Sentences with phrase «fuel use dramatically»

On this planet, the consensus is that we have to dial back our fossil fuel use dramatically and can not possibly survive twice as many cars and planes.

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The reason for this is that many countries in Asia used the prior period of falling crude prices to end, or dramatically scale back, their fuel subsidies.
«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»
Once you get the affordable cloths, you need dramatically fewer products, which results in fewer chemicals, fewer containers, less fuel used for transport, etc..
Energy mogul Catsimatidis stands to make a killing — estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year — as the City Council and the de Blasio administration move to approve legislation to dramatically boost the use of biodiesel fuel in home heating oil, The Post has learned.
Housing benefit no longer covers the rent, heating allowances fail to cover the cost of fuel and crisis loans that used to cover cookers or beds have been dramatically slashed.
«Armed with this new understanding, practitioners will be able to design catalysts using just the necessary amount of the precious metals like gold and platinum, dramatically cutting down the catalyst cost in fuels and chemicals production processes,» she adds.
By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
«We can dramatically improve fuel efficiency by making our cars lighter, including the greater use [of] carbon fiber, which is also stronger than metal.
Synthetic fuels have one particular advantage over batteries or hydrogen as a route to low - carbon transport: by dropping in exactly where fossil fuels are used now, they can reduce emissions dramatically without the need for major new infrastructure or changes in consumer behaviour, which may be decisive in certain cases.
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.
The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land - use.
Intermittent fasting helps reset your body to use fat as its primary fuel, and mounting evidence confirms that when your body becomes adapted to burning FAT instead of sugar as its primary fuel, you dramatically reduce your risk of chronic disease
This tiny motor is set to replace the regular non-turbo 1.6 that used to be the Focus range's centre of gravity, producing the same 123bhp, a lot more low - end torque and dramatically improved fuel economy, in real driving as well as in the official figures.
In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically reduces the burning of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous indoor air pollution in developing nations.
«Exxon's «Lights Across America» website advertisement states that natural gas is «helping dramatically reduce America's emissions» even though natural gas is a fossil fuel causing widespread planetary warming and harm to coastal cities like San Francisco and the use of natural gas competes with wind and solar, which have no greenhouse gas emissions.»
Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has 99.5 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road uses, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from newer diesel engines.
The United States has the potential to dramatically expand biomass use for fuel and power.
During the 1990s and 2000s, the generation costs for plants fueled by natural gas fell dramatically as a result of lower natural gas fuel prices and the increased use of combined cycle technology for power generation.
The tailpipe is the exhaust of a fossil fuel heater used to keep the cabin warm in cold weather, since using an electric radiant heater would dramatically shorten the electric car's range.
In addition, Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel now produced for all highway and non-road uses has 99.7 percent less sulfur, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions in newer diesel engines.
Meanwhile, infrastructure to produce biofuels - costing tens of billions of dollars - will have to be built, biofuel imports must become available, and fossil fuel use will have to decline dramatically.
The latter included many examples of beautiful hope and simplicity, like the guy leaving a good corporate job to help run a social start - up called Wonderbags, which uses insulated bags to dramatically reduce the dangers and expense of cooking fuel in poor villages in Africa.
In public spaces, towns can look at providing solar powered on - site compactors, which can hold five times the amount of waste as a traditional bin, dramatically reducing collection trips and thus fleet fuel use.
«[E] nding tropical forest loss, improving tropical forest management, and restoring 500 million hectares of tropical forests could reduce sufficient emissions to provide 10 - 15 years of additional time to dramatically reduce our use of fossil fuels,» the report states.
But let's not kid anyone — the price of fossil fuel based energy has to rise dramatically in order to encourage people to use less of it.
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