Another fragile aspect of the Agreed Framework has been the heavy fuel oil component.
"We seemed to be quick on a single lap but I'm shocked and stunned that we didn't have the pace on a heavy fuel load, " said Hamilton.
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The Australian's team-mate Sebastian Vettel ended the session 16th fastest, sandwiched between the Ferraris of Bahrain winner Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa as all three appeared to concentrate on race preparation with heavy fuel loads.
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KEDO, the American-led consortium supposed to master-mind the project, and which also includes South Korea, Japan and the European Union, has to beg and scrape each year to find the cash for the 500, 000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil promised to North Korea to tide it over until electricity from the two new reactors comes on stream.
Lifting heavy spacecraft and fuel out of the Earth's gravity is expensive.
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Nigerians are heavy users of fuel, not just for cars but to power generators that many households and businesses use to cope with the country's erratic electricity supply.
Replacing steel with aluminium allows additional interior space to be offered, along with larger crumple zones at the front and rear for even better crash protection, all without paying a heavy penalty in fuel consumption.
And I wonder sometimes whether information-heavy sites like Facebook fuel this.
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But retrofitting an existing design with more steel can be "very expensive and very heavy, " potentially undermining fuel efficiency, he says.
Consumer Reports says it drew on research from a 2006 Entrepreneur.com article that analyzed the amount of additional fuel burned by heavy drivers.
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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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Right now, biodiesel is a growing industry but hasn't made an appreciable dent on the global dependence on heavy crude oil, from which diesel fuel is processed.
The car's styling forgave a multitude of other sins, including a penny-pinched interior, mediocre fuel economy and a rather heavy, trembling, fundamentally unathletic chassis that no amount of spring rates nor summer tires could mediate.
The unit, which was based in Helmand Province, supplied the Army's largest brigade with ammunition, food, fuel and equipment and provided its heavy lift transport assets.
These systems must be smart enough to independently switch back and forth from solar when the sun is out to fuel at night or when there is heavy cloud cover.
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For example, the H2, a pleasure craft if there ever was one, does not have to meet any fuel economy standards because it is so heavy that the regulations consider it a commercial vehicle.
Further, heavy crude oils do not produce as much gasoline or fuel oil as light crude oil.
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For example, updated fuel efficiency standards for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles were incorporated in AEO2012 and AEO2013, tending to lower CO2 emissions relative to earlier projections.
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The Anthropocene's equivalent of iridium is nitrogen - although there will be other candidates (such as heavy metals, and carbon isotope ratios characteristic of fossil fuel emissions) for geochemists of the far future to identify as the chemical signature of the new epoch's dawn.
The Japanese also benefitted from heavy rains that boosted hydropower and from unusually reliable fossil-fuel generators, he said.
Unlike the light-duty vehicle market, most medium- and heavy-duty truck purchasers operate on slim profit margins where fuel costs are a major factor in their economic survival.
France's fishermen, another grumpy lot, came off best from his tax package, aided not by direct cuts in their fuel costs, but by a special reduction to the heavy social taxes they pay as employers.
On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
In addition to the growth in light trucks and cars, sales for heavy trucks and truck trailers have risen, and there, too, fuel standards will mean more aluminum will be used to lessen the weight of the vehicles.
The Bolivian government withdrew its heavy subsidies for petrol and diesel on Sunday, saying it was not prepared to keep fuel prices artificially low.
The 100-year-old UPS now has a broader array of services, including freight forwarding, heavy airfreight and logistics planning, and is taking full advantage of burgeoning international trade to fuel growth, says Bank of America analyst Scott D.
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We did not evaluate vehicles classified as "heavy duty, " like the 3500 series of the Dodge Ram, which are exempt from federal fuel economy requirements.
New store openings will fuel growth in the Middle East (10 percent to 12 percent), while Brazil will see heavy investment by international brands (10 percent to 15 percent).
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