It's the one we can do quickest, from increasingly renewable sources, with
the lowest efficiency losses.
Not exact matches
Of course, you still give up some expected return, that's the opportunity cost of
lower risk, but at least you avoid the
efficiency loss of the money market fund.
Investing in efficient,
low - cost and sustainable processing technologies, adequate storage and packaging solutions, road infrastructure and market linkages as well as providing training and education to chain actors, including consumers, are among the tried and proven interventions which increase the
efficiency of the chain and therefore lead to a reduction in food
loss and waste.
«What's interesting is that we saw this
loss in
efficiency in the
lower canopy was not due to the leaf senescing and dying off — we would have expected that,» said first author Charles Pignon, a doctoral candidate in the crop sciences and at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.
The
lower land - use
efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the
loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.
Although this smaller - displacement turbo four - cylinder has
lower internal friction and reduced pumping
loss than a Skyactiv V - 6 would, fuel
efficiency drops when the engine is under high load, as the engine runs richer to help keep the cylinders cooler.
The improvements in
low - RPM performance, which is where most street - driven automobiles operate a majority of the time, occur in trade for a power and
efficiency loss at higher RPM ranges.
These formulas are known for
lower oil
loss due to evaporation and improved fuel
efficiency.
Using cooled
low - pressure EGR in addition to high - pressure EGR reduces pumping
losses and therefore improves
efficiency still further.
The
low - friction design of the brake calipers reduces energy
losses when the brakes are not in use, directly improving fuel
efficiency.
The Corolla's new CVTi - S is uses a
lower viscosity CVT fluid that protects all of the transmission's internal parts while helping reduce parasitic
loss to enhance
efficiency and performance.
The advantages of downsizing include improved
efficiency through reduced internal friction,
lower pumping
losses, and lighter weight — which also makes the engine warm up more quickly.
Measures to reduce friction
losses and thus help enhance engine
efficiency include the adoption of narrow, lightweight roller rocker arms and
low - friction timing chains, while D - 4S direct fuel injection helps create optimum combustion conditions, contributing to enhanced fuel
efficiency.
Specially designed grooves on the friction material which are integrated into the friction lining for oil flow and cooling provide very
low losses at the clutch in the open state, enable high transmission
efficiency and smooth shifting capability while increasing fuel economy.
While the compact combustion chamber and higher compression ratio on gasoline engine helps to improve engine
efficiency, the advanced thermal management system in diesel engine along with
low friction engine oil and modified fuel injection system help diesel engine in faster warm up and
lower frictional
losses.
Friction - reducing design features, including all - new ultra-low viscosity transmission fluid, internal thermal bypass, minimal number of non-applied clutches and other
lower mechanical spin
losses, contribute to the 10 - speed's effect on improved vehicle
efficiency.
Both turbocharged engines utilize a host of new technologies, including high -
efficiency low - inertia turbos, variable valve timing,
low - pressure -
loss air intake and high - accuracy direct injection, to deliver immediate and powerful response along while still anticipated to receive top level fuel economy ratings.
Measures to reduce friction
losses and thus improve engine
efficiency include the adoption of narrow, lightweight roller rocker arms and
low - friction timing chains, while D - 4S direct fuel injection helps create optimum combustion conditions, contributing to enhanced fuel economy.
A turbocharger with an electronically - controlled waste-gate actuator improves fuel
efficiency by
lowering pumping
losses as well as improving throttle response and
low - end torque.
Other than the
loss in various features and addition of Blue
Efficiency tech (read — low emission norms, better fuel efficiency), the C - Executive gets an all new pricing of 30.5 lakhs (on road
Efficiency tech (read —
low emission norms, better fuel
efficiency), the C - Executive gets an all new pricing of 30.5 lakhs (on road
efficiency), the C - Executive gets an all new pricing of 30.5 lakhs (on road, Mumbai).
The Ford transmission team made several specific modifications to the 6F35 - Mid to optimize its performance for Fusion, including using unique final drive ratios for the 2.5 - liter and 3.0 - liter, developing an improved converter lock - up for
lower operating temperatures and
efficiency, recalibrating the converter clutch to accommodate a fuel - saving aggressive deceleration fuel shut - off system as well as other tweaks to diminish parasitic
losses.
The increase in power and
efficiency over the former model ensured in this way results from consistent optimization of the combustion chambers, the charge system and the cylinder head, as well as the new arrangement of the ancillary units helping to reduce frictional
losses to an even
lower level than before.
Wealthsimple Black clients pay a
lower management fee of 0.4 %, and get additional tax -
efficiency features like Tax -
Loss Harvesting and Tax - Efficient Funds.
Since OHC uptake
efficiency associated with surface warming is
low compared with the rate of radiative restoring (increase in energy
loss to space as specified by the climate feedback parameter), an important internal contribution must lead to a
loss rather than a gain of ocean heat; thus the observation of OHC increase requires a dominant role for external forcing.
If the population is
low enough, available energy great enough, and technology sophisticated enough, you could in theory go on recycling your stocks of metals and plastics forever, making up
efficiency losses by «mining» seawater, until the sun goes nova or humanity just gets too damn tired to bother any more, whichever comes first.
So we economize on the use of water by using
low cost drip irrigation application systems, and creating breakthroughs in
lowering filter friction, pipe friction, and pump energy
losses through a system design approach in which each component contributes optimally to the
efficiency and affordability of the total system.
«The
efficiency of N use in flooded rice is usually
low, chiefly due to gaseous
losses.
Better
efficiencies have been achieved in multiple ways, ranging from the use of precision agriculture technology to optimally timed fertilizer additions and crop demand, to comparatively
low - tech solutions such as the use of cover crops that reduce nutrient
losses.
I also wonder about the energy
efficiency, the CO2
losses and, especially, the practicability of
lowering the temperature of 1,000,000 m3 of air by 130 C every 10 seconds.
Franchise fee revenue could provide a loan
loss reserve for an energy
efficiency financing program like PACE, leveraging millions of dollars in private,
low - risk loans for improving the energy use of local properties.
The resulting
efficiency costs are thought to be
lower under a price - based instrument for stock pollutants such as greenhouse gases, so getting the price wrong under a tax imposes lesser welfare
losses than getting the quantity wrong under a quantity target.
In addition frictional and other
losses mainly the turbulence of the air
lowers the
efficiency.
The hotter collector that results from the large temperature rise no doubt causes increased heat
losses and somewhat
lower efficiency, but it still does the job, and the system is so simple that it seems that the gain in simplicity is worth the drop in
efficiency.
As Boulder Wind Power states on their website, «The BWP design eliminates the mechanical
losses associated with a gearbox, while leveraging the higher
efficiencies at
lower operating speeds enabled by permanent magnet rotor excitation.»
Finally, it should be noted that a home with a slab - on - grade radiant floor heating system may have higher heat
loss to the ground that would a home with a forced - air heating system — a factor that might
lower rather than increase the radiant heating system's overall
efficiency.
Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and
lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry
losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from
efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.
In Seattle, Vulcan Real Estate's 161 - unit Alcyone Apartments complex includes
low - heat -
loss windows, digital thermostats, a central gas - fired boiler for domestic hot water, and high
efficiency lighting.