Sentences with phrase «used as fuel much»

Petroleum - fired generators either burn petroleum liquids (such as distillate or residual fuel oils) or petroleum coke, a refinery waste product that can be used as a fuel much like coal.

They are also metabolised and used as fuel much faster because they are absorbed and sent to the liver, this means that they are less likely to be stored as body fat.

Not exact matches

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

Whilst this may on the one hand fuel concerns about possible growth in the use of illegal pornographic content such as that depicting children or animals, it is also the same feature that allows a nervous or embarrassed teen to look for much - needed information about sexual identity or practices.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter how much we want to use natural gas as a new fuel, or even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently poisoning our water and ourselves.

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

LIMING, CHINA — Fourteen - year - old Feng Yu's parents used to have to carry as much as 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of wood daily to fuel the cooking stove in their kitchen.

About 15 times as much oil and natural gas is used as fuel than ends up in consumer products ranging from soaps, shampoos and deodorants to air fresheners, glues and cleaning sprays.

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.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

They use a planet's gravitational field as a slingshot, which allows them to visit other celestial bodies without using up too much fuel.

By cutting fuel loss and reducing oil use by up to 50 percent, the modified engines may save their users as much as $ 600 a year.

The use of alcohol as a fuel for internal combustion engines, either alone or in combination with other fuels, has been given much attention mostly because of its possible environmental and long - term economical advantages over fossil fuel.

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.

Harvesting that landfill methane for use as a fuel also offers greenhouse gas reductions, since methane traps 23 times as much heat in the atmosphere as CO2 over a century.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

The sedative paradoxically keeps his brain awake: PET scans show that on Ambien, his brain uses twice as much fuel.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

not sure the mass reduction using helium would improve fuel effeciency as much as removing all the metal in the chassy.

If MOXIE can produce oxygen on Mars, that oxygen could then be used as fuel to get a spacecraft back to Earth — a much, much cheaper and safer option than trying to land a spacecraft that's still loaded with enough fuel for the return journey.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

If glucose levels drop too much, the liver synthesizes ketone bodies as a sort of back up fuel source for use by other organs (4).

-LSB-...] With a shorter chain length than fatty acids, they take a much «quicker» pathway (think of it as a shortcut) when they're metabolized, which allows them to be converted to ketones and used for fuel, rather than being stored as fat (8).

As my life has transitioned into the health and fitness space I have acquired so much knowledge about the way food is used as fuel in your bodAs my life has transitioned into the health and fitness space I have acquired so much knowledge about the way food is used as fuel in your bodas fuel in your body.

Because of this, the body is using its stress hormones to release more fuel (as much fat as possible but sugar when its capabilities are exceeded), and the heart rate goes up based on that hormonal activity.

So while a teaspoon of sugar or honey in coffee or tea with heavy cream is not going to affect the OFM athlete too much a large bowl of yogurt or oatmeal or potatoes with your eggs and bacon will set in motion the blood sugar rollercoaster and impact your potential to use «fat as fuel».

If you stop eating or reduce your calories too much your body goes into starvation mode, it will hang on to everything you eat and it will store it to be used as fuel.

During a weight loss diet, when calories are already hard to come by, too much workout intensity will cause your body to break down muscle tissue to use as fuel.

Unlike most other brands that harvest MCT's from palm oil, (a much cheaper and environmentally taxing source), by using pure coconut oil we also deliver approximately 30 % Lauric Acid, an important form of MCT that acts as a slower burning fuel source.

What this means is that for a non-fat-adapted body, it's much easier to forget about trying to burn fats entirely and simply use sugar as a dual - purpose fuel (for both the aerobic and anaerobic systems).

You really need to tax your body so that you're using its fuel sources as much as possible.

[When] you consume quality fats in the morning, your body will preferentially use that fat as fuel, resulting in steady energy throughout the morning without the need for much food.

Mr. Movie, the reigning champion, is using the fuel from his 2015 victory to put himself into the lead, before anyone can so much as bat an eyelid.

With four modes of data presentation selectable by the driver, these reveal all you want to know about how you're driving and how much fuel you're using as you go.

The available turbo - diesel engine does a great job moving the relatively large vehicle without using too much fuel and the interior is as nice as any Benz this side of an S - class.

The 3.5 - liter twin - turbo EcoBoost V - 6 is found in many Ford products, where the automaker claims it can produce the power of a V - 8 without using as much fuel.

A supplier source told Reuters that GM is planning a special high - efficiency model that will use aluminum extensively for a weight savings of at least 250 lb, and an improvement of as much as 20 percent in fuel economy.

As the name suggests, the battery systems operate using a proprietary «flow cell» system, whereby an electrolyte fuel can be used to fill the car much as a combustible fuel is in a regular vehiclAs the name suggests, the battery systems operate using a proprietary «flow cell» system, whereby an electrolyte fuel can be used to fill the car much as a combustible fuel is in a regular vehiclas a combustible fuel is in a regular vehicle.

Four - wheel - drive 2014 Ram 2500 models also gain the front - axle disconnect feature introduced on the 2013 Ram 3500, which decouples the front axle when not in use, reducing driveline loss and improving fuel economy by as much as 1 mpg.

Much larger engines, such as used for railroad locomotion and marine propulsion, are often two - stroke units, offering a more favourable power - to - weight ratio, as well as better fuel economy.

As used in the next - generation S - Class, it has the potential to improve fuel economy by as much as 15 per cenAs used in the next - generation S - Class, it has the potential to improve fuel economy by as much as 15 per cenas much as 15 per cenas 15 per cent.

Around town during the first week the Santa Fe used as much as 12.9 L / 100 km, but with a family of four and enough luggage aboard for those few days away, the open - road fuel consumption fell as low as 8.2.

Changes to Sync on the 2015 Ford F - 150 are overshadowed by Ford's announced plan to use aluminum panels to cut 700 pounds of weight and raise fuel economy to as much as 30 mpg highway with a V6 engine.

Other options include the more powerful (yet still reasonably economical) BMW 740d diesel, as well as the BMW 740Li, BMW 750i and BMW M760Li petrols — although these are rare choices due to their higher fuel consumption and tax obligations; the 6.6 - litre M760Li, for example, returns just 22mpg — but in fairness, the rest of the petrol engines use roughly half as much fuel as that.

Diesel engines are best if you travel long distances, as the petrol engines use much more fuel.