The technical milestone the company claims to have achieved is the ability to produce 200 lumens of light per watt.
The most high-end product, called the S250, provides up to 12 hours of light per day, and includes a cell phone charger.
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It also wants to put in place a fleet-wide fuel economy standard of 35.5 miles per gallon for light-duty vehicles by 2016.
They complain that even the small hydroelectric plant being built nearby will light only one light bulb per household here.
Now 120 families in this remote spot pay just five cents per day to get light and drinking water, plus juice for a community-shared mobile phone, plasma TV and Internet connection.
The scientific community held its collective breath when research published by CERN suggested that the little guys had been caught traveling at an Einstein-defying 3.7 miles per second faster than light.
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So more profits are generated per barrel of sweet, light than heavier or sour crude oils.
This agreement forges historic -- was an historic agreement that nearly doubled fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025.
Current CAFE calls for automakers' passenger car fleets to average 27.5 miles per gallon, and their so-called "light-truck" fleet to average 21.0 miles per gallon.
Efficacy, a measure of how many lumens (a measure of light) can be generated per watt, rose from 15 in 2000 to 160 last year.
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He found that the conventionally measured nominal price of light, metered in dollars per lumen per watt, rose by a factor of three to five between 1800 and 1992.
Average volume on JYF is relatively light at approximately 1300 shares traded per day.
Well, beginning with the 2008 models, the White House wants to raise the current 21 miles per gallon to 23 and a half for light trucks.
Expenses were calculated by taking the average number of per capita miles driven in each state (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics) and dividing them by an assumed 20 miles per gallon per vehicle (the average between cars and light trucks, used by the Department of Energy for emissions tests).
Further the number of gallons of gasoline produced per barrel heavy crude oil is lower than for light crude oils.
They are finally governed by the speed of light--11.8 inches per nanosecond.
The light source provides eight hours of electricity per dose of saline water, and the lantern comes with a dedicated water bag for mixing the solution.
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Current rules, known collectively as Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, force automakers to average 21 miles per gallon for all of the so-called light trucks it sells--pickups, minivans and SUVs.
From 2006 to 2010 the average fuel economy of new cars and light trucks rose from 25.8 miles per gallon of petrol to 29.2.
Sweet light crude oil yields the most gallons of gasoline per barrel of oil and since it has low viscosity and low density, it is comparatively inexpensive to pump, transport, and refine.
Well it is partly for their track records and partly because they are seen as acceptable to the Bank of England, the chancellor and the FSA (with a caveat, as per below) - a constituency which, in the light of the Libor scandal, is regarded as particularly important.
This is repeated about 60 times per image as the camera measures how long it takes for the light to travel back and where the particles land.
Light crudes also produce more gasoline than heavy crudes on a per barrel basis.
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And over the next five years, we expect fuel efficiency standards in cars and light trucks to reach an average of 35.5 miles per gallon.
By 2011, the last year the regulations cover, the smallest light trucks will be required to average 28.4 miles per gallon, and the biggest must average 21.3.
Each chip contains a number of channels - IBM would not specify the number - that can each handle light-encoded data at speeds of up to 25 gigabits per second (Gbps).
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And the figures still show 50-odd per cent of pupils at the age of 11 are not by your own light properly equipped for secondary school in reading, writing and particularly in arithmetic.
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