Sentences with phrase «into fuel form»

«We're going to take plutonium oxide that's a powder, turn it into fuel form, put it in the reactor, make it more radioactive, and then put that into the ground,» Loewen admits, which would also render it unfit for nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

With the first close of the $ 30 - million goal already secured solely from private investors, the Fund is pleased to announce its first two investments: GreenMantra, which has developed a proprietary technology platform to convert plastics into chemicals and other fuels; and Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), which is on track to create low - cost energy sensors that form the backbone of a smarter grid by providing real - time, highly granular data measurements.

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They give us a paycheck to help them milk the wealth from our land in the form of fossil fuel, minerals, raw materials and food; pay us to process it into pretty, Twinkie - packages of stuff that we «just can't live without», and then sell it back to us and others at a profit that puts them on easy street.

So the trick that prejudice plays in the mind is: rather than knowledge leading to the attitude or belief, the attitude or belief pre-exists and forms the so - called «facts» that shape the prejudice and fuel it into action.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

Hot sauce has evolved into many forms — West Indian pepper sauce, Yemeni chili relish, sriracha, and even American Tabasco, fueling a hot sauce craze.

The central galaxy in this cluster harbors a supermassive black hole that is in the process of devouring star - forming gas, which fuels a pair of powerful jets that erupt from the black hole in opposite directions into intergalactic space.

«The acquired data provides important insights into the fuel spray motion as well as the timing and quantity of soot formed under a wide range of conditions,» said Sandia researcher Scott Skeen.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

As temperatures rise, stored carbohydrates in the plants» rhizomes are converted into mobile forms to fuel growing tissues.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

That is also enough to meet almost half the fuel needs of the 104 U.S. reactors, once various plants located throughout the country shape this uranium into half - inch -(1.27 - centimeter --RRB- diameter black pellets and then form them into rods by coating the pellets with zirconium cladding.

TerraLeaf is working on using chlorophyllin — the chlorophyll from a plant turned into a salt by adding sodium ions and copper — paired with an electrically conducting polymer to form a membrane that can pull CO2 (or other greenhouse gases) from air and form carbon - based chemicals, and potentially even fuels.

Plants convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into energy in the form of sugars, which they can use to fuel any number of vital life processes.

As food breaks down into glucose — the simplest form of sugar, which the body uses for fuel — you will experience a surge in

Rice University chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst for fuel cells and other applications.

Meanwhile, a correlation between the rate at which stars form in the central regions of galaxies and the amount of gas that falls into supermassive black holes (mass accretion rate) was known to exist, leading some scientists to suggest that the activity involved in star formation fuels the growth of black holes.

The first step in such an electrolytic approach is splitting CO2, a tough, stable molecule, into oxygen and carbon monoxide (CO), a slightly more energy - rich molecule that can form the basis for hydrocarbon fuels like methanol.

This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.

Why It Matters: To upgrade renewable biomass sources into liquid fuels requires removing oxygen atoms, often from intermediately formed alcohols.

Through a multi-step process in Russia, the bomb - grade uranium material was converted into a different chemical form and then diluted into low enriched uranium suitable for use in fabricating commercial nuclear power reactor fuel.

The organic aerosol particles that coat the toxic hitchhikers are wafted into the atmosphere through emissions from trees (like those that produce the smell of pine trees), and burning biomass and fossil fuel to form a semi-solid sap - like casing surrounding and protecting the particle's payload from breaking down in the atmosphere.

During periods of high volume and / or intensity of training including competition concentrated forms of carbohydrates are brought back into the diet and fueling «strategically» in conjunction with VESPA use to retain the benefits of high rates of beta - oxidation and ketosis while benefiting from the fast metabolizing glucose from the carbohydrates.

In contrast, 25 - 30 % of the calories consumed in the form of protein are used up in digesting the protein and turning it into fuel available to be used by the body.

The beauty of this is the liver requires minimal action to convert MCTs directly into fuel in the form of ketones.

The things to remember about carbs and to put into context: Carbs are not used as structural components in the body — they are used only as a form of fuel; glucose in the bloodstream is toxic to humans UNLESS it is being burned immediately as fuel.

The body has to burn more fuel and dig deep into fat reserves in order to be able to perform any exercise that involves even a minor form of resistance training.

We measure the energy stored in food in calories, and when we consume them (in the form of macronutrients: carbs, fats and protein), our bodies convert food into the energy we need to fuel everything we do, from breathing and sleeping to running and lifting weights.

Today I'm rounding up 18 more Vegetarian Lunch Box Ideas, and this time we're hitting up lunch bowls of all forms: Buddah bowls, fajita bowls, and sturdy, packable salads that will fuel you into the afternoon.

MCT (Medium Chain Triglycerides) are a particular type of beneficial fat that requires minimal action from the liver to convert directly into fuel in the form of ketones.

A healthy body converts dietary fructose into glycogen inside your liver, a form of fuel, and then stores it ready for use.

The Alpha platform is narrower than the Zeta platform, at least in CTS form, so the effect on the Camaro's all - important footprint as factored into its Corporate Average Fuel Economy target may be negligible.

During atomization the fuel still remains in liquid form, it's just broken up into small droplets consisting of multiple fuel molecules.

Yet this hasn't deterred a growing number of automakers from pouring vast amounts of money into the development of hydrogen fuel - cell technology, which can provide a car with range commensurate with conventional gasoline - engine models while emitting nothing but water in the form of steam.

Gas enters the fuel injectors in a liquid form, and is converted into a mist, which is then sprayed into the cylinder so that it can burn quickly and efficiently.

The mixture formation itself is also enhanced by turbulences at the edges and inside the cone - shaped spray; these suck air particles into the fuel spray, forming an optimally ignitable mixture.

- The Nissan ZEOD RC Le Mans car just keeps getting smaller.In fact, the fuel engine that will form part of the powertrain of the Nissan ZEOD RC Le Mans 24 Hours racer will fit into the overhead...

All living organisms require some form of food to convert into fuel for a variety of metabolic processes.

The plot and other game events are pushed forward by coming into contact with other survivors who, as soon as finding out you are immune immediately task you with some form of fetch quest ranging from the banal but vital task of getting car parts or fuel to burn bodies, to the weird and stupid like searching for some nutters teddy bear and necklace.

This may eventually be a stepping stone into the mire that has recently plagued the industry in the form of loot boxes fuelled by in - game premium currencies.

The plant will also, in theory, produce a stream of pure hydrogen fuel and a stream of carbon dioxide in a form ready to pump into the earth for long - term storage so it doesn't heat the climate.

This electric energy can thus not be compared on a 1:1 basis with the chemical energy in fossil fuels without taking into account the conversion efficiency of both forms of energy into a useful form (kinetic energy in this case).

It's partly because, ironically, the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil, gas, to give us the energy in a very short period of time, dense forms of energy that enable us to send rockets into space, that enable us to power submersibles into the sea, and instrumentation that gives us communication.

The answer is simple: just burn all the planet's remaining fossil fuel resources, which would pump another 10,000 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

In the processing industry, Statistics Canada does not separate the amount of energy consumed into these energy forms and reports only the dollar value of the costs of electricity and fuels.

Acid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

The video,» Beyond Recycling: Recovering the Energy in Non-Recycled Plastics,» illustrates processes for recycling plastics and converting those plastics that can't be economically recycled into various forms of energy, including oil, gas, electricity and liquid and solid fuels.

We're taking natural materials — fossil fuels buried in the Earth, which took millions of years to form — and we're using them in a pretty unnatural way: burning them and releasing that hidden carbon back into the system in the form of CO2 so fast that the Earth doesn't know how to handle it.

In fact those synthetic organisms can pull carbon out of the atmosphere and store it liquid forms that could, if we so desire, be put into the fuel tanks of extant internal and external combustion engines like trains, planes, automobiles, and electrical generation plants.