Sentences with phrase «burning much fuel»

Not exact matches

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

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.

But not much will get done, because they won't be able to decide which fuel to use, where to hold the burnings, what part of the bible answers these questions, etc etc

It will follow the evolution of similar stars, eventually running out of hydrogen fuel, at which point it will shift to burning helium at a much higher temperature, and will eventually, 5 billion years from now, gradually become a red giant with a diameter greater than the Earth's present orbit.

It raises fat - burning, brain - fueling molecules in your body called ketones much more than coconut oil or another broad category of fat generically called medium chain triglycerides (MCTs).

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Note: Athletes generally don't burn much protein for fuel during exercise unless their glycogen (carb) stores are depleted.

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.»

And the gear is lighter and can be towed slower, so the boats burn half as much fuel and impact less area.

This tells you how much fuel you will burn and how powerful the bike will be.

Fire suppression throughout much of the 20th century allowed fuel to accumulate, leading to a sharp uptick in severe, extensive burns in the 1980s and 1990s.

Much of the carbon dioxide given off from the burning of fossil fuels goes into the ocean, where it changes the acid balance of seawater.

Cleaner - burning fossil fuels like kerosene would reduce deaths and greenhouse - gas emissions, but they cost too much for most Africans.

In urban areas, emissions from consumer goods such as paint, cleaning supplies and personal care products now contribute as much to ozone and fine particulate matter in the atmosphere as do emissions from burning gasoline or diesel fuel.

Whilst methane - burning is cleaner that other fossil fuels, any methane not burnt and released in the emissions from the engine has a much greater warming effect than oil - based fuel.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

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.

Efforts such as GreenGen bode well for resolving those complaints, but China is also moving ahead with efforts to turn coal into liquid fuel — a costly transformation that emits twice as much CO2 as does simply burning the black rock and consumes yet more energy.

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

Reforming should be somewhat cleaner than burning the fuel directly, but it is also much more complicated and expensive.

Although the available fuel is dry, there isn't much of it left to burn after 2000.

Using solid fuel results in a much shorter burn time (and therefore a narrower intercept window).

Hennessy claims that these can produce «at least a 50 percent reduction in the burning of diesel fuel, plus the diesels will need less maintenance and last much longer.

The difference between engineering microbes to produce drugs versus fuel is that, ounce for ounce, drugs are much more valuable: a fuel end product has to be cheap enough to burn.

But adding a little extra energy in the form of electricity might save as much as 10 per cent of the fuel that tractors have to burn to overcome soil friction, according to an American research team.

Much like a car engine has multiple cylinders, GE's H - class turbines possess a ring of 12 or 16 combustors, each capable of burning nearly three tons of fuel and air per minute at firing temperatures exceeding 1,500 degrees Celsius.

Natural gas is by far the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon dioxide as the energy - equivalent amount of coal.

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-.

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

Our mechanized, urbanized, industrial society has burned so much fossil fuel that we have overburdened the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, pushing the earth's elements out of balance.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

Because of the climate record is still short, more work needs to be done to determine how much of the warming results from natural climate swings and how much from the warming effects of carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels, Dr. Steig said.

Mass is important because it determines the rate at which a star burns its nuclear fuel: bigger stars burn up faster, producing much higher temperatures.

It has sometimes been argued that the earth's biosphere (in large part, the terrestrial biosphere) may have the capacity to sequestor much of the increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere associated with human fossil fuel burning.

Since the heart burns so much fuel to keep beating, and consumes fats and carbohydrates along with other available fuels, any changes in its metabolic efficiency could impact metabolism throughout the body.

Very large, massive stars burn their fuel much faster than smaller stars and may only last a few hundred thousand years.

The aim in general was to work out how much of the carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels was ending up in the oceans, vegetation, soils, weathered minerals and so on.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

Smaller stars, however, will last for several billion years, because they burn their fuel much more slowly.

Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»

«Someone who has higher muscle mass is going to burn food faster and use their fuel much more efficiently than someone who is carrying a lot of fat,» McGrice says.

That gives you a much more efficient fuel burn, without feeling like you overdid it,» says Costello.

● Good fats play a number of roles in our health but an important one is slowing blood sugar spikes to help us better regulate energy and mood ● Fat is a longer burning source of fuel for the body so you don't need to think about food as much when healthy fats are the primary source of fuel.

In that sense, you may turn your aerobic system lazy, and make your speed and endurance a function of how much you can fuel, rather than a function of how much fat you can burn.

Glucose is a «dirty» fuel, while fat burns much cleaner.

Fat adaptation involves sharp carbohydrate restriction in conjunction with a complementing increase in fat consumption (with many of those fats being saturated fats) to induce the physiological shift necessary for the body to «switch» to burning «fat as fuel» at much higher rates.

It's a longer lasting slower burning fuel, much like protein, that gives the body more energy in the long run.

If you are already following a ketogenic diet, you might not recognize much change during this phase, which is intended to flip the metabolic switch towards burning fat as the primary fuel source.