Sentences with phrase «use less fuel from»

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The Web - based software helps you locate your vehicles, while also helping you get more savings from operating costs and lesser fuel use.

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.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

This concentrated atomic assault allows the reactor to extract 100 times as much energy from uranium fuel as do current thermal reactors, which use less than 1 percent of the fuel's potential energy.

Monteiro's team found that the Romans, by contrast, used much less lime and made it from limestone baked at 900 ˚ C (1,652 ˚ F) or lower, requiring far less fuel than Portland cement.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

Less understood — and more difficult to measure — is the influence of aerosol particles from human sources, particularly the use of coal and other fossil fuels.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»

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).

Those who are committed to consuming less fuel won't mind this tiny nuisance, but it does highlight that Honda's hybrid technology is different from the systems used by other automakers.

Some carmakers are moving away from manuals, offering an automatic as standard on some of their models or with some of their engines; this is often for reasons of economy, as the latest dual - clutch gearboxes can help cars use less fuel and produce less CO2 than those with a manual transmission.

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.

We did note that the fuel economy penalty from our nearly identically equipped 2005 H3 with the 225hp version of the I - 5 and a five - speed manual to our 2008 Alpha was less than 1.5 mpg over the course of a year, a number that could be reduced through the use of GM's six - speed automatic transmission, but also a trade - off we'd gladly accept to live with the V - 8 version day in and day out.

It seems that despite adopting: — a lithium - ion battery; — a «high - pressure direct fuel injection that replaced the less - efficient multi-port injection type»; — a new Hydra - Matic six - speed automatic transmission that replaces the conventional four speed used previously; — a «new BAS design [that is supposed to] ha [ve] noteworthy fuel economy gains compared to the earlier system»; — all those «talks» of «advancements gained from production of multiple generations of hybrid technology as well as development of the Chevy Volt»; — and significantly less horsepower and oomph than an Accord hybrid that was first debuted 7 years ago, there are actually little to show for any significant advancement in fuel economy from GM's latest hybrid.

While some BMW purists may forwn at the news that the 1 Series now features three - cylinder engine borrowed from MINI, the fact that the model now has a version that uses less fuel than a purpose - built hybrid does say a lot.

With 450Nm of torque from 1500rpm, the xDrive25d hits 100km / h in 6.6 seconds and has the same 235km / h top speed as the petrol flagship, but uses about 1.3 L / 100 km less fuel doing it (5.0 L / 100 km).

In addition to lower fuel consumption, the direct - shift transmission, well known from its use in passenger cars, causes less wear to auxiliary equipment, reduces the... Read more →

United is also using the Dreamliner on its routes to Australia from San Francisco and Los Angeles, phasing out the less fuel - efficient Boeing 747.

But in any event, we are now forced to consume and spend less because debt from now on is going to be harder to get, and we are also forced to use less fossil fuels because they are already too expensive.

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

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.

While waiting for the additional data, Newman and Kenworth speculate on factors they say blend together in causing peak car use - the aging of cities (more people coming back from the suburbs to the inner cores and driving less), the growth of public transport, many cities hitting a wall in expansion after average commutes (by car or even train) get beyond one hour's time, and the rise in fuel prices.

But the four prongs of the speech were not about using less fuel, but boosting supplies: drilling offshore, extracting oil from shale, drilling on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and adding refineries.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

Western Europe with much less fossil fuel use than ever before, produces 50 % of its electricity from nuclear reactors and could provide the stimulus for others to re-instigate their nuclear production.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

The oxygen measurements show that less oxygen is used than calculated from fossil fuel use.

Retired Major Gen. Anthony L. Jackson of the US Marine Corp talked about the Defense Department initiatives to use more energy from clean, renewable sources and less from fossil fuels.

Their enormous volumes of water can not become acidic — that is, plummet from an 8.2 pH level 150 years ago and their current 8.1 pH into the acidic realm of 7.0 or lower, due to the tiny amount of atmospheric CO2 attributable to fossil fuel use, in less than five centuries.

The fuel prohibited from use in California will simply be used elsewhere, which will result in increasing overall GHG emissions as a result of less stringent environmental standards in places those fuels would ultimately be consumed and of increased GHG emissions from increased transportation distances.

Thanks to increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and cut the use of foreign oil, biofuels - renewable, home - grown and marketed as less damaging than fossil fuels - have used corporate and political clout to win billions in subsidies from the US taxpayer.

Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has 99.5 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road uses, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from newer diesel engines.

Primarily, CO2 emissions come from fossil fuel combustion with a lesser contribution from land use changes.

- any increase of the decay rate from the biosphere over the uptake would lead to increased oxygen use, but we see the opposite: oxygen use is less than expected from fossil fuel burning, thus the biosphere is a net absorber of CO2.

Far and above all the other so - called evidence used in attempts to show that a sinister industry plot exists is what I term the core evidence: the set of leaked memos from way back in 1991 — supposedly from the Western Fuels Association's «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) public relations campaign — containing the alleged strategy to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» where the targeted audience was «older, less educated males» and «younger, lower income women.»

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.

From describing the production of a fiber much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less griveous sideeffects than chemical pharmaceutical products.

Less than 2 % of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, so using electricity as a transportation fuel would greatly reduce dependence on imported petroleum, thus contributing to our national security.»

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

If gas turbines are used for backup, startup time is about 30 min from dead stop, less from a low load situation where fuel consumption and emissions are low, less for combustion systems.

By contrast, a transition from fossil fuels to solar or wind power, biomass, or hydroelectricity would require rematerialization — the use of more natural resources — since sunlight, wind, organic matter, and water are all far less energy dense than oil and gas.

Oxygen use from fossil fuel burning is more or less known from sales and burning efficiency of each type of fuel.

The drive to achieve net - zero emissions from all fossil fuel use within perhaps 50 years or less will be a challenging but vital job for the current generation, and many future generations, of CCS workers and researchers.

That is confirmed by satellites (the «greening earth») and by the oxygen balance: there is less oxygen use measured than should be from fossil fuel use.

For all other fuel uses, ranging from diesel fuel for trucks and jet fuel for planes to home heating and industrial fuels — the overall price - responsiveness is probably greater than for gasoline but less than for electricity.

France could buy used fuel rods from the US power reactors for less than nothing, and just remove the fission products to make a fuel that has far more energy than the fuel normaly used by the Canadians.

Gas prices have fallen and are projected to stay low, eroding the payback from more expensive cars that use less fuel.

Less Fossil Fuel Use Globally: Some progress might come simply from a worldwide reduction in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and crude oUse Globally: Some progress might come simply from a worldwide reduction in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and crude ouse of fossil fuels, especially coal and crude oil.

If we were somehow able to severely curtail / stop the use of fossil fuels, the developing world would be less able to respond to and recover from the inevitable disasters that will befall them.

Well - to - wheel, using hydrogen produced from natural gas to feed a fuel cell produces 30 % — 50 % less carbon dioxide than just burning the fuel to provide the same amount of energy.»