Sentences with phrase «stores as fuel»

For many people, studies show that intermittent fasting leads to increased fat burning and fast weight loss while retaining muscle mass by forcing your body to use up fat stores as fuel.

The oxygen is given off, and the hydrogen is ultimately incorporated into sugars that the plant stores as fuel.

The launch follows Enjoy Life's steadfast portfolio expansion across multiple aisles of the grocery store as it fuels the growth of the Free - From industry, which is projected to reach $ 20 billion by 2020.

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Same - site fuel volumes declined 0.4 per cent in the U.S. as Texas was impacted by stores still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.

Loblaw said members will earn 10 points per litre on fuel as well as 10 points per dollar on eligible convenience store purchases and car wash services at Esso stations.

In large part, the quarter's strength was fueled by Dunkin Donut's U.S. business, where same - store sales rose 2.9 % on the back of demand for new hot and iced beverages and breakfast food, such as a flatbread with eggs and guacamole.

Coles Express sales fell 8 per cent to $ 1.3 billion as comparable fuel volumes fell 15.9 per cent, (on top of a 22 per cent fall in the year ago period), countering modest convenience store sales growth.

Moving forward, Thorntons plans to continue to expand by opening eight to 10 new stores per year and grow its offerings as a high - volume fuel, c - store and food and beverage convenience retailer.

This is healthy, fiber - packed bread that your body will use for fuel in the digestive process rather than store as fat.

Chickpea - fueled pasta brand Banza is now in 8,000 + locations after striking deals with Kroger and Ahold that have added 2,000 + stores to its footprint, but remains laser focused on velocity as part of its bid to be the «most productive pasta in the set»...

Today, Pic - n - Pac has 15 stores in Texas that promote fuel brands such as Shell, Valero and Exxon.

Based on consumer preference, it has expanded to include additional service items such as fuel stations at some of its locations and in - store pharmacies in 12 of its stores.

Second, exercise has a huge impact on improving insulin sensitivity since muscles burn your stored glycogen as fuel during and after your workout.

The result of this accelerated metabolic conversion is that instead of being stored as fat, the calories contained in MCFs are very efficiently converted into fuel for immediate use by organs and muscles.

Medium chain fatty acids are transported directly from the intestines to the liver, where they are more likely to be burned as fuel, as opposed to shorter and longer chains, which typically get stored as fat.

The excess fuel from this high - sugar, high - carb diet is stored as fat which the body uses as a source of insulation and energy for the long, cold -LSB-...]

Athletes who consume higher amounts of protein either burn it for fuel or store it as fat.

My own experience working in the beauty department of a health food store for eight years definitely fueled my own desire to question why and how we have strayed so far from «natural,» as a collective society.

Canopy panels were installed above the gas stations fueling pumps, as well as on top of the store's roof.

For instance, he says, sales tax collected from a category listed as gas stations can be either from fuel or from convenience store items.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind power, which can be intermittent and unreliable, could then be easily stored and distributed as hydrogen fuel.

Researchers are exploring various strategies to put sunshine on tap, converting the sun's energy into fuels that can be stored, transported and used as needed.

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.

They found that this caused the cells to store more fat and release less energy, as if they are trying to conserve as much fuel as possible.

Industrialized civilization relies on coal, oil and natural gas — the stored sunlight collectively known as fossil fuels — for more than 80 percent of the energy that enables everything from driving to reading on a computer screen.

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

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As temperatures rise, stored carbohydrates in the plants» rhizomes are converted into mobile forms to fuel growing tissues.

A second major issue at Fukushima is how to handle the fuel 3/4 the melted uranium cores as well as spent and unused fuel rods stored at the reactors.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

Plants are the original carbon capture and storage solution: as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, plants absorb more of the gas to fuel photosynthesis, and more carbon is stored in the soil.

Some plants, such as soybeans, also store fats and can be used as fuel sources, but Bruce Rittmann, Vermaas's colleague at Arizona State, argues that photosynthetic microbes produce nearly 250 times more fat per acre.

A helicopter refuels near Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valleys as a field station team helps to dig out stored barrels of fuel.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

The Japanese plant has endured partial meltdowns in at least three of its six reactors, as well as two of its seven pools for storing spent fuel.

Should the market demands for hydrogen fuel increase with the introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles, the U.S. will need to produce and store large amounts of cost - effective hydrogen from domestic energy sources, such as natural gas, solar and wind, said Daniel Dedrick, Sandia hydrogen program manager.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

It's about storing energy in hydrogen as a fuel.

Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean, green fuel, but it is difficult to store and move around because of its bulk.

Such qualities make them suitable for storing electric charge in batteries and supercapacitors, and as catalysts in solar and fuel - cell electrodes.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

A leaf makes twice as much hydrogen as it does oxygen, and then it stores the result as a solid fuel.

We can also store the leftover renewable energy in the form of compressed hydrogen for a later use when the electrical demand is higher, or as fuel for vehicles,» Serra adds.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

That is important not only for the design of dye - sensitised solar cells, but also in order to be able to develop systems of materials for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen for storing solar energy as hydrogen fuel.»

These new trucks — which employ a diesel combustion engine along with a hydraulic high - pressure accumulator that stores energy captured during braking — get 35 percent better fuel economy and generate as much as 30 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the non-hybrid diesel - powered vehicles they are replacing.

Research reactor fuel, transuranic waste and sterilization capsules such as the Cesium Chloride capsules stored at the Hanford site.