans go ahead with their massive Sahara solar - farming project, partly to create hydrogen to be used to create synfuels using captured CO2.

The 50 — 50 blend of synfuel and JP - 8 fulfilled all 40 of the Air Force's fuel performance criteria, including coming through in extremely high and low temperatures.

In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels.

In 1980, after attending a federal advisory committee meeting, Shaw explained why he didn't think the carbon dioxide problem would block work on synfuels any time soon.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

Nuclear is the predicate required for plug - in hybrids, electric cars, natural gas powered cars, synthetic fueled cars, processing of unconventional oil sources (tar sands, shale), much needed desalination, clean hydrogen production, cleaner coal to synfuel production and cleaner industrial processes.

But synfuel will not lead to fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global climate change.

Still, the combination of factors involved: energy security, diversity of supply and the environment may sustain commercial aviation's interest, though its overall goals are smaller — certifying synfuel blends next year, full synfuels by 2010 and biofuels in 2013.

Before then, the impact on Earth's climate can be limited by blending relatively small amounts of biofuels into such synfuels — an option DARPA, for one, rejects for logistical reasons — or capturing the carbon dioxide from synfuel production and using it to enhance the growth of the plants to be turned into fuel.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

In the 1980s, Exxon lobbied to replace scarce oil with synthetic fossil fuels, but it glossed over the high carbon footprint associated with synfuels.

In 1980, Exxon acquired the Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado to support the production of synfuels.

Yet in his speech, Meyer said nothing about the carbon footprint of synfuels — even though the company was aware that making and burning them would release much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ordinary oil.

Nor, it appears, did Exxon elaborate on the link between synfuels and global warming in annual reports to shareholders filed with regulatory agencies in those early days, when synfuels remained at the heart of the company's long term ambitions.

When two U.S. Geological Survey scientists estimated in Science magazine in 1979 that the carbon footprint from synfuels might be three to five times more than conventional fuels, ER&E climate researcher Henry Shaw wrote in a memo that the upper range «may alarm the public unjustifiably.»

But in the early days of synfuels, as Exxon defended them as a costly but plausible solution to oil scarcity, it sidestepped the carbon problem.

Yet all along, there had been a bubbling concern among researchers, including some inside Exxon, about the carbon implications of synfuels.