Sentences with phrase «even jet fuel»
Scientists are turning agricultural leftovers, wood and fast - growing grasses into a huge variety of biofuels — even jet fuel.
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Jets are banned and, anyway, fuel - guzzling jet engines have never fit Porter's business plan, which calls for fuel - efficient planes with low break - even load factors.
Delta Air Lines Inc. earlier this week reported results that beat analysts» estimates and issued a first - quarter forecast suggesting airfares will stay intact even as jet fuel prices decline.
The 777X, scheduled to be released next year, is expected to make even further strides in fuel economy, with Boeing billing it as «the largest and most efficient twin - engine jet in the world.»
We sold them some jets, and maybe some of them could be modified to deploy nuclear bombs, but we did not give them any bombs, nuclear fuel, or even help them all that much in that area.
Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.
There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)
Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.
When liquid fuel is the goal, then the ethylene is chemically bound together to form even longer hydrocarbon chains that we know as gasoline or kerosene (jet fuel).
Unfortunately, jet fuel derived from coal results in even more CO2 emissions, which makes it no alternative at all if the goal is to combat climate change.
Researchers think these bubbles drag trails of relatively cooler gas (about 1 million degrees), and as the bubbles detach from the jets and drift farther out into the galaxy, the cooler gas trails become even cooler, becoming extremely cold (just slight above absolute zero), and rain back on the black hole as fuel for star formation.
They open their nozzle points outwards, forming an annular gap that is mere micrometres in size, shaping the jet of fuel and ensuring its even, hollow - cone - shaped dispersion.
The only major gap is in air transport, but even there bio jet fuel has been successfully tested.
The overwhelming challenge is how to produce enough biofuel to supply even a fraction of the more than 60 billion gallons of jet fuel burned every year by the world's aircraft.
Just generate the H2 and use it in jet engines, fuel cell vehicles, any place where you would use methanol or methane and you don't even involve carbon!
That's because even as warmer oceans provide jet fuel for hurricanes, changes in atmospheric wind patterns can still interfere with their formation by preventing storms from forming or, literally, tearing them apart.
A similar pattern holds for the other sources of carbon pollution: electricity, jet fuel, even diesel fuel that powers the trucks that deliver goods.
Whether it was jet fuel or gasoline burnt and exhausted to the atmosphere, coal burnt to produce electricity, or even the millions of cubic meters of concrete used to build hydroelectric dams, the hallmark of twentieth - century development was an increased carbon footprint.
There's even a textbook for USA children that teaches about creating an atmosphere sunscreen using jet planes and fuel to add particles to the atmosphere.