Breeder reactor: A reactor that both produces and consumes fissionable fuel, especially one that
creates more fuel than it consumes.
Creating more fuel - efficient vehicles can have a huge impact on oil use and our climate.
Not exact matches
Beijing is hoping that building
more cities will
create wealth for its people but as CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports, it's also
fueling a debilitating rise in property prices.
Users» desire for authenticity has
fueled the rental app's growth, so why not do
more to
create a
more authentic experience for their customers?
One is to regard capital as the
fuel that is keeping our company alive for a finite period of time, during which one of two things will happen: 1) We prove our company to be a worthy proposition, which will bring it
more investment or increased revenue and allow us to stay in business, or 2) we fail to
create a worthy proposition, and it's time to move on.
At the beginning of his presentation, he stressed that the mission of his companies is to accelerate humanity's exit from the fossil
fuel era and to
create more sustainable lifestyles.
«While
more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry
more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil
fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing
more clean power online — these regulations
create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»
Carbon taxes are a lot
more complicated to implement and can
create perverse incentives for nonparticipating countries to burn
more carbon — because
fuel prices fall as demand goes down.
«It means reversing this long time economic model, where the state will profit through the economic system at the expense of the consumers and household, and one of the things that the new leadership is intent on doing in order to
create consumption is to empower consumers, so they spend
more and stop empowering state organizations which are
fuelling the overcapacity and the massive debt bubble».
Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for
more than $ 23 billion in a deal
creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S.
fuel export markets.
We mow down trees to
create more roads and drive without any concern about fossil
fuels.
During the 2010 - 2011 school year, the department composted 143 tons of food waste, collected 4,533 gallons of used cooking oil (to
create biodiesel
fuel) and recycled
more than 150 tons of cardboard, glass and plastic.
Nine years ago, Balcones was little
more than an idea
fueled by a ruthless drive to
create something new, something genuine, something worthwhile — a Texas whisky tradition.
Bad habits can reduce
fuel efficiency and
create more wear and tear on the vehicle itself.
«Meat may be delicious, but the way cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are reared uses lots of fossil
fuels and
creates lots of CO2 —
more than the car industry.
I've certainly made my fair share of mistakes along the way in
fueling sibling squabbles, but I've also since learned how to
create more peace.
When babies bawl like this, they take in a lot of air, which
creates gas and
more pain, making them cry even
more —
fueling a vicious cycle that many parents struggle with on a daily basis.
While Facebook and other social media played an essential role in
creating the protests themselves, I would argue that their even
more important role consisted in continuously
fuelling them, as multiple Facebook pages dedicated to the protests started posting photos, videos and articles on what was happening, while simultaneously engaging the public and the protesters in a discussion on a wide range of important and thought - provoking civic topics, ranging from the manifestations themselves to Romania's political future.
Miliband used the interview to suggest he would deal with the government's welfare reforms by
creating more jobs and repeatedly hinted Labour could scrap universal pensioners» benefits like winter
fuel allowance.
More importantly, history shows clearly that executions not only
create martyrs, rallying people to a cause, but can also
fuel a culture of revenge in which terrorism itself can flourish.
But I think this gives
more fuel to Barron who is running for governor by
creating the «FREEDOM PARTY»
The headline figures - which are based on the Treasury's own statistical models - show that a 2.5 p cut in
fuel duty would quickly
create 180,000 jobs, and
more than pay for itself with the extra tax revenues that would be generated.
He goes further arguing that
fuelling this debt
created a falsehood throughout the public sector that borrowing
more money (or printing
more) was the answer.
Since 2014, when the U.N. Environment Programme
created the U.N. Environment Inquiry to study ways to make the global financial system less reliant on fossil
fuels, central banks, regulators and the private sector have noted
more and
more that climate change poses an economic threat to the world.
When Roberts made the core
more like a rocky snow cone than solid stone, it flexed and
created enough heat to
fuel the moon's famous water jets.
Whether those refusing the vaccine have helped
fuel the current pertussis epidemic is uncertain, but their decisions have
created a public health tinderbox: in some Bay Area schools, 40 percent or
more of the kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against pertussis and other preventable diseases, such as measles.
By following carbon emissions in
more than 100 countries and 57 industrial sectors — from the extraction of the
fuels to the energy inputs in
creating goods and services to delivery to the final consumer — he and his colleagues uncovered a
more complete story of who emits the world's greenhouse gases, and at which point in the supply chain.
When Obama emphasized his «all of the above» energy plan, it sparked a combative back - and - forth duel with a subtext about who would
create more jobs by permitting the private sector to develop fossil
fuels on public land and on the outer continental shelf.
To achieve their grander ambitions, such as
creating algae capable of churning out
fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far
more sweeping changes.
Biofuel producers use the sugars in crops such as corn to
create alternative
fuel that is
more climate friendly than gas or coal.
Ships burn dirtier
fuels in the open ocean away from port, spewing
more aerosols and
creating even
more lightning, Thornton said.
When Roberts made the core
more like a snow cone than a stone, it flexed and
created enough heat to
fuel its famous water jets.
They can even be combined with the burning of plant matter to
create a «carbon negative»
fuel that when burned removes
more CO2 from the air than it puts in.
Today,
more than 100 years after Huxley, teams of researchers are still unraveling the role phytoplankton play in
creating the air we breathe, the food we eat, the
fuel we burn, even the ground we walk on.
In place of turbochargers and high - octane gas, the scientists tweaked their engine design and used an additive to speed the oxidation of hydrogen peroxide into
fuel to
create nanomachines 350 times
more powerful than any previously built.
The limited success of Changing World Technologies (CWT), a biocrude pioneer first chronicled by DISCOVER in May 2003, reveals that there are
more challenges than meet the eye in
creating an environment - friendly, economically viable waste - to -
fuel industry.
«Finding an inexpensive, readily - available photocathode material could open up new options to
create cheaper,
more energy - effective solar
fuel cells.»
In fact, the M.I.T. report argues that
creating reactors that produce
more fuel than they consume may never be necessary.
But now, researchers have taken a
more sizable jump with solar panels,
creating a hybrid device that uses a combination of catalysts and microbes to convert 10 % of the captured solar energy into liquid
fuels and other commodity chemicals.
Others, like Wright, are working to understand the organism
more completely, to direct the organism to
create fuels using light and carbon dioxide.
That was the knock on ethanol: that it took
more energy to
create than it produced as
fuel.
A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia
creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility
fuel mixes are
more varied.
With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil
fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting
more carbon dioxide into the air and
creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.
For the transportation industry, the ability to modify manufacturing processes to
create high - performance materials could aid in the development of
more fuel - efficient engines or engine parts that can withstand heat better to have longer lifespans.
The improvement transformed a catalyst that
created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces
more than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of protons and electrons that can be used to
create hydrogen
fuel.
There are other factors that are favoring
more and bigger wildfires, such as the decades of active fire suppression that have
created dense forests with ample
fuel, making fires
more difficult to control.
The prototypes that the researchers have already produced do not yet
create fuel at a large scale that is
more energy - efficient than corn - based biofuels.
Adventure that was
created and
fueled quite simply: with nothing
more than the great outdoors and my childlike wonder exploring it.
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Still feeling
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more.