Sentences with phrase «aviation fuels include»
In the airline industry, for example, this would be useful because some countries require that aviation fuels include a specific biofuel percentage.
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New proposals include lowering taxes on diesel and aviation fuel by half and further reductions in corporate taxes for small and medium - sized business.
The foundation has grants from companies, government agencies, and other foundations to develop eight new prizes, including competitions involving health care, tuberculosis, and alternative aviation fuels.
They include removing domestic content requirements for solar and wind energy projects, hiking the aviation fuel tax from 2.7 cents a litre to 6.7 cents over four years and freezing MPP salaries until the deficit is eliminated.
More from The Guardian: «Sarah Evans, vice-president for communications at the X Prize Foundation, said that the foundation would bring together experts in the aviation and green technology sectors, including representatives from the Federal Aviation Authority's commercial aviation alternative fuel initiative, to hammer out the exact details of the competition, with the aim of announcing final plans in summer next year.
Point five addresses bringing people out of poverty and calls for putting «an end to the fossil fuel era, phasing out fossil fuel emissions, including emissions from military aviation and shipping and providing affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all.»
These include technical and operational improvements and advances in the production and use of sustainable alternative fuels for aviation.
The fuel efficiency of civil aviation can be improved by a variety of means including technology, operation and management of air traffic.
Other options include the transfer of IMF - created «special drawing rights» (reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund that countries can exchange for hard currency) from rich to poorer countries, redirecting harmful fossil - fuel subsidies, reducing spending on ballooning military budgets, and taxing aviation and shipping.
Yet, according to ICAO's 2013 projections, shown in the graph below, emissions from the aviation industry are set to grow 200 % -360 % on current levels by 2050, including the maximum use of lower - carbon alternative fuels.
These might include a global fossil fuel extraction levy, or aviation levies, or financial transaction taxes.
This should include VAT on air tickets, a tax on aviation fuel and opposition to new runways.»
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.
These factors include, accounting for non-CO2 gases generated by the combustion of aviation fuel (i.e. sulphur and methane), flying through certain types of clouds, and even flying at night.
With FIDO operational, Guy worked on a number of different projects, including research on the efficiency of fuel cells, research on German aviation fuel as inferred from the spectrographic analysis of aircraft exhaust, not to mention the design and testing of fuel baffles, experimental forest - clearing devices, and fuel propellant systems (including flamethrowers — an application the pacifically - minded Guy must have disliked.)