Teams could decide to err on the side of caution with the amount of fuel they put in a car for the start of a race, but every 1kg of extra fuel carried is punished with a time penalty of 0.1 seconds per lap - or about six seconds of total elapsed time for the average race.
Find the right amount of "fuel" to put in.
Everything from that point on is burned into Scott's memory, right down to the amount of fuel his brother put into his motorbike just before tragedy struck.
Pluto's gravity is so weak that it would take a huge amount of fuel for a spacecraft to brake and put itself into orbit.
Almost all engines today work on the principle that if you put a small amount of fuel, like petrol, in a small, enclosed space and ignite it, it explodes with a huge amount of energy.
In other towns, officials sought only to limit hoarding by putting a cap on the amount of fuel that could be purchased.
We wouldn't countenance the same for a car – if every two years it used twice the amount of fuel to go the same distance – so why do we put up with it in software?
Then you go: 'But that's not creating much power.' So then you put a turbocharger in it to put more oxygen in so that you can burn the same amount of fuel, previously a little bit less, but you get the power back.
In Wednesday's article Low-fuell flights put lives at risk", we reported that Ryanair 'restricted the amount of fuel [their aircraft carry] to the legal minimum'.
Liquid-fueled engines typically send a small amount of fuel and oxidizer through the preburners.
