Sentences with phrase «if fuel burning»

Not exact matches

On the other hand, if higher fuel taxes work as intended and get drivers to burn less carbon, then those people will find themselves ahead.

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

If there's any rubber chicken we'll still burn jet fuel to front up to, it's the Sydney Institute's annual dinner.

If the force of gravity were adjusted upward just slightly the stars would consume their hydrogen fuel much more rapidly than they do now and the sun would burn itself out faster.

If your goal is to burn fat as a primary fuel source (ketogenic diet) then you would need to add some MCT oil as well or watch your carbs closely throughout the day.

That is, if you are restricting calories, you require more protein than when you eat adequate calories because the protein gets burned for fuel.

If you rely only on carbohydrates you have to keep adding more fuel, if you rely on protein and fat you have to burn a lot of protein matches before the fat will ignite and continue burning, so you'll have to use up your store of protein in your muscles because you won't have eaten enougIf you rely only on carbohydrates you have to keep adding more fuel, if you rely on protein and fat you have to burn a lot of protein matches before the fat will ignite and continue burning, so you'll have to use up your store of protein in your muscles because you won't have eaten enougif you rely on protein and fat you have to burn a lot of protein matches before the fat will ignite and continue burning, so you'll have to use up your store of protein in your muscles because you won't have eaten enough.

Second, reducing the usage of gas - switching [part of] large users such as city heating towards other fuels, and investing in the types of powerplants that can consume a variety of fuels; using gas while it's cheap and available, but being able to burn other fuels if needed.

Let's see if you burn twice the fuel what was the benifit?

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi called the analysis «more misguided and cherry - picked propaganda that fails to take into account the skyrocketing energy bills, increased reliance on dirty - burning fuels, hundreds of lost New York jobs and setbacks in this state's nation - leading efforts to combat climate change that would occur if these plants shuttered their doors.»

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

But Jones is not sure if Manley did as well at capturing slower changes, of a few tenths of a degree over decades, which is important for detecting the onset of warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Global warming due to mankind's greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels already affects the Indian monsoon and — if unabated — is expected to do even more so in the future.

«Anecdotally, our customers are saying, «If you give me the tools, I'll help you out when the wind quits blowing so you don't have to keep the fossil fuels burning in the background,»» Carlson says.

What we see is that if we continue in our current trends in burning fossil fuels, the ocean will become more acidic than it has been at any time in the past 65 million years.

TEPCO modeling and analyses suggest that most, if not all, of the fuel in the Unit 1 reactor melted, burned through the reactor pressure vessel, dropped to the bottom of the containment vessel, and perhaps ate into the concrete base.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

If the mathematics of the pollution produced by burning a gallon of fossil fuel seems daunting, it's even worse to look the other way: what went into making that gallon.

If not, such so - called offsets aren't displacing the emissions from fossil fuel burning, they're simply adding more electricity to the overall system.

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

So if you have these windows, in the winter homes have to burn more fuel to maintain an equitable temperature.

Yet I have done some calculations that I think can answer those questions now: If the world keeps burning fossil fuels at the current rate, it will cross a threshold into environmental ruin by 2036.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Scientists expect this doubling to occur later this century if nations continue to burn fossil fuels as they do now — the «business as usual» scenario — instead of curtailing fossil - fuel use.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

If gravity were a little weaker than it is, it would never have been able to crush the core of the sun sufficiently to ignite the nuclear reactions that create sunlight; a little stronger and, again, the sun would have burned all of its fuel billions of years ago.

«The legacy of our fossil fuel burning today is a hangover that could last for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands of years to come.»

«If you're going to burn fuel faster, you better have a backup tank,» Pontzer says.

Yet if greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced at all, in a business - as - usual scenario, water management will clearly not suffice to outweigh the negative climate effects.

That means if we keep burning fossil fuels, the warming could start accelerating.

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.

If scientists conclude that the burning of fossil fuels is inducing unacceptable global climate change, then we have a limited number of alternatives to turn to: solar - based sources (photovoltaics, ocean, wind, etc.), nuclear fission and fusion.

«If you have to burn dirty fuel, you can do it in the fall or winter» when it will be buried under subsequent snowfall, Zender says.

If all American air conditioners also used the device, the savings in energy would equal the emissions from eight large power stations burning fossil fuels.

They can not tell us how much money will be invested in green energy R&D, whether fertility rates will go up or down, whether we will dig up all the remaining fossil fuels and burn them, or the outcomes of numerous other decisions that affect the atmosphere — though they can tell us what will probably happen if we do or don't take them (see «Earth, 2100 AD: Four futures of environment and society «-RRB-.

And, if it were found in large enough quantities, some experts speculate that it could be used as a clean - burning substitute for fossil fuels today because it gives off high amounts of energy when burned but emits only water, not carbon.

«If I was going to try to get rid of 100 tons of plutonium, I'd burn it in a light - water reactor,» Cochran says, by making it into the mixed oxide fuels.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

«If we don't stop burning fossil fuel and cutting down our tropical forests — all those human activities that maintain our society — we're going to reach incredibly high levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

so... does anyone have any sort of handle on a calculation of what the atmospheric co2 ppm would rise to if ALL the (reasonably - attainable) fossil fuels on earth were burned?

And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather than fossil fuel extraction and burning.

Half the CO2 produced from fossil fuels burned up til the mid-1970s, most of it the sour oil and coal — and a slow cooling trend if anything.

As a matter of fact, if you burn every little bit of fossile fuel and all the free carbons and any thing of biomass origin, you would exactly exhaust all oxygen and render the atmosphere back to the lifeless and oxygen depleted primordial environment.

If after millions of years, converted that carbon into fossil fuel, «somebody» comes and burns it... But that would be another «story»!

Back in the 1890s, that of course represented a tiny fraction of the fossil fuels that we burn today; but what, they asked themselves, might happen if mankind burnt ever - increasing amounts over many centuries?

A second set doubled CO2 levels to simulate levels that could be reached in several decades if current trends in fossil - fuel burning continued unabated.

«Lignin is burned as a low - value fuel, but if biofuels are to become a reality, we need to get more value from lignin,» he explains.

«And if training in the afternoon a while after eating, again you have a small snack to top up glycogen stores so that you have plenty of fuel to burn for energy.»