Sentences with phrase «than petroleum»

This includes finding alternative materials for their products, such as soy - based rather than petroleum based foam, which reduces toxic emissions and makes them safer to use.

Alternative fuels are any fuel that runs on anything other than petroleum fuels.

Money: Well operators make less than petroleum engineers and drilling supervisors but more than service workers.

Alternative fuels are derived from sources other than petroleum.

This plastic can stand up to heat but also breaks down more naturally in the environment than petroleum - based products.

Natural gas is undoubtedly cleaner than petroleum or diesel, but many argue that any move towards more fossil fuels is a step in the wrong direction.

Coal releases more carbon per unit than petroleum and natural gas.

Well operators make less than petroleum engineers and drilling supervisors, who take home around $ 100,000 a year, but more than service workers.

This attribute makes it better suited for this role than petroleum jelly, and it is safe for rubber too.

That switch has received criticism, largely because such alternative fuels are more than 10 times more expensive than petroleum - derived fuels.

Because we believe that the world should decrease its reliance on the use of fossil fuels, we strive to use ingredients derived from plants rather than petroleum whenever possible.

Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting.

The listener wonders if the 54,000 BTU shortfall per gallon is truly cost - effective compared to gasoline, considering that ethanol goes for about 10 % (or something like 30 cents a gallon) cheaper than the petroleum derivative.

The Continental flight — and the Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic flights prior to it — prove that such blends can be effective, or even better than petroleum - based kerosene alone.

Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than petroleum products

They currently tap, refine and distribute natural gas (much cleaner than petroleum based products), and turn a nice little profit in the process.

One of the studies Tim has referenced basically concludes that the only thing policymakers can do is work on the assumption that biofuels, at this moment in time, are worse than petroleum fuels because of the future risk of land clearing and other GHG emission increases.

Juice Beauty's revolutionary formulations started with a basic premise: Karen believed that by formulating with an antioxidant and vitamin - rich organic botanical juice base, rather than petroleum derivatives or added water, and combining it with powerful skincare ingredients, it could yield equal or better results than conventional or natural products.

What it means to consumer's today is that with their purchase choice of Sun Chips in the Ingeo bag, they're already today, choosing a product which is renewably based, and which has a lower carbon footprint than the petroleum bag.

«Green Police Take Down Bobby Unser: Bureaucrat, Environmental CO2 - Nazis Are Future If EPA Gets Its Way Main Latest Analysis: Studies Find That Biofuels» Greenhouse Emissions Higher Than Petroleum Diesel»

Oh Gizmo shows us the BioLite, a portable and fuel efficient cookstove that uses half as much fuel as a camp fire, and heats food and water faster than a petroleum fueled camp stove.

The Colgate Eco Classica I is a foam crib mattress manufactured with more plant oils than petroleum based oils and is Greenguard certified.

We should continue to support the very best parts of it: the ones that encourage the production of more advanced and more sustainable biofuels, for instance, or the requirement that a renewable fuel must emit less greenhouse gas than the petroleum - based fuel it would replace.

As explained in a 2015 Empire Center report, in addition to generating more carbon dioxide than conventional petroleum oil when produced on a large scale, biofuel releases less heat per gallon than petroleum heating oil, which makes Valesky's claim that the mandate will benefit consumers even more dubious.

Burning the purer fuel — clearer than petroleum - derived kerosene — eliminates sulfur emissions that lead to acid rain and reduces (by 50 to 90 percent) the amount of tiny particles that usually remain after combustion, according to Richard Altman, executive director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), an industry effort to develop new energy options.

«The next phase of biofuel production will be getting away from ethanol; it's less energy - dense than petroleum,» said Carothers.

California regulators may rule that the biofuel is no better — and might be worse — than petroleum for solving climate change

Regardless, if the cotton and castor - based backsheet proves cheaper than the petroleum version it may help remove a bit more fossil sunshine from the new solar energy.

Electrical energy storage systems aren't inherently riskier than petroleum or natural gas, according to Denholm, but their risks are different.

In addition, DOE national labs calculate that cellulosic ethanol production is 85 % less GHG polluting than petroleum.

Payback will come because an electric mile is up to five times cheaper than a petroleum mile.

Coal grows faster than petroleum consumption until after 2030, mostly due to increases in China's consumption of coal, and slow growth in oil demand in OECD member countries.

A carbon tax obeys these proportions, taxing coal more heavily than petroleum products, and much more than natural gas.

As the state oil and gas commission points out, only the cities of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder have more jobs than the petroleum industry.

«You'll find haters, but it's way better than petroleum — so these people should be applauded for doing this,» Mayfield said of sugarcane - based plastics.

Made from sugar cane, these plant - based pieces (while still technically plastic because of the chemical process used to create it) are easier on the environment than the petroleum - based ones they're replacing.

In practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesel.

Some hairball «treats» contain mineral oil rather than petroleum jelly.