Instead of fruit-tree wood, the ducks here are cooked in an oven with straw as fuel.
Some 130 million are used as fuel, and 53 million go into civil engineering projects.
Other countries like China recycle their foreign trade imbalances and use dollars as fuel subsidies.
Consider our future survival as fuel, energy and food costs continue to escalate as a result.
His conclusion is radical: Shift from oil to such alternatives as fuel cells that burn hydrogen.
But even existing devices could become economically useful as fuel prices rise, Dr Kanatzidis argues.
Anecdotally, consider how much typical General Aviation flying activity has fallen as fuel prices have risen.
Mature leaders see individual differences as fuel for development, not as barriers to success.
Instead, this gas will be turned into fertiliser, or liquefied and sold as fuel.
Pouring more money into a hopeless industry is as productive as burning dollar bills as fuel.
No inflation linking, no allowance for more expensive repairs, no allowance for increasing costs such as fuel.
And the fast-breeder type of nuclear reactor in which plutonium was used as fuel is no longer economic.
But solid-oxide fuel cells are hardier and offer far more punch because they can use denser hydrocarbons as fuel.
It also is true for fleet-based companies as fuel is typically their second largest expense after payroll and benefits.
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So the robot would be powered by what it eats, stores and produces as waste to be reused as fuel.
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About half the airlines' expenses, such as fuel, aircraft and overseas maintenance, are in stable currencies such as the dollar.
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Rokkasho has been seen as a facility that would allow Tokyo to reduce its plutonium stockpile by burning it as fuel.
Four teenage girls figured out a way to use a liter of urine as fuel for generating six hours of electricity.
One would expect greater rewards in a business so hard to manage and with such huge risks, such as fuel prices.
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The system is capable of integrating real-time information, such as fuel prices, parking, traffic, tracking, weather forecasts and images from traffic cameras.
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These include heat from the partial combustion, a gaseous mixture called syngas that can be burned as fuel, and a heavy oil.
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Even as fuel got dearer--Nepal imports all its requirements from India--the outgoing Nepali Congress-led government dithered to the last in raising prices.
This deal has been used as fuel for other striking miners, namely Gold Fields and Amplats workers looking to get better wages.
Additionally, the pollution from oil and oil products when used as fuel is dramatically higher than natural gas, which would replace them.
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Dominic Bradley of the SDLP called for the establishment of a commission to assess the devolution of further fiscal powers such as fuel duty.
Energy deregulation in Europe and America allows new firms to set up cheap, efficient power sources (such as fuel cells) close to the consumer.
The airline aims to keep its fleet young with more fuel-efficient planes to reduce costs, as fuel accounts for nearly 40% of its operating costs.
We can see house walls in and out decorated with cow dung balls stuck there for drying before being used as fuel in those homes.
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