Sentences with phrase «fuel tanks»

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

A hot hatch - rivaling 0 - 62mph of under 6sec is quoted, while there's a limited top speed of 100mph — on whatever surface you choose to use it on... Mercedes says that the 6x6 is likely to return around 15mpg, which would pose a slight problem if crossing a desert, so two fuel tanks totaling a 159 - litre capacity are provided.

Why offer two fuel tanks?

Weber Faster One Top speed: 248 mph The Faster One has four fuel tanks, spread throughout the car for a lower center of gravity and better weight distribution.

Rarely do fuel tanks explode, and if they do they do not take out the whole car.

Has added tool boxes and fuel tanks that would be beneficial... Read full review

It also features a 2 - inch lift kit, Fox shock absorbers, a new front bumper with functional winch, and strapped - on fuel tanks for long - distance excursions.

You could also look into fuel tanks for race cars.

Getting shot in the back is an instant death, thanks to the big fuel tanks characters wear.

At the beginning, I used my bow and arrow for everything, even when it was just slowly chipping away small bits of damage; by the end, I was smoothly and swiftly switching between shooting fire arrows at flammable fuel tanks, tossing shock traps on the ground to stun robots, and lobbing ice bombs that could freeze enemies in place and open them up to further damage.

from new available, full year licence, dual fuel tanks, rear step bumper, towing hook..

This could mean they are more likely to have their fuel tanks hit «empty,» leaving them heading towards a medical tent with muscle or stomach cramps.

But my feeling, which is definitely bolstered by this London Marathon study, is that there's a good chance that many people are losing a bit of potential performance by starting marathons with their fuel tanks only partly full.

Musk says it can be rapidly reused up to 10 times (basically just refilling the fuel tanks), and then it needs to be serviced properly (probably to check the heat shielding and other components that are stressed during atmospheric reentry).

It has yet to be widely adopted in the transportation sector, however, because of the expensive and large on - board compressed fuel tanks.

«Chemists find better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks: Flexible MOFs expand when methane is pumped in, deflate when methane sucked out.»

That makes it attractive for large vehicles; although you need special strong fuel tanks, the specialist operators can handle that.

These empty fuel tanks have an internal volume 20 times that of the International Space Station.

The aircraft skin around the fuel tanks must be thick enough to withstand a burn through.

For example, they compared the cost of driving one mile using electric car batteries plus electricity, with the cost using fuel tanks plus petrol.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

Although the probes will strike an area of the moon that's dark at the time and visible from Earth, it's not likely that backyard astronomers will be able to observe anything because the craft are small and their fuel tanks will be empty, researchers say.

Because the lander's thrusters were likely shut off prematurely, Schiaparelli's full fuel tanks may have exploded upon impact.

We need to know if it could cause an aircraft engine to explode in what is known as an «uncontained failure», with hot, fast - spinning engine parts being shed in all directions, potentially piercing wings, fuel tanks and even the cabin.

The earthquake and tsunami knocked out outside power to the reactor complex and the tidal wave also disabled backup diesel generators, whose fuel tanks were swept away.

That drastically reduces the amount of propellant the ship needs to carry, the size of its fuel tanks, and its total weight.

By BRIAN DUMBLETONDEEP below the calm surface of Oslofjord, teams of divers have been working round the clock for the past month, striving to drain more than a thousand tonnes of oil from the corroding fuel tanks of a sunken German battleship.

One hundred times as strong as steel and able to conduct like either metals or semiconductors, carbon nanotubes have long been touted for uses as down to earth as lightweight fuel tanks and car bumpers and as fanciful as cables for elevators into space.

«We want to be just as confident of the safety of hydrogen in our fuel tanks and on our street corners.»

These spent satellites with attendant motors, fuel tanks, discarded instrument covers, bolts and the like form a growing population of debris which can become fragmented through collision with other debris or by explosion of residual fuel.

But now, with its fuel tanks almost empty from all its wandering, Cassini has fallen victim to its own success; to avoid the spacecraft spinning out of control — striking and potentially contaminating Enceladus or Titan with any lingering Earth - born microbes — mission planners are deliberately crashing Cassini into Saturn, turning it into a makeshift atmospheric probe.

Hummers and paddy wagons are parked inside a chain - link - fenced yard alongside fuel tanks and a boxy barracks.

Molds also sometimes colonize fuel tanks, where they use those same enzymes to consume petroleum products.

Companies and researchers are working on infrastructure and technologies to help bring the nation's growing stock of natural gas to fuel tanks, including those of long - haul vehicles

Airplane fuel tanks.

That makes it likely that other groups will be able to quickly follow their lead to make a wide array of high - strength stainless steel parts for everything from fuel tanks in airplanes to pressure tubes in nuclear power plants.

As with FCEVs, public fueling stations are few in number, the cars come at a premium and their fuel tanks are bulky and range - limiting (EnergyWire, July 20).

Sticking on a bigger engine is easy, but that means bigger batteries, bigger fuel tanks, or shorter flight times.

Backup diesel generators lost their fuel tanks and died.

Artificial antibodies, 3 - D genome imaging, inexpensive prosthetics, a liner for hydrogen - car fuel tanks — winning ideas from the Lemelson - M.I.T. awards for students

Work includes removing fuel tanks, contaminated soil and razing a power plant on the property.

Cameron conceded that mistakes were made when ministers advised motorists before Easter to top up fuel tanks amid a threatened strike by tanker drivers, causing long queues at petrol stations.

The project's original subsidy package claimed the building site was a brownfield because one corner of the property used to house a gas station with underground fuel tanks, On that basis, Uniland and Delaware North sought state tax credits that would have seen the state pay 100 percent of the project's property taxes for 10 years.

She said her organization has granted over $ 1.3 million through the program over the last eight years to help farmers replace their aging fuel tanks.

• The NPP is in the process of buying discarded and old fuel tanks with the intention of filling them with petrol and setting them ablaze.

They require very little set up and no fuel tanks, although they do need to be set up close to an electrical outlet.

Eleven townspeople were killed in Sherwood Crescent, where the plane's wings and fuel tanks plummeted in a fiery explosion, destroying several houses and leaving a huge crater, with debris causing damage to a number of buildings nearby.

The cover - ups then were over failing brakes, faulty clutches and fuel tanks prone to falling off dating back to the 1970s.

Affordable housing is a priority for this Assembly and we propose to help address this priority with $ 3.8 million to provide incentives for homeowners to replace fuel tanks and to provide funding to cover additional costs for water and sanitation services for public housing.

«It was a remarkable aircraft during its era, armed with high - caliber machine guns and the ability to carry bombs, rockets and fuel tanks under its wings.