Sentences with phrase «world use of both fuel»

Honda has delivered these vehicles to individual retail consumers in the US and collected valuable feedback concerning real - world use of both fuel cell vehicles and public hydrogen refueling stations.

Honda has delivered these vehicles to individual retail consumers in the U.S. and collected valuable feedback concerning real - world use of both fuel cell vehicles and public hydrogen refueling stations.

Not exact matches

Rive argues that it should stay underground, that the oil majors look at the world through petroleum - coated lenses, and that the benefits of solar are so obvious that once the price becomes more competitive, fossil - fuel use will plunge.

Nike Plus and Nike Fuel Band have used massive amounts of data to encourage people around the world to change their every day behavior, inspiring more people to run longer, harder, faster and farther than ever before.

«We can in fact help other parts of the world reduce their greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by providing them with lower - carbon fuels in other parts of the world where they are using very high - carbon fuels like coal.»

But the largest contribution to restoring the carbon balance will be a reduction in world population since every person who lives makes a contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by his or her use of the products of industry or by burning wood for fuel.

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

Godlike in the eyes of heartened Red Sox fans, Pedro Martinez uses an astonishing mastery of four pitches and a ferocious will to win — not to mention that smile — to fuel Boston's fever for a World Series title

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

But it's hard to get excited about biofuels when they already have such a bad rep.. The use of corn and sugar in fuels has driven up the cost of food by a whopping 75 percent worldwide, according to a recent report by the World Bank.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

The work, published in Science, not only opens the door to expand the use of one of the most efficient energy sources on the planet, but also adds a key step in completing the nuclear fuel cycle — an advance, along with wind and solar, that could help power the world's energy needs cleanly for the future.

Peat is also used for fuel in several parts of the world.

OSLO (Reuters)- World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high - polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows.

The 1997 Kyoto Conference — a world meeting on fossil - fuel use — produced an agreement by a handful of highly industrialized countries to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2010.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal andworld cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal andWorld from expanding its use of coal and oil.

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

The experimental fusion reactors now being built around the world use a fuel composed of a plasma of two isotopes of hydrogen — deuterium and tritium.

At the moment, only five percent of the world production of diesel fuel makes use of this process, because it is cheaper for companies to use more polluting substances.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

NIF uses the world's highest energy laser to crush peppercorn - sized targets filled with fusion fuel (a combination of hydrogen isotopes) to a temperature and pressure greater than in the core of the sun.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or «zircaloy» — the material used as fuel - rod cladding in all water - cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world's power reactors.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

You can already observe the «rape of nature» in many places in the world where people don't use fossil fuels.

And that you don't run out of uranium, that is you don» peak your fuel price, so if you say to the whole world, «Hey, let's all use these things you don't mess up your economics»cause of a uranium shortage.

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).

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

The use of uranium enrichment tailings for reactor fuel through the «re-enrichment» of UET is not yet a significant world source of uranium for reactor fuel, except in the Russian Federation.

Nuclear - grade zirconium alloys and products are used in the fabrication of fuel assemblies, which are used in the vast majority of nuclear reactor designs either currently operating, under construction, or planned around the world.

According to three new reports on «Promoting International Energy Security» issued by the RAND Corporation, because the energy purchases made by the US Department of Defense are not large enough to influence world oil prices — despite DoD requiring considerable amounts of fuel to function — cutting fuel use is the only effective choice... Read more →

By using the world's most powerful X-Ray source, the team was able to penetrate and understand how the ligaments, or strands of burning fuel, breaks up into small droplets.

We can continue down the same path for used nuclear fuel that we have been on for the last 50 years, or we can develop an approach that brings the benefits of nuclear energy to the world while also reducing proliferation concerns and nuclear waste.

SEATTLE — Washington state - based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world's first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests.

Many regions of the world are already tapping geothermal energy as an affordable and sustainable solution to reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and the global warming and public health risks that result from their use.

The five year grant will support the development of Bretschger's BioElectrochemical Sanitation Technology (BEST), which uses microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to clean wastewater and improve sanitation and water accessibility in developing world applications.

In Sweden, wind, hydro, and solar power account for 52 percent of the electricity used, which places it at No. 1 in the world for sustainable energy use and puts it firmly on the path to becoming the first fossil - fuel - free nation.

The blood type O individuals of these early populations would not fare well in today's world of processed foods, harvested grains and dairy products because that is not what their bodies were designed to use as fuel.

You can get ribose from food in small amounts, but if you're looking to fuel longer workouts or «peak - performance» exercise sessions, you'll likely use more than the body has immediately available and possibly run out of gas mid-workout or «bonk» as they say in the cycling world.

Along with a one - armed psycho (Andy Serkis), he plans to use vibranium to rule the world, and it's his backstory and motivation that gives Black Panther the thematic fuel it needs to power it into the top rank of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Drag racing is world apart from production consumer cars, drag diesel engines run advanced injector timing and lots of fuel delivery, since diesels to not control power using an intake throttle plate like gasoline engines, they use the amount of fuel injected to control power delivered, lots of fuel lots of power.

It is a way that combines the best of both worlds so when you're bumbling around a car park looking for a space, your car is smooth and not using massive amounts of fuel but when you need some power to overtake a truck, the car behaves as though it has a full race camshaft and gives you a significant hike in power.

This paper provides an overview of recent trends in light - duty vehicle fuel economy around the world, new projections, and a discussion of fuel economy technology opportunities and costs over the next 30 - 50 years - all in the context of recent IEA projections of global energy use (especially oil use) and CO2 emissions.

Fuel Type: Gasoline Fuel; Vehicle Condition: Used; The city - savvy Chevrolet Trax gives you the best of both worlds: the versatility of an SUV...

On the flip side, the engine uses idle stop and cylinder deactivation, which allows it to run on three of its six cylinders when the loads are light, to reduce real - world fuel consumption by up to 15 per cent.

So if Peugeot can get 199kW out of the previous 1.6 Prince engine used in the R56 and have it pull 0 - 100 km in 5.9 seconds with a six speed manual (instead of 6.1 with the supposedly faster auto in the F56), I'm really not understanding why Mini chose to stuff a 2.0 litre in the F56 — especially given it's heavier and uses more fuel in real world driving.

Tailpipe emissions, fuel consumption, and use of a major advanced power plant technology aimed specifically at increasing the vehicle's environmental responsibility, were all taken into consideration, said the World Car Awards (WCA) organization.