combust

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The company has a nearby power plant with furnaces for combusting waste or biomass and turning it into electricity or thermal energy.

From BBC

E-fuels are considered carbon neutral because they use captured CO2 emissions to balance out the CO2 released when the fuel is combusted in an engine.

From BBC

They are considered carbon neutral because the CO2 released when the fuel is combusted is balanced by the CO2 removed from the atmosphere to produce the fuel.

From Reuters

The fuels release CO2 into the atmosphere when combusted in an engine.

From Reuters

Getting hotter, it soon reaches 1,128 degrees, and carbon monoxide in the smoke combusts — a flashover — propelling flames further.

From Los Angeles Times