Sentences with phrase «of traditional fuels»

Rather than go in this direction, however, Gillespie argues that «A better route to reducing carbon emissions runs through technological innovations that are adopted uniformly by all industries in all countries,» and that «A carbon tax that raises the cost of traditional fuels does not get us there.»

The renewable synthetic diesel and jet fuels will meet all applicable fuels standards, be compatible with existing engines and pipelines, and burn cleanly, with emissions of particulates and other regulated pollutants significantly lower than emissions of traditional fuels.

UPS announced Tuesday its plans to deploy 50 electric delivery trucks that will rival the costs of traditional fuel vehicles.

Not exact matches

More Americans are fueling up at supermarkets and warehouse clubs instead of traditional service stations, according to a new survey.

To drive growth now, LendingTree is aiming to attract far more business both from the online lenders that have fueled its recent expansion and the traditional holdouts — big banks such as J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm), Bank of America (bac), Wells Fargo (wfc), and Capital One.

Piccard and his co-founder André Borschberg began their journey in March of 2015 in Abu Dhabi and have traversed more than 26,000 miles without traditional fuel.

OK, so that's pretty technical, but essentially it boils down to this: the ultracapacitor / lithium - ion battery replaces the traditional lead - acid battery in the hood of your car, and it stops and starts when the car is idling, reducing both emissions and fuel use.

The center of small business lending, their passion is fueling the American Dream by uniting the small business loan industry and bringing all options together in one place — from short - term specialty financing to long - term low - interest traditional loans.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

At the October trade show for NACS, the association for Advancing Convenience and Fuel Retailing, Hershey showed plenty of ideas for traditional displays, such as putting larger king - size bars next to standard bars.

Additionally, with traditional combustion engine fuel - efficiency improving rapidly, we do not see the cost of EDV ownership providing consumers with a better value than traditional vehicles.

To fuel sales of their in - house lines, retailers are recruiting veteran marketers to help out - innovate traditional packaged goods companies.

The EMEA market performed better than expected, fueled by strong holiday season sales of traditional PCs.

TRADITIONAL ANSWER Off - grid mines have typically bought and operated their own diesel or heavy fuel oil power generating facilities, as security of energy supply is an important factor in the mining industry

The November 15th program will include cutting - edge discussions such as: how non-exchange traded alternatives are becoming the mutual funds of yesteryear; what is driving retail's demand for non-exchange traded alternatives; using micro-investing technology to diversify across and within online marketplaces; how legislation is being used to engineer a new breed of alternative products; how innovations in self - directed IRAs will create new retail distribution channels for the entire alternative product universe; how technology will ensure the scalability of online platforms and enable traditional financial services providers to increase AUM; how millennials will fuel the growth of FinTech and redefine financial services; how FinTech will replace the 401k and transform the way Americans save for retirement; and how modernizing the Self - directed IRA is the trillion dollar FinTech opportunity.

As far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggests.

Regulators have cracked down on many of the traditional activities that fueled growth in the financial sector during the pre-crisis boom.

Today, the vast majority of start - ups and SMEs find it overly difficult to raise small amounts of capital (say < $ 1 - 2 million from traditional and existing financial channels to develop their ideas and fuel existing operations.

None of this is intrinsic to the Missa Normativa, but accretions and excesses have so often become identified with it in practice that it has fuelled the false perception, on both sides of the progressive / traditional divide, that the ancient (Extraordinary) and modern (Ordinary) forms of the Roman Rite embody two opposing ecclesiologies.

It is far more interested in speaking about fossil fuels than the importance of traditional marriage and the procreation of children.

The rise of the Religious Right was fueled by three major Supreme Court decisions which altered traditional patterns of American life.

The interventionist argument is fueled by the seeming inadequacy of diplomatic and traditional humanitarian avenues to prevent or stop the kinds of slaughters that have taken place in the Balkans, Rwanda and elsewhere.

I love the taste of pancakes, but traditional light and fluffy pancakes made with 100 % white flour, topped with syrup, are terrible fuel for my body.

This is not to suggest that modern techniques are fuelling immoral practices, but traditional campaigning can provide a stronger feeling of transparency and, therefore, parliamentarians often feel more comfortable participating in such methods.

My problem with all of this is that it's yet another lobotomy for our political debate, fuelled by the increasingly common spasms of outrage in both traditional and social media.

The rebuttal said in full: «The attention of the office of the Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources has been drawn to some certain publications making the rounds on both traditional and social media alleging that the Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu dropped a hint of an impending fuel price increase during the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee hearing on fuel scarcity in Nigeria.

And so that was competing against all kinds of energy resources, including traditional fossil fuels.»

The biggest stumbling block VASIMR faces, as Chang Díaz readily acknowledges, is that even once it is scaled up to operate in the tens - of - megawatts range, which would be required to overtake traditional rockets in long - distance travel, it's still just an engine that doesn't run on fuel.

He notes, however, that the investment climate for alternative energy R&D can fluctuate with the price of traditional fossil fuels.

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

But while fuel - cell vehicles are pushing the technological frontier, they drive like any traditional internal combustion engine vehicle, with a 300 - mile range and a refueling time of less than five minutes.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

Solar power is giving millions of people access to electricity for the first time — could they bypass traditional fossil fuel grids altogether?

But those barbs have been largely absent, perhaps in part because the price of gasoline is low, giving traditional Republican attacks around Democrats» fossil fuel policies less momentum, Taylor said.

Traditional fossil - fuel energy is so abundant and inexpensive that climate - friendly substitutes have little hope of acceptance without robust policy support.

With this, they could make a series of predictions about when low - carbon energy systems might catch up with traditional fossil - fuel systems.

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

The traditional cylinder - piston design used in engines means that only the piston head itself produces motive force, as it is pushed up and down by the expansion of the burning fuel - and - air mixture.

Though the concept of borehole disposal, which would see radioactive waste entombed far deeper than traditional repositories, has existed for decades, the idea has been revived in recent years, spurred by troubles in finding a long - term home for the country's spent fuel.

The small footprint of the NuScale Power Modules plant and the low profile of the reactor building due to below - grade placement of the NuScale Power Modules and spent fuel pool offer a greatly reduced target size relative to traditional LWRs.

Traditional diesel fuel is made up of long, straight chains of carbon atoms, while the molecules that make up gasoline are shorter and branched.

Many eat enough (although some do not — a problem we'll talk about in a bit), but in order to dump that amount of fuel into the body, there are several inflammatory, joint - aching, gut - disrupting, blood - sugar - spiking foods that consistently appear as traditional staples.

The Japanese traditional food may well have fueled golf legend Tom Watson's shocking run at the British Open in 2009 at the age of 59.

But because of the SIGNAL it sends to the body it will also, in the presence of a caloric deficit, tell the body to use (heavy, calorically active) muscle tissue for fuel because traditional steady state cardio, (think an hour on the treadmill Yogging jogging) DOES NOT stress high threshold motor units...

Online dating has been accused of ruining romance, fueling hook - up culture, spreading STDs, promoting superficiality, undermining marriage, eroding traditional values, and that's just a scratch in the surface of the critiques levied against modern matchmaking.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

Because, in his mind, it could fuel too much «chaos» and «disruption» when a majority of families manage to take over a school, displeasing those families in the minority who would prefer to keep the school in traditional district hands.

As part of our effort to support alternatively fueled vehicles, El Camino Real Charter High School will be designating several parking spots in the faculty lot for electric vehicles, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, and traditional hybrids.

Concerns about the government's disinvestment in traditional public education in favor of private and charter schools — which have become more acute since the appointment of the pro-school-choice Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — have helped fuel the uptick in teacher unrest.