Warm water provides fuel for tropical storms to increase strength and become fierce hurricanes.
At the California Institute of Technology, they're developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.
The curfew ran from 6 p.m. to noon, stalling people eager to go out in search of water or fuel.
Hydrogen is building up because, due to low levels of cooling water, fuel rods are partially exposed, causing them to overheat.
Since December, the crewmen, who come from Iran, Iraq, India and Bangladesh, say they have received no food, water, fuel or pay.
All along the coast, the urgent talk is not just about survival in the face of shortages of food, water and fuel.
We have basic utilities, electricity, gas, water, fuel for our cars.
Universities, of course, are subject to inflation like all of us: food, water, fuel, electricity, etc. all increase for them as it does for households.
In recent weeks, Conakry has seen a few mild riots, protesting against power, water, fuel and salary shortages, but the mob always flees at the police's first volley into the air.
The fear of lack of control and dreadful consequences overwhelm any sense of the abstract economic benefits of nuclear power, and images of workers in protection suits and news of elevated radiation levels in food and water further fuel antinuclear sentiment on a global scale.
Though it sounds bizarre, mixing water into the fuel helps it to burn better.
Supplies like food, water, diesel fuel and ammunition make up the other 80%.
For example, how many gallons of water and fossil fuel does it take to produce and transport one gallon of corn-based ethanol?
Without that water, the fuel rods in the reactor begin to melt.
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Previous attempts to mix water and diesel fuel this way have resulted in emulsions that still separate, albeit more slowly than a surfactant-free mixture would.
In America, where the price of a gallon of petrol can be less than the price of a gallon of bottled water, large fuel-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles (urban assault vehicles) make up more than half of the market.
In theater, 70-80 percent of our logistics efforts are focused on moving fuel and water.
Fuel and water must be transported by convoys which are often targeted by our adversaries.
Salt water swamped several large fuel-distribution centers in New Jersey when Sandy's storm surge hit Monday night.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, fuel and water comprise about 70 to 80 percent of ground resupply weight.
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The oxygen that remains is burned with fuel and water in a chamber modeled after a rocket engine.
The pools of water are typically about 40 feet deep, with at least 20 feet of water covering the spent fuel .
The rationale, according to course superintendent Charlie Costello, is partly to reduce the club's carbon footprint by using less fertilizer, fuel and water.
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Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: clean water, electricity and fuel.
"Hurricanes thrive on warm water so once they move past the the Gulf, to go over land, they no longer have that fuel that warm water supplies, so they will weaken, " said Kines.
Electrical power is necessary to support other critical infrastructures, including supply and distribution of water, food, fuel, communications, transport, financial transactions, emergency services, government services, and all other infrastructures supporting the national economy and welfare.
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For the first time, some of those polled are being asked questions about their daily life: whether they drink tap water, what cooking fuel they use and what materials were utilized to construct their homes.
And so the first order of business -- and this appears to be at least now under control -- is that you keep the water in the spent fuel ponds and you keep cooling the reactors.
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