Sentences with phrase «from conventional fuel»

12/13/17 — California recently announced that it is studying ways to move from its conventional fuel tax that drivers pay at the pump to a system in which drivers will pay based on how many miles they drove since their last fill - up.

Provided investment in solar increases ($ 26 - 33 billion per year is required) the US could be generating 10 % of its electricity from solar power by 2025, and doing it at a lower cost than from conventional fuel sources.

Not exact matches

lorries from conventional diesel fuelled vehicles to BIO LPG Autogas.

But if we are to continue to compute and communicate with more freedom, while liberating ourselves from our dependence on fossil fuels, conventional thinking needs an overhaul.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

Some Republican members of Congress want to bar the Pentagon from buying green fuels that cost more than conventional ones.

Conventional soaps and detergents are viewed as environmentally unfriendly because they are made from fossil fuels.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

Fluid injection can occur with conventional oil and gas extraction methods, which extract fuel from underground pools, and with unconventional methods like fracking, which recover oil and gas from small voids in rocks.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

«More than 10,000 million metric tons of carbon emissions were reported in 2010 from conventional fossil fuels and chemicals, which has a long - term catastrophic effect on our environment.»

Of course, fuels from such sources also cost more than conventional jet fuel.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

Now biodiesel entrepreneurs in tropical zones in Africa and India are buying up land, starting plantations and looking forward to making fuel from the seeds, which, they argue, will be better for the global environment and economy than conventional biofuel crops grown in temperate climates.

ConocoPhillips teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc., of Arkansas in 2007 to convert waste fat from livestock animals and agricultural waste into conventional diesel fuel.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

Why It Matters: Although the catalyst requires more energy to run than a conventional platinum catalyst, the insight garnered from this result might eventually help make hydrogen fuel in an environmentally friendly, affordable way, the researchers report in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

These harmful gases are emitted into your home's air from certain liquids and solids, including conventional household cleaning supplies, cosmetics, paints, varnishes, waxes disinfectants, fuels and hobby products.

While Volkswagen Group's Bugatti Chiron gets its 1,479 horsepower from a relatively conventional quad - turbocharged W - 16, the Project One's 1,000 - plus horsepower comes directly from the racetrack, apparently making it a, well, road - legal F1 car to Bugatti's road - legal NHRA top fuel dragster.

Hong Kong - based Hybrid Kinetic Group does specialise in turbine systems however, and its website makes claims that its turbine generators are as little as a half to a third the size of a conventional piston engine, runs 20,000 hours maintenance free and can run on virtually any fuel - from petrol and diesel to hydrogen, or propane.

Although the Japanese automaker has tinkered with a number of advanced propulsion systems over the past decade, it feels there's plenty of life left in conventional, fuel - burning engines, albeit not without a little help from new technologies.

Yet this hasn't deterred a growing number of automakers from pouring vast amounts of money into the development of hydrogen fuel - cell technology, which can provide a car with range commensurate with conventional gasoline - engine models while emitting nothing but water in the form of steam.

On the face of it, excellent claimed economy is one of the major aspects of the Auris that set it apart from its rivals — Toyota suggests 80mpg is possible, although drivers who make frequent long, fast journeys are likely to experience fuel economy closer to a conventional petrol or diesel car.

Yes, most of the vehicles will roll out in the next few years, but the transition from conventional gasoline power to plug - in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles is going to be rapid.

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But with significant increases in fuel economy from comparatively priced crossovers, it's more likely that we're seeing a generational shift away from conventional family cars that can't quickly be undone by global economic forces.

The plug - in technology enables the battery to fully charge from a standard electrical outlet, enabling pure electric propulsion in many driving situations, especially urban commutes in which fuel efficiency may double that of a conventional hybrid.

The two - mode VUE, which goes on sale later this year, will accelerate from 0 - 60 mph in 7.5 seconds, and offer a greater than 50 % combined fuel economy improvement over a conventional six - cylinder VUE.

At this year's IAA, Opel displays the Flexpower, a Vectra sedan which appears unchanged from the outside, yet has a two - liter turbo engine that can run on E85 bioethanol fuel, conventional gasoline or any mixture of the two.

Lexus says that changing from the conventional four - stroke Otto cycle to the more fuel efficient Atkinson cycle contributes fuel savings of 12 to 14 percent.

Conventional automatic transmissions provide greater torque from a stop because of the torque converter, but they waste significant amounts of fuel until the lockup clutch is engaged, at which point the impeller and pump wheels of the converter are bypassed using a wet clutch.

The company makes belts that are incorporated into CVTs used in vehicles made by Toyota Motor, and the expansion is in response to growing inquiries from Toyota as the automaker increases production of vehicles equipped with CVT, which offer greater fuel efficiency than conventional automatic transmissions, according to the report.

To combat this, the D - 4S tech switches from port fuel injection (Atkinson) back to direct injection (conventional) when the driver calls for power.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

As for the fuel consumption, the GX and GXL burn out 9.1 l / 100 km, which is a significant improvement from 10.2 l, while the Grande now fuels up 9.3 l / 100 km, as opposed to the previous generation «s 10/4 l. All versions are also hooked to a high - performance eight - speed automatic transmission, which replaces the conventional six - speed automatic.

Gasoline direct injection differs from the fuel delivery process of a conventional engine by delivering fuel directly into the combustion chamber, where it is mixed with air drawn in to the chamber.

Apart from the mounting positions of the fuel injectors, the cylinder head has conventional port and combustion chamber designs, although both are optimized for direct injection and high boost pressures.

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Fuel - cell vehicles are different from «hybrid» vehicles, which use small, conventional gasoline - powered engines to help generate electricity that charges onboard batteries and runs an electric motor.

Fuel consumption compared to a conventional X3 is reduced by approximately 20 % to an estimated 9.4 l / 100 km (25 mpg US) from the current 11.8 l / 100 km (20 mpg US).

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Drivers can choose from three conventional gas powered engine options, and a hybrid choice for maximizing fuel economy.

What is it?The C - MAX Energi is part of Ford's broad assault in the fuel economy sweepstakes with products that range from EcoBoost gasoline engines to conventional hybrid, plug - in hybrid and pure...

The fuel injectors on Subaru PZEV vehicles close tighter than conventional injectors to prevent evaporative emissions from fuel leakage into the intake manifold.

India is as determined as ever to sustain its economic growth and demand help from the rich world for any costly diversion from conventional coal burning to fuel that growth.