Sentences with phrase «of commercial fuel»

Offer excludes online purchases and marina fuel or any type of commercial fuel (e.g. - jet fuel) purchases.

Boeing hopes to help such biofuels become a «significant part of the commercial fuel supply by 2015,» Glover says.

Not exact matches

Wesley Palmisano, president and CEO of the $ 97.2 million commercial construction company Palmisano (No. 241; 1,779.4 percent), says that the new administration seems good for the fossil fuel industry.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.

Commercial developers have engaged in their own orgy of debt - fuelled construction projects, bidding up land values threefold last year and erecting countless office towers, malls and hotels.

When a commercial plane can't fly because of a malfunctioning component, like a fuel pump, the airline can expect to lose something in the order of $ 300,000 a day.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A plan to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from U.S. commercial nuclear reactors in New Mexico is drawing fire from critics who say the federal government needs to consider more alternatives.

As Boeing says in its press release: «The 787 Dreamliner is an all - new, super-efficient family of commercial airplanes that can fly long distances while offering 20 to 25 percent better fuel efficiency per seat and lower emissions than the airplanes they replace.

The visit highlighted specific opportunities for Canada - India civil nuclear co-operation beyond the commercial exchange of reactor fuel

The visit highlighted specific opportunities for Canada - India civil nuclear co-operation beyond the commercial exchange of reactor fuelFirst, the visit highlighted specific opportunities for Canada - India civil nuclear co-operation beyond the commercial exchange of reactor fuel.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Features of the Char - Broil Commercial Series Grills include the TRU - Infrared cooking system, which cooks evenly and uses 30 % fuel.

The data shows that the beverage industry has the largest fleet of fuel - efficient heavy - duty hybrid commercial vehicles in North America, and has increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) industry - wide by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

The business, which also provides fuel to commercial customers, sells around 300 million litres of petrol and diesel each year.

The artisan food boom continues to fuel profitability of SME (small and medium size enterprise) food and drink manufacturers, evidenced by the success of craft brewers and gin distillers, says commercial law firm EMW.

A convenience food created by manufacturers and advertisers, admired by doctors and health professionals, and welcomed by mothers, commercial baby food grew in popularity, its growth fueled by changing notions of infant feeding, the discovery of vitamins, and a nascent advertising industry.

He said if users of private vehicles can't afford to buy fuel to service their carsdue to the introduction of new taxes, nothing stops them from joining «trotro» (commercial cars) or public transport to work and other places they so desire.

The government has raised the prices of fuel and commercial electricity — and bread and water are expected to follow soon.

The body pleaded for the immediate intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, the Department of Petroleum Resources, the National Assembly, and the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to avert an imminent fuel crisis in the nation's commercial nerve centre.

As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.

Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

Although much of that timber went to feed growing commercial demand for wood for construction or furniture, the primary cause is local: fuel for home fires.

The Science Residential and commercial energy consumption accounts for 72 percent of all electricity and 13 percent of all fossil fuels consumed in this country, says Vivian Loftness, an architect at Carnegie Mellon University.

Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other commercial products.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

Ultimately, this facility may be able to convert as much as 1,000 metric tons of biomass per day into liquid fuel; the goal is to build a commercial - scale facility that would churn out 50 million gallons (189.2 million liters) of transportation fuels per year.

The research may eventually help lead to ways to safely dispose of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel that is stored now at commercial nuclear power plants.

However, these next - wave fuels have not yet reached commercial - scale production, although a number of projects are under development.

In the United States, about 70,000 metric tons of spent commercial nuclear fuel are located at more than 70 sites in 35 states.

British and Finnish scientists have found a way of generating renewable propane using a bacterium widely found in the human intestine and say the finding is a step to commercial production of a fuel that could one day be an alternative to fossil fuel reserves.

Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined on site.

Precious metals have long been used as conducting materials in batteries and other types of fuel cells but are too expensive to use at a commercial scale in microbial fuel cells.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

Commercial realization of this potential will require advances in strategies to reduce non-renewable inputs, such as inorganic fertilizers and fossil fuels, and monetary costs of large - scale production of marine microalgae, she says.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Daniel Cohn, leader of the MIT project, says his team's «plasmatron» fuel reformer could clean up the diesel engines in commercial trucks and buses, which are a leading source of transportation pollution in the United States.

The fuel could be delivered to the depots by relatively small rockets — a process that advocates say would provide a market to stimulate commercial development of new and perhaps cheaper launch vehicles.

Crescent Dunes, the flagship project of Santa Monica — based firm SolarReserve, has achieved what engineers and proponents of renewable energy have struggled with for decades: providing cheap, commercial - scale, non — fossil fuel electricity even when winds are calm or the sun is not shining.

However, microalgae naturally accumulate compounds of commercial value in the food industry and even the fuel industry, although along the latter pathway the results achieved in prior projects have not been as expected.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Because of the harsh environment fuel rods are exposed to — heat, steam, and neutrons that emanate from nuclear reactions — extensive further testing will be needed on any new cladding for use in commercial reactors, Kazimi says.

«In recent years both the efficiency and cost of commercial solar panels have improved but they remain expensive compared to fossil fuels.

A new type of nanocatalyst can result in the long - awaited commercial breakthrough for fuel cell cars.

While the report offers no surprises for commercial algae fuel producers, it is welcoming to see attention from an academic institution, said Stephen Mayfield, director of the Center for Algae Biotechnology at the University of California, San Diego.

The government has already spent about $ 4 billion on the project, Scott noted, which is supposed to help convert 34 metric tons of weapons - grade plutonium from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere into fuel pellets for commercial reactors.

Historically, commercial companies have outspent universities and the federal government at least 10 - to - 1 in research of algae fuels, an inverse pattern compared with investment for other forms of biofuels.

This report advocated for a «spent fuel standard» whereby the plutonium should be converted «to a form from which the plutonium would be as difficult to recover for weapons use as the larger and growing quantity of plutonium in commercial spent fuel.»