The process improves fuel efficiency while increasing power.
During the decommissioning process, remaining fuel from the station's reactor will be removed and reprocessed.
Not surprisingly, Bakken fracking has active critics who object that the process utilizes diesel fuel and solvents that can cause environmental harm.
The attraction of algae would seem to lie in the possibility that, since they photosynthesise, they could be engineered to contain the whole sunlight-to-fuel process in one genetically engineered package.
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Rather than grow and harvest biomass, such as wood chips or algae, and then process that into fuel, Joule has engineered microorganisms to secrete fuel and chemicals, including ethanol and diesel.
EasyJet's earnings were hurt by the rising price of oil, which it failed to adequately hedge itself against--a process of buying its fuel ahead of time at an agreed-upon price.
Not until 2022 does the plan foresee beginning the process of removing the melted fuel.
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FuelCell Energy touts the ability of its fuel cells to directly process a hydrocarbon, such as natural gas or waste gas from a sewage treatment facility.
In fact, the Air Force has already begun testing a program to certify coal-based synthetic fuels for the B-52 bomber, a process that may lead to synthetic fuel use in all of its planes.
"Everybody comes out here and says, 'Hey, you're full of it, ' and then they see me do it, " says Rivera, who in the 1990s promoted a similar process for turning used tires into fuel oil.
Finally, once the biofuel crops have been planted, grown and harvested -- often with the direct involvement of fossil fuels in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and petrol to power farm equipment -- they then have to go through a distillation and fermentation process to actually turn them into fuel.
Most recycled cooking oil today is used to power diesel trucks or mixed with home heating fuel, a simpler conversion process.
The idea is to highlight the process of making low-carbon aviation fuel.
Australia possesses a site which has been operating for over a decade, and they use the process to produce cost-competitive diesel fuel.
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Fuel cells use an electrochemical process, not combustion, to make energy.
In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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Fuel cells convert hydrogen, natural gas or other fuel into electricity through an electrochemical process.
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Our consumption of energy has been steadily growing, the costs are increasing, and in the process we are depleting vast amounts of fossil fuel reserves and building up dangerous levels of carbon gases and pollutants.
Because hydrogen can clean the exhaust right from a cold engine start, the plasma reformer method is 20% to 50% more efficient at reducing NOx than other clean-diesel technologies, allowing less unburned fuel to pass through in the process.
From there, it's a relatively easy and well-known process to turn Acetyl Co-A into a fuel like butanol or ethanol.
It interferes with the reactions involved in photosynthesis, which is the process in which the plants produce the sugars to fuel their growth, leaving the plants weakened.
Meanwhile, Kior last month said it received EPA approval for a drop-in replacement fuel from wood chips using a pyrolysis process adopted from the oil refining business.
Most important, the acquittal has arguably even more serious implications for the rule of law, and the democratic process, than the paralysis brought about by the fuel blockade.
In the simplest terms, a fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen in a process that releases electricity, heat and water.
Carbon could also be used as a fuel, NASA scientists speculate, and the process would turn the carbon into nitrogen, the most abundant element in the atmosphere.
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Not only are the buggers capable of creating a byproduct which can quickly be refined into fuel for vehicles, but scientists say the process is carbon-negative -- it outputs less carbon than is required to produce it.
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More seriously, although thinning can sometimes help to limit a fire by removing some of the fuel the fire wants, it is not a process that is neat, cheap or necessarily effective.
The process is also capable of transforming virtually all plant matter into liquid fuel, whereas typical ethanol refining uses only the fatty acids that make up around 10 percent of the mass of dried plants.
Both Kia and Hyundai executives gave the requisite public apologies and are in the process of establishing reimbursement programs that will make up for the differences in fuel costs between the original and recalculated ratings.
Prior to WW1, most fuel ethanol came from wood logging and milling waste using the Scholler process.
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