Sentences with phrase «electricity and the gas engine»

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Along with electricity production from biogas produced from wastewater and solid residue, steam is produced from the hot exhaust gases from the biogas engine.

Gas turbines are used for the production of electricity and in aircraft engines.

AMP simply swaps out the engine, drivetrain and gas tank of the existing vehicle and plops in their electric version, which relies on repurposed Chinese lithium phosphate batteries to deliver 33 kilowatt - hours of electricity.

By the turn of the 20th century, inventors had built engines run by steam and electricity as well as gas.

It can travel 31 miles on electricity alone, although Range Rover said it employed both the gas engine and the electric motor to climb the 999 steps toward Heaven's Gate.

When averaged out between other major electricity sources, including petroleum and liquified petroleum gas, this figure does shrink to 128g / km, but this is still only 14g / km below Mazda's Skyactiv - X engine, which will go into production next year.

Slow starts and feathering the accelerator pedal can keep the car running off electricity up to 30 mph, but I found there's a better strategy: use the gasoline motor to accelerate up to 25 mph (this reduces the amount of road rage you'll witness), lift - off the gas pedal to shut the engine off, and gingerly accelerate.

So put it all together, and the environmentalists say we should use natural gas to generate electricity and then put that in the batteries of plug - in hybrids, rather than burning it in our engines.

It can go about 25 miles on electricity alone, and the EPA rates it 54 mpg combined when the gas engine is involved.

Beyond that, the Karma can fire up its on - board gas engine and generate electricity to power its dual, rear - mounted electric motors for another 250 miles.

The advantage of the Honda Clarity Plug - in Hybrid is that, once you have traveled those 47 miles, the 1.5 - liter Atkinson - cycle four - cylinder engine kicks in to generate more electricity and take you as far as 340 miles on a single tank of gas.

Like the Toyota system, the Mercury Milan Hybrid has a nickel metal hydride battery pack that stores electricity generated by the brakes and the gas engine, a 2.5 - liter four - cylinder in this case.

Regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy to electricity while you're driving lets you recharge on the go and reduces the need to revert to the gas engine if the battery runs dry.

The same physics engine also controls the gas, smoke and electricity, which all react realistically and dynamically, ensuring a slightly different experience each playthrough.

Even with today's power plants emitting greenhouse gases, the overall levels would be reduced because the entire process of moving a car one mile is more efficient using electricity than producing gasoline and burning it in a car's engine.

Our «Big Fix» advocacy video: March 12, 2009: «Converting Gas Guzzlers:» A one - minute and forty - five second video explaining the reason we're working to launch a major effort to build awareness for the opportunity to convert large internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles — what former Intel CEO Andy Grove calls «PSVs» (Pickups, SUVs and Vans) to run partially on electricity.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

For example, we can substitute some residential coal burning and industrial boiler for electricity, or fuel - engine vehicles for electric vehicles; save natural gas for residential use; and for those who still have to burn coal, provide them with high quality coal.»

«Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities» explores the application of nanoscience in five key areas that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, namely: insulation, photovoltaics, electricity storage, engine efficiency and the hydrogen economy.

Methane that is currently flared can be processed and introduced into the closest natural gas pipeline or it can be used directly to produce electricity in a microtubine, internal combustion engine or a boiler and steam turbine.

«Converting Gas Guzzlers:» a 1 minute and 45 second video explaining the reason we're working to launch a major effort to build awareness for the opportunity to convert large internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to run entirely or partially on electricity.

From oil and gas to mining, from forestry to potash, from hydro - electricity to innovative new power sources, energy is a critical feature of our nation's economic engine.