Sentences with phrase «form of jet fuel»

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

It helps keep the vehicle size small, but because it's a very specialized form of jet fuel, it's quite expensive.

But kerosene or rocket - propellant grade kerosene, which is also what jets use — rockets use a very expensive form, a highly refined form of jet fuel, essentially, which is a form of kerosene.

Not exact matches

The first stage used Rocket Propellant - 1, a form of kerosene similar to jet fuel, while the second and third stages relied on liquid hydrogen for fuel.

The central galaxy in this cluster harbors a supermassive black hole that is in the process of devouring star - forming gas, which fuels a pair of powerful jets that erupt from the black hole in opposite directions into intergalactic space.

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.

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 company relies on preexisting, industrial, demonstration - scale fermentation infrastructure to test and optimize its process, and has been able to achieve conversion of 70 — 80 % of biomass into oil - based fuel including jet fuel and biodiesel, which has been road - tested for more than a year in an unblended form in unmodified engines.