Sentences with phrase «term oil burning»

Long term oil burning could also lead to an exhaust system restriction (assuming catalytic converters) which would reduce power.

Not exact matches

«So why are they burning the midnight oil in No10 and the Treasury, instead of breaking out the bubbly and planning two more terms in office without serious opposition?
Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.
It causes some oil burning compared to not running them, but it's not a huge difference, and not even a long term reliability issue.
Assuming that an engine always has enough oil to be lubricated properly but burns quite a bit of oil, can it cause any damage in the long - term because it doesn't belong in the combustion chamber?
The Kyoto Protocols to the FCCC, and the Clean Development Mechanism (which allows rich countries to burn coal and oil if they pay poor countries to plant trees, and so is neither clean nor results in development), only made things worse, CDM only gives credit for planting trees, which are only at best a temporary reservoir and not a real stink, while they ignore ALL the real long term carbon sinks.
Or it will go down in history as the moment we collectively gave up, ceding the our near term future and the future safety of coming generations to be made ever more dangerous for little more than more cheap oil to burn.
In heating, natural gas boilers can have positive short - term effects by substituting for burning oil, but these investments are meant to last for 30 or more years.
Fat chance burning off a few pockets of gas & oil are going to cause any long term change.
We have done so by turning rocks into air at a prodigious speed, because in geological terms that is what burning coal, oil and gas does.
Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.
Barring a dramatic slump in the Chinese economy (even more than we have seen until now), oil and gas consumption are bound to keep growing in the medium term, on the back of increased transport demand and government policies to increase gas consumption to stem air pollution from coal burning.
Again, it's not just that burning tar sands oil produces a lot of emissions; it's that long - term capital investments like Keystone (and coal plants, and coal export facilities) «lock in» those dangerous emissions for decades and make catastrophic climate disruption inevitable.
They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.
Switching to cleaner burning fuels in terms of how we heat our buildings and create hot water will make a significant difference (number six oil is burned quite often in older boilers in New York and it's really dirty).
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