Sentences with phrase «fuel loading»

We don't know fuel loads, we don't know programmes and plans.
In the race he continued to be way faster than anyone despite running a heavier fuel load.
Those narrow windows make it very difficult for us to do prescribed burning on the scale needed to reduce long - term fuel loads.
An increasing use of prescribed burns attempted to reduce abnormal fuel loads and restore the natural fire balance.
In industrialized countries, a history of fire suppression and a lack of thinning treatments have created high fuel loads in many public forests, such that when fires do occur, they release large quantities of carbon (Schelhaas et al., 2003).
Forest thinning to improve forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests can provide woody biomass for additional renewable energy feedstocks.
We wanted to examine the impact that the massive increase in fuel load (vegetation debris) following Cyclone Monica would have on the region's fire regime and resultant greenhouse - gas emissions.
An increase in fire risk (i.e., probability of occurrence)-- including an increase in size and possible frequency and / or severity (i.e., tree mortality)-- is expected in the coming century as a result of a) prolonged fire seasons due to increased temperatures, and b) increased fuel loads from past fire suppression.
We are blessed with abundant wood resources that provide more than 2/3 of all potentially available biomass, including forest residue from timber harvests and forest thinning that improves forest health by reducing fuel loads on eastside dry land forests.
The chatter from the race engineer has also been overhauled, and this is an improvement for the most part, with useful data such as fuel load and tyre wear now relayed both more frequently and accurately.
Now an extended range aircraft flying to Europe with higher initial fuel load would have 40 - 50 % higher burn rate.
Fuel loading began on 2 February and will continue over the next three months.
Fuel loading at the AP1000 nuclear reactor in China has been delayed due to «safety concerns», in the latest setback for the project.
Since a reactor full fuel load is around 11 tons of 2 % U235 and 98 % U238, and one load lasts about 10 years, and what one coal fired power plant puts into the air and cinders fully fuels a nuclear power plant.
Some will run for their full life on a single fuel load like the Virginia Class submarines do).
In the hybrid era, the sport has got used to drivers using the «lift and coast» tactic to get their limited fuel load to the chequered flag.
If climate conventions cause the airline to schedule more flights on some routes the scientists are responsible for entire fuel load of the plane — since they are the reason the flight is on the schedule.
He says the route is finalised only three hours before departure, and the final fuel load decided just an hour ahead.
On top of that, we don't know what programmes teams are running, what fuel loads they're on, whether teams are sandbagging, or doing something else entirely.
«The total velocity change from Earth's gravity far exceeds the total fuel load of the OSIRIS - REx propulsion system, so we are really leveraging our Earth flyby to make a massive change to the OSIRIS - REx trajectory, specifically changing the tilt of the orbit to match Bennu.»
The six - day fuel loading operation began last week after the company received permission to go ahead from the government's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.
«The biggest fuel load in your house is your polyurethane foam,» says Alex Morgan, a flammability expert at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
So the bald numbers go like this: $ 208,800 (a premium of $ 20,200 over the coupe), 3,302 lbs (up just 101 lbs) with fluids and 90 - percent fuel load, 562 hp at 7,500 rpm and 443 lb - ft at 5,000 - 6,500 rpm, 0 to 60 mph in 3.1 - seconds, and a top speed of 204 mph with the roof up or 196 mph with the retractable hard - top stowed away.
It's worth mentioning that, as on the road, each car is fitted with the same type of OE Bridgestone tyre (not the optional Michelin Pilot Cup 2s, which are only available as an option with the Öhlins suspension) and carrying the same fuel load, thereby ensuring that, suspension apart, they are as close to identical as possible.
KSPG surveys indicate up to 12 % fuel reduction in the mapping area with the same or even improved fuel load and emissions performance.
I hate to tell you Milestone, but it's the other way round; they should be setting faster times in qualifying than they do in the race due to having fresh tyres and light fuel loads.
This sensor has been useful for investigating fuel load type and subsequent effects on emission types, fire behavior, and post-fire analysis (e.g., safety, erosion, area burned, fire severity or the amount of environmental change caused the fire, etc.) and is often analyzed in interagency and federal - academic coordination to improve our understanding of fire.
Because we have let fuels build up in the western U.S., it is difficult to tell in many ecosystems what is weather - driven vs. climate - driven until we get back to normal fuel loads.
Determine fuel loads, weight and balance, take off and landing numbers for each flight considering status of aircraft systems.
Ensured that all aircraft operational matters were within manufacturers, FAA and company limits including fuel loading, weight and balance and performance measures.
After a century of suppression, a photograph of the same area from 1981 (Figure 1D below) shows a vast expanse of interconnected forest with a high fuel load now dominating landscape and primed for a huge fire.
The fact 2017 cars are already this much quicker is an encouraging sign, but you can't read too much into testing times — with fuel loads, programmes and set - ups all differing.
Fuel loading at the Flamanville EPR in France, construction of which began in 2007, is expected to begin the fourth quarter of this year.
Of course, we don't know fuel loads or engine modes and this leaves any pre-season testing conclusions murky, but Ricciardo's pace and also the reliability of the RB14 is promising and hints at a strong start to 2018.
The heightened workload, matched with the reduced fuel load naturally leads to the feelings of fatigue that are often symptomatic of these types of diets, which is why the diet is intended to be short term (7 - 10 days only).
«From the utilities perspective, it will also assist with the planning process many are involved in to displace fossil fuel loads with renewable power as it would take the pressure off to sign up renewables at favorable prices before the subsidies expire and permits a more measured approach,» he wrote.
This 2013 PNAS paper tries to answer the climate question given the artificially increased fuel loadings.
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