Sentences with phrase «fuels ranging from»

But these direct cost related factors don't even begin to count in the terrible external costs of fossil fuels ranging from ramping damages due to climate change and direct health impacts by adding toxic particles to the air and water.

The Plan focuses more on solutions, including conversions of internal combustion engine vehicles to multiple fuels ranging from CNG to hydrogen, with long sections on electric vehicles and PHEVs.

Not exact matches

«Ruffling the feathers of high - profile folks ranging from executives at Pepsi to Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Scarlett Johansson's titillating performance, and her role as an advocate who seems to be flip - flopping, just fuels the fire,» Gibbs says.

We have to figure out everything, ranging from simple stuff, like where to buy a generator and an air conditioner — because you have to have an air conditioner if you want to have any Canadian or European geologists on site — to where to find a backhoe, a backhoe operator and fuel for the backhoe, not to mention a diamond drill.»

Yepez, himself known as «El Marro,» or «The Mallet,» is wanted by federal authorities and suspected of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to fuel theft.

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

Fuel surcharges can range from 6 % to 30 % of transportation costs, he says.

Colorado - based Range Fuels received an $ 80 million loan guarantee from the USDA to help fund its refinery, which began production by making methanol instead of ethanol last year.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

The increase in the quarter was broadly based across components, with particularly large rises recorded in exports of «other mineral fuels» and non-monetary gold, as production commenced from the 4th LNG train at the North - West Shelf and at a range of new gold mines, including the Telfer redevelopment.

«The scheme will create an invaluable amount of environmental and social benefit for the community, ranging from help and advice for those in fuel poverty and support for young people and the school, to provision of community services and conservation and wildlife enhancement.

These range from the Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP60) initiative presented by NDC in partnership with the National Football League and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the School Nutrition Foundation's Breakfast - in - the - Classroom Resource Center, and they allow school nutrition professionals to present science - based, data - driven arguments in favor of wellness programs like school breakfast

While Facebook and other social media played an essential role in creating the protests themselves, I would argue that their even more important role consisted in continuously fuelling them, as multiple Facebook pages dedicated to the protests started posting photos, videos and articles on what was happening, while simultaneously engaging the public and the protesters in a discussion on a wide range of important and thought - provoking civic topics, ranging from the manifestations themselves to Romania's political future.

There has been much recent media speculation on the issue but the messages are confused ranging from «not much change», to various charging schemes, to new private toll roads and altering vehicle excise duty / fuel duty.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Garcia reached the runoff mostly because of an anti-Emanuel vote, fueled by irritations ranging from an increase in the number of tickets being generated by Chicago's red light cameras * to the tumult in the school system to Emanuel's abrasive personality.

Panels focused on current efforts to tackle climate change, ranging from local environmental initiatives to the global Paris climate agreement, as well as how divestment from fossil fuels can be a tool for climate justice and curbing the impacts of climate change.

Next come Priti Patel with her forceful euroscepticism, Rory Stewart with his compelling back - story and foreign policy knowledge, and then Robert Halfon, with his strong campaigning on issues ranging from Libya to fuel prices.

The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.

About 15 times as much oil and natural gas is used as fuel than ends up in consumer products ranging from soaps, shampoos and deodorants to air fresheners, glues and cleaning sprays.

Companies ranging from Science Applications International (SAIC) in San Diego to San Francisco - based start - up Solazyme are working to produce jet fuel from algae oil as well.

Domestic industries can make it from a range of chemical feedstocks and energy sources (for instance, from renewable, nuclear and fossil - fuel sources), and the nontoxic gas could serve as a virtually pollution - free energy carrier for machines of many kinds.

They range from substituting dirty cookstoves with ones that use modern and clean fuels — something the State Department already is working on — to mandating diesel particle filters for vehicles.

And there is no reason to think that the R. eutropha could not be made to generate other products — perhaps complex hydrocarbon molecules like those found in fossil fuels or even the whole range of chemicals currently synthesized from polluting resources, such as fertilizers.

Boosting average fuel efficiency in 50 percent of cars from 20.8 miles per gallon to 30.7 mpg — and there are at least 26 vehicles available today that would do that, ranging from compact cars to sport utility vehicles — would save roughly 30 million metric tons.

The new facility in Hawaii will be the first integrated biorefinery dedicated to churning out bio-based versions of the full range of fuels more commonly made from petroleum.

Bacteria, which range from 0.5 to 5 microns in size, perform functions that can be exploited, enhanced and modified to produce fuels.

Crab, meanwhile, was among the least energy - intensive species to catch in the Dalhousie study, whereas the fuel needed to collect a ton of lobster swung wildly — ranging from 5.3 gallons (20 liters) per metric ton in Iceland to about 38 gallons (144 liters) in Maine to 271 gallons (1,025 liters) in Norway.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

But untangling the complex chains of these polymers into components, which can be useful for liquid fuel and other applications ranging from pharmaceuticals to plastics, has presented an ongoing challenge to science and industry.

The researchers are using «big data» concepts and techniques to discover and design new nanomaterials — a priority area under the White House's Materials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such as shampoo.

Decreased consumption, driven by the price hike, was brought about by measures ranging from insulating houses to improved fuel efficiency.

Sand is mined for a wide range of uses, from making concrete, glass, asphalt and electronics to reclaiming land and aiding in the extraction of fossil fuels.

Similar scandals erupted over the effects of scores of industrial applications, ranging from sulfur dioxide and acid rain, to certain aerosols and the hole in the ozone layer, to leaded gas and cognitive impairment, to the granddaddy of them all, fossil fuels and global climate change.

Just as a typical oil refiner cracks petroleum into a mixture of hydrocarbons ranging from ethane to jet fuel, Virent transforms sugars into a fuel that has a 102 octane rating.

At least eight states have imposed a vehicle registration fee, ranging from $ 50 to $ 200, for alternative - fuel vehicles: Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

China needs to reduce its dependence on coal and improve the range of fuels it uses if it is to have long term energy security, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Meanwhile, the larger, more complex examples have a wide spectrum of industrial uses, ranging from lenses and moisturizers to «green» fuel (biodiesel).

Until then Range Fuels will source its wood chips from whole trees — not a waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

Fuel cells play a major role in creating a clean energy future, with a broad set of applications ranging from powering buildings to electrifying transportation.

In industry and commerce, applications range from food and fertilizer manufacture to crude oil cracking to utilization as an energy source in fuel cells.

Many skyscrapers — and even homes — have such fuel cells today, but the prototype cars on the road — ranging from GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox to BMW's hydrogen - burning 7 Series sedan — have proved too expensive so far to fulfill the Bush administration's dreams of a hydrogen car economy.

Fuel - cell vehicles are therefore hybrids and will likely also deploy regenerative braking, which recovers energy from waste heat, a key capability for maximizing efficiency and range.

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«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

A new catalytic method for converting algal oil to gasoline - or jet - fuel - range hydrocarbons has been developed by the research group of Prof. Keiichi Tomishige and Dr. Yoshinao Nakagawa from Tohoku University's Department of Applied Chemistry, and Dr. Hideo Watanabe from the University of Tsukuba.

We can support customers by offering risk management services across the range of exposures airline companies face, from fuel price to CO2 compliance.

Funding from a wide range of sources fuels a host of scientific investigations, such as collaborative, cross-disciplinary efforts with the potential to broadly impact the state of cancer knowledge and care.