Sentences with phrase «relatively less fuel»

As temperatures rise, some of that fuel goes to power your cooling (sweat) system, which means that there is relatively less fuel left for your legs.

Not exact matches

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

Therefore, it will cost less to manufacture PRISM metallic fuel and the design requires a relatively small plant size to disposition the plutonium.

It is relatively easy to separate this plutonium, because the depleted uranium blanket is less contaminated with highly radioactive fission products than regular spent fuel.

This may have been due to the fact that, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, oil and the gasoline derived from it were relatively cheap, which made the need for offering fuel - saving engines such as GDIs a little less urgent.

In simple terms, the Atkinson cycle uses less energy to compress fuel and air together, and makes relatively more energy when that mixture explodes.

The fuel efficiency is not great for drives of 5 miles or less (which is the distance I usually drive)-- the engine can be relatively inefficient while warming up, and the hybrid technology doesn't kick in right away.

The 335 hp ActiveHybrid 3 is just as quick but base price with shipping is almost $ 51,000, and fuel economy is a relatively modest 25 mpg city, 33 highway, 28 combined — all of them less than the diesel's 32-45-37.

I'm sure that this otaku burst helped fuel the sales of a great but relatively lesser known game.

According to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, wind power has «relatively little economic value» and because of its intermittent nature it needs back - up from natural gas, which means more fossil fuel use for power, not less.

And unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new cars.

It should be noted though that eliminating the indirect fossil fuel subsidy could actually make wind & solar less competitive because they are dependent on flexible dispatchable plants with relatively low CAPEX.

But less in the spotlight is its widely claimed role as a relatively clean fossil fuel - one that can ease the path from the old - energy to the clean - energy economy.

If the Earth's climate is relatively insensitive to rising carbon levels, then it's somewhat less urgent that we stop burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.

According to the same source, Honda will probably continue to make the Insight hybrid even though sales are very slow (less than 100 per month) for the bragging right of having the most fuel efficient hybrid (though it's arguable that the Toyota Prius is relatively more efficient if you consider that it is heavier, roomier, more powerful and doesn't use as much expensive aluminum to reduce weight).

When the carbon comes back up, the ratios of 12C to 13C are preserved: emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, for example, are relatively «light» because they originated from the tissues of living organisms; emissions from volcanoes are more or less «normal» because they came from molten crust that was once the ocean floor.

However, while New York may consume relatively less fossil fuels than other American cities and may do a good job in providing clean water, it does a poor job of reducing, recycling and disposing of its waste.

Observational evidence suggests that some organic aerosol compounds from fossil fuels are relatively weakly absorbing but do absorb solar radiation at some ultraviolet and visible wavelengths (e.g., Bond et al., 1999; Jacobson, 1999; Bond, 2001) although organic aerosol from high - temperature combustion such as fossil fuel burning (Dubovik et al., 1998; Kirchstetter et al., 2004) appears less absorbing than from low - temperature combustion such as open biomass burning.

I fly Porter out of the Island, which uses (so they say) relatively low - impact planes, and much less taxi time and fuel for me, as I live and work downtown in Toronto.

Occasional drivers may be eligible for a low mileage discount if you drive less than 5,000 miles each year and eco-friendly drivers can benefit from the green discount, a relatively new discount for drivers insuring fuel efficient cars.

Because, multifamily general contractors outsource most of their construction work, they spend relatively less on materials, components, supplies, and selected power and fuels - 21 percent of the total business receipts, compared to 37 percent by SF general contractors, 31 percent by residential remodelers, and 36 percent by STC.