Sentences with phrase «of fuels used»

As part of its climate and energy package announcement on Wednesday 22 January, the European Commission included a line of text saying that it does not think it appropriate to «establish new targets for -LSB-...] greenhouse gas intensity of fuels used in the transport sector» after 2020.

The report painstakingly captures wide geographic variations in the carbon contents of fuels used to generate electricity, among other variables, giving it a finer grain than many previous analyses of carbon tax incidence.

Currently, less than 1 percent of fuels used for transport are renewable.

This is because the industrial processes or the composition of fuels used by businesses may differ with time and by region.

Third - quarter CO2 emissions have generally declined since 2010 — helped by the decline in the carbon intensity of fuels used to generate electricity.

The mix of fuels used for electricity generation has evolved over time.

There have been some periods when volatility in fuel costs have had especially strong impacts on the mix of fuels used for generation:

In either case, generation costs are a primary driver determining the mix of fuels used to supply a region's power load.

Legislation mandated a 10 per cent reduction in the «average carbon intensity» of fuels used in B.C. by 2020.

The amount a home spends on energy depends on the type of fuels used (from electricity, to oil, to propane, to wood in a fireplace) and the rate price at which it sells for in your area.

All told, Billy Glover, Boeing Commercial Airplanes» Managing Director for Environmental Strategy says that in the long term biofuels could replace 40 - 70 % of the fuels used in commercial aviation.

Here's the chart of existing and projected shifts in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity — which is pretty reliable given the slow rate of change in large - scale technologies:

• Prescriptive internal design parameters to restrict development costs and discourage extreme designs and running conditions • Single turbo with dimensional constraints and weight limits • Standard energy store and control electronics • High Level of external prescriptive design to give «Plug - And - Play» engine / chassis / transmission swap capability • Intention to investigate tighter fuel regulations and limits on number of fuels used

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

(Food miles: a mile over which a food item is transported from producer to consumer, as a unit of measurement of the fuel used to do this.)

He expressed concerns that more tank farms are in the process of being approved, revealing that Lagos alone accounts for 80 percent of the cargo that comes into the country through the ports while about 90 percent of the fuel used across Nigeria is loaded in Lagos.

China needs to reduce its dependence on coal and improve the range of fuels it uses if it is to have long term energy security, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

He says dioxin can be a by - product of cement making regardless of the fuel used in the process.

The Patriot will also be unusual in the type of fuel it uses: the turbine runs on liquefied natural gas (LNG).

2 Most of the fuels we use derive their energy from trapped solar rays.

If you're trying to shed pounds, it doesn't matter which type of fuel you use.

It does this by increasing the amount of fuel used and increasing the air intake, which makes it idle higher.

Taking to the highway again to Palm Springs saw the fuel economy improve to 24.7 mpg on the trip and drag the overall mpg for that tank of fuel used for in - city driving back over the 20 mpg line.

Drivers are rarely able to achieve quoted official fuel economy figures, and the increased amount of fuel used also means official emissions statistics are innacurate too.

Unlike the other gasoline models, the Cruze's 2.0 diesel is only available with an automatic transmission, and is the only engine that features direct fuel injection — a modern engine innovation that promotes more efficient combustion and increases power relative to the volume of fuel used.

A digital tachometer is one function of a trip computer that provides information on outside temperature, date, time of day, fuel range, instant fuel mileage and amount of fuel used.

With claims of 18mpg in the city and 28mpg on the highway, the Chrysler Pacifica is amongst one of the most efficient vehicles in this segment, and it's worth pointing out that more frugal competitors like the Toyota Sienna can in most cases only go one mile further for every gallon of fuel used.

As can be seen, the best fuel economy (measured in terms of fuel used per horsepower / hour) occurs at relatively high loads and low rpm.

Q70 is designed to provide exhilarating power with every drop of fuel used.

The only difference is the price of the fuel used in the heat engine.

This is similar to the automobile courier who is only entitled to deduct that portion of the fuel used for a business purpose.

Australia is a large country, but around 62 % of all fuel used for land travel is consumed in urban areas.

Most of the fuel used in passenger cars is for travel in urban areas (around 72 % with only 5.5 % for interstate travel).13

But even with today's fuel technologies and your best efforts to reduce the amount of fuel you use, your aircraft will still emit greenhouse gases.

Ultra super-critical thermal generation relies on very high pressures and temperatures to achieve greater efficiency of fuel use, while air - cooling (instead of water - cooling) replaces the need for water.

As ships emit more particulate matter and black carbon per unit of fuel consumed than other fossil fuel combustion sources due to the quality of fuel used, it introduces measurement and data availability, in order to provide abatement options.

How the costs of travel are shared is entirely up the driver and passenger to decide, but typically the passenger would at least pay something toward the cost of the fuel used in the journey.

Or there may be a great deal of individual variation in actual fuel economy for any given vehicle relative to its labeled fuel economy because of differences in driving conditions, driving style, or type of fuel used.

«The better railways are at minimizing the amount of fuel they use, the lower their GHG portfolio is,» he adds.

B.C.'s tax, implemented in 2008, covers most types of fuel use and carbon emissions.

Secondly, the types of fuel used for the energy inputs and their greenhouse gas emissions must be taken into account where climate change goals are targeted through bioenergy use.

Thus, building gas - electric hybrids using the new advanced polymer composites, which are being introduced by Boeing in its new 787 Dreamliner jumbo jet, can cut the remaining 20 percent of fuel use by another half, for a total reduction of 90 percent.

The continent plans to require biofuels account for 10 percent of all fuel used by 2020.

By then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and upper.

(For gas midstream projects the emissions may be more significant, due to leaks from pipelines and pump stations, as well as by consumption of fuel used to liquefy the natural gas for marine transport).

This option provides a non-housing type specific estimation of your fuel use (and associated emissions).

It is based on the national average fuel use per square foot for each housing type listed, according to the type of fuel you use.

John West — Also, do you not realize that with a few pounds of each fuel used one could determine CO2 Emissions / Unit of Electricity Generated in a lab or with a pilot study?

On hot days after a fillup 50 % of the fuel used at idle can be these vapors.

Second, even if increased fuel efficiency does not reduce the total amount of fuel used, this ignores other benefits associated with increased fuel efficiency.