Over the course of two
tanks of fuel in mixed driving environments, I averaged a low - but - not - horrible 16.1 mpg.
With the Rapide S in sport mode, driving in third and fourth gear to indulge the V - 12's muffler - bypass yowl, we burn down to a quarter
tank of fuel in short order.
If you'd like a practical demonstration of how turtle acceleration can save fuel, I refer you to Jeremy Clarkson's demonstration in his epic drive from London to Edinburgh and back on one
tank of fuel in a twin turbo V8 Audi (scroll down to episode 4 of season 4).
Not exact matches
«You want to get
fuel in the
tank so you've got lots
of runway,» says Brad Johns, general partner at Yaletown Partners.
The actual molecules were a mix
of gas
of varied provenance, coming as they did from a storage
tank in the U.K. that also contained
fuel from Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago and Qatar, among others.
EM: Just think about the little
fuel tank that has the hydrogen
in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size
of a peppercorn.
And
in October 2017, Musk revealed a nearly 40 - foot - wide cryogenic
fuel tank made out
of the stuff.
Anyone who's filled up the
tank of a rental car while on a motoring holiday
in Europe knows just how low Canada's
fuel taxes really are by international standards.
The beachhead groups were part
of a larger constellation
of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (
in charge
of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director
of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil
fuel «think
tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.
A drop
of diesel is seen at the tip
of a nozzle after a
fuel station customer fills her car's
tank in Sint Pieters Leeuw December 5, 2014.
Eleven townspeople were killed
in Sherwood Crescent, where the plane's wings and
fuel tanks plummeted
in a fiery explosion, destroying several houses and leaving a huge crater, with debris causing damage to a number
of buildings nearby.
I lost my religion when the
fuel tank in Ohio that had a rust spot that people were convinced was
in fact an image
of Mary.
I'm almost always
in a state
of recovery from the previous day's workout, running low on
fuel in my body's
tank and, honestly, a bit foggy because coffee isn't ready.
That will make it sting a little bit more but some extra
fuel in the
tank won't hurt them
in the back half
of the season..
It was proof that the future Hall
of Famer still has gas left
in a
tank that's been running for 15 seasons, as he
fueled the Heat to a 113 - 103 win over the 76ers on Monday night.
A couple
of had to make a couple
of changes which made the car a bit slower than it had been
in its Group C heyday, but this was offset by the massive advantage
of being able to run a much bigger
fuel tank than any
of the cars
in the Prototype class.
And, as mentioned
in my classification above, it has great
fuel economy for its size and
in comparison to others
in its class but burning a
tank of gas
in a week
of what I did not consider extensive driving and then filling said 75 litre
tank with
fuel costing $ 1.35 / L was a relatively enthusiasm - dampening experience.
Think
of your school lunch as the
fuel you put
in your
tank.
• The NPP is
in the process
of buying discarded and old
fuel tanks with the intention
of filling them with petrol and setting them ablaze.
He expressed concerns that more
tank farms are
in the process
of being approved, revealing that Lagos alone accounts for 80 percent
of the cargo that comes into the country through the ports while about 90 percent
of the
fuel used across Nigeria is loaded
in Lagos.
The proposed upgrades include demolition
of existing
fuel storage
tanks and construction
of a consolidated
fueling station, he said.The consolidation would allow the town to store more
fuel in the event
of a natural disaster like superstorm Sandy.
The tanker reportedly caught fire
in the process
of transferring
fuel into an underground
tank at a
fuel station at Poly Junction
in the area.
In addition, he said it will reduce air pollution,
fuel usage and spills that can result from repeated filling
of smaller
tanks.
A year ago, he said
in the Budget that he would put
fuel into the
tank of the British economy.
With the first rehabilitation
of the Sekondi Harbour taking place
in 2005 under the Kufuor - led NPP government, with its attendant boost to the fishing industry, the President stated that this current refurbishment, which cost some US$ 20 million, has equipped the harbour with a lay - by wharf, access road to boats, a fish market shed,
fuel dumps, an administration block, a fresh water storage
tank and a state -
of - the - art ice - making machine.
That makes it likely that other groups will be able to quickly follow their lead to make a wide array
of high - strength stainless steel parts for everything from
fuel tanks in airplanes to pressure tubes
in nuclear power plants.
In part that's because they require bulky and expensive high - pressure
tanks to store enough
of the fossil
fuel to meet drivers» demands.
In a long outage, one type
of fuel could run out or become contaminated if, say, a quake ruptured a diesel
tank, or flood waters got into it.
Chewing on a bran muffin (there are full kitchens and abundant munchies
in all four
of the El Segundo buildings), Musk waves a hand at the production floor, where technicians built the Falcon I's space - grade 2219 aluminum alloy
fuel tank, its first - stage engine, dubbed Merlin, and the upper - stage engine, called Kestrel.
The new battery is based on a redox flow design — similar
in design to a
fuel cell, with two
tanks of electroactive materials dissolved
in water.
«We want to be just as confident
of the safety
of hydrogen
in our
fuel tanks and on our street corners.»
So you can get this roughly eightfold leverage (three - to fourfold
in the case
of a hybrid) from the wheels back to the
fuel tank by starting with the physics
of the car, making it lighter and with lower drag.
The faulty ring, made brittle by unusually cold weather at launch, allowed a jet
of flame to ignite the hydrogen
fuel in the external
tank.
The space shuttle Atlantis, which is due to carry Europe's Columbus science laboratory to the station, was sidelined by problems with sensors
in its
fuel tank that are part
of an emergency engine cut - off system.
In only two weeks
of driving, the district coordinator
of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her
fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full
tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds,
of compressed hydrogen gas).
«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging
in vehicles and storing electricity
in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a
tank and creating electricity from a
fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president
of research and development.
Even the
fuel in the gas
tank affects a car's center
of gravity, so each lap is different as the car burns through and then is refilled with gas.
These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows
of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall
of water that destroyed the
fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
in Japan.
The toilets that Stephanie Lansing, an assistant professor
of ecological engineering at the University
of Maryland, is working on building
in Haiti are connected to «biodigester»
tanks where bacteria turn the waste into biogas that can be used similarly to natural gas and burned for
fuel.
«They did acknowledge early on that the [
fuel]
tanks are made
of aluminum,» Nick Johnson, chief scientist
of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office at the Johnson Space Center
in Houston, told SPACE.com.
Some supernovae have a reserve
tank of radioactive
fuel that cuts
in and powers their explosions for three times longer than astronomers had previously thought.
(The antiprotons
in this scheme would be gathered into a vast
fuel tank, a nearly weightless cloud hundreds
of meters long surrounding the craft.)
It has yet to be widely adopted
in the transportation sector, however, because
of the expensive and large on - board compressed
fuel tanks.
In a new paper, a team of geologists and neutrino physicists boldly claims it will be able to determine by 2025 how much nuclear fuel and radioactive power remain in the Earth's tan
In a new paper, a team
of geologists and neutrino physicists boldly claims it will be able to determine by 2025 how much nuclear
fuel and radioactive power remain
in the Earth's tan
in the Earth's
tank.
A science teacher, Joe Ferretti,
fueled my curiosity, letting me design a fan - driven wave
tank in place
of writing a pro-forma paper.
The agency is monitoring the spacecraft for signs
of fuel running low, such as changes
in pressure
in the
fuel tank and differences
in the thruster performance.
The Heartland Institute, a think
tank with ties to the fossil
fuel industry, paid to promote this paper
in Science Bulletin, a journal published by the Chinese National Academy
of Sciences.
Next - generation biofuels could, unlike corn ethanol, completely replace petroleum - based
fuels in the gas
tanks of existing cars, trucks, and planes.
Considering the condensing ability
of the steam generators, water inventory
in the HA - 2
tanks was chosen so that coolant inventory essential for reliable cooling
of fuel can be maintained
in the reactor vessel for 24 - 280 hours (depending on leak size).
Production
of fuel cells, electrolyzers and hydrogen storage
tanks with lower cost and higher efficiency will be enabled by the work
in Research Area 2 (lead by SINTEF).