Sentences with phrase «also used as a fuel»

Carbs are also used as fuel for the body during exercise and activity.

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Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

It said its fuel warning does not extend to aircraft that use jet fuel, also known in the industry as «Jet A.»

He's also used his success as head of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Records to help fuel his philanthropic efforts, from donating to African educational charities to pledging $ 3 billion toward reducing global warming.

Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

Well, I believe that food should be used as a source of fuel or recovery for your body, so if you work out, then you need to give it some loving with some good - for - you ingredients I also don't believe in all that no - fat nonsense!

Hi - oleic peanuts also contain more protein and fibre than the average peanut, and have a positive effect on how the body uses fat as fuel.

By using the Rocket Fuel Latte approach we make sure that those hormones specifically are calmed down and as women we also tell our endocrine system, which creates all of our estrogen, progesterone, and everything, to continue being good and happy and solid and perfect.

Whilst this may on the one hand fuel concerns about possible growth in the use of illegal pornographic content such as that depicting children or animals, it is also the same feature that allows a nervous or embarrassed teen to look for much - needed information about sexual identity or practices.

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

The process also produces methane as a by - product, which Kuenen proposes to harvest and use as fuel.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving as hydration during space travel, could be used as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to produce hydrogen - and oxygen - based rocket fuels.

The team also developed an additional process that uses another catalyst to convert the two phenol products into high - octane hydrocarbon fuel suitable for use as drop - in gasoline.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

The bile - acid mimetics also triggered lipolysis, the first step in fat degradation, allowing the fat cells to use fatty acids as their main fuel source.

Water could also be split into hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

HTL may also be used to make fuel from other types of wet organic feedstock, such as agricultural waste.

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

Some plants, such as soybeans, also store fats and can be used as fuel sources, but Bruce Rittmann, Vermaas's colleague at Arizona State, argues that photosynthetic microbes produce nearly 250 times more fat per acre.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

Storage ponds that contain used fuel also pose a risk — as Jaczko, the NRC chair, emphasized in dramatic testimony yesterday to the U.S. Congress.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

We can also store the leftover renewable energy in the form of compressed hydrogen for a later use when the electrical demand is higher, or as fuel for vehicles,» Serra adds.

Graphene could also aid fuel economy and safety when used as a composite material in the chassis or bodywork to reduce weight compared to traditional materials used.

By using reusable rockets, spacecraft, and tankers; refueling the Mars landers in orbit; and also producing fuel from available resources on Mars for the return trips, a colonist's cost for a ticket to Mars could be as little as $ 100,000, Musk says.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.

They also outlined a possible procedure to extend the approach used to map other catalyzed reactions, such as those involved in fuel cells, which break apart hydrogen to release the electrons to do work.

HMF, also known as 5 - hydroxymethylfurfural, can be used as a building block for plastics and «biofuels» such as gasoline and diesel, essentially the same fuels processed from crude oil.

In addition, integrated experiments where some of OMEGA's lasers are used to actually compress the liner itself, as well as the heated and magnetized fusion fuel it contains, are also part of the ARPA - E program.

Caffeine can improve the body's ability to mobilize fat stores and stimulate working muscles to use fat cells as fuel instead of glycogen, while also causing a strong metabolic boost.

This is also why you don't starve to death when you restrict food for weeks at a time, because your body is able to convert stored fat into ketones that are used as fuel instead of glucose.

It can also help to prevent muscle mass tissue from being used as a fuel source during intense exercise while in a carb depleted state, so for this reason, is often utilized by those who are on very low calorie diet plans.

Cardio exercises are also known as aerobic, because they use oxygen to provide fuel for the body.

This, in turn, releases ketones as a byproduct which can also be used by the body as an energy source or fuel.

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.

As an avid runner Alyssa is also used to eating the right foods to fuel her body before and after a workout.

If you stand up and walk around, you'll probably still be using mostly fats for fuel because your aerobic metabolism can still keep up with demands, but you'll probably also start burning more carbs as your muscles respond to the new demand for action.

Also, when a person is overweight, how does he / she use the already stored fat as fuel, while at the same time consuming a diet high in fats?

Since carbohydrates are the primary fuel the body uses, honey can help maintain muscle glycogen, also known as stored carbohydrates, which gives athletes the boost they need when they need it most.

The shortest length fats of MCT oil are converted into ketones that are immediately used as fuel for your brain, and MCT oil also helps you burn body fat while you sleep.

Science also is showing that leptin controls the healthy phenotype imparted by calorie restriction in so - called higher organisms that use fat as a primary fuel.

Dry leaves, threshed pods, and stalks of various bean plants are also used as fodder for livestock or as fuel in cooking.

You also develop a greater ability to use fat as a fuel during a higher intensity exercise, meaning that you get a carbohydrate sparing effect.

They are also metabolised and used as fuel much faster because they are absorbed and sent to the liver, this means that they are less likely to be stored as body fat.

Using a high - quality coffee source, such as Bulletproof coffee (that doesn't contain mycotoxins), with grass - fed butter and MCT oil can be a great way to give your body an extra supply of healthy fats, which will allow your body to produce more ketones for fuel (these fats are also anti-inflammatory).