Sentences with phrase «waste gasses into»

I've tried to raise awareness of the irresponsibility of greenhouse emissions by comparing the dumping of waste gasses into the atmosphere to dumping rubbish on roadsides.

(I try to link the irresponsible dumping of rubbish on roadsides with the similarly irresponsible dumping of damaging waste gasses into the atmosphere in people's minds.)

«Decarbonization of heavy industry and aviation will be difficult, which makes converting industrial waste gases into low - carbon jet fuel a fascinating prospect,» said James Beard, climate and aviation specialist at WWF in the U.K. «All airlines should pursue the development of genuinely sustainable, low - carbon fuels that are certified to minimize indirect land use change.»

It's possible to capture some natural gas without mega-infrastructure, and a suite of companies with different ideas for turning waste gas into wealth are flocking to the Bakken.

Not exact matches

There, wells and communities are often in close proximity, and pushback from locals has all but banned the practices of flaring (burning atop a standing pipe) and venting waste gas straight into the atmosphere.

Oil and gas company Citation Resources is seeking to diversify its business by acquiring an initial 40 per cent interest in an unlisted firm that converts rubber waste into clean fuels, for a cash and share package worth about $ 7 million.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

«We break down the waste using heat and convert it into a gas that is as clean as natural gas.

A third of all food produced in the world goes to waste and there is a huge amount of carbon and greenhouse gas emissions that goes into producing and transporting that food.

We believe we are truly giving back to the earth by turning waste into something productive, and we are also decreasing the amount of CO2 gases discharged in the air.»

Food waste is also responsible for adding 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the planet's atmosphere per year.

AD — anaerobic digestion — is a naturally occurring process which can be integrated into waste management and farming to reduce costs and carbon emissions, and produce gas, electricity, fuel and fertiliser:

Rather than waste gas to drive the five blocks to school, I used the sling to position her so she could lay her head on my shoulder, draped the long end of the sling over her face to shield her eyes from the sun, put my keys and phone into the pocket and walked.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

The state's Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could be a source of drinking water, and stating that their waste disposal «poses danger to life, health, property, and natural resources.»

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

Then the resulting waste gas, largely carbon dioxide and water, is cycled back into a boiler in a process that concentrates the carbon dioxide.

Birds worldwide also cause damage running into billions in the agrarian sector, the waste disposal sector, harbours, and the oil and gas industry.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

The toilets that Stephanie Lansing, an assistant professor of ecological engineering at the University of Maryland, is working on building in Haiti are connected to «biodigester» tanks where bacteria turn the waste into biogas that can be used similarly to natural gas and burned for fuel.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

A catalyst that allows waste gas to be easily converted into a useful chemical could cut the industry's carbon dioxide emissions.

A process of solid oxide electrolysis splits the air into oxygen and waste carbon monoxide gas, which can be dumped back into the atmosphere.

he unsung heroes of the global carbon cycle are methanogens — microbes at the bottom of the food chain who break down the waste products of other organisms and release methane gas into the atmosphere.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

By packaging the battery pack into the floorpan, engineers not only avoided wasting passenger space (the 500e loses only four cubic feet of interior volume due to its electrification), but also gave the 500e better weight distribution than its gas - powered siblings.

Though there are numerous kinds of supercharger designs, their main job is essentially to convert engine power into even more engine power; on the other hand, by using exhaust gasses as their power source, turbochargers recycle what would otherwise be wasted energy.

Popular Mechanics encourages stick shift drivers to avoid shifting into neutral when coasting, since this actually wastes more gas than relying on the vehicle's natural forward motion.

The most recognized international treaties addressing mankinds» impact on our environment also include the Stockholm Convention (persistent organic pollutants or POPs), Rotterdam Convention (requiring prior informed consent before hazardous wastes can be shipped into another country), and Kyoto Protocol (greenhouse gases).

Re: 220 Chris, you forgot to include in your calcualtions that the number of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry etc have been growing close to exponentially with the rate of human expansion - their waste products mean a nett increase in the amount of CO2 being puffed into the air over time but also the increase in other gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide.

The BLM's rule will also bring millions of dollars into the public coffers as drilling companies must pay royalties when they waste natural gas on public lands.

Other gases that contribute to global warming — such as methane from waste — are converted into «carbon equivalent» units then added to the carbon footprint.

Separately, China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) has been awarded a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity (7MW capacity) for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd., a nickel - iron manufacturing joint venture between China Zhonggang Group and Boasteel Group at a facility in Cangzhou City, China, reports Renewable Energy World.

Issues such as where the designed paper fiber fuel is to be introduced into the combustion process to maximize combustion, optimum operating temperatures, and pollutant management in flue gases and ash residue all will influence the waste processing operation and costs.

While public criticism has recently been focused on the possible contamination from fracking waste products, Tuesday's action stems from complaints that the gas itself had seeped into the drinking water.

At the same time, organic refuse from cities that could be turned into carbon - building soil amendments often goes to waste in landfills, decomposing and emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

This is a part of Portland's «Poop to Power» project, which was created to turn waste into clean energy and use natural gas in heavy - duty trucks.

Researchers have found that food waste has a big impact on the heat - trapping gasses we release into the environment.

To a first approximation, if we emit greenhouse gases half as rapidly as we do today, we will wind up in the same place but it will take us twice as long to get there.Economists estimate that it might cost something like 2 % of our GDP to convert our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere as a waste dump.

As a result, many environmental experts fear that if manufacturers are not paid to destroy the waste gas, they will simply resume releasing it into the atmosphere.

The mind - set of those who dump rubbish on road - sides is, I believe, similar to the mind - set of the corporations that dump waste gasses such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change and ocean acidification — and of the governments that allow it to happen.

The United Nations, recognizing the temptation for companies to jump into the lucrative business, has refused since 2007 to award carbon credits to any new factories destroying the waste gas.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.

It makes clear that we can not burn fossil fuels and pump excessive amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without coming up against the earth's ability to absorb such waste.

All of the other waste for electricity goes into the environment including from coal, natural gas and — here's another uncomfortable conclusion — solar panels.

[3] The Greenhouse House Gas Protocol categorizes direct and indirect emissions into three broad scopes: Scope 1: All direct GHG emissions; Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam; and Scope 3: Other indirect emissions, such as the extraction and production of purchased materials and fuels, transport - related activities in vehicles not owned or controlled by the reporting entity, electricity - related activities (e.g. T&D losses) not covered in Scope 2, outsourced activities, waste disposal, etc..

Today, more than 1/3 of our nation depends on this fuel source for electricity, meaning when oil and gas companies let it escape into the atmosphere, it not only accelerates global warming, it also results in massive amounts of wasted resources and diminishes our energy independence.

97 tons of collected waste would be fed each day into anaerobic digesters that produce methane gas, which then runs General Electric Jenbacher gas - fired generators.