With conventional fuel prices high and rising, Pag couldn't have picked a better time to take on the challenge.
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory hope that conventional fuel burning engines become an instrument of the past.
In other words, conventional fuel (gasoline and diesel) light-duty vehicles will be with us for many years to come, exhaling pollutants and making the world a dirtier place.
The resulting mixture has properties similar to conventional fuel oil.
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But the shift towards synthetic fuel has provoked criticism, because when such fuel is made from coal and then burned in an aircraft engine, more greenhouse gases are emitted overall than would be produced if the aircraft simply burned conventional fuel derived from oil.
Proof of the gravity of the hiatus is that EDF has recently cut its dedicated nuclear workforce by 20% or 150 people, and stopped recruiting, because - in the words of an EDF source - the company felt it could no longer "burn money" (no jokes please about how that might be cheaper than more conventional fuel).
There is no hope for any hydrotreated fuel to come anywhere near conventional diesel or jet fuel prices.
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In a conventional fossil-fuel plant that's prohibitively expensive, since the CO2 is mixed in with nitrogen.
As is true in most nations, nuclear operators are required to report more problems to authorities than operators of conventional, fossil-fuel plants, so there is more detail on even minor occurrences.
In road testing a hydraulic hybrid truck in suburban Detroit, Michigan, the EPA found the vehicle used 40 to 50 percent less fuel than conventional diesel trucks while reducing carbon emissions by one third.
Even better would be higher fuel standards for conventional cars.
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He cites FuelCell Energy's work for the Department of Energy on a technology known as the fuel cell hybrids, or power plants that cut emissions by combining fuel cells with conventional gas turbines.
Borge Nakken, who is in charge of technology and development at Farstad, expects Far Solitaire to use about 40% less fuel than a conventional vessel of the same size that is carrying out similar tasks.
With a conventional car, we could fuel them or look at the servicing of them or do other things we potentially have not thought of doing before that utilizes the real estate and the utilizes convenience.
The new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2), which took effect on July 1st, limits conventional ethanol to 15 billion gallons of the annual 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel that must be used for transport by 2022, and the administration has just announced extra funding for algae-based biofuels (see article).
As part of its stimulus package, China provided incentives for those in its rural economy to trade in their less fuel-efficient vehicles for more conventional means of transportation.
Until now, battery power has been seen as primarily a way to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy, whether with relatively conventional hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, with plug-ins, such as the new Chevrolet Volt, or with pure battery-electric vehicles, like the Nissan Leaf.
My old Sporty has a conventional carburetor, but the current generation of Harley employs fuel injection, too.
Parts of the anti-fracking movement will never be reconciled to fossil fuel extraction, whether through hydraulic fracturing or conventional drilling.
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The conventional wisdom is that dirty, polluting coal is the fuel of the past, and that any day now the power plants that burn coal will be phased out and shut down.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
Obama quickly waived reforumalated gasoline fuel specs so a much broader, deeper avaialabe conventional gasoline could be used.
By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the Scuderi engine is expected to reduce NOx emissions up to 80 percent and improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, compared to a conventional gasoline engine.
The company identified 17 products that met its standard of providing "significant and measurable environmental performance advantages, " including a Lexan film that replaces conventional paint, Harmony water-conserving washing machines, the new fuel-efficient GEnx jet engine and GE's Evolution locomotive, a 208-ton, 4, 400hp workhorse that burns 3% less fuel and puts out 40% less pollution than its immediate predecessor.
It is the first commercial jet built mostly from carbon-plastic fibres rather than conventional aluminium and steel, making it more lightweight, and therefore, fuel-efficient.
Fuel pellets can also be placed in the target site using conventional mechanical systems and these should easily be able to cope with the five mini-explosions a second needed to generate power.
For instance, fuel consumption can be cut by about 1% by switching from conventional power steering to electronically controlled power steering.
His company has designed motors for cars and trucks that have the potential to increase fuel efficiency up to 50% but will cost 25% less than conventional motors.
In conventional electricity generation, roughly one third or so of the energy potential contained in the fuel is converted into electricity.
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