Sentences with phrase «fuel stored on»

The rule would guarantee a profit to any power plant with 90 days of fuel stored on - site in the name of grid resiliency — but experts say it will do nothing for resiliency and increase costs for consumers.

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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.

His idea was to pay plants a premium to store at least 90 days of fuel on site in an effort to make grids more reliable.

This summer, it's piloting a fuel - cell unit that stores energy chemically but can convert it back into electricity on demand without wearing out, like batteries do.

Apple today announced a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple's domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast - growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone (R) and the App Store (R).

Loblaw said members will earn 10 points per litre on fuel as well as 10 points per dollar on eligible convenience store purchases and car wash services at Esso stations.

In large part, the quarter's strength was fueled by Dunkin Donut's U.S. business, where same - store sales rose 2.9 % on the back of demand for new hot and iced beverages and breakfast food, such as a flatbread with eggs and guacamole.

Hermes revenue climbs on strong in - store salesFrench luxury goods company Hermes International SCA (RMS.FR) said on Thursday that its first - quarter revenue jumped 11 %, fueled by higher in - store sales.

Coles Express sales fell 8 per cent to $ 1.3 billion as comparable fuel volumes fell 15.9 per cent, (on top of a 22 per cent fall in the year ago period), countering modest convenience store sales growth.

Its profit on fuel sales more than doubled from the previous quarter and the merchandise business produced its second highest profit ever on a per store basis.

Chickpea - fueled pasta brand Banza is now in 8,000 + locations after striking deals with Kroger and Ahold that have added 2,000 + stores to its footprint, but remains laser focused on velocity as part of its bid to be the «most productive pasta in the set»...

The unit's electric standby feature reduces fuel consumption and emissions and enables rolling warehouse applications so products can be stored on the truck for later sale.

Based on consumer preference, it has expanded to include additional service items such as fuel stations at some of its locations and in - store pharmacies in 12 of its stores.

Second, exercise has a huge impact on improving insulin sensitivity since muscles burn your stored glycogen as fuel during and after your workout.

Sale of packaged alcohol (wants convenicence stores to be allowed to sell packaged alcohol); Excise increases on fuel and tobacco (negatively impact small business more than larger chains); Penalty rates (claim huge cost burden for small business)

If you rely only on carbohydrates you have to keep adding more fuel, if you rely on protein and fat you have to burn a lot of protein matches before the fat will ignite and continue burning, so you'll have to use up your store of protein in your muscles because you won't have eaten enough.

Connecticut truckers, food stores and energy suppliers are asking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow commercial vehicles carrying food, fuel and emergency supplies an exemption from his storm - related ban on trucks along I - 84.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

Canopy panels were installed above the gas stations fueling pumps, as well as on top of the store's roof.

The tribe will sell their cigarettes and motor fuel on par with off - reservation taxable stores.

On 28 March 2012, during the 2012 United Kingdom fuel crisis, Maude «foolishly» advised people to fill up their vehicles and to store fuel in garages in jerrycans.

Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel.

Instead, Nuclear Electric is considering storing the irradiated fuel in a specially constructed dry store on the Sizewell site.

From the outset, on - site stores were planned at the plant to take up to 20 years» worth of spent fuel.

Any future discussion of nuclear power will have to take a hard look at regulation and safety, in particular the practice of storing spent nuclear fuel rods on - site

Researchers are exploring various strategies to put sunshine on tap, converting the sun's energy into fuels that can be stored, transported and used as needed.

After the sofas are in place, they head off on other missions to stock up for the hunt: scrounging power strips and reference books (Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, Bicycle Official Rules of Card Games, The Lord of the Rings) and loading up stores of junk food (Marshmallow Fluff, barbecued potato chips, animal crackers, Little Debbie cakes, Mountain Dew) that will fuel them for the weekend.

Industrialized civilization relies on coal, oil and natural gas — the stored sunlight collectively known as fossil fuels — for more than 80 percent of the energy that enables everything from driving to reading on a computer screen.

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

When fuel for public transport was scarce in the second world war, some British buses ran on water gas generated in trailers behind the bus, with the product stored in a balloon on top of the bus.

And just where all the fuel and other radioactive solid debris on the site will be stored or disposed of long - term has yet to be decided; last month the site's ninth solid waste storage building, with a capacity of about 61,000 cubic meters, went into operation.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.

Within a few years, laptops and other energy - guzzling portable devices could run on long - lasting, easily recharged fuel cells based on a safe and practical new way of storing and releasing hydrogen.

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.&raquOn September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.&raquon nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

It would store a day's worth of sunshine from the solar panels on the roof of your house, potentially providing enough to power your household from late afternoon, through the night, into the next morning, without burning any fossil fuels.»

For Millikan, «stored solar energy» must have meant fossil fuel, a tank of which today could be exchanged for enough cash for what was then a down payment on a 1931 Ford Model A. Fossil fuels, of course, are just aged and tenderized organisms that long ago converted sunlight into energy or fed on organisms capable of converting sunlight into energy.

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

Writing in today's Guardian and last week's Mail on Sunday, Professor Myles Allen, head of climate dynamics at Oxford University, proposes that governments introduce a new regulation requiring companies that extract or import fossil fuels to sequester and store a fraction of the carbon dioxide they emit.

Fuel goes in the front end, electicity comes out the back end, and the used fuel is stored on site ready to be recycFuel goes in the front end, electicity comes out the back end, and the used fuel is stored on site ready to be recycfuel is stored on site ready to be recycled.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Additionally, the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis is focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of how chemical and electrical energy is stored and utilized for applications in the development of non-fossil fuel sources.

Hybrid - electric vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius and 472 of SEPTA's buses, have for years used regenerative braking to charge on - board batteries and reduce fuel consumption by reusing the stored energy upon acceleration.

In addition to his internationally recognized research efforts, Bullock is also focused on developing a comprehensive understanding of how chemical and electrical energy is stored and used for applications in the development of non-fossil fuel sources.

When it comes to solar power, storing electricity as fuel would let that energy work on dark or stormy days.

The award honors Tartakovsky's research on subsurface flow that addresses past and future energy needs: cleaning up buried nuclear or toxic contaminants and storing carbon dioxide from fossil fuels underground.

Carbs are the body's go - to fuel for workouts lasting less than 40 minutes, so optimising intensity depends on either ready (just consumed) glucose or glycogen, which is how glucose is stored in muscles and the liver.

They have trained their bodies to store fuel more efficiently and to hang on to weight.