What does a dirty-fuel player like Consol want with a clean-burning fuel like natural gas?
The administration reiterated its support of the clean burning fuel yesterday, just one week after U.S. Reps.
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Carbon dioxide, the result of burning fuel, is, together with water and sunlight, the raw material of photosynthesis.
Also, the cleaner burning fuel reduces combustion byproducts over petroleum and diesel, cutting carbon monoxide emissions by an estimated 90%-97%, and nitrogen dioxide emissions by 35%-60%.
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This year also saw the debut of the world's first ethanol tycoon, Brazilian billionaire Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, who has made a fortune distilling processed sugarcane into the clean-burning fuel.
They almost universally do not factor in the other emissions from burning fuel, even though they are more potent, because they exist in much smaller quantities and they also do not persist for centuries as will CO2.
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And that means Air Force planes will keep burning more fuel, and their crews will keep flying long hours.
The wind folks say that the benefit is a huge job saver and that it improves overall economic productivity, while providing cleaner-burning electric fuel.
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Burning biomass fuel sources such as wood, sunflower husks or animal faeces is part of the government's plans to get 15% of the UK's energy from renewable sources by 2020.
In October 2010, the British government gave the green light to building up to eight new nuclear power plants in the country, a year and a half after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power caused much of the world to turn on the controversial clean burning super fuel.
The irrefutable reality is that more growth -- the primary objective of capitalism -- means burning more fossil fuel.
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope that conventional fuel burning engines become an instrument of the past.
Rokkasho has been seen as a facility that would allow Tokyo to reduce its plutonium stockpile by burning it as fuel.
Synthetic fertiliser production and fossil fuel burning are responsible for this.
This nitrogen also bears the isotopic fingerprint of nitrogen derived through the inorganic processes of fertiliser manufacture and fossil fuel burning, and not of the way microbes do it.
Fossil fuel burning and fertiliser manufacture now take more nitrogen from the atmosphere than all of the planet's nitrogen-fixing microbes - and there are a lot of those bugs out there.
The authors say that, even if the rules are relaxed to allow emissions to a level associated with a 3C temperature rise, there will still have to be limits on fossil fuel burning.
Yet, environmental groups will argue, he cut VAT unilaterally on products designed to help people stop smoking, so why not do the same on products designed to help people reduce fossil fuel burning?
His conclusion is radical: Shift from oil to alternatives like fuel cells burning hydrogen.
Pouring more money into a hopeless industry is as productive as burning dollar bills as fuel.
Airlines get a bad environmental rap for their fuel-burning emissions, but several are taking steps to reduce their mile-high carbon footprints.
The more sophisticated missiles are programmed to steer towards heat (such as that given off by a fuel-burning jet).
About 90% of Poland's electricity is generated from burning coal, a fuel blamed for increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
Furnaces could no longer emit "dark smoke" and households were offered grants towards the cost of converting their coal-burning grates to smokeless fuel.
Once her body burns through that available sugar, it will next start burning body fat as fuel, and finally turn to protein once her fat stores are exhausted.
C. yesterday to build momentum toward a larger, harder and much more controversial goal: persuading colleges to drop their investments in companies like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and BP because the burning of their fossil fuel reserves will warm the planet beyond recognition.
The engines increase airflow, creating a more complete burning of the air-fuel mixture--and a more powerful vehicle.
Even without the discounts UAL was burning through money faster than jet fuel.
In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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