Sentences with phrase «fuel usage as»

Cicerone said that if we want to stabilize the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere instead of allowing it to continue to increase, we will have to cut back on fossil fuel usage as much as 50 to 75 percent.

I find it telling that someone who accuses those who use the word «pollution» to describe excess atmospheric CO2 of being «Orwellian» can also describe proposals for what is a form of «user - pays» in fossil fuel usage as «like listening to Marxist students of the 1960s.»

The House That Soichiro Built began poking around the dirty world of fuel usage as early as 1965, the year it established a ten - man investigative task force dubbed the Air Pollution Research Group.

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Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted to legalize marijuana on Tuesday, in key victories that could fuel the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream.

The Engine and Maintenance sections gives you a detailed look into engine faults, engine measurements and diagnostics, fuel usage, as well as setting up maintenance reminders and recording maintenance done.

The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

Second, reducing the usage of gas - switching [part of] large users such as city heating towards other fuels, and investing in the types of powerplants that can consume a variety of fuels; using gas while it's cheap and available, but being able to burn other fuels if needed.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have received information that these contaminated fuels which were originally meant for industrial usage by the steel, garment, petrol chemical as claimed by BOST by companies to run their machinery and certainly not for the running of vehicle engines has ended up in the open market against the NPA's directive not to do so.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

@cbeleites Fuel excise taxes (such as in many US states) are a good example of usage based taxes.

Current, sulfur dioxide monitoring activities include the use of emission inventories that are derived from ground - based measurements and factors, such as fuel usage.

Effects of fuel usage will depend on local atmospheric composition, such as fine particle pollutants.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

Sprinting also trains the body to use fat as fuel, delaying glycogen usage and increasing the amount of work your body is able to do.

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Our favorite feature on the Super Duty — especially when towing — is the cluster - mounted «productivity screen,» where drivers can look up towing advice according to the type of trailer, get instantaneous fuel economy, program settings for various trailers, retrieve historical fuel usage, calculate trip info, and keep tabs well as maintenance records.

Owners and operators of a fleet of vehicles use these services to monitor driver performance for unauthorized or unsafe vehicle usage, as well as analyze data such as the current location of a vehicle, fuel consumption, mileage, emissions status and diagnostic trouble codes.

8A / 12A switchable Level 1 charging cable CHAdeMO DC quick charge port Battery warming system MiEV remote system (pre-activated air conditioning, heater and timer battery charging) Approaching Vehicle Audio System (AVAS) for alerting pedestrians Charging Times: 3 22 hours for 8amp 14 hours for 12 amp 7 hours with 240V / 15A Level 2 charging system Less than 30 minutes to 80 % full with CHAdeMO Level 3 DC Quick Charger Driving Modes: «D» — allows maximum performance as it generates 100 % torque in direct response to accelerator input «ECO» — helps maximize energy usage («fuel economy») by slightly reducing overall power output to reduce the rate of battery consumption «B» — increases regenerative brake biasing to augment energy recycling (with 100 % of power production available)

By monitoring factors such as real - time fuel usage and force acting on the accelerator pedal, a light on the dashboard illuminates when the car is running in a fuel efficient manner.

The mileage of the vehicle, however, drops with the usage of this fuel, as it loses energy content while refining.

The six - cylinder engine is bigger, but fuel usage is just as good with it returning figures of 21/34 mpg (26 mpg combined).

As on other hybrids, the electric motor reduces fuel usage by relieving some of the burden off the gas engine and sometimes taking over entirely.

Last year, All Nippon Airlines asked passengers to use the lavatories before they board flights so as to reduce the overall weight of the plane, which would ultimately be better for the environment as it would mean less fuel usage.

Qualifying pace is determined by achieving an objective of setting a time to finish a practice session in a certain position or higher, while team objectives comprise of a variety of tasks such as completing a fast sector, completing an entire lap with minimal fuel usage, performing a DRS test by activating DRS, chaining multiple consecutive corners together during the track acclimatisation practice programme.

Team objectives comprise of five tasks that vary from race weekend to race weekend such as completing a fast sector, completing an entire lap with minimal fuel usage, performing a DRS test by activating DRS, chaining multiple consecutive corners together during the track acclimatisation practice programme and completing a lap with at least two different car setups within the same practice session.

We should expect this percentage to increase as the amount of fossil fuel usage will continue to add to atmoshphere in this hypothetical situation, but how much?

So Vaughan's analysis of the past record is interesting for what it's worth, but has zero value as a projection for the future until a function to include population growth forecasts (as well as pe capita fossil fuel usage) is included.

In my opinion, these are negative externalities just as serious as those posed by fossil fuel usage.

People would pay a tax or a fee on either the carbon they emit or the fossil fuels they purchase to incentivize lower usage as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Studies have found that the carbon price led to a roughly 20 % decline in fuel usage, even as the Province's economy grew faster than the rest of Canada.

It's similar to the facile association of increased fossil fuel usage and increased standard of living w / o accounting for the influence of other factors that directly affect development such as increased civil rights, spending on education, etc..

The global picture remains as I depicted it: there are enough fossil fuels to last us for 200 - 300 years at current usage rate and when they are all 100 % gone some day in the far distant future when you and I and our great grandchildren are all long gone, the maximum ever CO2 level will be around 1,000 ppmv.

I would look at this as a potential bridge plan to CO2 free energy production sources as most of it appears to be relevant to fossil fuel usage.

This is in direct opposition to the IPCC's contention that global warming is accelerating, and supports arguments that the amount of warming that will occur over the remainder of the 21st century as a result of human fossil fuel usage will be at the low end of the IPCC projections, or even lower.

Increased usage of fossil fuels around the world has multiple downsides that are becoming more obvious as we move forward.

While many in the media have sounded the death knell for coal as a power fuel source, and in the very long - term I think coal usage will gradually diminish, it will take years — perhaps even decades — for coal to be relegated to an insignificant role in power generation, but I am convinced it will occur.

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

«This is in direct opposition to the IPCC's contention that global warming is accelerating, and supports arguments that the amount of warming that will occur over the remainder of the 21st century as a result of human fossil fuel usage will be at the low end of the IPCC projections, or even lower,» the two scientists added.

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253 - 4, 2008 titled «Long - term Global Heating from Energy Usage» as we have a fast developing heat energy overload that requires switching totally to renewable fuel soon dropping nuclear power as well.

If the only problem were peak oil and there was no AGW, then we could go ahead and burn as much oil as we like, with the only challenge being to reduce our usage as supplies plateau and decline and we transition to other energy sources — including other fossil fuels.

Recognizing that even in a world where energy is constrained / more expensive there will always be a certain volume of goods traded globally, due to they being only able to be produced in certain locations by virtue of geographical and climatic conditions, as well as comparative advantage still standing, greater localization and regionalization of production and trade would reduce fuel usage — provided that shipment of those goods was done via train or inland waterway, not trucks.

The scenario on the left assumes drastic and immediate global reductions in fossil fuel usage; the right assumes «business as usual» just continues.

Orbach said he sees the Energy Institute as a unifying collaborator to help The University of Texas at Austin mobilize its faculty and academic resources, as well as talent from other universities in The University of Texas System, to make «transformational changes in energy production and usage» of fossil fuel, renewable and nuclear energy resources.

There will always be countries that will choose not to be a party to such protocols, thus I believe a greenhouse gas reduction will only come about as a consequence of a reduction in fossil fuel usage.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

, you only need to choose the data item of interest (this might represent a car, a building, a flight or an electrical appliance), then use this as the blueprint for creating a profile item in which you can set profile item values to store usage information (e.g. the number of km travelled, or litres of fuel used).»

While the latter effect of climate campaigners on Big Oil would be about the same in America as in Europe (except in countries like France or Sweden, where it would be negligible as nuclear and / or hydro provide almost all the electrical power), the impact via transportation fuel usage would be much greater in the United States.