Sentences with phrase «which use less fuel»

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

Not exact matches

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.
Once you get the affordable cloths, you need dramatically fewer products, which results in fewer chemicals, fewer containers, less fuel used for transport, etc..
«Energy efficient lighting uses significantly less electricity, which equals less fuel burned, and less greenhouse gases.»
In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.
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).
Nations could help by cutting funding on climate research, and boosting funding for the solution to climate change, which we already know: use less fossil fuel.
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.
Plug - ins use about a third of the fuel that a standard hybrid does, which means that the cars themselves emit less carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.
Ekmark says we are now entering an era in which vehicles will also gather real - time information about the weather and highway hazards, using this to improve fuel efficiency and make life less stressful for the driver and safer for all road users.
If you need to emit less carbon, you can change your process, you can change what fuel you use, or you can find a company that you can pay to reduce those tons for you, which is what happens when you buy an offset.»
And the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 suggested the practice of overcrowding pools for the storage of spent nuclear fuel rods — that has caused fires and explosions at Fukushima Daiichi, which stores far less used fuel than typical U.S. plants — could prove dangerous.
yes i agree... i only use 130 as a generalization... and yes the conditioned individual can mobilize triglycerides out of the muscle at a heart rate over 130, which in the conditioned individual will be used in the mitochondria for fuel... however in the unconditioned individual the triglycerides mobilize but then re-form back in the muscle as fat and so are not used as fuel... science is yet to really explain why this happens... but in my experience the conditioned individual is just more efficient at burning fat... and the unconditioned individual is simply in the process of becoming more efficient... so i recommend the unconditioned individual start with cardio that is less intense below 130... then when they get more conditioned through the resistance training... i will recommend more intense cardio over 130 beats...
Which is why a 200HP turbo car uses less fuel than a 200HP non-turbo.
Stable combustion is achieved by using less fuel than conventional direct injection engines which have an air - fuel ratio of 40:1.
«The result of all these enhancements and advances is that the new Versa Sedan engine burns cleaner and uses less fuel, which combined with the improved CVT performance and better aerodynamics reduces overall fuel consumption by about five miles per gallon versus the 2011 Versa Sedan,» says Castignetti.
But our pick of the range is the BMW 640d GC diesel, which matches the 640i's acceleration but uses much less fuel.
The paddle - shift eight - speed automatic complements the performance generated by the Corvette Stingray's LT1 engine — rated at 455 horsepower or 460 horses with the available performance exhaust system — which uses advanced technologies including direct injection, variable valve timing and Active Fuel Management (cylinder deactivation) to make more power with less fFuel Management (cylinder deactivation) to make more power with less fuelfuel.
The technology, which uses a high - pressure fuel system, lets the engine use less fuel for each cylinder and reduces emissions.
According to the official details, the seventh gear is configured as a high - geared overdrive which reduces the speed on highway which makes the model use less fuel.
The top model in the new E-Class diesel range is the six - cylinder E 350 CDI with an output of 170 kW / 231 hp, which uses 0.5 litres per 100 kilometres less fuel than the previous E 320 CDI.
Yet despite its fun - to - drive nature, the new MZR 2.0 - litre uses 4 percent less fuel than the outgoing 2.0 - litre, which means lower operating costs on a daily basis.
My Volt, which doesn't get the gas MPG of any Prius, goes far enough on battery that I use less fuel than any car in the Prius lineup, despite the Prius» higher gas MPG rating.
The F - 150 aluminum design is key to Ford's elevated performance, which not only reduces environmental burdens associated with raw material mining and processing, but with reduced vehicle weight, less power is required to physically move the vehicle, encouraging the use of the smaller fuel efficient engine found in the 2.7 Liter EcoBoost.
Amazing and it uses considerably less fuel than my wife's previous vehicle, an Infinity G37 coupe, which ran on premium only.
The LMM used a less favorable late and post injection technique in order to introduce raw diesel fuel into the diesel particulate filter, which is necessary to inhibit the high temperatures necessary for regeneration to occur.
Last year, All Nippon Airlines asked passengers to use the lavatories before they board flights so as to reduce the overall weight of the plane, which would ultimately be better for the environment as it would mean less fuel usage.
Further, increased human - caused CO2 emissions mean more energy use, which results in more human productivity since humans generally use fossil fuel energy to increase their productivity and reduce their dependency on other less reliable and higher cost energy sources.
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.
PEF (Process Engineered Fuel) generates significantly less Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) which causes «Acid Rain» when compared to using Coal as fFuel) generates significantly less Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) which causes «Acid Rain» when compared to using Coal as fuelfuel.
The analysis concludes that even a less ambitious climate goal, like a 3 °C rise in average global temperature or more, which would pose significantly greater risks for our society and economy, would still imply significant constraints on our use of fossil fuel reserves between now and 2050.
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.
Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).
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.
On the other hand, Airbus's giant A380, which enters service this year, takes many more people between hubs than previous aircraft, using less fuel per passenger than smaller planes.
He argued that using Canadian tar sands — which he called some of the «dirtiest oil on the planet» — would «make it much less likely for human civilization to succeed in meeting» that goal of leaving oil and other fossil fuels untapped.
Through ClimateCare, organisations have helped distribute 750,000 efficient cookstoves, which use significantly less fuel and improve indoor air quality.
The CIC is not saving the world, as it claims; it is rather primarily lining its own pockets at the expense of everyone else, particularly the less well off who want to increase their income and living standards through the use of the lowest cost energy available, which is often fossil fuels.
This market would allow Ontario businesses and residents to access surplus clean power at the wholesale market price of less than two cents per kilowatt - hour (KWh), which could displace the use of fossil fuels by using things like dual fuel (gas and electric) water heaters, and by producing emission - free hydrogen fuel.
In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
What I foresee is a more efficient engine which produces more power with less fuel, and that fuel, whatever it is, is plentiful, cheap to refine and safe to use.
However, while natural gas can be derived from anaerobic digesters or landfills, in Utah they are using the fossil fuel kind which, though finite, is at least cleaner burning and less carbon - intensive than regular gasoline.
A study by Delta says that shaving system «peaks» reduces the need for peaking plants which are often less efficient and / or use more polluting fuels, to run; it can also enable delay or prevention of the need for investment in new network capacity.
I fly Porter out of the Island, which uses (so they say) relatively low - impact planes, and much less taxi time and fuel for me, as I live and work downtown in Toronto.
Sold in packaging which is 20 % recycled, the paint is 90 % less solvent than standard emulsions and has carbon footprint that is 50 % lower than other ranges, highlighting Dulux's commitment to reducing fuel consumption and the use of hazardous chemicals.
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