Sentences with phrase «much fuel we used»

Although companies do not divulge how much fuel they use in collision avoidance manoeuvres, Dunstan estimates that each one must shorten a satellite's lifespan by between four and 12 months.

There are even three driving modes to select from to help you control how much fuel you use, which are Normal, Eco, and EV mode.

Not exact matches

The shale revolution weakened a strong and intuitive argument in favour of the Keystone, namely that the pipeline would serve to transport much needed fuel to be used domestically in the U.S. And Prime Minister Stephen Harper's pledge to turn to China after Washington's temporary rejection of the Keystone in early 2012, hasn't amounted to much so far.

The fuel for a power plant can be used for a bomb if it's enriched to a much higher level.

Spokesman Jon Harding said avgas is mainly used in smaller planes but couldn't provide detail on how much fuel may be affected or where it was distributed.

Meanwhile, Mitsubishi Motors has admitted using fake testing methods for fuel economy for 25 years, much longer than previously known, in another powerful blow to its reputation.

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

Living Goods sent us estimates of how much customers who buy cookstoves and solar energy products save.122 Living Goods told us that it estimates that its customers save 50 % of their monthly fuel costs on average when using an efficient cookstove, and that typical fuel spending in Uganda tends to be in the range of $ 20 - 25 USD per month pre-stove purchase.123 We have not yet reviewed these estimates.

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

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

Furthermore, consider how much fuel is used to transport heavy cans of coconut milk from Asia versus light, dried flake.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

The challenge is to train the intestinal tract to digest that much fuel and convert it to energy for the body to use.

Whilst this may on the one hand fuel concerns about possible growth in the use of illegal pornographic content such as that depicting children or animals, it is also the same feature that allows a nervous or embarrassed teen to look for much - needed information about sexual identity or practices.

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.

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.»

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

LIMING, CHINA — Fourteen - year - old Feng Yu's parents used to have to carry as much as 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of wood daily to fuel the cooking stove in their kitchen.

By using the gravitational fields of planets or moons, you can save fuel and travel much further through the solar system than would otherwise be possible.

About 15 times as much oil and natural gas is used as fuel than ends up in consumer products ranging from soaps, shampoos and deodorants to air fresheners, glues and cleaning sprays.

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 terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

They use a planet's gravitational field as a slingshot, which allows them to visit other celestial bodies without using up too much 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.

In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel — a sort of artificial photosynthesis.

By cutting fuel loss and reducing oil use by up to 50 percent, the modified engines may save their users as much as $ 600 a year.

«Our analysis suggests that much of this rapid rise can be traced to the increased use of unconventional heavy - petroleum fuels.»

Although the mixed oxide (MOX) method is currently being used for spoiling excess weapons plutonium so that it can not be employed in bombs — a good idea — we think that it would be a mistake to deploy the much larger PUREX infrastructure that would be required to process civilian fuel.

To work out the economic benefits and costs of switching to clean energy, the team estimated how much air pollution would fall if fossil fuel use was slashed.

Capacitors have the handy ability to store and release electrical energy very quickly — much more quickly than the batteries and fuel cells already being used in electric and hybrid - electric cars.

Monteiro's team found that the Romans, by contrast, used much less lime and made it from limestone baked at 900 ˚ C (1,652 ˚ F) or lower, requiring far less fuel than Portland cement.

The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

That will create a gravitational balance that will stabilize TESS so it doesn't need to use much fuel.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

Using solid fuel results in a much shorter burn time (and therefore a narrower intercept window).

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday threw out an oil industry challenge to the Obama administration's 2013 biofuel mandate, ruling that the government has «wide latitude» to decide whether to modify renewable fuel use targets, and by how much.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

These rockets — powered by ionized xenon gas — produce very low thrust compared with their solid - or liquid - fueled cousins, but use so little propellant that they last much longer.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

However, much of this work is still in its nascent stages,» said Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria,» along with PhD candidate Lin Liu.

The new study suggests that some of these current uses will be affected over this century, depending on how much fossil fuel emissions increase or decrease.

The sedative paradoxically keeps his brain awake: PET scans show that on Ambien, his brain uses twice as much fuel.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).