Sentences with phrase «less fuel at»

With the changes, the engine uses less fuel at highway speeds but has much less low - speed torque.

The smaller engine also chews 16 per cent less fuel at 8.8 L / 100 km.

To express this in figures, the E 250 CDI with 150 kW / 204 hp and 500 newton metres develops a 25 percent higher torque than the previous V6 diesel engine, but uses around 23 percent less fuel at only 5.3 litres per 100 kilometres (combined NEDC consumption).

Mazda's innovative idling stop system, i - stop, now uses less fuel at restart and operates with greater frequency, contributing to better than ever fuel savings.

Not exact matches

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

At top speed, the W16 will drain its 26.4 - gallon fuel tank in less than 10 minutes.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Shoppers were seen buying more fuel, which is less profitable, at Costco during the latest period.

The data from the Prius dashboard gives drivers real - time feedback on their fuel consumption, which leads to a series of behavioral micro-adjustments in how they drive — a little less pedal to the metal at the traffic light, a little more coasting on the downhill.

It's more or less the internet's favorite portable generator — it's fuel - efficient, it's simple to use, it runs quietly, and, for something as strong as this, it's light, weighing in at less than 50 pounds.

Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.

With clever carton design and luxury aesthetics at the forefront of consumer attraction, it seems the previous emphasis on sustainability in the packaging world is taking a lesser role with tea packing in this post-recession era — with high quality, often costly, materials fueling the battle for market share.

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

Doing so would have allowed the town to buy fuel at a price 25 cents per gallon less than their former arrangement.

Noting that diet and weight loss surgery are often recommended for the care of metabolic syndrome, Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil., professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School, said, «This drug amplifies the biological rhythms of metabolic genes to the extent that the animals burn more fuel and store less fuel.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

«We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 / gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

They say enriching uranium at a processing plant poses less risk than handling spent nuclear fuel, which is highly radioactive, at a reactor.

Monteiro's team found that the Romans, by contrast, used much less lime and made it from limestone baked at 900 ˚ C (1,652 ˚ F) or lower, requiring far less fuel than Portland cement.

«The basic idea of lightweighting spacecraft or aircraft is going to use a lot less fuel,» said Frances Arnold, a professor of biochemistry and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.

Four groups — based at MIT, Boeing, GE, and Northrup Grumman — tackled NASA's challenge to improve subsonic flight, in which the agency asked for aircraft designs that burn 70 percent less fuel and create less noise than existing planes.

«The lower operating temperatures during cold start are due to increasing fuel efficiency in advanced combustion engines, which leaves less energy in the tailpipe exhaust,» said Abhaya Datye, a distinguished professor at UNM's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and study co-author.

Hennessy claims that these can produce «at least a 50 percent reduction in the burning of diesel fuel, plus the diesels will need less maintenance and last much longer.

Using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, as well as computing systems at NASA and UM, Martins has developed improved wing designs capable of burning less fuel, as well as tools that help the aerospace industry build more efficient aircraft.

And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.

Because hydrogen fuel cells operate more efficiently at less - than - maximum power, their advantage relative to diesel generators rises, he said.

In the meantime many contracts are being signed for electricity from solar energy at less than half the price of electricity from fossil fuels, even on an unsubsidized basis.

Because platinum is at the center of many clean energy and green chemicals production technologies, such as fuel cells, catalytic converters, and value - added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum - copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes, she added.

A low - temperature variety of fuel cell works best at a mere 80ºC, but it is less efficient, relies on expensive catalysts, and feeds on a smaller repertoire of fuels than its high - temperature cousin.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

That means the fuel gain at NIF represents less than 1 per cent of the total energy entering the system.

Another involved making additional flybys of Titan to not only study that moon's bizarre landscape in more detail, but to also use the gravity of Titan to change Cassini's course and fly around the planet at different orbits using less fuel.

The amount of fuel within the SMR - 160 buildings is less than 10 % of that stored at a typical present day nuclear plant.

The 100 kJ is the energy output of a 100 - watt light for about 20 minutes, but in a fusion experiment at NIF, that energy would be released in less than a billionth of a second and enough to bring the fuel a step closer to the ignition conditions.

«In addition to having a heavy breakfast, I encourage that my patients avoid carbs at night since carbs is a «fuel food» and at night we sleep so we need less carbs.

Unfortunately, these home tests (like keeping it in the fridge to see if it turns solid or trying to burn it as fuel for a lantern) are unreliable at determining if the oil is of high quality or not, and taste tests can be even less reliable.

Yes, you will get hungry, but your hunger will be appropriate and you will be surprised at how much less food will completely satisfy you once you regain your metabolic flexibility and no longer need to rely on stored sugar in your body for your primary fuel.

With the end goal being an improved capacity to use fat as fuel, we will discuss the nutrition and training principles to move the cross over point to the right (more fat and less carb at a given effort and speed).

I suppose my body simply wants more fuel whenever I work out On non workout days my morning shake appears to hold me over longer than non workout days, I do not actually feel the need to snack, but I still do not feel like I desire to eat less at a meal.

Given how nutritionally poor a salad is, I can only imagine that once the nutrient deficiencies of the Modern American Diet are made up, your body needs a less nutrient - dense diet and is looking more at maintenance nutrient loads plus fuel.

A body fueled by the right nutrients will not only function at its best, but it also possesses less of a risk of developing cancer.

(eating 70 - 80 % fat, 15 - 20 % protein, 5 % or less total carbs for at least 2 - 4 weeks) If you are keto - adapted, you should get a big «bonk» as you body is always using fat for fuel.

Nike created a new measurement called «Nike Fuel» (measures exercise based on a sort of algorithm for oxygen kinetics), which can seem fairly arbitrary or at least less useful than working with calories.

yes i agree... i only use 130 as a generalization... and yes the conditioned individual can mobilize triglycerides out of the muscle at a heart rate over 130, which in the conditioned individual will be used in the mitochondria for fuel... however in the unconditioned individual the triglycerides mobilize but then re-form back in the muscle as fat and so are not used as fuel... science is yet to really explain why this happens... but in my experience the conditioned individual is just more efficient at burning fat... and the unconditioned individual is simply in the process of becoming more efficient... so i recommend the unconditioned individual start with cardio that is less intense below 130... then when they get more conditioned through the resistance training... i will recommend more intense cardio over 130 beats...

Even the ’12 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist, a mild hybrid that trumps many rivals in fuel economy, becomes less compelling, rated at 25/37 mpg (9.4 - 6.3 L / 100 km).

At least it costs less to fill up with fuel these days — about # 80 or so, a welcome change from # 110ish a few months ago.

Fuel loses its volatility as it ages, and becomes less efficient at burning.