Sentences with phrase «lowest efficiency losses»

It's the one we can do quickest, from increasingly renewable sources, with the lowest efficiency losses.

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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 roadEfficiency tech (read — low emission norms, better fuel efficiency), the C - Executive gets an all new pricing of 30.5 lakhs (on roadefficiency), 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.
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