Sentences with phrase «larger fuel supply»

While these units are typically hooked up to a larger fuel supply, they can also be run on a 3 gallon tank that drops into the unit.

Mr Sims said most consumers may be unaware of Milemaker because its sites are branded Caltex but noted they set retail prices independently of the large fuel supplier.

Not exact matches

CHS is the largest farmer - and rancher - owned cooperative in the U.S. and provides the stuff farmers need to grow crops — fuel and farm supplies — and then buys growers» harvests to either sell or process.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

The proposed acquisition, which was signed in late December 2016 and was due to be completed in January 2018, would make the British - based energy company the largest fuel retailer and wholesaler in Australia, increasing the number of BP - supplied sites by about 530 to more than 1930.

The Russian Federation supplies a significant volume of fossil fuels and is the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union.

Up to 100,000 households could be lifted out of fuel poverty after the government persuaded the UK's six largest energy suppliers to increase the amount they spend on social programmes.

The world's ample supply of uranium could fuel a much larger fleet of reactors than exists today throughout their 40 - to 50 - year life span.

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

Closed vats might produce pure strains of such high - oil species for feeding into large ponds to grow sufficient supplies, says systems engineer Ron Pate at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has been analyzing the fuel potential of microscopic plants.

The country has a demanding industrial sector that needs a large and stable electricity supply, and some doubted that this could be achieved in the long term without retaining nuclear or large fossil fuel plants.

For large - scale, sustainable nuclear energy production to continue, the supply of nuclear fuel must last a long time.

Two - way fuel cells Meanwhile, Versa, a solid oxide fuel cell stack supplier, is working with Boeing and «a large European company» on an innovative reversible SOFC that cycles back and forth between providing power and electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen, Stokes says.

Three recent missions have found an unexpectedly large supply of water on the moon that could both quench the thirst of future lunar dwellers and produce fuel for missions to other places in the solar system.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

With Asia representing the largest growth market for nuclear power in the coming decades, Centrus will continue its 20 - year commitment to its Asian customers as their trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services through closer cooperation and more immediate service.

To Hramiec's point, this fuels a vicious cycle when it comes to competency models spreading: if a small minority of fully competency - based schools can not spur a supply of integrated competency - based technology solutions, it is unlikely that larger systems, whose demand ultimately drives the edtech market, will move away from time - based practices.

National education charity Future First — which works to break down barriers caused by social mobility issues — has partnered with Greenergy, the UK's leading road fuel supplier and Europe's largest manufacturer of biofuel from waste, to inform state school students about the skills necessary to succeed in the energy and fuel industry.

Alcoa, one of the largest aluminum suppliers in the country, expects its sales of aluminum sheet to triple by 2015, as automakers increase their use of the material amid ever - tightening fuel economy standards and consumer demand.

The larger turbochargers deliver improved breathing, while optimized performance tuning provides precise ignition timing and an upgraded fuel pump supplies the additional fuel needed for the correct air / fuel mixture.

To do this, Mazda has further developed several elementary technologies — a new piston head design and super-high-pressure fuel injection system to support compression ignition, and a high - response air supply which can deliver larger amounts of air — and combined these with an in - cylinder sensor which serves to control the entire engine.

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Valero Energy Corporation is the world's largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer, supplying fuel and products with 16 refineries and 10 ethanol plants stretching from the U.S. West and Gulf coasts to Canada, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.

In fact, the large supply of weak - handed short sellers in strong uptrends provides rocket fuel for even higher prices.

Fleas from this colony will infest the pet for feeding purposes — to supply the necessary fuel to produce the large quantity of eggs that a female flea can generate (over twice her body weight per day).

The facility included Mission Revival houses, a heavy - lift boom for raising supply boats, 3 2000 gallon fuel tanks, a 30,000 square foot water catchment basin, and 2 large redwood water tanks housed in a building.

Fueled by learning the truths, Saxon sets out to understand the mysteries behind the large corporations who control the drug supply, which is needed by augmented humans for survival.

The exception to this is Bryyo, a Federation protectorate and the largest supplier of Fuel Gel.

That leads to the large and important question: without fossil fuels, what do we do for our energy supply?

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Reducing emissions of climate - active gases and particulates from large Diesel engines for ship propulsion systems and stationary power supply by the application of fuels from renewable sources

The plan errs by placing its focus on preventing fuel supply disruptions at larger power plants and ignores the potential resiliency benefits of fuel - free, distributed generation such as wind and solar, clean energy advocates said.

Successful 1.9 W m − 2 scenarios are characterized by a rapid shift away from traditional fossil - fuel use towards large - scale low - carbon energy supplies, reduced energy use, and carbon - dioxide removal.

Apparently, with the latest discovery of huge deposits of natural gas, the US has the potential to have a large additional supply of cheap energy that emits only half as much greenhouse gasses as traditional fuels.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the world's largest supply of emergency crude oil, was designed to protect the country from fuel shortages in the event of an emergency.

With fossil fuels, a large majority of economists that contemplate climate action advocate a price on carbon, either a tax or a permit to emit, which would reduce demand for the fuels without restricting supply.

Last year, the paper reports, 30 percent of power in the U.S. came from natural gas, up from 19 percent in 2005, driven by hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have unlocked large and inexpensive new supplies of the fuel.

«Ken Lay, the head of Enron, a large Texas - based national gas supplier with annual sales of $ 20 billion that is fast becoming a worldwide energy firm, sees his company, and more broadly the natural gas industry, playing a central role in the conversion from a fossil - fuel - based energy economy to a solar / hydrogen energy economy.»

A battery - dominant hydrogen FCV would only need a fuel cell large enough to keep the battery charged for average driving as the battery would supply the additional peak power.

How governments choose to ration, restrict, or penalize the carbon - based fuels that supply 85 % of U.S. and global energy — or, in Somerville's words, how governments compel «large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions» — is a subordinate issue.

It does not matter if every american drives around in over sized pick up trucks 60 miles a day, consuming the largest portion of world's supply of fossil fuel!!

So just how large is the task of replacing the current fossil fuel - based energy supply (in particular, conventional coal burning) with other non-polluting fuel sources?

But the tar sands are unlikely to make a large impact on overall supply of liquid fuels because their supply is likely to be rate, rather than total resource limited.

Virginia Tech researchers measure the water efficiency of fuel extraction and power generation, as fresh - water supply becomes a larger concern.

2) Blanket promotions for nuclear ignore the issues — fuel supply, waste disposal, construction costs, and need for large amounts of cooling water.

378 Ike Solem: «Blanket promotions for nuclear ignore the issues — fuel supply, waste disposal, construction costs, and need for large amounts of cooling water.»

It's understandable if your population simply can not tolerate nuclear, or if you have a large indigenous supply of fossil fuel!

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.