Sentences with phrase «amount of diesel»

The purpose of the unit is to cut down on the amount of diesel fuel used and to cut down on the amount of garbage that camps generate, which are both security risks.

and will have to hugely alter the original design for the colossal amount of diesel they will need in order to get anywhere near where they are needed... have you seen the extent of coverage needed by our subs in the Pacific?

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

«The three 333kW turbines will reduce the amount of diesel required for power generation by around 463 000 litres and cut CO2 emissions by 1242 tonnes per year.»

They utilize the amount of diesel fuel needed to keep the engine running and to provide the work needed to do the job required of them.

Road tests will expand on results from the lab, he says, adding, «The engine has a lot of controls, so when you put your foot on the gas, we automatically change the amount of diesel and gasoline to optimize the combustion process.

The larger 70s - era generators will be removed and replaced with smaller, modern generators, but the same general amount of diesel power will still be in play.

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

They belch incredible amounts of diesel smoke.

Not exact matches

«Overall, the Semi is more responsive, covers more miles than a diesel truck in the same amount of time, and more safely integrates with passenger car traffic,» says Tesla in its official announcement.

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

But Orire, Ayodele and Williams were arrested at Irele, around 8 pm on September 19, in an Honda accord car with Registration Number RH 235 KJA Lagos, containing 25 kegs of 30 litres each and three 50 litre kegs filled with suspected adulterated diesel which amount to 900 litres.

Put simply, cellulosic oils and greases are fed into a «diesel hydrotreater» with a small amount of petrodiesel, and hydrogen is forced into the mixture.

A cetane number is a relative ranking of fuels based on the amount of time between fuel injection and ignition (ignition delay) in a diesel engine.

They then tracked the inputs they used — diesel for farm equipment and transporting the harvested grasses, for example — as well as the amount of grass they raised over a 5 - year period.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

That material includes everything from buildings and railways, to tanks of diesel fuel, radioactive coolant, and likely an unknown amount of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

«With all this oil exploration, diesel trucks and new oil wells, people wondered: Is there a huge amount of air pollution making the snowpack darker?»

The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that inhalation of diesel exhaust caused changes in the heart's electrical activity, suggesting that air pollution reduces the amount of oxygen available to the heart during exercise.

Until now, Bentley has only offered the Bentayga with a W - 12 engine making 600 hp and 664 lb - ft of torque, and outside the U.S., a diesel V - 8 with 429 hp and the same amount of twist as its larger sibling.

If I develop a diesel system for our country and I spend a huge amount of money to do that, I won't see a return on the investment.

As such, a two - wheel - drive 1500 Tradesman regular cab pickup with the eight - foot box and the EcoDiesel should carry a base price of $ 31,265, including destination, which amounts to a $ 4470 premium for the diesel engine.

Depending on driving conditions, these buses can use the same amount of fuel as a diesel bus and travel for multiple more routes.

«It's hard to imagine opting for the Hemi V - 8 because this diesel feels like just the right amount of power to me,» says associate web editor Joey Capparella.

Those 12,000 - plus miles have cost us almost $ 900 in diesel fuel — and cost the environment who knows how much, since no fix yet exists to stop our SportWagen from releasing 10 to 40 times the allowable amount of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

Even if it doesn't damage anything (diesel engines are much sturdier than a similar gasoline engine), the early ignition means your flame front is working against the piston for the last few degrees and wastes a significant amount of energy.

Drag racing is world apart from production consumer cars, drag diesel engines run advanced injector timing and lots of fuel delivery, since diesels to not control power using an intake throttle plate like gasoline engines, they use the amount of fuel injected to control power delivered, lots of fuel lots of power.

However, they still need a small amount (about 1 %) of diesel blended in.

There's a healthy amount of mid-range performance, again like a diesel, but not enough for it to feel like a 5.7 sec 0 - 62mph car.

Wanting to have clean air to breathe for ouselves and our kids doesn't have anything to do with Greenpeace and to be honest it doesn't have anything to do with 6.2 V8s either, the amount of pollution in the UK from V8s is miniscule, it's cancerous DIEsels that we need to get off the roads ASAP.

It is very effective, however, and creates immense amounts of braking force which significantly extends friction brake life — a 565 hp (421 kW) diesel engine can produce up to 600 hp (450 kW) of braking power at 2,100 RPM.

However, it should be said that any modification that raises the amount of fuel and air put through a diesel engine will increase its operating temperature, which will reduce its life and increase service requirements.

Given that in relative terms, the 4MATIC system adds a fairly small amount to the sticker price on three of these cars ($ 1,125 on the C350, $ 3,000 on the E350, $ 2,500 on the CLS550 and standard on the S - Class diesel), along with the increase in weight, is it worth it?

The next generation of common rail diesels is expected to use variable injection geometry, which allows the amount of fuel injected to be varied over a wider range, and variable valve timing (see Mitsubishi's 4N13 diesel engine) similar to that of petrol engines.

Compression - release («Jake») braking, a form of engine braking used almost exclusively on diesel engines, produces extreme amounts of noise pollution if there is no muffler on the intake manifold of the engine.

Equipped with a 2.1 - liter twin - turbo diesel inline 4 - cylinder, the GLK250 is able to produce large amounts of torque while remaining fuel efficient.

There's a fair amount of clatter generated by the 6.6 - liter turbodiesel, presumably to remind you you're driving a hairy - chested diesel truck, but I wasn't expecting anything less based on the butch wrapper surrounding it.

Consumer Reports has issued a call for the U.S. Department of Justice to raise the compensation amounts for owners of diesel Volkswagens that fall under the settlement reached between the automaker...

The large estate car is stylish, good to drive and offers an impressive amount of pace — even in the entry - level diesel models.

The TCT gearbox will initially be available with the 1.4 L Multiair engine making 168 horsepower, followed by the 2.0 L diesel outputting the same amount of power....

However, details on the variant line - up and final price will be available at the time of launch itself, and prospective customers can make the booking amount payment via credit or debit cards and get the option of selecting petrol or diesel versions of the vehicle.

The diesel, in the meanwhile, is a 1.5 - litre unit that makes the same amount of power as the petrol but a significantly higher 260Nm of torque.

The biggest news surrounding the face - lifted Pathfinder is that it will come with multiple engine variants, including a new 3.0 - liter V6 diesel engine with an output of 230 hp and 550 NM of torque and a 2.5 dCi four cylinder engine with an amount of 190 hp and 450 Nm of torque.

We're sure there's a significant amount of pent - up demand for this truck; it will be interesting to watch how this proportion shifts once pickup buyers who have been craving a diesel full - size for years have filled that spot in their fleet and it's up to the general public to sustain sales.

At 36.7 mpg in combined cycle, the V6 diesel may not be the most economical engine, but it delivers impressive torque and power for the amount of fuel burned.

West Virginia University and the International Council on Clean Transportation has discovered that Volkswagen Group's turbocharged, 2.0 - liter 4 - cylinder «clean diesel» engine may actually produce up to 40 times the amount of nitrogen oxides allowed by law.

To be fair though, tht sorento diesel has massive amount of torque.

While the other two engines offer a decent amount of horsepower, torque, and fuel - efficiency, the 2.8 - liter I - 4 Duramax turbo - diesel has really vaulted the Colorado into fame and fortune.

But what most people do not recognize is that diesel engines by their nature are capable of swallowing endless amounts of boost because they live on detonation.