The principal long-term baseload electric power fuel arbitrage is and has been coal-v-uranium.
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Some even dream of using natural gas to make hydrogen which would power fuel-cell cars, though advocates admit that these are still a long way off.
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This increase in production needs power to fuel it, which bodes well for utilities companies.
From which you can make biogas (methane) which can be used to power those fuel cells.
Over the long term, insists Tanti, wind power will be competitive with fossil fuel power even without subsidies.
Some of these folks want to dismiss the promise of solar power and wind power and fuel-efficient cars.
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In addition, continuing price controls restrain investment in energy infrastructure, raising fears of power and fuel shortages next year.
It adopts the Atkinson cycle and D-4S direct injection technology to optimise both the power and fuel-efficiency benefits of Lexus Hybrid Drive.
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It would be more expensive to build more than one system of electric wires or natural gas pipelines to deliver power and fuel to every home in a state.
The plasmatron probably wouldn't be able to power a fuel-cell vehicle by itself or eliminate the need for hydrogen-fueling stations but, say the engineers, it could be a bridge to hydrogen technology.
He also heard from Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano and FEMA Administrator Fugate on latest efforts to meet the continuing power and fuel challenges, as well as ongoing work in support of Governors and their teams to develop long term housing solutions for affected families.
He also heard from Homeland Security Napolitano and FEMA Administrator Fugate on the latest efforts to meet the continuing power and fuel challenges facing affected communities, as well as ongoing work and support of governors and their teams to develop long-term housing solutions for affected families.
Some of these developers are established engineering and construction firms in the power plant business, or they are owners of fossil fuel power plants.
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That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.
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Climate change can be addressed without recourse to generating power from fusion since there are already many alternatives to fossil-fuel power plants.
But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.
This project reduced power outages by 50 percent and fuel consumption for power generation by over 20 percent.
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
Bethesda, Maryland, is developing solid oxide fuel cell generators that will replace reliance on traditional battlefield power solutions and potentially reduce the fuel required for tactical generation of electric power by half or more.
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Connecticut boasts the largest concentration of fuel-cell companies in the United States, including leading fuel-cell manufacturers UTC Power, Proton OnSite and Fuel Cell Energy.
Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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In your standard fossil-fuel power plant, the inefficiency begins when the coal or gas ignites.
For decades the company's energy business has been focused on fossil-fuel power plants or nuclear energy.
Another senior executive in charge of power-generation fuel cells has a background in American utilities.
While diesels provide more power, better fuel economy, and a longer driving range, there are economic trade-offs.
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That boost is reflected in how much natural gas was pulled out of storage to fuel power plants and furnaces.
And if all fossil-fuel power plants were converted to nuclear or hydro-electric power, a 35% reduction in emissions would result.
That would mean a mixture of renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel power stations that capture and store the carbon dioxide they produce.
Meanwhile, there is a proliferation of electronic devices in houses and offices, which would benefit from the high-quality power promised by fuel-cell generators.
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