Sentences with phrase «fuel use rises»

Fuel use rises slightly to 4.5 l / 100 km.

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Natural gas is used as the primary heating fuel in about half of U.S. households, and prices can rise rapidly when extreme weather comes.

The appeal of a non-smoking approach to cannabis medical treatments or recreational use has fueled the rise of the infused edibles market.

And fuelling that rise is its use in lattes: «golden milk» is among the top online searches associated with the spice.

Many people, worried about rising fuel bills, ration their heating use to such an extent that it has a serious impact on their physical and mental health, and every year, around 25,000 more people die over the winter months compared to the non-winter months.

«Ministers can't expect the public to heed their calls to cut car use when their own fuel costs are rising, driver salaries have rocketed, and mileage has doubled.»

A similar Sir Humphrey argument might be used about Labour's 3p fuel duty rise, which is planned for January 2013.

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

The cash saved will be used to pay for a freeze on fuel duty to placate exasperated motorists; a cap on rail fare rises; and to help fund scores of infrastructure projects, from the Kettering bypass to a new bridge across the Thames.

2 times deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle said «order order» during the budget speech 1 opportunity the Chancellor can use the old red budget box before it is retired 0 rise in duty on alcohol, tobacco and fuel

Even the most optimistic estimates of the effects of contemporary fossil fuel use suggest that mean global temperature will rise by a minimum of 2 °C before the end of this century and that CO2 emissions will affect climate for tens of thousands of years.

Despite those efforts, the use of wood fuels is rising due to population growth and emerging urbanization trends, the researchers point out.

Widespread use of the drugs fueled the industrialization of poultry production and the rise of antibiotic - resistant bacteria (SN: 9/30/17, p. 30).

But if oil prices rise enough for algae fuels to be cost effective, scientists hope to use what they've learned from that process to make biofuels that are both clean and profitable.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

Lighter components, including hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a mixture similar to Britain's old town gas, rise to the top of the chamber, from where they can be vented for use as fuel.

«Our analysis suggests that much of this rapid rise can be traced to the increased use of unconventional heavy - petroleum fuels.»

Professor Phil Reed said: «The growth of digital communication media is fuelling the rise of «internet» use, especially for women.

This is the rise in air temperature expected by the year 2040, if current trends in the use of fossil fuels and forest - burning continue.

The rise in PDK4 likely indicates that stored fat was used to fuel metabolism during exercise instead of carbohydrates from the recent meal.

«Consequently, the [United States] is importing decreasing amounts of these two fossil fuels, while using rising levels of its natural gas for power generation,» the report states.

A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Davis, the University of California professor, argued that for fuel use to drop, taxes on gasoline and other fuels need to rise more than 10 cents.

There's widespread agreement that a high and rapidly rising carbon price is needed to deter fossil fuel use and drive emissions reductions.

His discoveries of isotopic heterogeneity at the nanoscale during that exercise gave rise to his interest in developing new forensic tools for nuclear fuel pellets using NanoSIMS.

Instead, the price rise seems to reflect the increasing importance of the secondary, or pre-mined and processed market, as sources of uranium for use in the reactor fuel market.

«We are on the front lines of sea level rise and other climate change effects and we must drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels.

When you fast, and also if you follow a strict low - carb slimming diet, and the body goes over to using fat as its main fuel, the concentration of ketones [structural formulas shown below] in the blood rises.

When blood glucose levels rise, your body releases a hormone called insulin, which allows glucose to enter cells where it can be used to provide fuel for our brains, muscles and other vital organs.

Cargo ships with 10,000 sq ft sails could be introduced to battle rising fuel bills, with a German firm already fitting a 430ft vessel to make use of the wind.

However, Rose Luckin, who made it into the Seldon List as the «Dr Who of AI», is clear that teachers need to be part of developing these AI - fuelled products and services: «Teachers need to be more aware of AI and its potential benefits, and part of the dialogue about its use.

There you have it — How to use Leaderboards fuel your learners» competitive spirits and watch their engagement levels rise on the Academy LMS!

With the electrification of regular cars on the rise it seems only natural that those further up the automotive chain begin to make use of electrons to improve both performance and fuel economy.

If you spring for the Super Fuel Economy option package, which also uses the six - speed automatic transmission, fuel economy rises to 33 mpg combined (28 city / 40 highwFuel Economy option package, which also uses the six - speed automatic transmission, fuel economy rises to 33 mpg combined (28 city / 40 highwfuel economy rises to 33 mpg combined (28 city / 40 highway).

The rise of tablet popularity has been fueled largely by Amazon's Kindle Fire, which increased over the past year from no use to be the first choice for more than 17 percent of e-book consumers.

Sea Quest's whale watching kayaking tours do not contribute to the rising noise pollution, nor do they use nasty fuels that leave both air and water pollution in the whales home.

Updates below InsideClimate News, showing the value of focused and sustained investigative reporting, has published the first piece in an illuminating review of what Exxon Mobil Corp. (and its earlier incarnations) learned through its own research from the 1970s onward about the potential climate impacts of rising emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use.

However, the Management and Guest Contributors at WUWT accept the basic truth that CO2, water vapor, and other «greenhouse gases» are responsible for an ~ 33ºC boost in mean Earth temperature, that CO2 levels are rising, partly due to our use of fossil fuels, that land use has changed Earth's albedo, and that this human actvity has caused additional warming.

Get used to eating less cow, people, because that industry will not be sustainable as grain and fuel prices rise.

The ultimate rise of CO2 is driven by human decisions on levels of fossil fuel use, principally.

To drive the rising cost, we should levy a steeply rising fossil fuels tax, rising steeply into the sunset, and use the proceeds to keep reducing payroll taxes.

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

Instead they tell everyone else: «We want a carbon tax so the price of fuel rises to the point you can't afford to use it.»

Blessed will be the countries (such as Germany) that will use rising fuel prices as the impetus to switch to alternative, renewable energy sources, but don't get your hopes up because America, China, India, Brazil and Russia will not likely follow suit.

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

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.

The two scientists, with colleagues from the UK, the U.S., the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, report in Nature Climate Change that they used mathematical models to simulate the effect of temperature rise as a response to ever - greater global emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, from the combustion of fossil fuels.

The EU's use of palm oil for transport fuel is highly controversial and has been rising rapidly, increasing 365 % since 2006.

Powerful impetus from other sectors is enough to keep oil demand on a rising trajectory to 105 mb / d by 2040: oil use to produce petrochemicals is the largest source of growth, closely followed by rising consumption for trucks (fuel - efficiency policies cover 80 % of global car sales today, but only 50 % of global truck sales), for aviation and for shipping.

Pretty much the same rate it was rising before man figured out how to use fossil fuels to make his life less miserable with the Industrial Revolution.