Sentences with phrase «fuels greater demand»

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This performance was fueled primarily by great demand for MacBook Pro... We had outstanding results all around the world with each of our geographic segments, growing Mac revenue by 20 % or more.
The rapid international growth of cheese as a dietary addition tracks consumption gains of 36 % in emerging markets and 15 % in developed markets between 2004 and 2014.1 The United States helps fuel international demand for cheese with hundreds of varieties and styles, each crafted to meet consumer desire for enjoyable, great - tasting foods that also suit health and wellness needs.
The world's plastic demand is so great that though polymers and plastics once were byproducts of fuel, now novel production processes are dedicated to making them.
And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.
Ornithologists and museum administrators, for example, helped push the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) penguin out of existence in 1844 by fueling demand that pushed prices ever higher for its skin and eggs.
During the company's shareholders» meeting last week, Ghosn stated that «This new electric vehicle will meet consumer demand for greater autonomy and fuel efficiency.»
These fuels should be seen as part of an expanded renewable energy portfolio that emphasizes greater fuel efficiency and reduced demand as well as the development of new sustainable energy technologies that may one day go beyond biofuels.
Among the four cylinder 16V unit's key features is a new, high - pressure fuel pump injector to satisfy its greater performance demands while also allowing it to fully comply with strict EU5 emissions standards.
The 16V petrol engine features a new, high - pressure fuel pump injector to satisfy the greater performance demands and allow it to meet strict EU5 emissions standards while revisions to the electronic engine management system, plus increased maximum turbo pressure (1.9 bar at max output and 2.2 bar at max torque, versus 1.8 bar for the 240 PS 2.0 - litre TSI in Leon Cupra) complete the powerplant changes beneath the SEAT's svelte «clamshell» bonnet.
In addition to great fuel economy, our Kia Optima offers you all the comfort and convenience features your life demands!
Next, they switched to a more efficient direct fuel injection system and fuel pump for more power and reduced emissions and topped everything off with a larger turbocharger for greater on - demand performance.
Available exclusively on the Sportage GT Line, the 1.6 - litre T - GDI engine boasts a range of upgrades to ensure it meets owners» demands for quicker accelerative response, greater fuel efficiency and easier access to engine torque.
The turbocharger's on - demand performance also contributes to efficiency because it enables greater power when needed with the lower fuel consumption of a small - displacement engine when it's not.
New Power Stroke 3L diesel is super quiet, has great low - end torque and is a fuel saver on demand.
Under the direction of chief engineer John Mowrey, [2] Chevrolet began developing the Chevette on December 24, 1973, in response to the federal CAFE standards and the 1973 oil crisis and GM's Energy Task Force, arising out of the crisis and the resultant shift in consumer demand to smaller, foreign vehicles boasting greater fuel efficiency.
The car's new engine also features a new, high - pressure fuel pump injector to satisfy its greater performance demands, while fully complying with strict EU5 emissions standards.
According to the manufacturer, the difference in fuel consumption between a parallel hybrid and a power - split hybrid is not that great, since the former can still automatically kill the internal combustion engine while the car is at standstill — and then restart immediately on demand.
of torque, providing on - demand power comparable to a V6, but with greater fuel efficiency.
Perhaps of greater significance is the optional Active Driveline system, an on demand four - wheel drive system which is promised to improve fuel economy by operating in front - wheel drive mode during steady - state driving at above 22 miles per hour.
As this generation comes to the market over the next decades, their demand for great and exciting books will fuel a huge growth in writing and reading.
The increasing demand from India, the world's second most populous country, is expected to be greater than China's for steel and fossil fuels.
A growing global population is largely responsible for greater food demand but alternative fuels like ethanol also play role in increasing demand.
Up until the mid-2020s demand growth remains robust in the New Policies Scenario, but slows markedly thereafter as greater efficiency and fuel switching bring down oil use for passenger vehicles (even though the global car fleet doubles from today to reach 2 billion by 2040).
Moreover, they drive climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing countries.
I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturifuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturifuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturiFuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).
Thus, absent fossil fuels, global cropland would have to increase by 150 percent to meet current food demand, but conversion of habitat to cropland is already the greatest threat to biodiversity.
The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater energy efficiency hit demand and the implications those global trends have for commodity prices.
«Accordingly, as we concluded in D.P.U. 10 - 54, at 229 - 230, the Cape Wind facility will produce far greater benefits in terms of its: (1) contribution to narrowing the projected gap between supply and demand of renewable resources; (2) contribution to compliance with GWSA emission reductions requirements; (3) contribution to fuel diversity; (4) price suppression effects; (5) ability to act as a hedge against future fuel price increases and volatility; (6) contribution to system reliability; and (7) ability to moderate system peak load.
It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing demand for energy.
Even development assistance from the rich countries to the poor ones is jeopardized because development of the poor countries will inevitably lead both to great increases in their demand for energy, and perhaps even worse, in their ability to compete with the present industrialized countries to acquire fuels in the international markets.
«The World Council of Churches reminds us that morality demands thinking as much about the future as about ourselves — and that there's no threat to the future greater than the unchecked burning of fossil fuels.
Yet amid an uptick in the demand for metals, minerals, fuels and rare earths that feed everything from cars to construction to clean energy technologies, the mining industry — squeezed by ever greater forces — is slowly shifting, and even cleaning up its act.
The climate equation has two sides, and while great attention has been paid to the demand side: «how do we reduce fossil fuel consumption and emissions?»
But in football, in order to fuel the ever - greater demand for revenue, clubs looked overseas for their talent, paying extraordinary amounts of money to players used to beaches and palm trees to attract them to live in the wet and windy north of England.
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