Sentences with phrase «jet fuel it burns»

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

The overwhelming challenge is how to produce enough biofuel to supply even a fraction of the more than 60 billion gallons of jet fuel burned every year by the world's aircraft.

The role of airplanes have long been a tough piece to fit into the puzzle of transitioning to a low - carbon future — the huge amounts of jet fuel they burn make them some of the most notorious emitters on the

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So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

The CS100, which is expected to make its maiden test flight this fall, burns up to 15 % less fuel, and is also far quieter than a traditional jet engine — a perfect fit for Porter's business model, and its home airport.

If there's any rubber chicken we'll still burn jet fuel to front up to, it's the Sydney Institute's annual dinner.

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

Space rockets work in a similar way to the bottle, but instead of squirting water they burn fuel to make a powerful jet of hot gas.

The way this world is going perhaps it about time we allowed the world to end, we turn off everything and yesterday six jets flew low over my house then powered away, two with after burners we could taste the burnt fuel in the air.

Sending an email across the Atlantic Ocean does not burn any jet fuel, but the internet is not without its own, huge carbon footprint

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

By controlling the speed of the ethylene jet, Chen and Yoo alter how rapidly the fuel burns, a measure of its efficiency.

A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second.

The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

«We are able to take lignin — which most biorefineries consider waste to be burned for its heat — and turn it into high - value molecules that have applications in fragrance, flavoring and high - octane jet fuels,» Abu - Omar said.

«Designing the fuel - efficient aircraft of the future: Stampede supercomputer helps researchers design jets with morphing wings, or built from composite materials, that will burn less fuel.»

According to Viktor Zhukov, scientists are able to accurately simulate the burning of simple gas mixtures, for example, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, and it is far more difficult to simulate the burning of more complex fuels, including jet fuel.

JET researchers are testing how the machine behaves when filled with individual hydrogen isotopes before attempting burns with deuterium and tritium — the fuel for fusion — in 2019.

Along the paths and across the lawns, little kids skip to ultracompetitive kindergartens with visions of Fox News war - on - terror graphics dancing in their heads, counting off the seconds till the next History Channel investigation of the special relationship of steel with burning jet fuel.

A standard jet engine employs spinning compressor fans to pressurize inflowing air so that it releases large amounts of energy when mixed with fuel and burned.

The L - 29 jet (acquired from the Ukrainian military) is one of the few planes capable of burning biodiesel at present, thanks to a built - in fuel warming system.

Today's flight represents its efforts to develop alternative jet fuel derived from post-harvest forestry material that is often burned after timber harvest.

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The researchers say the idea has merit because jets will continue to fly by burning liquid fuel for many years to come, and automobiles — barring big advances in batteries — will also need a liquid fill - up well past the point where the world has a billion cars.

72 Nigel The jet fuel exploding did not do the damage, it was the loss of strength in the building structural steel, due to heat of the burning jet fuel which caused the collapse.

Jet fuel loves to burn and is notoriously immune to water, so around 50 years ago chemical giant 3M, in conjunction with the Navy, developed a product to solve the problem of extinguishing airplane crash fires.

Hypocrites, because they almost all burn fossil fuels in their cars, are quite happy about hopping on a plane, which consumes inordinate amounts of fossil fuel (1000 huge jet planes throughput daily in Hong Kong alone), waste power on large screen TVs..

Here is one example of a science - based response to the Rosie O'Donnell (a famous climate alarmist, by the way) and her claim that burning jet fuel can't melt steel so therefore the WTC had to have been destroyed by demolition charges set by Dick Cheney, or something like that.

A new design for jet engine combustors — the chamber where fuel is burned — cuts nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 %.

The renewable synthetic diesel and jet fuels will meet all applicable fuels standards, be compatible with existing engines and pipelines, and burn cleanly, with emissions of particulates and other regulated pollutants significantly lower than emissions of traditional fuels.

One is located at the South Pole right next to an electrical power plant that burns jet fuel 24/7-365 days a year.

Put restrictions on Boeing and other commercial airlines to create planes that do not burn jet fuel.

Gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc. pack a lot of energy per unit, can be burned pretty clean, do not destroy engines, are readily available, cost much less energy to produce than what they provide, and do not distort things like food supplies or national budgets to use.

As jet planes burn fuel and release carbon dioxide, the atmosphere warms and causes head winds to build up.

If each plane spent just one extra minute on each round trip flight, that would mean that commercial jets would spend 300,000 hours longer in the air, burn an additional billion gallons of jet fuel, and emit an extra 10,000 million kilograms of CO2 per year.

To provide some context, a 767 burns roughly 7,000 gallons of jet fuel on a trip between New York and San Francisco.

Its trees will absorb carbon dioxide, compensating for the tonnes that the star has been responsible for releasing into the atmosphere: burning aviation fuel as he jets around the world, using up petrol in his limousines and running air - conditioning in hotel rooms.

The upward skew in carbon use over the income range comes about because higher - income households don't just drive more, they also fly more (burning jet fuel), they tend to own bigger (and sometimes multiple) houses to heat and cool, and they buy and use more products that require electricity or industrial fuels to manufacture, deliver and use.

Whether it was jet fuel or gasoline burnt and exhausted to the atmosphere, coal burnt to produce electricity, or even the millions of cubic meters of concrete used to build hydroelectric dams, the hallmark of twentieth - century development was an increased carbon footprint.

We've stopped burning liquid fuels to generate electricity, injected powdered coal instead of fuel oil into blast furnaces, raised the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE), lowered the kerosene consumption of jet engines, and improved the efficiency of thousands of industrial processes.

Burning high sulfur jet fuel when at altitude might be one option.

In the case of the airliner, the flight is going anyway, with or without you and although there is a measurable difference in the fuel burned based on the decreased weight of a passenger and luggage, it is on the order of 200 gallons for an 8000 mile round trip assuming a 250 pound passenger including the luggage weight, it pales in comparison to a private jet that is carrying one passenger for that same trip requiring over 5000 gallons for the round trip.

When we burn fossil fuels like petrol (gas to an American), diesel or the kerosene that we use in our jet planes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.