Sentences with phrase «wasting gas at»

You'll be wasting gas at times it gives a jerky ride until in normal rpm.

Green - minded enthusiasts will be pleased to know that the S65 Cabriolet comes with stop - start technology to cut down on emissions and wasted gas at idle.

Not exact matches

As for the preacher I think his wasting his time God is at fault for the high gas prices nor the solution.

The COHRAL ™ at Oakey Beef Exports» Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs extracts green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars» worth of natural gas previously consumed at the abattoir.

The COHRAL (TM) Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon at Oakey Abattoir on Queensland's Darling Downs will extract green energy biogas from its waste water streams to replace millions of dollars worth of natural gas currently consumed at the abattoir.

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.

This system allows us to report energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation at a global and site level, as an absolute figure or per unit of production.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for combustion instead of the natural gas.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

Flaring off waste gas also contributes to the overall greenhouse gas emissions at the refinery.

Now, a report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters takes a look at solid waste from horizontal gas wells.

Unlike other forms of carbon storage, waste gases can be converted to stone at relatively shallow depths, the leakage risk is minimal and the results are permanent.

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.

«As the waste material is introduced you can produce your gas from the gasifier within an hour and you'll start getting ethanol at six hours.

he unsung heroes of the global carbon cycle are methanogens — microbes at the bottom of the food chain who break down the waste products of other organisms and release methane gas into the atmosphere.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

It requires just enough fuel to stay at a specific RPM, but not too much that you increase RPM, waste gas, or stall out.

Our friends at the US Department of Energy state that underinflated tires waste 4 million gallons of gas daily, or nearly 1.5 billion annually.

I filled up with pure, no ethanol gas last week at a 50 cent per gallon premium and felt no diff in driving or economy numbers, wasted freaking $ 5.

It generates torque like an eight - cylinder engine but it won?t waste your money at the gas pump.

If you're looking to stop wasting time and money at the gas station, and are looking for a compact vehicle that is designed to take on the city streets, then you've come to the right place.

I look at the range extender as a drag on the 40 miles of gas - free driving I would try to do everyday, and a waste for the 600 miles of daily driving I would rarely, if ever do — plus I already have a regular car for distance driving if need be.

The twin - scroll turbocharger design has several other advantages over traditional, single - scroll turbocharging systems, including: • Improved combustion efficiency • Low engine - speed efficiency • Kinetic exhaust gas energy is not wasted or trapped • Cooler cylinder temperatures • Lower exhaust temperatures • Leaner air / fuel ratio • Better pressure distribution in the exhaust ports and more efficient delivery of exhaust gas energy to the turbocharger's turbine Veloster's twin - scroll turbo has superior handling of exhaust gas separation at the turbine leading to improved low - end torque and faster transient torque response.

Not only is wasting gas a downside to driving around looking for these good tires at an affordable price, it can take up several hours of your valuable time.

It's also a waste of gas at a time when the price of gas continues to rise.

Please do not place gas cylinders in your dustbin or in the containers at your household waste recycling centre as they may explode if they are crushed.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

Puzzled at why a green conference was allowing so much printing to happen, I flipped the catalogue over and saw that it is printed by New Leaf Paper, and the stats on how much energy, water, trees, solid waste and greenhouse gasses were avoided by using the recycled, chlorine - free paper made me realize that a highly professional conference can be done in a very green way.

Sadly, it will be either gas taxes and / or diminishing supplies of this nonrenewable resource that will encourage consumers to stop driving and wasting energy, and, in effect, reduce the «pressure at the pump».

The smallest subsidies on a per unit basis were for coal, natural gas and petroleum liquids, and municipal solid waste, all at less than $ 0.45 per megawatthour of generation.»

«SoCalGas is proud to support Global Green in this effort to help California meet its air pollution and climate goals by taking methane from organic waste and using it to make renewable natural gas,» said Trisha Muse, community relations director at SoCalGas.

It will implement a programme of action aimed at keeping to a minimum the impact of the meeting in terms of consumption of natural resources (water, waste, energy) and greenhouse gas emissions.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

The administration's decision to withdraw the application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nation's effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Separately, China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) has been awarded a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity (7MW capacity) for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd., a nickel - iron manufacturing joint venture between China Zhonggang Group and Boasteel Group at a facility in Cangzhou City, China, reports Renewable Energy World.

Dog waste at the landfill creates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

-- The term «qualified waste - to - energy» means energy from the combustion of municipal solid waste or construction, demolition, or disaster debris, or from the gasification or pyrolization of such waste or debris and the combustion of the resulting gas at the same facility, provided that --

At the same time, organic refuse from cities that could be turned into carbon - building soil amendments often goes to waste in landfills, decomposing and emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Destroying the waste gas is cheap and simple, but it is hard to know exactly how much any one company has earned from doing so, since the market price for carbon credits has varied considerably with demand — from about $ 9 to nearly $ 40 per credit — and they can be sold at a discount through futures contracts.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

Compared with Indian representatives, Chinese diplomats have shown greater willingness at international meetings to consider altering the subsidy for waste gas credits, said Stephen O. Andersen, a former United States Environmental Protection Agency official who is now with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington.

Flaring - Open air burning of waste gases and volatile liquids, through a chimney, at oil wells or rigs, in refineries or chemical plants and at landfills.

JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by waste heat recovery in the cement industry in Indonesia.

«Decarbonization of heavy industry and aviation will be difficult, which makes converting industrial waste gases into low - carbon jet fuel a fascinating prospect,» said James Beard, climate and aviation specialist at WWF in the U.K. «All airlines should pursue the development of genuinely sustainable, low - carbon fuels that are certified to minimize indirect land use change.»

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.