Sentences with phrase «research on fuel efficiency»

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Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Help may soon be on the way to the struggling U.S. auto industry after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed off her opposition to using funds from a fuel - efficiency research program for a bailout, two congressional officials said Friday.

The funds will advance research projects geared toward improving energy efficiency, developing alternative fuels, improving electrical infrastructure and reducing U.S. dependence on foreign resources.

Although the cost of research and development makes hybrids more expensive than conventional counterparts, rail experts agree that the savings achieved by improved fuel efficiency can provide quick return on investment.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

Johnson Controls is partnering with the College of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee on two multi-year research projects aimed at enhancing the vehicle fuel efficiency.

In fact, the four biggest economies in the world all have fuel efficiency standards that will converge by 2025, encouraging research and development of lower emission vehicles on an international scale.

«We know something about what consumers want,» Peter Welch, president of the National Automobile Dealers Assn., says during a Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars session here on government fuel - efficiency mandates.

Then we could be on a course toward a sensible national energy policy, with profits not going to the profiteers who have brought us to the brink of disaster, but to research and implementation of alternative, renewable fuels and energy efficiency.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

The new survey finds continuing support for a range of policies to address the nation's energy supply, including requiring improved vehicle fuel efficiency and increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.

About eight - in - ten (79 %) favor requiring better fuel efficiency for cars, trucks and SUVs, and 74 % support increasing federal funding for research on wind, solar and hydrogen technology.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

Accelerating research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency, phasing out fossil - fuel subsidies and progressively putting an explicit price on carbon pollution were all key objectives agreed upon at the conference.

The stated purpose of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is «to move the United States toward greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers, to increase the efficiency of products, buildings, and vehicles, to promote research on and deploy greenhouse gas capture and storage options, and to improve the energy performance of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.»

In today's speech, Mr. Bloomberg called for four key measures on climate change: a vast increase in energy - related research and development; an end to certain agricultural subsidies, especially that of corn - based ethanol; an increase in federal fuel efficiency standards for vehicles; and laws to make pollution more expensive for companies.

With FIDO operational, Guy worked on a number of different projects, including research on the efficiency of fuel cells, research on German aviation fuel as inferred from the spectrographic analysis of aircraft exhaust, not to mention the design and testing of fuel baffles, experimental forest - clearing devices, and fuel propellant systems (including flamethrowers — an application the pacifically - minded Guy must have disliked.)

In addition, aircraft are being redesigned to cut down on noise pollution and to raise fuel efficiency, increasing demand for research and development.