Sentences with phrase «fuel cut if»

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If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

As Calgary - based consultant Rick Erickson puts it, «If you cut his arm, I swear, aviation fuel would spill from his veins.»

And that perception was fueled on Thursday when the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, suggested that Greece would get its best shot at a substantial cut in its debt only if it was willing to give up membership in the European common currency.

It's a trend that has alarmed the leadership of the world's 25 - million - strong Sikh community and fueled debate on whether you can still be considered a good Sikh if you cut your hair.

Only if it is safe, in the event of a fire, turn the boiler switch or gas valve off to help cut off fuel to a fire.

Jackie Ashley wrote, «if there have to be cuts, then taking away child benefit from the better off, and the winter fuel payment from richer pensioners, would seem sensible ideas and are on Labour's agenda.»

But if there are to be social security cuts, then the Lib Dems would be much happier if they were made to universal benefits such as the Winter Fuel Allowance.

The oil market, along with bank speculation in oil, is keeping the international price of crude oil dangerously high - oil is now so ludicrously expensive in fact that even if the Chancellor DID cut fuel duty, families would barely feel it in their pockets.

The Saab team members, led by Olofsson and Lars Bergsten, 62, knew that if they could just keep the same air - to - fuel ratio but fill, say, only half a cylinder, they could cut fuel consumption by 10 percent.

It helps very little to develop wind and hydroelectric power if we don't also cut our consumption of fossil fuels.

Some want to emulate the success of the United States in bringing down energy prices via shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.

In July a report from MIT, On the Road in 2035, found that if a market for lightweight hybrid and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles were developed, the United States could cut its gas consumption by 68 billion gallons — about half our current fuel use — within 27 years.

Rising fuel costs and an emphasis on «greener» modes of transportation are shifting priorities in the U.S. Still, the proposed U.S. projects have their work cut out for them if they hope to match the speed and popularity of established high - speed rail systems in other parts of the world.

«If it cuts a fuel line, that's bad; if it gets in the main computer and strikes a circuit board, that's not good; it's not good if it knocks out a camerIf it cuts a fuel line, that's bad; if it gets in the main computer and strikes a circuit board, that's not good; it's not good if it knocks out a camerif it gets in the main computer and strikes a circuit board, that's not good; it's not good if it knocks out a camerif it knocks out a camera.

Saudi Arabia gave a taste of the «carbon wars» to come if the world becomes serious about cutting consumption of fossil fuels.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

«If we don't stop burning fossil fuel and cutting down our tropical forests — all those human activities that maintain our society — we're going to reach incredibly high levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

A 2017 study in the American Meteorology Society's Journal of Climate found that if countries meet the overall goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius via the «maximum technically feasible» cuts in fossil fuel use, the Arctic could see.84 degrees Celsius in warming by the middle of the century as sulfate decreases.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

Cutting out irritants like sugar and booze and fueling your cells with whole fresh foods, sweat, and extra sleep, even if you stay local and keep working, is powerful.

How will my body run if I cut carbohydrates, aren't they fuel for the body?

If they cut back calories too far and overemphasize cardiovascular exercise, their body will have no choice but to burn muscle as fuel.

If you play through each character's campaign, towards the end you will be gifted with a cut scene in which your character will stumble upon their rival (another character in the game), and it results in some rather humorous and entertaining viewing; Jak and Ratchet's confrontation is helped by the banter between Daxter and Clank, and Sackboy and Big Daddy's standoff is fuelled by some surprisingly well executed charm.

If the MAF sensor is telling the computer no air is getting into the motor - then the computer cuts the fuel.

If you were losing fuel pressure at speed, I think you may find the pump is either cutting out or losing pressure.

To let the ECU cut fuel if a spark plug stops firing, for the express purpose of preventing unburnt fuel from overheating the catalytic converter.

This smooth 444bhp lump cuts the 0 - 62mph time to just 4.6 sec and gives the 6 Series real continent - crushing pace — if you don't mind stopping for fuel, that is.

Fuel consumption has been cut to 30.4 mpg (if an automatic transmission is fitted, the figure is 31.0 mpg), while CO2 emissions have been reduced by 11 g to 220 g / km (if an automatic transmission is fitted, the figure is 6 g lower at 216 g / km).

I suggest getting in contact with someone from Reykjavik on Couchsurfing.com or Wayn.com and ask if they fancy cutting the cost of fuel on a daytrip away from the city.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to crawl back into my cave and lament how everything from my childhood is now retro nostalgia fuel rather than the cutting edge of cool.

Running the marquees on biodiesel will cut emissions by some 30 per cent, an admirable statistic even if, privately, fair insiders worry that the vegetable waste fuel will leave their Prada suits smelling of chip fat.

That's all fine, but this also means that the climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the global energy mix.

Airlines Cut Flights and Planes to Save Fuel Airlines Save Gas By Slowing Down, Just Like Drivers Efficient Modern Turboprop Aircraft Are Making a Comeback Perhaps Flying Turboprop Isn't Dying Turboprops Get Ecolabel More on Alternatives to Flying Seat 61: Get There Without Flying Eurostar to Cut Emissions 25 % and Offset the Rest Spain's New High - Speed Rail Challenging the Airlines High - Speed Rail Comes to the Americas CA High - Speed Rail Initiative: «If We Don't Pass This, We Will Never Have High - Speed Trains in the US»

I've always thought that CCS was an inelegant way to lick the carbon problem — because it involves burning fuels and then corralling a huge mass of pollution rather than avoiding the pollution in the first place — but if gas is to be a real «bridge» to a low emission future rather than a nice - looking dead end then we must seriously explore ways to further cut emissions from gas plants.

However, it is important to keep in mind that we might easily more than double it if we really don't make much effort to cut back (I think the current estimated reserves of fossil fuels would increase CO2 by a factor of like 5 or 10, which would mean a warming of roughly 2 - 3 times the climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 [because of the logarithmic dependence of the resulting warming to CO2 levels]-RRB-... and CO2 levels may be able to fall short of doubling if we really make a very strong effort to reduce emissions.

Totally cut with fossile fuel still is long way, if we do not act now, we will be late.

The potential for efficiency remains enormous, and given the likely improvements in technology and changes in societal norms over the next century which it will take us to do the right thing, we are likely to be able to cut fossil fuel use further than most people imagine possible, even if renewables don't become commercially competitive (which wind is already, and solar is in certain situations).

The environmental left says the world is coming unglued without sharp, quick cuts in fossil fuels, and the right says the economy will crash if we do that.

By building or retrofitting to achieve resilient design, we can create homes that will never drop below 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit even if the house is totally cut off from power and heating fuel — they can do that with high levels of insulation, top - performing windows, passive solar gain, and other features..

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

It'd be nice to think that the world's nations would move more assertively to cut dependence on fossil fuels in light of new research showing that the retreat of Arctic sea ice from warming will modulate if warming is slowed.

If this supply were cut off, prices would rise, leading power plants to switch to other, cheaper fuels.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

And in the process, if we conserve on fossil fuels, it also cuts down on CO2.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

Hydro - electric power, solar power, hydrogen engines and fuel cells could all create big cuts in greenhouse gases if they were to become more common.

If the United States were to raise the fuel efficiency of its automobile fleet over the next 10 years to that of the Toyota Prius, U.S. gasoline consumption could be cut in half.

Only if we spur those cost and performance breakthroughs do we have a chance of drastically cutting emissions (and eliminating fossil fuel consumption) IN ADDITION to incremental cost and performance improvements.

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

Researchers two years ago predicted that extreme heat and humidity could make some parts of the planet uninhabitable if drastic steps were not taken to cut fossil fuel combustion, and the greenhouse gas emissions that are amplifying surface air temperatures to dangerous levels.