Sentence examples for instead of diesel from inspiring English sources

The Pickens bill creates tax incentives — $1 billion a year for five years — to encourage manufacturers to begin building heavy-duty trucks that will be powered by natural gas instead of diesel.

On Tuesday, contractors finished a fuel conversion project at a major power plant, enabling it to generate electricity by burning crude oil, which is readily available in Iraq, instead of diesel.

The main reason for the better environmental performance of the new plant is the substantially reduced energy demand for water extraction (hydropower plant instead of diesel pumps).

Based on the motor-pump subsystem model, a method is proposed to estimate the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions saved by the use of water pumping facilities powered by a photovoltaic array instead of diesel fuelled generators.

This paper investigates the capability of using natural gas and hydrogen as alternative fuel instead of diesel oil for marine gas turbine, the effect of the alternative fuel on gas turbine thermodynamic performance and the employed mathematical model.

Measurement results confirmed that by preheating the rapeseed oil and performing the atomization using steam instead of air, the burner can easily be changed to burning crude rapeseed oil instead of diesel oil without increasing the emission of pollutants.

Climatecare.org Projects include providing developing countries with efficient cooking stoves that require less wood (often a scarce resource); and a project in India that promotes the use of hand-powered treadle pumps, instead of diesel-fueled machines, for collecting water from wells, streams and lakes.

Instead of standard diesel, they use fuel similar to that used in jet airplanes.

Instead of a diesel engine, I use the tidal currents in the harbor to propel my craft.

"If we can reduce consumption on our forward operating bases by using renewable energy, let's say wind or solar instead of a diesel generator outside the tent... then we can reduce the number of these supply convoys that need to come forward that are getting hit by these IEDs," said Tad Davis, deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and occupational health.

Rival gang members and others have been burnt alive with diesel instead of petrol because diesel burns slower.