Sentences with phrase «from burning fuel»

Witnesses told police that the flames from the burning fuel caused the other cars to be engulfed in a fiery blast.

By coating a nanotube in nitrocellulose fuel and igniting one end, we set off a combustion wave along it and learned that a nanotube is an excellent conductor of heat from burning fuel.

This does not include the carbon dioxide released from burning fuel.

Developing expensive carbon capture and storage technology could limit emissions from burning the fuel, though the UK government currently funds those multi-billion pound efforts, too.

Second, much of the CO2 produced by these facilities is not from burning fuel, but from the chemical reaction of creating the material.

Remember the total is the sum of direct emissions from burning fuel and indirect emissions from the life cycle, which means the industrial processes required to build it.

One major constituent of haze is particle pollution, such as dust, liquid drops, and soot from burning fuel or coal.

Energy is the stuff we generate from burning fuel.

How the Body Uses Energy by Robert Verkerk PhD Energy is the stuff we generate from burning fuel.

But making it releases carbon from burning fuel, needed to heat a mix of limestone and clays to 1,450 degrees Celsius (2,642 degrees Fahrenheit)-- and from the heated limestone (calcium carbonate) itself.

The problem is that life - cycle analyses for biofuels literally assign a carbon credit to the biofuel that cancels out all the emissions from burning the fuel in the car.

Assemblyman James Skoufis said he'll introduce legislation to block Competitive Power Ventures from burning fuel oil in its Wawayanda power plant next year.

But most is the result of human actions, in the form of sulphate aerosols from burning fuels.

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in the U.S. fell between 2009 and 2013, but greenhouse gases from burning those fuels went up.

When this happens, it usually looks like some sort of «explosion» where engine makes loud sound (breaking crankshaft) and holes emit large amount of smoke from burned fuel, oil and hot metal of cylinders.

Additionally, inhalation of toxic chemicals from burning fuels, metal, plastics, and even plant material (alkaloids) can cause mild to severe toxic effects to internal organs.

Carbon dioxide from burning fuels and forests is flowing in twice as fast as it is being absorbed by plants and the ocean, and some of those «sinks» are in fact getting saturated, it appears, meaning that the «drain» is clogging a bit.

A host of surveys show that most Americans remain doubtful, disengaged, or confused about the basic science pointing to centuries - long changes in climate patterns and coastlines if greenhouse gas emissions from burning fuels and forests are not reduced.

Many seasoned climate scientists and energy experts, some of whom walked the halls here during the meeting like an admonitory Greek chorus, still expressed optimism that nations generating the century - long spike in emissions from burning fuels and forests were poised to divert from paths long labeled on graphs as «business as usual.»

Q. Moving from a world of 6.7 billion who are 85 percent dependent on fossil fuels to one of some 9 billion or so nearly free of emissions from burning these fuels in two generations is just about as huge a mountain to climb as anyone could imagine.

If fossil fuels are used for mining and refining uranium ore, or if fossil fuels are used when constructing the nuclear power plant, then the emissions from burning those fuels could be associated with the electricity that nuclear power plants generate.»

It took about one percent of the world economy to develop the modern infrastructure of clean water and indoor plumbing; that's roughly what will be required to get rid of «another kind of human waste» — carbon dioxide emissions from burning fuels.

The CO2 released from burning these fuels rises into the upper atmosphere and remains resident there — typically for around a century — trapping heat re-radiated from Earth's surface and causing global warming and other harmful climate change.

To the contrary, we have accurate fuel records showing that the CO2 from the burnt fuel has been very close to twice the increase in atmospheric CO2 over more than the past two centuries.

Emissions from burning these fuels total nearly two - thirds of all the carbon that has been emitted into the atmosphere during the industrial era.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

Both get financial backing from those who profit from the continued burning of fossil fuels.

But most of the damage to the Great Barrier Reef comes from the burning of fossil fuels that have warmed the planet.

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

Technologies from Westport Innovations Inc. allow engines to operate on clean - burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

Even with fuel efficiency improving in automobiles, Americans burned through a massive 406 million gallons a day in June, the most recent month of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

However, omitting breakfast entirely, as part of an intermittent fasting schedule (see tip # 4 below), can actually have a number of phenomenal health benefits, from improving your insulin sensitivity to shifting your body into burning more fat instead of sugar for fuel.

These hydrocarbons, which are also burned for heating and cooking and blended into vehicle fuel, are extracted from the natural gas production stream or produced as a by - product of refined oil.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

Fat must be released from our body fat, transported through your system, to a cellular engine where it will be burned as a fuel.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

The ever expanding Universe is another... where the Universe never stops expanding and evenually the night skies go pitch black... no light from the distance stars... and the Universe grows cold and dies off... All the stars burn up their fuel and there are no stars anywhere... 3.)

It will follow the evolution of similar stars, eventually running out of hydrogen fuel, at which point it will shift to burning helium at a much higher temperature, and will eventually, 5 billion years from now, gradually become a red giant with a diameter greater than the Earth's present orbit.

He also treats skin burns from contact with fuel.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

That protein from your diet, then, needs to be broken down and used to build muscles and tendons and whatnot — it can't be burned for fuel.

Medium chain fatty acids are transported directly from the intestines to the liver, where they are more likely to be burned as fuel, as opposed to shorter and longer chains, which typically get stored as fat.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

According to, let's call him Tom, this diet requires a very high fat, adequate protein, and low carb intake, which trains your body to switch it's primary fuel source from carbohydrates to burning fat fuels.

This is because warm muscles and enlarged (e.g. dilated) blood vessels use oxygen from the blood and burn fuel stored in the muscles more efficiently.

That energy most likely comes from the burning of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere.