Instead, Johnson and co-founder and CTO Julie Blumreiter have developed a way to modify the internal components of the engine to alter its thermodynamics to be able to quickly ignite and combust decarbonized fuels.
ClearFlame Engine Technologies takes aim at cleaning up diesel engines|Kirsten Korosec|September 17, 2020|TechCrunch
That’s the ongoing power of the fossil fuel industry at work.
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.|Sigal Samuel|September 17, 2020|Vox
It’s also risky to do prescribed burns or allow natural fires to rage, since the fuels are so built up in many places, Westerling says.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.|James Temple|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Even if solar and wind power continue to grow rapidly, they simply can’t displace the vast quantities of fossil fuels used to run industrial processes or generate electricity.
To confront the climate crisis, the US should launch a National Energy Innovation Mission|Amy Nordrum|September 15, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Nikola said Hindenburg took a comment made by an employee of Robert Bosch GmbH, a supplier and investor in the company, out of context and underestimated its capabilities to produce hydrogen for its fuel cell-powered trucks.
Nikola releases fuller denial of short seller Hindenburg’s allegations|radmarya|September 14, 2020|Fortune
As they passed the runway, bullets shot up from the tall grass, puncturing a fuel tank.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis|Nina Strochlic|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was an old, rusted AMC Pacer that was missing, among other things, a fuel door.
‘My Crazy Love’ Reveals the Craziest Lies People Tell for Love|Kevin Fallon|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves|Marlow Stern|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Early this year a test flight proved that the fuel being used for the rocket would never meet that goal.
Virgin Galactic’s Flight Path to Disaster: A Clash of High Risk and Hyperbole|Clive Irving|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then a critical change was ordered—a fuel using a new formula that was thought to be more stable and deliver more power.
Virgin Galactic’s Flight Path to Disaster: A Clash of High Risk and Hyperbole|Clive Irving|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This fuel you get when you eat lean meat, eggs, milk, and many other things.
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks|May Farinholt-Jones
Engines so crude that one could watch the flow of their fuel!
The Black Star Passes|John W Campbell
If the float is too high on its stem, the gasoline control valve may not be operated until the fuel overflows in its chamber.
The Gasoline Motor|Harold Whiting Slauson
The roots are used as fuel; and their ashes make excellent ley for the manufacture of soap.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II|Robert Kerr
Replace the parts of the burner, and, if not cool, turn on the fuel and light.
Mechanical Devices in the Home|Edith Louise Allen
British Dictionary definitions for fuel
fuel
/ (fjʊəl) /
noun
any substance burned as a source of heat or power, such as coal or petrol
the material, containing a fissile substance, such as uranium-235, that produces energy in a nuclear reactor
a substance that releases energy in a fusion reactor
something that nourishes or builds up emotion, action, etc
A substance that produces useful energy when it undergoes a chemical or nuclear reaction. Fuel such as coal, wood, oil, or gas provides energy when burned. Compounds in the body such as glucose are broken down into simpler compounds to provide energy for metabolic processes. Some radioactive substances, such as plutonium and tritium, provide energy by undergoing nuclear fission or fusion.