Sometimes there are multiple trucks, of course, all with the engines running constantly while they sit unmoving.
FORBES: Doddle Of The Dead - Putting The App In Zombie Apocalypse, Part 2
Already Nanogate is extending its technology to industrial uses to keep machines and engines running cleanly and efficiently to eliminate downtime.
He said that at one point, crews at RAF Coningsby were at a stage of five minutes readiness, with engines running.
But that's nothing compared with the cost of keeping vintage engines running.
Police investigating the theft of five cars in Belfast while the vehicles were being de-iced and the engines running have arrested three men.
This week several ultra-efficient transportation stories got Inhabitat's engines running as we watched a custom built Daihatsu Mira EV travel a record-breaking 623 miles on a single charge.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: electric cars, solar planes, and really sweet lights
Less vehicles piled up in endless traffic jams with their engines running for hours on end, day in and day out, in cities and towns across our country, is definitely worth the consideration alone.
And also, to cut down on the amount of idling, and wherever possible not to have big block engines just running during the day for no other reason than somebody sitting waiting to pick somebody up or drop somebody off.
FORBES: Doddle Of The Dead - Putting The App In Zombie Apocalypse, Part 2
In most of France, for instance, private franchise-holders supply the water but local authorities maintain the pipes a solution which, if applied to Britain's railways, would have the government owning carriages and engines but not running trains.
In fact, a company that made larger solar dishes running Stirling engines went out of business last year.
The passenger service on the railway came to a halt in 1965, but volunteers set up the LRS in 1975 to reopen and restore the tracks, running mostly steam engines that attract an estimated 100, 000 visitors to the area annually.
Consolidation plays in a fragmented industry--funeral homes, say, or trash haulers--can look like growth engines even when the cash is running out.
Ethanol output has more than doubled since 2002, thanks to the development of flex-fuel engines for cars, capable of running on either petrol or ethanol indistinguishably.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
Each one will have four engines, half as many as the ships they are replacing, and usually only one will be running, says Paul Norton of the Ministry of Defence.
应用推荐