Sentences with phrase «use than other fuels»

Not exact matches

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

It was cheaper to fuel than gasoline, never needed a tune - up, oil change, fan belt, radiator flush, or all the other things I used to pay for with my previous cars.

But already we know that we can accomplish our purposes with far less energy than we now use and that other means of fueling cars and heating homes are being developed.

According to the US Fire Administration, more than one - third of Americans use fireplaces, wood stoves or other fuel fired appliances to heat their homes.

The US is providing aerial fuelling facilities and could offer the use of surveillance drones, while other countries are pledging little more than logistical support and a pat on the back.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

This problem continues to grow because there remains no place for used nuclear fuel rod storage other than such pools or massive dry casks — both located on nuclear facility grounds.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.

Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal.

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

Davis, the University of California professor, argued that for fuel use to drop, taxes on gasoline and other fuels need to rise more than 10 cents.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

Using its licensed casks, NAC has safely completed more than 3,700 cask movements of spent fuel, high - level waste and other nuclear materials.

We are designed to use different types of fuel for energy, but some fuels are more efficient than others.

Unlike other non-essential fats, the body uses these essential fats for growth and functional needs, rather than for fuel.

Other than changes to improve safety, as well as modifications to make use of modern fuel, the XKSS continuation car is a true blast from the past.

Electric powertrains are more efficient than internal combustion powertrains2 and are able to perform the same amount of work as other vehicles while using less fuel.

The Insight is a perfectly fine four - door sedan, a wonderfully sedate transportation device that completes its task using a bare minimum of fuel, but it has a single - mindedness that the CRX lacks: Its 98 - hp, 1.3 - liter four - cylinder and continuously variable transmission aren't concerned with serving up anything other than smooth, unobtrusive propulsion.

The automaker also will expand use of its «Super CVT - i» transmission, which is lighter and more fuel - efficient than current Toyota CVTs, to other cars.

It is designed to run on «regular» unleaded gasoline rather than the premium fuel used in many other high - output V6 engines.

With the second best warranty coverage in this group, and service intervals only matched by the Mondeo, the Octavia promises to be an affordable ownership experience, and adding to that, it uses less fuel in the real world than the other cars in this comparison.

In other words, the Santa Fe Mild Hybrid equipped with the 1.7 diesel mild hybrid system can deliver 200 hp, like using the current 2.2 diesel and a fuel economy benefit of about 20 % better than the average of the model.

The new 1 - litre K10C petrol engine has greater thermal efficiency than the K10B used in other models because of a higher compression ratio (12.0:1 instead of 11.0:1), dual fuel - injection and friction reduction.

Other models that might be unveiled are a new efficient diesel C - Class that will be on the market by 2011 that uses less than five liters of fuel per 100 km and only emits less than 130g of carbon - dioxide per km.

Nor does the placement of the fuel - lid button next to the power windows on the door pad make much sense - you could accidentally use either of them for the purpose other than intended.

Quick in a straight line, the Golf also used less fuel than the other two cars.

Volkswagen already has a turbocharged diesel engine that uses a catalyst to produce lower exhaust emissions and fuel consumption than any other automotive diesel in production.

It rides better than most any other pickup, has a high level of refinement and features, and the base V6 — which is plenty of engine for most uses — offers decent fuel economy.

Mercedes says premium fuel is required but the occasional use of regular or mid-grade will do no harm other than reduce performance slightly.

In other words, the Santa Fe Mild Hybrid equipped with the 1.7 diesel mild hybrid system will deliver 200 hp, like using the current 2.2 diesel and a fuel economy benefit of about 20 % better than the average of the model.

Thanks to direct fuel injection and other advanced features it pumps out 185 hp and 181 lb - ft of torque, 11 percent more twist than its identically sized predecessor (to save you from doing unnecessary math it used to make 163 lb - ft).

It's better for the environment, too — because it weighs less than other clay litters, more packages fit in a truckload and fewer trucks are needed to ship it, so less fuel gets used.

Animal protein, on the other hand, digests much more slowly than starch and at a rate equal to your cat's ability to use that energy to fuel her body's needs.

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

When you read the details of the program terms, though, it says this: «You will only earn 1 percent cash back, not 4 percent, for gas purchased at superstores, supermarkets, convenience stores and warehouse clubs other than Costco or for fuel used for nonautomobile purposes.»

Other than that, Samsung also used some peculiar hashtags on the advert, hashtags like «Coming Soon,» «WB Games» and «DC Comics,» which only fuels the rumors of «Injustice: Gods Among Us» new game being announced this E3.

Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar - powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar - powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see which innovations are truly bright ideas — and which ones are a little dim.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

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.

And (in the last chapter) the range of «mitigation» approaches available, other than reduction of fossil fuel use (which the middle of the book is all about).

The search for new strategies generally falls in two camps: ways to use organic stuff other than corn to make ethanol, and ways to manipulate organisms to produce a different fuel identical to gasoline or diesel.

Natural gas (NG) is a potential «bridge fuel» during transition to a decarbonized energy system: It emits less carbon dioxide during combustion than other fossil fuels and can be used in many industries.

The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to produce hydrogen fuel.

As fuel costs and technology change over time, some energy sources become more economical to use than others.

Likewise, the American Natural Gas Alliance ($ 88 million) seems to work mainly on advertising and public - relations efforts to promote fracking or the use of natural gas rather than other fuels, and the group takes no obvious position on Global Warming / Climate Change.

Rather than divest personally, in terms of eliminating one's own use of fossil fuels, many divestment proponents urge others to make the sacrifice.