Sentences with phrase «waste less fuel»

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Tearfund said a third of all food produced globally is not eaten and waste on this scale is «fueling climate change, causing more droughts, floods and less reliable rain, making life harder for the people in poverty across the world that Tearfund works with».

Additionally, because of their light weight and stackable shape, less waste and fuel is consumed during transport.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

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.

Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource - intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative that also reduces reliance on fossil fuels.»

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

Results: With energy demands increasing around the globe, engineers continually look for ways to squeeze more fuel out of crude oil faster and with less waste.

Improving catalysts can allow fuels and other materials to be made with less energy and less waste.

As cars become more fuel - efficient, less heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it harder to clean up the pollutants that are emitted.

«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.»

I'm gonna burn these ketones up because they're just better for my body they re uhh - again, they're cleaner fuel I might need a lot of more and I'm gonna produce a lot less toxic waste as oppose to when I go.

You'll feel more in control of the financials, you'll have less admin time spent on school meals and your school will be more efficient, with less food and fuel going to waste.

I'm much less disturbed by the concept of a Porsche four - door sedan than I was, and am, about overweight, oversize SUVs carrying the badge, however good they may be dynamically (so long as you don't care about wasting fuel).

That means the engine produces more power and uses less fuel, while wasting less heat.

The company's environmental innovation roadmap to 2020 aims to use less resources and create zero waste culture as well as reducing its dependency on fossil fuels.

Harvesting all wasted heat could eventually almost double ICE efficiency allowing a smaller cleaner engine with less fuel consumption.

On top of that at least some of the current nuclear waste we have could be used as fuel for these reactors, this making our current waste problem less of an issue.

What's proposed would be nothing less than a revolution in the way we handle waste - turning it from waste into fuel, fertiliser and climate saviour with a single blast of the charcoal oven.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

Even though global energy demand is the same in either case, effectively we will need to produce less energy because less is wasted through inefficient fossil fuel burning.

Most of today's nuclear power plants have half - century - old technology with light - water reactors [243] utilizing less than 1 % of the energy in the nuclear fuel and leaving unused fuel as long - lived nuclear «waste» requiring sequestration for millennia.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

While nuclear energy is regarded as the lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat - chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

However, while New York may consume relatively less fossil fuels than other American cities and may do a good job in providing clean water, it does a poor job of reducing, recycling and disposing of its waste.

While incineration pollutes the air, there is no question that it is less polluting than transporting waste in diesel - fueled trucks to leaking landfills.

Next generation reactors we are building right now can burn fuel more efficiently and produce less waste — and even burn the waste from older reactors.

Maintaining a Clean Furnace If the furnace is dirty, the heating system will run less efficiently and waste fuel.

The pioneers could not afford the wasted space, much less the wood and fuel to heat it.