Sentences with phrase «in making the fuel»

Still, Keasling's E. coli needs more work to boost its efficiency in making fuel.

There are challenges in making fuel from slime that have dogged scientists for decades.

Most experts now agree that from cornfield to factory vat, the amount of energy expended in making the fuel accounts for about 80 % of the energy in it.

The biggest expense in making the fuel is the feedstock, which is why Amyris chose Brazil and sugarcane instead of corn and the United States, says Renninger.

Not exact matches

Chuck was co-author of a study in the ACS Journal Energy & Fuels which looked, in part, at how different types of coffee bean affect the fuel properties of biodiesel made from coffee.

In the aerospace industry, GE is using metal systems to make stronger, lighter fuel injectors for its LEAP jet engines.

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

The company seeks to solve the whole issue of customer centricity and leveraging data in the making decisions about customers, and is fueled by Argyros» dedicated to continued innovation.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

His idea was to pay plants a premium to store at least 90 days of fuel on site in an effort to make grids more reliable.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Foreign brands often carry a better reputation than their Chinese equivalents; recent crises involving toxic chemicals in Chinese - made food and cosmetics have fueled that sentiment.

A good estimate, according to Volodymyr Bilotkach, a senior lecturer in economics at Newcastle University, is that fuel has typically made up about a third of airlines» operating costs.

It looks like next year might be a good time to cut the carbohydrates as a drought - fueled jump in wheat costs will make bakery goods the food items with the biggest price gains for U.S. consumers.

Fueling your mind with positive messages first thing in the morning helps you to build the self - confidence and motivational boost to go out in the world and make that specific day a masterpiece.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

I certainly didn't, even though the TLX A-Spec includes both a Sport and a Sport Plus driving mode, in additional to Normal and Econ (the last helping the car make good on its 20 mpg city / 29 highway / 23 combined fuel - economy ratings).

Last month, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), which represents more than 95 percent of the U.S. refining sector, sent a letter to President Trump, in which it argued that refineries along the Gulf Coast have made substantial investments to process heavy crude, particularly of the Venezuelan variety.

In a recent press release, CPUC stated that consumer cooperation would mean CPUC wouldn't have to rely on inefficient, expensive, and often fossil fuel — dependent peakers (or «last resort» power plants) to make up for the imbalance of supply and demand.

Fueled by a renewed enthusiasm for items sourced and produced in the U.S. — and supported by a new advertising agency devoted to American manufacturing — this locavore - tinged version of Made in America is gaining steam.

According to «James Dean at Speed» author Lee Raskin, the claims made in Barris» book fueled speculation that the Spyder was cursed.

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

Rhenium is used with platinum as a catalyst in the production of lead - free, high - octane fuels and combined with tungsten and molybdenum to make metal alloys used in jet engines.

The fossil fuel industries are making moves in Europe, with oil suppliers cutting supply to drive up prices again.

Making Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels In the long run, all this wrangling with utilities won't do Rive much good if he can't beat them on price.

We're hoping to make E-15 the standard, and in the meantime we're working with innovative retailers to offer a new choice of fuel that has a 15 % blend of ethanol.»

«With the cost of fuel rising, not everything made in China is that cheap anymore.»

With the cost of fuel rising, and the cost of labour rising in China as well, not everything made in China is that cheap anymore.

What else it offers: The car may not be available for purchased, but the hydrogen fuel cell technology may make an appearance in other Toyota vehicles.

New York - based ApNano Materials makes lubricating nanocoatings for engine parts; Oxonica, in the United Kingdom, produces nanoadditives that improve sunscreens and diesel fuel; Oakland, California - based Nano - Tex manufactures products that make clothing stain - resistant, softer, and more breathable.

Prescott is biracial and in her fifties, and she says the toxic environment fueled by demeaning comments made by her mostly male colleagues — and their behavior toward other women — eventually got to her.

It didn't hurt that a popular cookbook on making beer can chicken and a barbecue guru extolling the beer - tender fowl's virtues were fueling demand for his product among American barbecue chefs in love with the idea of poultry impaled on a can of suds.

The company made a comeback in February, showing higher profits on lower fuel costs for the fourth quarter.

And in October 2017, Musk revealed a nearly 40 - foot - wide cryogenic fuel tank made out of the stuff.

GE acquired 3D - printing specialists Morris Technologies in 2012, and uses 3D printing to make fuel nozzles for its new LEAP jet engine.

A few days later, he told her about a lab in Columbus, Ohio, that was making fuel cells the size of pencil erasers.

The vast majority of the members of the cluster, however, are small businesses in the fuel - cell industry, including suppliers that make pieces of a final product.

«This deal will help boost the mid - to long - term fundamentals in renewable energy generation, especially solar, while making any further investments in fossil - fuels increasingly vulnerable,» said portfolio manager Thiemo Lang of Zurich's RobecoSAM, which owns solar stocks.

«Your manufacturing cost could be very cheap, but with all the risks along the way, whether fuel prices or natural disasters, it might not make sense for your business to source something in Asia and ship it back here.»

That growth, fueled by $ 1.1 billion in venture funding, makes Dropbox one of the greatest Silicon Valley startup stories of all time.

We predicted falling prices would make solar energy cheaper than fossil fuel in most states; that was overly exuberant.

In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

• Lariat Partners made a significant investment in Offen Petroleum, a Commerce City, Colo. - based provider of fuel, lubricants, and logistics services in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region.

Those fuel - price economics make sense not just for EnCana, which has converted 163 of its 1,700 vehicles and 15 of its drilling rigs to natural gas, but for larger fleet operators with no special interest in promoting gas.

Best of all, rather than the physical changes in their bodies being responsible for the uptick in confidence, it was the immediate, endorphin - fueled positivity from exercise that made all the difference.

If you can make it here, as the song goes, you can make it anywhere: New Yorkers are tastemakers, and success in the Big Apple will fuel appetites in other U.S. markets.

It trended in the top news on Weibo Wednesday, with most users dismissing nationality as irrelevant after news reports made it clear that Dao is Vietnamese, not Chinese, as originally reported — a factor that had fueled some of the early online backlash.

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