Sentences with phrase «for fuel usage»

I really liked the three different options for fuel usage: regular, sport and eco.
Neither vehicle met their stated ratings for fuel usage in real world testing.

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They cut their usage by recycling waste water to fuel their boilers, checking for leaky equipment and using sensors to control irrigation on their farms.
Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.
Now, what we have is an incredibly efficient, incredibly progressive industry that is very cost - sensitive, it improves dramatically, looks at scraps, reductions in fuel reductions in water usage, better yeast for the fermentation, better enzymes to convert the starch to sugar... every scrap of economic performance they can get.»
The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have received information that these contaminated fuels which were originally meant for industrial usage by the steel, garment, petrol chemical as claimed by BOST by companies to run their machinery and certainly not for the running of vehicle engines has ended up in the open market against the NPA's directive not to do so.
He supports making renewable fuel tax - free for mass transit and cars, attempting to lessen American usage of nonrenewable oils.
The editors respond: We thought the numbers in Dukes's study were fascinating for what they reveal about the amount of raw biomass needed to create a gallon of gasoline; however, due to space constraints, we could not go into greater detail about fossil - fuel production and energy usage.
But it is difficult to see how this is to be achieved without some sort of strategic framework for patterns of fuel usage.
The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.
For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.
Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.
«Electric propulsion can offer the ability to move large masses through space with minimum fuel usage,» said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations.
We believe that water usage is a key component in optimizing the process for converting waste into fuel.
Specifically, this reduced fuel usage is localized in regions of the brain involved in memory processing and learning.10, 11,21,24 PET scans of people at high risk for developing AD show that this decline occurs long before symptoms of AD are present, and seems to be the first step in a long chain of events whose eventual end is overt AD.
As for the answers which read the question as fuel usage, that would have been easy to answer: «verbruik».
Our favorite feature on the Super Duty — especially when towing — is the cluster - mounted «productivity screen,» where drivers can look up towing advice according to the type of trailer, get instantaneous fuel economy, program settings for various trailers, retrieve historical fuel usage, calculate trip info, and keep tabs well as maintenance records.
Owners and operators of a fleet of vehicles use these services to monitor driver performance for unauthorized or unsafe vehicle usage, as well as analyze data such as the current location of a vehicle, fuel consumption, mileage, emissions status and diagnostic trouble codes.
The Kia Niro is a hard - to - categorize small family vehicle that is perfect for starting families that want to plug in to help limit fossil - fuel usage.
8A / 12A switchable Level 1 charging cable CHAdeMO DC quick charge port Battery warming system MiEV remote system (pre-activated air conditioning, heater and timer battery charging) Approaching Vehicle Audio System (AVAS) for alerting pedestrians Charging Times: 3 22 hours for 8amp 14 hours for 12 amp 7 hours with 240V / 15A Level 2 charging system Less than 30 minutes to 80 % full with CHAdeMO Level 3 DC Quick Charger Driving Modes: «D» — allows maximum performance as it generates 100 % torque in direct response to accelerator input «ECO» — helps maximize energy usagefuel economy») by slightly reducing overall power output to reduce the rate of battery consumption «B» — increases regenerative brake biasing to augment energy recycling (with 100 % of power production available)
However, Hyundai is looking to slash fuel usage significantly, and earn global bragging rights for technology at the same time, by introducing a Tucson powered by a fuel cell.
I love the back window being able to open to allow for air flow when driving on the interstate, without compromising the fuel usage.
IMPORTANT: Starting with 2015 model year vehicles, the Government of Canada has mandated new fuel economy test methods to better approximate typical driving conditions and styles by adjusting city and highway ratings to account for air conditioner usage, cold temperature operation and driving at higher speeds with more rapid acceleration and braking.
The Intel Atom processor has fueled an entirely new category of computing over the last year and a half and we think the growth will continue for devices like netbooks and entry - level PCs built around basic computing and Internet usage models,» said Mooly Eden, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's PC Client Group.
To add fuel to the proverbial fire, public libraries are facing the perfect storm of record - breaking usage, heart - rending budget cuts, and an ear - splitting clamor for the digital services that OverDrive represents, with no human, technical or monetary support in sight.
Regardless of political leanings, both gas companies are responsible for a massive contribution to increase in fossil fuel usage and, by extension, rapidly increasing climate change.
Last year, All Nippon Airlines asked passengers to use the lavatories before they board flights so as to reduce the overall weight of the plane, which would ultimately be better for the environment as it would mean less fuel usage.
It would be a big mistake for fossil fuel executives to mistake heavy usage or economic dependence for loyalty or love.
So Vaughan's analysis of the past record is interesting for what it's worth, but has zero value as a projection for the future until a function to include population growth forecasts (as well as pe capita fossil fuel usage) is included.
Despite that, I believe sugarcane ethanol is a good option for mitigating a portion of our fossil fuel usage because it is renewable, and it lacks the negative externalities of fossil fuels.
Do you care, in any way shape of form, about the massive subsidies for fossil fuel usage due to externalities not within the contracted prices?
Judy: This is an interesting question but, for me, it misses the fundamental dilemma facing those who believe that continued large scale fossil fuel usage creates significant climate risks — namely they offer no coherent solution except reversing industrialization.
«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace...
«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»
Over time, this continually rising price provides an incentive for people and businesses to use less and find alternatives: Anyone who can lower their fuel usage and / or energy consumption, pays less tax.
My main fuel usage however is natural gas for which I pay $ 130 per month (recent increase).
It's similar to the facile association of increased fossil fuel usage and increased standard of living w / o accounting for the influence of other factors that directly affect development such as increased civil rights, spending on education, etc..
The global picture remains as I depicted it: there are enough fossil fuels to last us for 200 - 300 years at current usage rate and when they are all 100 % gone some day in the far distant future when you and I and our great grandchildren are all long gone, the maximum ever CO2 level will be around 1,000 ppmv.
Due to the thermal lag of the oceans in response to the anthropogenically - forced warming imposed upon them, the world will continue to warm and its climate will continue to change, for decades after the cessation of the usage of fossil fuels.
We can cut our transportation fuel usage more than in half by making smaller cars and shifting to diesel hybrids for power.
Because the earth (mother earth, or Gaia, to all you tree hugger freaks) knows what we want, and what is best for us, and what is best is our nice Goldilocks climate that supports the inviolate and constitutionally protected right to cheap, atmosphere changing fossil fuels even though said usage essentially reverses 10s of millions of years of earth lower atmosphere affecting energy balances within a mere speck of time) and not you eco fools who want to harm the poor (something climate change would never do, bill gates and the world's leading scientists and thinkers and economists are fools to even think it — climate change will affect the wealthy) just to give the even more power over our individual lives.
For this reason, he believes that society needs to immediately reduce our fossil fuel usage, or else there could be disastrous consequences.
I find it telling that someone who accuses those who use the word «pollution» to describe excess atmospheric CO2 of being «Orwellian» can also describe proposals for what is a form of «user - pays» in fossil fuel usage as «like listening to Marxist students of the 1960s.»
So, why do so many people believe that humans are causing an increase in cyclone activity, and that our fossil fuel usage is somehow to blame for these natural disasters?
We have an immediate problem to solve for the welfare and health of not only our country, but the world: How do we minimize the usage of fossil fuels for automobiles!
While many in the media have sounded the death knell for coal as a power fuel source, and in the very long - term I think coal usage will gradually diminish, it will take years — perhaps even decades — for coal to be relegated to an insignificant role in power generation, but I am convinced it will occur.
After usage in the power plant, the spent fuel is delivered to a reprocessing plant (2) or to a final repository (3) for geological disposition.
I'd say the biggest and potentially most murderous swindle being practised at present is the pretence that the evidence for anthropogenic global warming is not strong enough to merit immediate and far - reaching action to reduce usage of fossil fuels.
The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.
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