Sentences with phrase «of fuel switching»

Nonetheless, from today's vantage point we think that with significant levels of fuel switching likely required to plug the supply gap created by the impact of the MSR from 2019 onwards, a range of $ 20 - 30 / t seems a reasonable estimate of where EUA prices will have to go over 2019 - 21 to effect the abatement necessary to clear the EU carbon market over 2019 - 21.

Electric vehicles are another example of fuel switching.

Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 2.6 percent from 2010 to 2011, for example, and part of that decrease is the result of fuel switching.

This report suggests that the option of fuel switching in the power sector deserves greater consideration to reduce emissions.»

Likewise, much of the UK's current achievements are the result of a fuel switch from coal to gas in the 1990s when gas was cheaper than coal.

Not exact matches

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.

In Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath share an example of a manufacturing firm, Brasilata, and how their engine of success was fueled by the creation and adoption of an identity:

While the Switch hardware is integrated into all of the cardboard toys, they still manage to evoke a simpler, more imagination - fueled era.

Of course, rock - bottom rates and a strong Canadian dollar, he added, are the opposite of what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investmenOf course, rock - bottom rates and a strong Canadian dollar, he added, are the opposite of what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investmenof what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investment.

Chinese engineering companies, banks and shipyards are all muscling into LNG, typically the preserve of Western, Japanese and South Korean players, as government coal - to - gas switching policies make LNG an increasingly strategic fuel.

Switch console sales will likely hit 15 million units in the year to March and climb to 20 million next year, Nintendo said, fueling hopes of a repeat of the success of the first Wii that debuted in late 2006 and sold more than 100 million units.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

It's fun to switch up the flavors by adding different flavors of Foodie Fuel.

Much growth is fueled by drinkers «who are switching to red blends from other types of wines,» said Brian Lechner, Nielsen vice president, group client director for alcoholic beverages.

Webber had to switch to a fuel - saving engine setting and on lap 40 Vettel took advantage, drawing alongside and attempting a pass for fearing of losing out to the chasing Lewis Hamilton if he also backed off.

British record signing fuelled rumours he is close to a PSG switch by not flying to the Red Devils» pre-season tour of USA last week

Only if it is safe, in the event of a fire, turn the boiler switch or gas valve off to help cut off fuel to a fire.

Second, reducing the usage of gas - switching [part of] large users such as city heating towards other fuels, and investing in the types of powerplants that can consume a variety of fuels; using gas while it's cheap and available, but being able to burn other fuels if needed.

We can be a beacon, a light to show the rest of the country how we can literally make our home grown energy, bio-fuel, using switch grass and algae based bio fuels.

The pilot of the helicopter that plunged into the East River told cops he believes that a loose tether on one of his passengers» harnesses cut off the fuel switch, law - enforcement sources said, but one expert questioned that scenario, calling it «highly implausible.»

One poll by ComRes recently suggested that 49 % of voters would seriously consider switching party to one which committed itself to lowering fuel duty.

Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello said the U.S. needs to take immediate action to get off of dirty fossil fuel energy sources like natural gas and coal and switch to 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

When they switched the lasers on, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists found that more energy came out of the fuel than went in.

In comments to EPA, a number of utilities and regional grid operators have expressed concern about the plan's forecasts for renewables, fuel switching and energy efficiency gains.

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

«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.»

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

For instance, removing subsidies means that the switch to modern fuels may become out of reach for many poor people, the results show.

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

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.

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Or put another way, as I have said, just switching the use of already existing carbon from food to fuel does not result in any direct net gain.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

«If we go up four or five times in size and switch to a fuel with a mix of deuterium and tritium,» another type of heavy hydrogen, «we should have break - even plasma conditions — if things work out.»

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

During two episodes of high sugar prices in 2010 and again in 2011, the price of ethanol increased, causing consumers to switch their fuel usage to gasoline.

He has also worked with government leaders on switching energy economies from fossil fuels to renewables, and has traveled to places such as Greenland and India to witness firsthand the damaging effects of our carbon - addicted world.

No matter how you look at it, I think there's only one long - term solution: to stop using carbon as a source of energy, to switch away from using fossil fuels.

Though the study is complete for the Upper Midwest, many farmers may still be hesistant to switch to switchgrass because they are accustomed to growing maize for food and for fuel, says economist Gregory Parkhurst of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy - duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University....

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Even if we all switched to driving Teslas tomorrow, liquid fuels would still be necessary to power our planes, ships, and trucks — modes of transport that aren't going electric any time soon.

This is all due to a ketogenic diet's ability to switch your body to using fat as its fuel source instead of glucose.

The purpose of the ketogenic diet is to switch our bodies from using carbohydrates for fuel to burning ketones instead.