Sentences with phrase «making the fuel burn»

Normal gasoline is about 90 % gasoline, 10 % ethanol, with the ethanol component making the fuel burn cleaner.

Not exact matches

These engineered materials make for lighter planes for reduced fuel burn, and offer decreased maintenance costs.

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.

The company is burning a lot of money, and there are fears it won't have enough fuel to make it to its final destination: getting the CSeries into production and securing a revenue stream.

The marine fuel market burns four million barrels a day — and he hopes to make this cleaner with the low - sulphur fuels developed by Field Upgrading.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

But the largest contribution to restoring the carbon balance will be a reduction in world population since every person who lives makes a contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by his or her use of the products of industry or by burning wood for fuel.

An intensive workout, for example, damages tissues at a micro level and burns fuel, which is what makes us stronger, leaner and fitter.

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 government mandated filter mufflers for diesel trucks on state jobs then exempted themselves it seems the mufflers reduced power by at least a third and made the trucks burn twice the fuel.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

Our job is to enable that,» says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, director of DoE's SunShot Initiative, a bid to make solar power as cheap as electricity from burning fossil fuels.

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

Like bankers do for financial debt, climate scientists assume that the greenhouse gas expense of burning biofuels will be paid back eventually as the crops that make fuel «earn» carbon through sequestering it throughout their life cycle.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

If the mathematics of the pollution produced by burning a gallon of fossil fuel seems daunting, it's even worse to look the other way: what went into making that gallon.

When fossil fuels such as gasoline are burned, the chains of carbon that make them up are broken and carbon dioxide is released into the environment.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

But making it releases carbon from burning fuel, needed to heat a mix of limestone and clays to 1,450 degrees Celsius (2,642 degrees Fahrenheit)-- and from the heated limestone (calcium carbonate) itself.

Since levels of greenhouse gases have continued to rise throughout the period, some skeptics have argued that the recent pattern undercuts the theory that global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by human - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Take a desert ecosystem — hotter weather will make cactuses and other desert plants lose water, which will mean fewer cactuses for the deserts and less fuel for a fire to burn.

The Aloha State burns oil to make electricity, and prices for the fuel have jumped in recent years, igniting demand for alternatives.

The idea is simple: the algae or other plants suck up CO2 when they grow, the same CO2 that is released when the fuel made from the algae is burned.

And that makes controlling O3 pollution from fossil fuel burning as important for climate change as it is for human and plant health.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil fuel or the buying and selling of the permits for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.

When burned, natural gas emits roughly half the carbon dioxide of coal, making it a promising «bridge fuel» until cleaner renewable energy sources come online.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

Strategic savanna burning is one way to reduce Australia's carbon emissions and create new markets in northern Australia, but the increased fuel load and emissions from weed infestations could make it unfeasible.

As atmospheric CO2 levels increase from burning fossil fuels, this carbon dioxide is soaked up by seawater and makes the oceans more acidic.

The man - made part of the disaster, caused by burning fossil fuels, has increased ocean temperature an average of 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the Industrial Revolution, according to a study in Science.

Under the law, in fact, the United States can intervene in the management of any fuel burned in a U.S. - made reactor.

One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies.

Under the 1978 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act (NNPA), the United States has some control over the disposition of U.S. - made fuel after it is burned in reactors in foreign countries.

Although renewable energy is making good progress, large - scale power generation is still dominated by burning fuel, whether uranium or fossil carbon.

But burning natural gas results in half the greenhouse gas pollution than coal, making it appealing as fuel in an era of combating climate change.

«If I was going to try to get rid of 100 tons of plutonium, I'd burn it in a light - water reactor,» Cochran says, by making it into the mixed oxide fuels.

Greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels make temperatures rise globally, but in the high North the warming is faster.

Triglycerides are lipids that the body makes from unused calories in food and later burns as fuel.

«Although these results are «good news» in the sense that the underlying physiology of plants is not going to make the warming of the planet radically worse, the problem we have created in the first place with our greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning still exists,» he says.

«It is never boring to fly in the most incredible airplane existing, an airplane that burns no fuel and can fly day and night,» Piccard wrote during a Reddit Ask - Me - Anything session on May 31, perhaps because the airplane's pitch, roll and yaw can all change simultaneously making it extremely challenging to fly.

Could this make burning fossil fuels guilt - free?

In that year, China's emissions totaled more than 7 billion tons, of which more than half came from fossil fuels burned to make goods and services that were consumed either in other parts of China, or beyond China's borders to 107 countries.

In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat - trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year.

And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather than fossil fuel extraction and burning.

The impact of tree harvesting is counted under a separate national regime to the impact of burning the fuel, making it hard to reliably keep track of the overall climate impact.

Fuel gas, which can be burned to make electricity or cleaned to make natural gas for vehicle fuel in the form of compressed natural Fuel gas, which can be burned to make electricity or cleaned to make natural gas for vehicle fuel in the form of compressed natural fuel in the form of compressed natural gas.