Sentences with phrase «fuel reserves]»

Scientists have shown that most existing fossil fuel reserves can not be burned without causing dangerous climate change.
One local entrepreneur is trying to change this, and is turning trash into fuel.
Nebula Genomics has an ambitious plan to fuel drug development while preserving genetic data security.
Their responses would fuel and inspire new questions and topics of curiosity.
It also makes it the No. 1 U.S. refiner by capacity with a fuel production throughput of more than 3 million barrels per day.
While Delta's intent was to remain neutral, some elected officials in Georgia tied our decision to a pending jet fuel tax exemption, threatening to eliminate it unless we reversed course.
The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.
Mark Campanale, executive director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a thinktank that analyses the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, said: «The financial markets are fast losing faith in the investment case for fossil fuels.
The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
That was before the dawn of the Oil Age, the energy transition that would fuel the company's real rise.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»
It said it was aiming for a reduction of 1 - 1.5 percent this year, excluding the impact of currency, fuel and pension charges.
«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.
(ICBMs weigh as much as a few school buses, mostly because of the large amounts of rocket fuel they carry.)
The cost of servicing the exploding debt would exert tremendous pressure on the government to eliminate investments that could fuel growth.
«We are weakening the fossil fuel industry politically, socially and financially,» said Dorsey.
Peloton predicts that platooning would save companies money by improving trucks» fuel efficiency while also cutting down on emissions.
Fuel rods are an interesting proposition but surely if the issue is that there will be protests why don't we go the path of least resistance and kick start the solar industry which is sustainable and could employ large numbers of unemployed or under employed.
Ultimately, oil and gas companies need to become what they claim to be; «integrated energy companies», rather than integrated fossil fuel companies.
For a start, the Exxon Mobil and Chevron Climate Reports assume that governments won't succeed in meeting their Paris Agreement commitments, resulting in financial outlooks that leave them free to sell all their fossil fuel assets.
Fuel surcharges, which can be applied to some international tickets, could drive up the cost of a ticket, too.
In January Delta's president, Glen Hauenstein said: «Clearly, internationally, we've seen fuel surcharge increases due to the higher level of fuel, and we expect that to continue if fuel stabilizes at sort of higher level.»
Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.
In 2011, Obama announced an agreement with automakers to raise fuel efficiency standards to 54.5 miles per gallon.
But years of consolidation through post-bankruptcy mega-mergers and a decline in fuel prices has helped airlines rake in record profits.
By contrast, fusion would produce no waste, just inert helium, and its fuel can be extracted from seawater.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stood by U.S. airlines in the third quarter, even as carriers were hit by three massive hurricanes, a spike in fuel prices and heavy selling of airline shares by other investors.
Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.
The incentive for turning all this raw feedstock into a usable fuel «is not going to be enhancing healthcare or making people better,» Quackenbush says flatly.
Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.
You probably burn a lot more fuel than you think.
LAGOS, May 2 - Nigerian energy firm Forte Oil said it plans to sell its upstream services and power businesses in Nigeria and divest from Ghana to focus on its core fuel distribution operation at home.
Moreover, it should take even less fuel than a fission reactor does to produce a lot of energy.
Wesley Palmisano, president and CEO of the $ 97.2 million commercial construction company Palmisano (No. 241; 1,779.4 percent), says that the new administration seems good for the fossil fuel industry.
A spike in fuel prices, generally airlines» biggest cost after employee pay, is eating away at carriers» profits.
Automakers have argued that the rules could result in the loss of up to 1 million jobs because consumers could be less willing to buy the more fuel efficient vehicles since their engineering will result in higher price tags.
Large integrated oil companies are known as such because they not only produce oil, but they also refine it into finished products, such as jet fuel, gasoline, heating oil, and diesel, and sell it via a network of gasoline stations.
«If they're doing forward contracts, they want to be thinking about getting a good price for their fuel, looking into the future, to really take advantage of these lower costs, so they'll be able to take advantage for quite a while,» she says.
Last year, the company announced ambitious plans to add 20 new electric battery and fuel cell vehicles...
At its most desperate, the delivery company had just $ 5,000 in the bank, substantially short of their $ 32,000 monthly fuel cost.
In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.
You will be able to route drivers on the fastest route, limit wasted fuel, schedule maintenance more effectively for vehicles, and improve response times for customers.
Companies with high - energy inputs, like airlines, railways and miners, should also be trying to lock in long - term fuel contracts at current low rates, says Janice Plumstead, senior economist at the Canada West Foundation.
Thanks to the new law, the largest tech companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result in a bottomless well of capital to fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»
Nikola Motor is designing and building its own driverless, hydrogen fuel cell — powered Class 8 truck.
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It is often difficult to calculate the precise proportion of fossil fuel investments in complex funds, but about $ 400bn of the $ 5.2 tn total is likely to be in coal, oil and gas.
Last month, the Trump Administration said it would revise fuel - efficiency regulations for cars and light trucks, a move supported (and lobbied for) by automakers.
As much as Australia might benefit from a cut in official interest rates, it would definitely benefit from encouraging a new industry, such as the nuclear - fuel processing facility being championed by the South Australian government, and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
He created a new drug that could soon drive revenues north of $ 500 million, which will fuel the next stage of his company's growth
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