Sentences with phrase «synthetic fuels»

To date, natural oil still serves as our primary source of fuel, even though a much cleaner alternative exists in the form of synthetic fuel.

Air capture technologies can also be used to make synthetic fuels.

«Over the past couple of years my associates and I have talked about synthetic fuels as a major national need to a lot of audiences,» he noted.

A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron oxide cores — that can be used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.

Combining the gasification process with Rentech's unique application of proven syngas conditioning and clean - up technology and the patented Rentech Process based on Fischer - Tropsch chemistry, Rentech offers an integrated solution for production of synthetic fuels from biomass.

China, with similarly huge reserves, is even planning to convert coal into synthetic fuel for cars - even though such processes typically produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

We're absolutely not there yet, but understanding the early stages of synthetic fuel production forms an essential component of unraveling the entire, complex reaction mechanism.

Australia's Linc Energy, a developer of underground coal gasification and synthetic fuels projects, has signed an exclusive agreement with PowerHouse Energy Inc, a provider of onsite energy systems that uses fossil and renewable fuels to generate electricity and synthetic gas via the Pyromex ultra high temperature above - ground gasification (UHTG) process....

In addition, it is a component in the production of synthetic fuels such as methane, methanol, petrol and kerosene.

Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single - source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

If Germany could fight WWII on synthetic fuels from coal, and the US has enough coal to make enough electricity for the entire world for hundreds of years, wouldn't that be a good cheap «bridge» to some sort of viable solar / hydrogen next gen world?

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

Among them are smart solar storage systems, smartly interconnected energy grids, and electricity - based synthetic fuels (e-fuels).

He added the know - how in processing synthetic fuels, which are extracted or fabricated from solid earth materials rich in hydrocarbons, could come in handy for hydrogen production when fuel - cell vehicles arrive in earnest.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

Sampling tubing and instrumentation control cables laid out on the pavement beside NASA's DC - 8 flying laboratory in between synthetic fuels emission and engine performance tests at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif..

Sampling tubing and instrumentation control cables laid out on the pavement beside NASA's DC - 8 flying laboratory in between synthetic fuels emission and engine performance tests at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif..

If the US government put a fraction of the $ 270 billion in loans awarded to the shale oil and gas industry (that will never be paid back) into fuel cell and P2G technology, we would already have domestic synthetic fuel production at a much lower cost than todays fossil fuel industry.

Locate an SOEC next to a cellulose ethanol plant for the bio CO2 and waste heat, then get energy from wind turbines to make bio synthetic fuels.

«Hitler flew Messerschmitts on it,» says William Anderson, assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for installations, environment and logistics, about such Fischer - Tropsch synthetic fuel, which can be made from methane, coal, plant oils — even wood waste.

RPC developed simulation models to determine the economic, demographic and fiscal impact of proposals to convert a power plant to burn synthetic fuel in place of burning residual fuel oil in Manatee County, Florida.

CCS fitted gasifiers co-fired with 15 + % biomass or imported solar synthetic fuels would then provide «carbon - negative» baseload to the extent climate protection policy required.

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.

Carbon Engineering is aiming to build a $ 200 million commercial plant by 2017 and start selling synthetic fuels by 2018.

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.

President Jimmy Carter had persuaded Congress to pass a law promoting synthetic fuels, which included tax credits to ethanol producers.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.

In the past, some technologies sponsored by the US government, from computers to transport aircraft, have become wildly successful, while others, including synthetic fuels and supersonic aircraft, have been disasters.

«Power - to - liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide: Pilot plant produces first synthetic fuel from solar power and the air's carbon dioxide / KIT spin - off ineratec supplied key component.»

Dr. Keith estimates the process should be able to generate synthetic fuel for about $ 1 a litre.

Through their partnership with Audi's synthetic fuels programme, we may see the world's first fuels produced directly from atmospheric CO2 as early as -LSB-...]

proprietary gas - to - liquid (GTL) technology, placing the country in the pole - position for the race to bring super-clean synthetic fuels to the global market.

Not content with only reinventing the engine, Hitmoi - san let slip about a new synthetic fuel that he is co-developing with university academics in Japan.

The company also stressed, however, the potential for natural gas, Gas - to - Liquid synthetic fuels, and Biomass - to - Liquid fuels as part of a portfolio of solutions.

German peer Volkswagen AG agreed that much of the hype around hybrids was unwarranted, suggesting instead that the developing synthetic fuels could prove more effective in cleaning tail - pipe emissions, especially when used to power diesel engines.

His centre is also testing ways to recycle the carbon dioxide and sell it to industries that could use it to make products such as fire extinguishers, fizzy drinks and carbon - dioxide - enhanced greenhouses, and even synthetic fuel oil.

@gor, Eventually, Big Oil will become Big Hydrogen because oil and gas wells will run dry, and H2 is the lowest - cost and most efficient synthetic fuel that one can make from non-fossil energy sources.

But Shaw also circulated a clipping from The New York Times in August 1981, under the headline «Synthetic Fuels Called a Peril to the Atmosphere.»

As in so many other realms of its research, Exxon studied a potential future of synthetic fuels while recognizing that carbon dioxide could be a powerful factor in its business decisions for decades to come.

If the sector were to adopt hydrogen or other synthetic fuels, it would need to rely heavily on the decarbonisation of the energy input required for fuel production to ensure it can deliver absolute reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Above: Carbon Engineering has developed a direct air capture pilot project in Squamish, BC capable of «mining the sky» for CO2 that can be converted into renewable synthetic fuels or sequestered underground to produce «negative emissions.»