Sentences with phrase «tons of used fuel»

PLAN TO SHIP NUCLEAR WASTE DOWN HUDSON CAUSES DEBATE In recent months, routes to dispose of 76,000 metric tons of used fuel have been discussed in Congress.

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Using our current fuel price of $ 620 per metric ton, we are currently estimating that lower fuel prices should benefit first half 2013 earnings per share by approximately $ 0.23.

During the 2010 - 2011 school year, the department composted 143 tons of food waste, collected 4,533 gallons of used cooking oil (to create biodiesel fuel) and recycled more than 150 tons of cardboard, glass and plastic.

Such pools at the nation's 104 nuclear reactors hold more than 45,000 metric tons of the nation's approximately 65,000 metric tons of such used nuclear fuel.

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

Assuming that the kosher consumer replaces the average American's four pounds of shrimp a year (and its 9.79 pounds, or 4.4 kilograms, of carbon dioxide emissions) with another fish, Canadian North Atlantic herring is a good choice: it takes around 5.28 gallons (20 liters) of fuel to purse seine (net using two trawlers) a metric ton of these small fish, according to Dalhousie, releasing about 117 pounds (53 kilograms) of carbon dioxide — meaning four pounds of herring have a carbon footprint of a mere 0.21 pound (0.09 kilogram).

After all, the spent fuel pools that may have been exposed by the power plant explosions contain more than 200 metric tons of used uranium fuel rods that have been cooling for weeks, months or even years — and smoke or steam continues to billow from the exposed spent fuel pool of reactor No. 3.

Converting 1 billion tons of that into liquid fuel could replace 30 percent of our fossil fuel use, Donohue said.

As for the fuel, more than 45 million metric tons (45 billion kilograms) of the lightweight gas is produced every year as part of making fertilizer, chemicals and the gasoline used to power cars today.

Process technology has improved steadily in the past 60 years, and since the 1970s, when most existing facilities were built, the amount of energy used per ton of ammonia (as both feed and fuel) has decreased about 30 percent.

Fossil - fuel use sends high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but high levels of carbon dioxide aren't fingerprints of intelligent life, Shostak said — you can find tons of carbon dioxide on Venus.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

These reactions play a huge role in the catalysis - driven creation of common chemical platforms such as methanol, which is produced on the order of 10 million tons per year as raw material for chemicals production and for uses like fuel.

It's a revolutionary mass gainer supplement which allows you to use dedicated calories as fuel and nutrients to build tons of muscle without corrupting each other.

Its specific use of fuel during exercise is constantly changing and is affected by a ton of different internal factors, such as different hormones and enzymes.

Hatchbacks have a ton of versatility and use, and they're also quite affordable, not to mention fuel efficient.

Conversely, owners of three - quarter - ton jobs like the Ram 2500 and GMC Sierra 2500 often feel like they own too much truck, leaving them stuck with comfort, cost and fuel - efficiency penalties in exchange for excess capability they don't use.

Coasting more often instead of slamming on the brakes also helps, since braking and accelerating uses a ton of fuel.

Beyond the mixed - metal construction and extensive use of LED lighting, little is definitively known about the new GM 1 / 2 - tons, but we expect the usual incremental improvements in frame strength, fuel economy, towing and payload capacity, as well as new comfort and convenience features and electronics.

But it's based on the same race - proven engine architecture serving Ford's IMSA Daytona Prototype endurance racing efforts and packed with tons of tech: highlights include variable cam timing, a low - friction roller - finger - follower valvetrain, a dual fuel injection system using both port and direct injectors, and Ford - engineered pistons, rods, camshafts and twin turbochargers.

Regardless of whether they were all killed deliberately, so many cats were mummified that tons of cat mummies exported from Egypt ended up being ground up and used as fertilizer or even as fuel.

It can then be used for fuel, which in terms of greenhouse gas emissions is tons (ha) better

Like Tommy Lee Jones drills around Texas, human being are drilling around world and want to use up last drop of fossil fuel, emit dazens billion tons of greenhouse gas, pollute all the rivers of world, raise over several degree temperature, melt away all of Arctic ice.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

This year alone, China is expected to increase its coal - fueled power capacity by 50 gigawatts, representing several hundred million tons of additional annual coal use.

We used to reprocess spent fuel rods until 1/2 ton of enriched uranium somehow wound up in Israel.

The tour used 22,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel, which saved 89 tons of CO2 emissions from going into the air.

But on moon one using same mass of rocket fuel as payload - 0ne ton payload require one ton fuel.

The groups contend that the coal from the tracts is enough to fuel 152 coal - fired power plants and would release 643 million tons of carbon dioixide, or the same amount as that released by 111.7 million passenger vehicles a year, using EPA calculations.

For perspective, about 10 billion tons of carbon is released annually to the atmosphere from combined fossil fuel burning and land use changes.

To date, IdleAir has registered over 600,000 tons of verified GHG emissions reductions and avoided the use of 60 million gallons of diesel fuel.

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From the book «The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels»: «In 1998, Bill McKibben endorsed a scenario of outlawing 60 percent of present fossil fuel use to slow catastrophic climate change, even though that would mean, in his words, that «each human being would get to produce 1.69 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — which would allow you to drive an average American car nine miles a day.

# 6 — «Since 1870 — with fossil fuel use, cement production, and land use combined — humans have put about 2,000 gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere — that's two million million tons, and about 40 % has stayed there.»

Between 2005 and 2011, the grain used to produce fuel for cars climbed from 41 million to 127 million tons — nearly a third of the U.S. grain harvest.

Since the industrial revolution and the rapid increase in the use of fossil fuels, humans have added more than a trillion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Between 1980 and 2005, the amount of grain used to produce fuel ethanol in the United States gradually expanded from 1 million to 41 million tons.

The Oakland - based company BrightSource Energy, which is overseeing construction by the Bechtel corporation, says that using sunlight instead of fossil fuels to power the turbines will reduce carbon emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually.

Hello Kip — alarm about the non-problem of CO2 diverts attention from the problem of real pollution — e.g., it is said that a single container ship as is used in global trade is the pollution equivalent of 50 million cars due to the burning of about 16 tons of low grade bunker fuel per hour.

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Big ships can use more than 100 metric tons (110 tons) of fuel oil per day and can take two weeks or more to traverse oceans.

Using existing, affordable technology, new trucks could be up to 40 percent more efficient compared to today, reducing annual fuel consumption by billions of gallons and preventing millions of metric tons of global warming emissions.

Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.

The permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

Coal consumption: The quantity of coal burned for the generation of electric power (in short tons), including fuel used for maintenance of standby service.

The IPCC report estimated that we've already used 531 billion tons of that budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses.

Energy analyst Roger Bezdek estimates that the benefits of using carbon - based fuels outweigh any hypothesized «social costs of carbon» by orders of magnitude: 50 - to - 1 (using the inflated SCC of $ 36 / ton of CO2 concocted by EPA and other federal agencies in 2013)-- and 500 - to - 1 (using the equally arbitrary $ 22 / ton estimate that they cooked up in 2010).

To date, we have added about 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 from fossil fuel use (this is my recollection from papers by Meinshausen and others), and so by my very rough calculations, coal alone would permit us to contribute much more to atmospheric CO2 than we have already done, with a warming effect substantially greater than what we have already observed — and that is without counting oil and gas reserves.

The units of measurement used for each fossil fuel will be the most commonly used units internationally: metric tons (tonnes) for coal, cubic metres for natural gas and barrels for oil.

Well, a lighter plane uses less fuel and Nippon Airlines is hoping that it will equal a savings of roughly 5 tons in carbon emissions in just 30 days (or is it 31 days in October?).