Sentences with phrase «much fuel remains»

One of the first updates to the infotainment system and computer ECU was to allow Ford's new mobile app, called FordPass, the ability to lock or unlock your vehicle, tell you how much fuel remains, or even remotely start your Escape.

Scientists have developed numerous models to predict how much fuel remains inside Earth to drive its engines — and estimates vary widely — but the true amount remains unknown.

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Total inflation, however, remains much lower than the underlying trend because of past declines in fuel prices.

But the alternative of giving Scotland the ammunition to leave the UK, turning London from the booming city of Europe to a neurotic basket case and fuelling the already deep sense of fuming anxiety of those that supported Remain is much worse.

Of the big two, there is no doubt that Labour's manifesto is much greener than the Conservatives», although the party remains too committed to fossil fuels and high carbon infrastructure.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

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.

What remains unclear is how much of the nuclear fuel at any of the three Fukushima Daiichi reactors has melted down, though TEPCO has announced that the fuel is likely damaged in all three reactors that were operating there at the time of the earthquake.

In the United States, much of the fuel units remained stored underwater in pools but some are removed for storage in large casks.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

They can not tell us how much money will be invested in green energy R&D, whether fertility rates will go up or down, whether we will dig up all the remaining fossil fuels and burn them, or the outcomes of numerous other decisions that affect the atmosphere — though they can tell us what will probably happen if we do or don't take them (see «Earth, 2100 AD: Four futures of environment and society «-RRB-.

In a new paper, a team of geologists and neutrino physicists boldly claims it will be able to determine by 2025 how much nuclear fuel and radioactive power remain in the Earth's tank.

This potential link has received much attention and fueled more research in recent years, although there are many climate scientists who remain unconvinced of the connection.

The principal climate forcing, defined as an imposed change of planetary energy balance [1]--[2], is increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel emissions, much of which will remain in the atmosphere for millennia [1], [3].

Both Deadpool and Cable convey their bereavement in ways that are surprisingly touching, but the fact remains that the plot is fueled by the taking of three female souls, none of whom have much in the way of agency over their fates.

Fuel economy remains much the same as before in front - wheel - drive trim at 19 mpg city and 28 mpg highway (1 mpg less for each in all - wheel - drive trim).

When phase separation occurs, the octane rating of the remaining fuel can drop by as much as three points.

Thus relavtively small engines with any or all of these items, — double overhead camshafts, extra valves, turbocharger, intercooler, eletronic fuel injection — remain much with us and are seen in more cars each new model year.

Rant over, on to the driving: Honda's V6 remains one of the smoothest powerplants in the business and returns damned fine fuel economy — the in - dash trip computer was showing as much as 27 mpg, admirable for an AWD three - row crossover spending its weekend sloshing through snowy / icy roads.

However, as a climate scientist I remain much more concerned about the fossil fuel industry than I am about Arctic methane.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

While climate science promotes the narrative of cooperation for stopping the use of fossil fuels, one just need to look to how much money is spent in national defence budgets to see that the world is still fiercely competing to control the remaining economically viable resources of fossil fuels.

The document doesn't take readers much beyond what is already well established: that without sustained and focused climate and energy policies by governments around the world, the potential of renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil fuels remains deeply limited.

(Yes, that's a lot of carbon; we remain very much in the fossil fuel age.)

Careful accounting of the amount of fossil fuel that has been extracted and combusted, and how much land clearing has occurred, shows that we have produced far more CO2 than now remains in the atmosphere.

For that remaining 1 / 6th, we might ask how much of what you list is actually required to provide an adequate level of health care, how much energy is needed, and how much has to come from fossil fuels.

In the long run, according to the report, the steady demand for electricity is likely to result in investments in much cleaner power plants, even if coal remains the dominant fuel for our electricity production.

Whereas acting on climate change seems to feature prominently in the reflection paper, it remains to see how much the European Commission will finally embrace the concept of climate mainstreaming its EU budget proposal, which consequently should lead to exclusion of financing fossil fuel infrastructure post-2020.

Fossil fuel sources remain much less costly than the infrastructure necessary for capturing the sun's energy.

(There are many studies, which show much lower estimates for the remaining fossil fuel reserves.)

Several other estimates (Hubbert, etc.) estimate the remaining fossil fuels much lower.

Commentary: Fossil - fuel consumption subsidies are down, but not out Subsidies for fossil fuels are falling but remain much higher than those for renewables 20 December 2017

These remaining fossil fuels should last us at least 200 to 300 years (probably much longer, as they get replaced by other sources over the next centuries).

The principal climate forcing, defined as an imposed change of planetary energy balance [1]--[2], is increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel emissions, much of which will remain in the atmosphere for millennia [1], [3].

How much stock fossil fuel companies and their financiers are putting in those warnings remains much less clear cut.

But while the figure for fossil - fuel consumption subsidies may be coming down, it remains much higher than estimated government support to renewable energy: subsidies for renewables in power generation amounted to $ 140 billion in 2016.

The remaining 9 W m − 2 forcing requires approximately 4.8 × CO2, corresponding to fossil fuel emissions as much as approximately 10,000 Gt C for a conservative assumption of a CO2 airborne fraction averaging one - third over the 1000 years following a peak emission [21,129].

The much lower power - generating capabilities of renewables due to their intermittent output (the Sun has to shine and the wind must blow) has meant that reliable backup capacity — fossil fuels or nuclear — must remain on the grid.

We simply can not afford to remain tethered to fossil fuels — they're doing much too much damage to the public right now, and they'll do even more in the long - term.

While it may be true, more or less, that the global «fossil fuel energy share has remained stable for more than three decades despite the growth in renewable energy...», it's not going to remain so much longer.

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).

The biggest obstacle to this revolution is that uncontrolled fossil fuel energy remains much cheaper than clean energy.