Sentences with phrase «fuel use requirements»

Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through fuel use requirements, pricing provisions, programs in fossil energy research and development, and government «cost - sharing» for clean coal plants.

Not exact matches

Starting May 1, the fuel most used by truckers, No. 2 diesel, must contain at least 20 percent biodiesel — double the current requirement.

Recent reports estimate that soy - based proteins are 6 — 20 times more efficient in terms of fossil fuel requirement (67 — 69), 4.4 — 26 times more efficient in terms of water requirement (68), and 6 — 17 times more efficient in terms of land use (70) vs. animal proteins.

No - till practices were first introduced as a soil conservation tool, and to decrease labor requirements and fuel use.

Indeed, in a 2011 email to ProPublica, Halliburton, a company listed in the congressional investigation as having used 7.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, said it had not violated any laws «because there are currently no requirements in the federal environmental regulations that require a company to obtain a federal permit prior to undertaking a hydraulic fracturing project using diesel.»

The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.

Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium - term regulatory requirements (e.g., in the 2020 timeframe) by reducing the average fuel consumption of its new vehicles using a combination of three primary measures: optimizing its combustion engines for greater efficiency; developing alternative drive... Read more →

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater than B1).

So if your body isn't meeting the requirements for dietary fat to fuel these things, it uses body fat.

It is a hormone of pregnancy that allows the fetus and placenta the ability to use fats extremely well to burn for fuel to fuel the massive energy requirements required to make a child.

The engine uses variable valve timing, direct fuel injection, and a high compression ration of 11.5:1 to help ride the fence between power and efficiency, while still meeting government requirements.

After the Ford announcement, the EPA stated that it will update the test procedures used to assign fuel economy ratings to cars «to ensure that the requirements keep pace with industry trends and innovations in advanced high - efficiency vehicles.»

Or perhaps as law makers get serious about reducing car use — not just switching fuel sources — there might be legislative requirements to start communicating impact.

Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium - term regulatory requirements (e.g., in the 2020 timeframe) by reducing the average fuel consumption of its new vehicles using a combination of three primary measures: optimizing its combustion engines for greater efficiency; developing alternative drive... Read more →

Focusing the LCA on three key impacts — direct land use, life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and fossil fuel requirements — the researchers identified PV electricity for battery electric vehicles as the superior sun - to - wheels conversion method.

So ships need to use fuel oil which is inherently low enough in sulphur, in order to meet IMO requirements.

Demonstration of the key technological components for solar aviation «drop - in» fuel production that enables the use of existing fuel infrastructure, fuel system, and aircraft engine, while eliminating the logistical requirements of biofuels, hydrogen, or other alternative fuels.

A demonstration plant powered by geothermal has been running in Iceland since 2011, using a novel low - temp & low pressure technology to process electrolytic hydrogen and carbon from airborne CO2, to provide 2.5 % of the national liquid fuel requirement cut with petrol.

Subtitle C: Miscellaneous -(Sec. 551) Amends the CAA to exclude from requirements regarding lifecycle GHG emissions indirect land use changes outside the renewable fuel's feedstock's country of origin for purposes of determining whether a fuel meets renewable fuel requirements.

* Note: As discussed in Breaking Energy's article, the project's use of natural gas remains within the de minimus requirement (2 % - 5 % of total fuel use) as defined by the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to be considered RPS - eligible delivered electricity.

(Sec. 126) Amends the CAA to revise the definition of «renewable biomass» for purposes of the renewable fuel standard by expanding the amount of biomass from forested land that could be used to produce fuels under such standard and eliminating the requirement that feedstock crops come from previously cultivated land.

The fuel that the vehicles must use for this requirement is called the «certification fuel.»

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

GHG emissions are required by no less than 3 regulations and all three are tabulated: a. GHG emission reporting CDX; b. Annual emissions reports for large discharges required by state SIP's, Title V and CAA, and c. monthly / quarterly / annual fuel use reporting requirements.

Various renewable fuels can be used to meet the requirements of RFS program, including ethanol and biodiesel.

Burlington Electric is offering this incentive as part of its effort to meet the Tier III requirements of Vermont's RES, which supports utility programs that help customers reduce fossil fuel use in the heating and transportation sectors..

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

Democrats are still drafting the energy package, which also will include a boost in automobile fuel efficiency standards and requirements to use more renewable fuel sources like ethanol.

Next month EPA is scheduled to finalize 2014, 2015 and 2016 ethanol - use requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- and where EPA sets the volume standards could have big impacts on consumers and our economy.

The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»

, or what is the higher costs of using fossil fuel derived requirements for octane and oxgenation?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

This means greatly reducing the task of managing used fuel and disposing of high - level wastes, and also significantly reducing China's fresh uranium requirements.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.

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