Sentences with phrase «by using less fuel»

Stable combustion is achieved by using less fuel than conventional direct injection engines which have an air - fuel ratio of 40:1.

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Led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the project seeks to create «C4 rice» — rice with a built - in fuel injector to better convert sunlight into grain, potentially resulting in up to 50 % higher production all while using less water and nutrients.

Nations could help by cutting funding on climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to climate change, which we already know: use less fossil fuel.

It lays out an initial strategy to reduce emissions by encouraging shipping companies to make their ship designs more energy efficient, use alternative fuels or energy sources and streamline operations so that they consume less energy.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

Monteiro's team found that the Romans, by contrast, used much less lime and made it from limestone baked at 900 ˚ C (1,652 ˚ F) or lower, requiring far less fuel than Portland cement.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»

According to a paper by Xuegang Liu of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering, The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing («Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storFuel Management in China,» NAPSNet Special Reports, Aug. 5, 2014), because China has chosen to use a closed - cycle fuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storfuel path, it has less need for long - term SNF storage.

By following a macronutrient ratio of around 70 % fats, 25 % protein and 5 % carbohydrates for 2 - 7 days, with your daily net carbohydrate intake limited to 50g or less, your body will begin to use these circulating ketone bodies for fuel.

By doing cardio first, you use up all the «good» stuff for weight training and force your body to make do with a less powerful fuel source.

Furthermore, DOT is helping Americans use less gas by promoting transportation options, such as bus rapid transit, light rail, streetcars and bike shares, as well as raised fuel economy standards for their cars.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, however, and racing rules say that by improving its hybrid system, Audi's internal combustion engine must use 2.5 percent less fuel than before.

Those who are committed to consuming less fuel won't mind this tiny nuisance, but it does highlight that Honda's hybrid technology is different from the systems used by other automakers.

With the second best warranty coverage in this group, and service intervals only matched by the Mondeo, the Octavia promises to be an affordable ownership experience, and adding to that, it uses less fuel in the real world than the other cars in this comparison.

«The result of all these enhancements and advances is that the new Versa Sedan engine burns cleaner and uses less fuel, which combined with the improved CVT performance and better aerodynamics reduces overall fuel consumption by about five miles per gallon versus the 2011 Versa Sedan,» says Castignetti.

Ferrari adapted a Formula 1 racing technology to produce a hybrid supercar that uses a bit less fuel, emits fewer grams of CO2 and, oh by the way, accelerates to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds.

While this engine is by no means one of the more powerful ones on the market, it does exactly what it promises — gets you to your destination using less energy, and therefore less fuel.

Using Transport Canada data Kia figures that if every passenger vehicle in Canada reduced idle time by two minutes a day we'd save 305,000 million litres of fuel a year — and pump considerably less nastiness into the environment.

The paddle - shift eight - speed automatic complements the performance generated by the Corvette Stingray's LT1 engine — rated at 455 horsepower or 460 horses with the available performance exhaust system — which uses advanced technologies including direct injection, variable valve timing and Active Fuel Management (cylinder deactivation) to make more power with less fFuel Management (cylinder deactivation) to make more power with less fuelfuel.

Other models that might be unveiled are a new efficient diesel C - Class that will be on the market by 2011 that uses less than five liters of fuel per 100 km and only emits less than 130g of carbon - dioxide per km.

Besides improving driver confidence and passive safety, the LED headlights use less energy, helping to enhance fuel efficiency by reducing engine loads.

For example, tests conducted by Edmunds.com show that drivers with less aggressive tendencies use 30 % less fuel.

Everyone seems to be environmentally conscious on some level, whether it is by recycling or driving more fuel - efficient cars or using less water; most everyone is doing their part to be eco-friendly.

Benefits of using the Boeing 787 family includes less fuel consumption as compared to similar aircraft, and reducing environmental impact and CO2 emission by 20 per cent.

For instance, if more effective cars only use 70 % of fuel, the portion of fossil sources for energy use is adjusted down to 80 %, smart planning and collaboration results in 4 people in each car (say 30 %), and a «smart» organization of the working week means less commuting (80 %; TGIT), then combined effect of this can in theory give a reduction by 0.7 x 0.8 x 0.3 x 0.8 = 0.13.

So as we replace oil with fuels like natural gas and biofuels, we can also reduce our dependence by making cars and trucks that use less oil in the first place.

Those houses became less common on the site in recent times, as I worried more about house size, the appropriateness of single family dwellings on big suburban lots, and trying to reconcile my love of clean, modern design with my concern about the use of fossil fuels or building materials that can not be maintained in a world made by hand.

While waiting for the additional data, Newman and Kenworth speculate on factors they say blend together in causing peak car use - the aging of cities (more people coming back from the suburbs to the inner cores and driving less), the growth of public transport, many cities hitting a wall in expansion after average commutes (by car or even train) get beyond one hour's time, and the rise in fuel prices.

They use less fuel than regular hybrids, but don't get much respect By Harry Stoffer Automotive News / March 28, 2005, p. 24

me warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

What's lost in a lot of the discussion about human - caused climate change is not that the sum of human activities is leading to some warming of the earth's temperature, but that the observed rate of warming (both at the earth's surface and throughout the lower atmosphere) is considerably less than has been anticipated by the collection of climate models upon whose projections climate alarm (i.e., justification for strict restrictions on the use of fossil fuels) is built.

Ramping up the tax by $ 5 a year would shrink the use of carbon fuels so drastically that, by my calculations, US carbon emissions in 2030 would be 40 percent less than they were in 2005 (a standard baseline year).

A tax Cap - and - trade can only work by raising the price of lower - priced hydrocarbon fuels, so that people are forced either to use higher - priced alternatives or to use less energy.

Exponential atmospheric CO2 growth rate will most likely not increase beyond the recent ~ 0.5 % per year, when population growth rate is expected to decrease to less than one - third of the recent past rate, even if per capita use of fossil fuels increases by 50 % by 2100.

These assume a continuation of the past exponential growth rate of atmospheric CO2 of around 0.5 % per year despite a dramatic decrease of the population growth rate to less than one - third of the past rate so, even if the world per capita fossil - fuel based energy use increases by 50 %, these are most likely «upper limits» themselves.

The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60 percent less than those of conventional diesel fuel.

carbon tax a levy exacted by a government on the use of carbon - containing fuels for the purpose of influencing human behavior (specifically economic behavior) to use less fossil fuels

Less use of fossil fuels, or more carbon capture or other remediation could easily be constructed as the more beneficial cases, in an imagined past, by economic models without unreasonable assumptions.

Absent some crash programs for renewables (or temporary reprieve via unconventional fossil fuels), civilization must get by on a small fraction of the energy it now uses (and in far less convenient forms).

Finally, it should be noted that socioeconomic hypotheses associated with the lower emission trajectories (such as the one commented upon by Tim Worstall) imply a greatly increased use of nuclear and fossil fuels, especially cooal and natural gas, and the share of renewable sources reaching much less than the «80 %» claimed by the recent «renewable energy» IPCC report.

In 2015, IEA estimated that global fossil fuel consumption subsidies — used by many developing countries to provide below - market cost fuel to their citizens — totaled $ 320 billion, 35 percent lower ($ 173 billion less) than in 2014.

They believe the transition to a wind & solar powered energy grid could be made in two decades or less using current technology, and at an affordable cost — but only if the many roadblocks now being thrown up by nuclear and fossil fuel interests can be overcome.

There is use of fossil fuels that is fettered, restrained by people's innate desire to do more with less.

GHG emissions are required by no less than 3 regulations and all three are tabulated: a. GHG emission reporting CDX; b. Annual emissions reports for large discharges required by state SIP's, Title V and CAA, and c. monthly / quarterly / annual fuel use reporting requirements.

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

By contrast, a transition from fossil fuels to solar or wind power, biomass, or hydroelectricity would require rematerialization — the use of more natural resources — since sunlight, wind, organic matter, and water are all far less energy dense than oil and gas.

Compared to older DC locomotives, Model ES44C4 uses up to 17 % less fuel and reduces emissions by approximately 70 %.

This market would allow Ontario businesses and residents to access surplus clean power at the wholesale market price of less than two cents per kilowatt - hour (KWh), which could displace the use of fossil fuels by using things like dual fuel (gas and electric) water heaters, and by producing emission - free hydrogen fuel.

That is confirmed by satellites (the «greening earth») and by the oxygen balance: there is less oxygen use measured than should be from fossil fuel use.