Sentences with phrase «potential fuels for a fire»

Fuels and oxidizers: These are a bit trickier to identify, but consider most, if not all, organic liquids and solids to be potential fuels for a fire.

It represents a very large pile of potential fuel for fires as it thaws.

Not exact matches

«What will happen as they go into the dry season is all that new growth and greenery will dry out and it will just end up being more fuel for potential fires later this summer and autumn.»

The manager, Justin Tugman, says that a combination of higher interest rates and faster inflation bodes well for value strategies, and a potential trade war would «only add fuel to the fire.»

Among the concerns were the potential for leaks of hydrazine, a toxic fuel, and the potential for the thrusters to fire inadvertently.

«US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate.»

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

Maserati North America is recalling more than 1,000 of its newest luxury cars to fix leaky fuel pipes that increase the potential for an engine fire.

Buttonwood divides the quantitative approaches to investing into at three different types and their potential for providing a stabilizing influence on the market or throwing fuel on the fire in a crash:

This potential for more rapid fuel - load buildup and thus a greater fire hazard, and so likelihood, was covered back in the US National Asmt report from a decade ago.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.