Sentences with phrase «take less fuel»

We had to take less fuel than the No. 3 car but the pressure was on the guys to execute on that final stop and they did an amazing job.

You have the option to put the car on sport mode (takes up more gas) or economy (takes less fuel).

Not exact matches

Moreover, it should take even less fuel than a fission reactor does to produce a lot of energy.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.

Whether it is less food, cutting out food groups to follow the latest trend or skipping meals and snacks, but in reality it takes fuel to fun a car.

For example, it takes 88 % less fuel to ship a container by water from New Zealand to the east coast of North America than it takes to transport a truckload of fruit from the west to east coast of the United States.

With clever carton design and luxury aesthetics at the forefront of consumer attraction, it seems the previous emphasis on sustainability in the packaging world is taking a lesser role with tea packing in this post-recession era — with high quality, often costly, materials fueling the battle for market share.

Reducing Fuel Use Tyvek ® also can support lighter, stronger packaging designs that weigh less or take up less space, helping to lessen the environmental impact of transporting products from manufacturer, to distributor, to hospital to patient.

Take a desert ecosystem — hotter weather will make cactuses and other desert plants lose water, which will mean fewer cactuses for the deserts and less fuel for a fire to burn.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

LEU fuel is more compact than natural uranium fuel and would thus take up less space in the core.

Losing weight during perimenopause, or even maintaining your current weight, means you have to take in less fuel.

Armed with what we've quickly learned about macros and what it takes to lose weight, losing fat on a skinny fat diet is (to put it simply) a process where we eat less than what's required of our bodies, therefore forcing fat energy to be used up to fuel us throughout our day.

The additional weight and less aerodynamic shape take their toll on the EPA fuel - mileage rating, which drops from 51/48 mpg city / highway to 44/40 mpg.

Bike was not winterized, as we did not expect not to use it for that long (procrastinated for months to spend four hours it took me to get it ready), so the fuel breakdown and hygroscopic issues are a concern (although, from my experience with less - demanding boat two - stroke, even couple - years old fuel can be used sometimes).

This offers similar 47mpg fuel economy yet takes a second less to do 0 - 62mph.

The extra weight and a less aerodynamic shape take a small toll on fuel economy, but the V still got an excellent 41 mpg overall in our tests.

The most fuel - efficient Porsche Panamera — the 4 E-Hybrid model — has a maximum speed of 172mph and takes less than five seconds to go from 0 - 62mph.

Taking advantage of the additional, instant and continuously available torque from the electric motor, the Optima Hybrid uses 10 per cent less fuel on the combined cycle, 28 per cent less on the urban cycle and produces 21 per cent less CO2 than the 1.7 - litre diesel Optima automatic.

Its combined fuel consumption is 5.5 L / 100 km and acceleration from 0 — 100 km takes less than 10 seconds.

The T5 takes just 6.9 seconds to accelerate from 0 - 62mph, thanks to 251bhp, but its fuel economy of 38.7 mpg or less isn't great.

Following the unveiling of the first V8 Vantage Zagato with Volante coachwork at the Geneva Motor Show in 1987, AML took the decision to produce the car as so but to placate the owners of the original Vantage Zagato, the Volante Zagato would receive the less powerful fuel injected V585 V8 engine.

It takes less than 5 minutes and doesn't affect your fuel points.

The less energy food takes to break down and convert to fuel, the easier on the body (e.g. minimizes the metabolic stress on your dog's body).

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

If you take less from people, or put money back in their pockets, they can decide where to use it (fuel, or elsewhere).

The site looks less concerned with the science and more concerned with the business and consumer end of the burgeoning fuel's market; it's suited to those who already know what transesterification is and want to take action rather than get educated.

Although solar often gets top billing in political announcements like Clinton's, it still represents less than 1 percent of our electricity generation, so it will take tremendous growth for many years for it to provide a meaningful offset to fossil fuels.

The current rate of burning fossil fuels adds about 2 ppm per year to the atmosphere, so that getting from the current level to 1000 ppm would take about 300 years — and 1000 ppm is still less than what most plants would prefer, and much less than either the nasa or the Navy limit for human beings.»

I am hopeful that a long list of benefits for electric (better driving experience, less maintenance, cheaper fuel, smoother ride, more convenient refueling at home rather than having to go to dangerous, smell fuel station and so on) will mean demand for electric will take off and make ICE cars and f.fuel stations rare making range anxiety a problem for ICE vehicles not electric.

It takes much less fuel to transport local foods to your farmers» market or local store than to import food from other countries or states.»

But it will take nothing less than for the industry to shift from its conventional reactor designs and from the uranium 235 fuel process on which it began to settle in the 1960s, according to Sorensen.

Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes money — and industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.

On the other hand, Airbus's giant A380, which enters service this year, takes many more people between hubs than previous aircraft, using less fuel per passenger than smaller planes.

The advanced countries that can already handle this option account for 75 % of the fossil fuel use, and enormous reductions could follow their transition, leaving less advanced countries to take this path later in the century when they are more ready.

Going beyond what is seen as feasible through fuel switching and a smooth integration of new renewable capacity is another matter, especially if it means taking away a big part of the revenue windfall the utilities have mentally already booked for those free allowances (since many less would be available to them).

Imagine fossil fuel companies taking responsibility for their CO2 emissions and imagine the beef industry taking that CO2 and storing it in the soil, where it enables the production of more food, on less land, for less money, using less water.

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

We are hopeful that Mr. Trump and his campaign will take a closer look at energy efficiency as an energy resource to promote energy security so that current and future generations are less dependent on imported fuels as well as to ensure that we all have cleaner air to breathe since energy efficiency helps reduce the smog and global warming pollutants emitted from fossil - fueled power plants.

These delayed sales might seem like a bad thing (older, less fuel - efficient, and dirtier models stay on the road longer), but if we take the long view, they are probably a good thing; by the time people decide to buy, there will be more fuel - efficient models on the market to pick from, and new CAFE fuel economy rules will have had more time to take effect.

«Wind power's ecological footprint is so small — a million times smaller than ethanol's — that if all the cars driven in the United States were battery - electric, they could be fueled by wind turbines whose total land footprint, not counting spacing in between, takes up less than 1.2 square miles, Stanford University environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson found.»

The volatility of fuel costs and the reeling economy have taken their toll on the long - haul, heavy - duty trucking industry, though their tribulations have received less attention than those of the auto sector.

A carbon tax or a higher gasoline tax would encourage every motorist, not just those with new vehicles, to burn less fuel — by taking the bus, carpooling, telecommuting, resorting to that free mode of transit known as walking, or buying a Prius.

At that rate, it would not take thousands of years to remove all the CO2 from fossil fuels, but less than one hundred years.

New York Times More on canal transport: Transport By Barge on the Erie Canal Uses a Tenth of The Fuel of a Truck UK Canal Freight Under Scrutiny: 80 % Less CO2 Than Road Haulage... Ethanol Follies in Upstate New York Supermarket Delivers By Barge to Save Emissions: TreeHugger More on Amtrak: Taking the Train to New York: The Only Way to Fly Amtrak Finally Gets A Boost in Funding Allison Rogers on Taking a Train from DC To Rhode Island

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

Big energy players are now cutting their ties to non-renewable energy sources (oil, gas, coal, and fossil fuels) and are taking a 180 - degree turn to focus more on other means for renewable energy (such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) that are highly sustainable, cost - efficient, and less damaging to the environment.