Sentences with phrase «much fuel does»

How much fuel does your car consume?

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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.

And while Milton doesn't have much of a profile, he was previously part of dHybrid Systems, which worked on compressed natural gas fuel systems for heavy trucks.

In fact, the term «family business» says as much about Cara's values and image as it does about its ownership — a business ethic that has fuelled its success while at times hindering its growth.

But even though their newer planes promise fuel savings, they do little to save travelers much time.

Making Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels In the long run, all this wrangling with utilities won't do Rive much good if he can't beat them on price.

«Even if it doesn't get that much cleaner, coal will still be a primary fuel source for power generation.»

Whether Vice will eventually do an IPO has been the subject of much debate, fuelled in part by comments from Vice CEO Shane Smith on the topic.

How much energy would you have tomorrow morning if you knew that the work you were going to do when you got out of bed was going to impact the world in a way that would fuel your inner fire?

But fuels high in ethanol are causing problems — marine engines don't like them very much since they attract water and corrode tanks and battery jumps.

It didn't work, as Chinese equity markets continued their descent on Monday, fueling worry because it is unclear how much of the country's bull market was funded by individuals borrowing to buy stocks.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

In much the same way larger businesses rely on access to capital to fuel growth and fund many day - to - day operations, small businesses often turn to commercial loans, or small business financing, to do the same thing.

If you don't think people consume too much by way of fossil fuels, then there's no need for a carbon tax.»

MH: The problem of inadequate consumer demand to fuel an economic recovery does not lie with the cost of labor so much as with the fact that it is now normal for families to pay a quarter or even a third of their income for debt service.

I also couldn't help think of how much heating up all that water pollutes, which doesn't go away because I don't see the fossil fuels heating the water.

But at the same time, we don't have any sales results for this engine, and it will likely take multiple quarters before we have any idea how much this new engine helps drive more fuel sales for Clean Energy Fuels.

As far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggests.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

Americans will believe he could have been voted in again after all he did catch the boogieman who magically melted 3 steel structure buildings with jet fuel (which burns much cooler than the melting point of a steel Ibeam) and penetrated one of the worlds most secured biuldings without getting caught on cam.

We sold them some jets, and maybe some of them could be modified to deploy nuclear bombs, but we did not give them any bombs, nuclear fuel, or even help them all that much in that area.

I'd never done that much but I think working with the filmmakers and the actors was so inspiring, so that fuelled me.»

Ask yourself if you are truly doing the man's teachings justice, and you admit to doing this blogging to fuel your own ego, which is as much for your own self - benefit as those you detract doing it to make a buck.

If the force of gravity were adjusted upward just slightly the stars would consume their hydrogen fuel much more rapidly than they do now and the sun would burn itself out faster.

But not much will get done, because they won't be able to decide which fuel to use, where to hold the burnings, what part of the bible answers these questions, etc etc

He trains horses all day so needs much more fuel than I do after work.

So you know it's not a common relaxation time snack, but something to eat when you need fuel but don't have much time.

They're packed with pretty much everything you need to start your day: carbs for energy, fiber to keep you full, protein to fuel your body and a very small amount of sugar so that mid-morning crash doesn't hit with force.

Designer Gordon Murray reckoned that if cars ran two stints on low fuel and soft tyres that it'd be much quicker than trying to do the whole race without stopping.

I am, of course, talking about the 6 cylinder version — apparently the 4 cylinder gets much better fuel economy but does not have the 3rd row option.

I do know that if fuel costs go up to Europian highs it will cost too much to feed the kids school lunch the way they do now, because they wont be able to ship stuff across the country like they do now.

I was offended that the man did not realize how much I depend on my fuel to churn out the brilliance (ok, ok the fuel to keep me awake?).

Note: Athletes generally don't burn much protein for fuel during exercise unless their glycogen (carb) stores are depleted.

So, in your case, my first step would probably be to separate them as much as possible so they don't fuel each other.

These changes have fueled a revolution in cost (how much did it take to produce the Macaca video?

By fuelling these old negative perceptions, Farage risks undoing much of the work he has done in transforming his party's standing.

Azzopardi did say in a statement that as «fun as it may be to fuel these conspiracy theories from a disgruntled lobbyist,» it would be a much bigger issue if David had failed to consult JCOPE on ethics issues that arose.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter how much we want to use natural gas as a new fuel, or even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently poisoning our water and ourselves.

The much - anticipated judgment by Capitol Hill's official scorekeeper did not back up the president's promise of providing health care for everyone and was likely to fuel moderate Republicans» concerns.

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

We don't know - because the manifesto does not say - how much funding will be recouped from means testing the Winter Fuel Allowance.

, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the Defense Department and who does not believe that warming is human - induced, has long complained that too much of DOE's budget is frittered away on programs to boost energy efficiency or alternative fuels — which he says have little to do with the military's mission.

Although President Bush did not say as much, the Department of Energy is also pursuing an even more ambitious outcome — a «biorefinery» that could make not only fuel but also plastics and other products currently derived from petroleum.

This concentrated atomic assault allows the reactor to extract 100 times as much energy from uranium fuel as do current thermal reactors, which use less than 1 percent of the fuel's potential energy.

In urban areas, emissions from consumer goods such as paint, cleaning supplies and personal care products now contribute as much to ozone and fine particulate matter in the atmosphere as do emissions from burning gasoline or diesel fuel.

Turning to ethanol or biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping with the Thanksgiving tradition.

Efforts such as GreenGen bode well for resolving those complaints, but China is also moving ahead with efforts to turn coal into liquid fuel — a costly transformation that emits twice as much CO2 as does simply burning the black rock and consumes yet more energy.

It remains unclear, however, how much such passenger - funded partnerships do to alleviate climate change and they are a poor substitute for a carbon - neutral alternative jet fuel.

«While there is no one silver bullet technology to end climate change, using direct air capture to make fuels is potentially scalable, in a way that biofuels aren't, because it doesn't use much land or other resources,» he says.