Sentences with phrase «entire fuel cycle»

When various energy sources are assessed according to their environmental impacts, the entire fuel cycle must be considered.

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The entire cycle is a self - regulating feedback mechanism, like the thermostat on a house's heating and cooling system, because the «puddle» of gas around the black hole provides the fuel that powers the jets.

This second, time - lagged process is independent of the primary energy source, the sunlight, and thus ensures that fuel is continually produced over the entire diurnal cycle.

For example, an entire nuclear cycle involving light - water reactors, reprocessing of the spent fuel, and disposal of small «packages» of highly radioactive nuclear waste in deep boreholes could prove an attractive option, Moniz noted.

«The entire cycle is a self - regulating feedback mechanism, like the thermostat on a house's heating and cooling system, because the «puddle» of gas around the black hole provides the fuel that powers the jets,» NASA said in the statement.

Despite the fact that the new engine is significantly more powerful than the V8s that preceded it, the Ferrari 458 Italia produces just 320 g / km of CO2 and fuel consumption is 13.7 l / 100 km (combined cycle), the best in the entire segment.

Cooper's favorable argument for shale gas is compelling because in such a life cycle analysis — where the entire process is assessed from extraction to power plant combustion — water requirements are lower in comparison to certain fuel types.

Fuel cycle: The entire set of sequential processes or stages involved in the utilization of fuel, including extraction, transformation, transportation, and combustFuel cycle: The entire set of sequential processes or stages involved in the utilization of fuel, including extraction, transformation, transportation, and combustfuel, including extraction, transformation, transportation, and combustion.

Dr. Walker highlighted the vulnerability of the entire nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium mining to nuclear enrichment to commercial nuclear power to spent fuel storage, transportation, and finally reprocessing.

«Closed cycle» means quarantining the entire nuclear chain — from uranium mining to spent fuel burial — at a single, isolated, secure, safeguarded place.

In fact, over the entire life cycle of growing and harvesting crops, turning them into fuel, transporting and using them in vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel emit as much CO2 as petroleum — and require infinitely more acreage.

To ensure that we «count carbs» accurately, by explaining why we need a comprehensive accounting system for carbon emissions — one that measures global warming emissions over a transportation fuel's entire life cycle.