Sentences with phrase «fuel use essentially»

We need to shut down all fossil fuel use essentially immediately for a decent chance to retain a recognizable civilization.

(B) We need to shut down all fossil fuel use essentially immediately for a decent chance to retain a recognizable civilization.

Not exact matches

But kerosene or rocket - propellant grade kerosene, which is also what jets use — rockets use a very expensive form, a highly refined form of jet fuel, essentially, which is a form of kerosene.

OK, so that's pretty technical, but essentially it boils down to this: the ultracapacitor / lithium - ion battery replaces the traditional lead - acid battery in the hood of your car, and it stops and starts when the car is idling, reducing both emissions and fuel use.

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

«So alcoholic drinks are an ideal model for industrial ethanol fermentation broths — ethanol for fuel is essentially made using a brewing process.

«The job of the photoanode is to absorb sunlight and then use that energy to oxidize water — essentially splitting apart the H2O molecule and rearranging the atoms to form a fuel.

«This paper's theme is about management and is essentially encouraging the use of fire at times and places when it can be used to reduce fuels, to thin forests and restore the ecological role of fire and to help reduce the occurrence of very severe fires in forests where those fires were not characteristic in the past,» Fulé said.

Essentially all nuclear fuel recycling is performed using a process known as PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction), which was initially developed for extracting pure plutonium for nuclear weapons.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

Essentially, the Caltech membrane for their artificial leaf only allows hydrogen protons to pass through, like an ion sieve, while hydrogen and oxygen gases are safely and separately expelled to use as fuels or oxidants.

HMF, also known as 5 - hydroxymethylfurfural, can be used as a building block for plastics and «biofuels» such as gasoline and diesel, essentially the same fuels processed from crude oil.

«Well, the thing about the IFR — the PRISM reactor, is that the fuel that it uses is essentially better than free.

Pretty unsurprisingly, this study found that creatine improves carbohydrate absorption and can positively influence the process of nutrient partitioning, which essentially means that creatine helps deliver the carbs we consume into the muscles where they are to be used for fuel and tissue recovery, instead of storing them for later.

So cancer's primarily — primary fuel if you look at Otto — Otto Warburg or Otto Van Warburg, a German scientist in the 30s and 40s who got 2 Nobel prizes discovering this physiology around cancer cell metabolism and he found that cancer cells primarily survive on glucose and if you can starve the cancer cells of that metabolic fuel — remember it burns dirty — if we can use ketones, we can essentially starve that type of cell.

To use a car example, the more sugar you consume during an endurance race, the more it looks like you're fueling a roadtrip with nitrous oxide: you're essentially using a high - intensity, short - duration mechanism for low - intensity, long - duration.

Essentially, it's about how are body divvy's up calories into fuel (immediate energy used by the muscle) or storage into your fat cells.

Unless you have Type 1 diabetes, every time you eat, your body will produce insulin which essentially tells your body to use your food as fuel and stop burning body fat.

Sugar addiction is essentially a resource mismanagement issue — flooding the body constantly with sugar makes the body less and less likely to use fats for fuel.

Quietly, Ford has put a car on the road that essentially enlists Toyota hybrid technology but uses it more cleverly than the originating company did, giving us a sedan that burns even less fuel than the Camry Hybrid over an identical route.

All models also have Auto Start / Stop, which shuts off the engine when waiting at stoplights — starting quickly when the brake is released; and Brake Energy Regeneration essentially saves fuel by using the alternator smartly.

Though they are essentially the same car, the Optima uses a larger Turbo Charger, and consequently gets worse fuel mileage.

Outstanding fuel economy and sleek styling are two great reasons to consider this Volkswagen GTI.Low, low mileage coupled with an exacting maintenance program make this vehicle a rare find.More information about the 2013 Volkswagen GTI: The Volkswagen GTI offers up strong performance, yet it has essentially the same space - efficient interior layout of the Golf hatchback — and that's a major asset for those who need to use the GTI as a daily driver.

Essentially, the Maruti Swift and DZire models use a 1.3 - litre DDiS diesel engine sourced from Fiat and the automaker is pushing in a new mild - hybrid technology into that engine that will help attain higher fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions without any significant lag in power.

By using fossil fuels we are essentially mining the accumulated solar energy of millions of years.

In the history of human use of fuels, Dr. Ausubel says, policy has essentially accommodated, not shaped, trends.

PTF processes essentially use renewable energy, CO2 and water to produce fuel, as in Audi's... Read more →

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Essentially, with utility - scale solar prices lower than wholesale in Arizona, at as low as 2.5 to 3 cents per kWh on a 25 - year PPA, the state has «super-cheap fuel» which it can now use for meeting peak demand, Huber said.

Interestingly, a similar thing we don't give much attention to is that the fuel we use to create electricity and to power our vehicles also essentially comes from the same source.

Used as a fuel source, it's essentially carbon neutral because photosynthetic organisms survive by metabolizing CO2, a greenhouse gas.

Drop - in renewable diesel or bio-jet are essentially indistinguishable from conventional diesel and jet fuel and can be blended at almost any level, making it an attractive option for military or airline use.

Essentially, in this time period, every existing building will either be retrofit to higher efficiency standards or replaced, 60 percent of light - duty vehicles will use electricity, so that the average fuel economy will be roughly 70 miles per gallon.

These essentially would be using diesel fuel that can be picked up at any gas station.

One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same as that for oil and petroleum products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.

Usually derived from vegetable oils - soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used - biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification which essentially splits the oil into two parts: alkyl esters and glycerine; the esters are the fuel, while the leftover glycerine is often used to make soap and other beauty products.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

Basically, it concludes that e.g. if we need a 10 % annual demand reduction in fossil fuel use to stay within a 2 C temperature ceiling, as Anderson recommends, then, if six critical parameters are taken into account, we essentially need to double the emissions reduction number, or 20 % per year in the Anderson case.

The artificial leaf is essentially a silicon solar cell that has different catalytic materials bonded to each side that allow it to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, the latter of which could be stored and used as clean fuel.