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Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink: Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink
A carbon dioxide sink or CO2 sink is a carbon reservoir that is increasing in size, and is the opposite of a carbon "source". The main si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coke Fuel: Encyclopedia - Coke Fuel
Coke is a solid carbonaceous residue derived from low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal. The volatile constituents of the coal (including w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia - Coal
Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by underground mining or open-pit mining (strip mining). It is a readily combustible blac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity Generation - Methods Of Generating Electricity
Electricity generation - Methods for transforming other power into electrical power. Rotating turbines attached to electrical generator...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - General Considerations
All the energy we consume is generated by using the four fundamental interactions of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methanol: Encyclopedia Ii - Methanol - History
In their embalming process, the ancient Egyptians used a mixture of substances, including methanol, which they obtained from the pyrolysi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Storage
Storage is the main technological problem of a viable hydrogen economy. Some attention has been given to the role of hydrogen to provide ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gasification: Encyclopedia Ii - Gasification - Gasification Processes
Four types of gasifier are currently available for commercial use: counter-current fixed bed, co-current fixed bed, fluid bed and entrain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Rationale
Electricity has revolutionized the quality of human life since the late 19th century by enabling easier use of available energy sources. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity Generation - Methods Of Generating Electricity
Electricity generation - Methods for transforming other power into electrical power. Rotating turbines attached to electrical generator...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink: Encyclopedia Ii - Carbon Dioxide Sink - Artificial Sequestration
For carbon to be sequestered artificially (i.e. not using the natural processes of the carbon cycle) it must first be captured. Thereafte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Uses
Coal - Coal as fuel. See also Clean coal Coal is primarily used as a solid fuel to produce heat through combustion. World coal consum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coke Fuel: Encyclopedia Ii - Coke Fuel - Properties & Usage
Coke typically has a specific gravity in the range 1.85 - 1.9. It is highly porous, and a mass of coke has 40% greater volume than the eq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Etymology And Folklore
The word "coal" came from Anglo-Saxon col, which meant charcoal. Coal was not mined in Britain before late Middle Ages; i.e. after ca. 10...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - World Coal Reserves
It has been estimated that, as of 1996, there is around one exagram (1 × 1015 kg) of total coal reserves economically accessible using c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Consumption
Hydrogen economy - Chemical feed. Hydrogen is used in chemical reactions - the Haber process and hydrocracking - as described in "The p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methanol: Encyclopedia Ii - Methanol - Health And Safety
Methanol is toxic, as its metabolites formic acid and formaldehyde cause blindness and death. It enters the body by ingestion, inhalation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methanol: Encyclopedia Ii - Methanol - Uses
Methanol is used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines, mainly by virtue of the fact that it is not nearly as flammable ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methanol: Encyclopedia Ii - Methanol - Uses
Methanol is used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines, mainly by virtue of the fact that it is not nearly as flammable ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methanol: Encyclopedia Ii - Methanol - Production
Today, synthesis gas is most commonly produced from the methane component in natural gas rather than from coal. Three processes are comme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Examples
Several domestic US automobile manufactures have committed to develop vehicles using hydrogen. (They had previously committed to producin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Transportation
Hydrogen seems unlikely to be the cheapest carrier of energy over long distances in the near future. Advances in electrolysis and fuel ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - World Coal Reserves
It has been estimated that, as of 1996, there is around one exagram (1 × 1015 kg) of total coal reserves accessible using current mining...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Storage
Storage is the main technological problem of a viable hydrogen economy. Some attention has been given to the role of hydrogen to provide ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Examples
Several domestic US automobile manufactures have committed to develop vehicles using hydrogen. (They had previously committed to producin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Composition
Carbon forms more than 50 percent by weight and more than 70 percent by volume of coal (this includes inherent moisture). This is depende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Etymology And Folklore
The word "coal" came from Anglo-Saxon col, which meant charcoal. Coal was not mined in Britain before the late Middle Ages; i.e. after ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - The Short-term Future
The large market and sharply rising prices have also stimulated great interest in alternate, cheaper means of hydrogen production. One pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Production
The production and distribution of hydrogen for the purpose of transportation is being tested in limited markets around the world, partic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Environmental Concerns
48% of hydrogen gas is created through the natural gas steam reforming/water gas shift reaction method, outlined above. This creates carb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Rationale
Electricity has revolutionized the quality of human life since the late 19th century by enabling easier use of available energy sources. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Coal Fires
There are hundreds of coal fires burning around the world.[8] Those burning underground can be difficult to locate and many can not be ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Creation
Coal is formed from plant remains that have been compacted, hardened, chemically altered, and metamorphosed by heat and pressure over geo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity Generation - Electricity Generation
The importance of dependable electricity generation, transmission and distribution was revealed when it became apparent that electricity ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity Generation - Electricity Demand
The demand for electricity can be met in two different ways. The primary method thus far has been for public or private utilities to cons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coal: Encyclopedia Ii - Coal - Composition
Carbon forms more than 50 percent by weight and more than 70 percent by volume of coal (this includes inherent moisture). This is dependa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink: Encyclopedia Ii - Carbon Dioxide Sink - Natural Sinks
Carbon dioxide sink - Forests. The idea of carbon sinks based on growing trees rests on an understanding of the carbon cycle. Enormous ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink: Encyclopedia Ii - Carbon Dioxide Sink - Enhancing Natural Sequestration
Carbon dioxide sink - Forests. Forests are carbon dioxide stores, but the sink effect exists only when they grow in size: it is thus na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carbon Dioxide Sink: Encyclopedia Ii - Carbon Dioxide Sink - Carbon Sinks And The Kyoto Protocol
The protocols hold that, since growing vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide, countries that have large areas of forest (or other vegetation)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - History Of Predictions About Future Energy Development
Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the question of the future of energy supplies has occupied economists. 1865 - Wil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels supply most of the energy consumed today. They are relatively concentrated and pure energy sources and technically easy to e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - The Short-term Future
The large market and sharply rising prices have also stimulated great interest in alternate, cheaper means of hydrogen production. One pa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Production
The production and distribution of hydrogen for the purpose of transportation is being tested in limited markets around the world, partic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Transportation
Hydrogen seems unlikely to be the cheapest carrier of energy over long distances in the near future. Advances in electrolysis and fuel ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Environmental Concerns
48% of hydrogen gas is created through the natural gas steam reforming/water gas shift reaction method, outlined above. This creates carb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - The Present
Hydrogen production is a large and growing industry. Globally, about 50 million metric tons of hydrogen were produced in 2004; the growth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - Energy Storage And Transportation Fuel
There is a widely held misconception that hydrogen is an alternative energy source. There are no uncombined hydrogen reserves on Earth th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - Nuclear Power
Main article: Nuclear power There are presently over 400 nuclear reactors in the world, including several advanced designs (such as the A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - Renewable Energy
Main article: Renewable energy Another possible solution to an energy shortage or predicted future shortage would be to use some of the w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Future Energy Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Future Energy Development - Increased Efficiency In Current Energy Use
New technology may make better use of already available energy through improved efficiency, such as more efficient fluorescent lamps, eng...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydrogen Economy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydrogen Economy - Consumption
Hydrogen economy - Chemical feed. Hydrogen is used in chemical reactions - the Haber process and hydrocracking - as described in "The p...   » Read the article