Word: dieselization
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Murphy seems undaunted and stresses that he does not want that ambitious target relaxed. To reach it. he says, "we're going to have more diesel engines, more efficient transmissions, more electronics in the whole vehicle, less weight all around. We're measuring stuff in grams today. We say to our suppliers, 'How many grams does that component weigh? Well, you ought to be able to take 10% out of it.' " He also hopes that 27.5 m.p.g. is only an interim goal, that cars will become even less thirsty later in the 1980s...
...yards, sat down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn 'woooooo' of a diesel train horn. He walked across the bridge to the mouth of the tunnel and said, "Ah, you guys, you better get out of the tunnel. There's a train coming." "Oh come on, Bredar," they shouted back, "stop being so paranoid...
...editorial, Handlin said the decision of a state environmental agency blocking the construction of diesel electric generators in the power plant because of potentially dangerous emissions of nitrous dioxide "indicates a real unfairness in the way government regulates such projects...
University officials in the past have stressed that the economic success of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant depends on its "co-generation" of steam, chilled water and electricity in one facility. If Harvard is not allowed to build the diesel generators that would produce electricity, the project may be a financial failure...
...DEQE's January 31 decision rejected the Medical Area project's planned diesel electric generators because they would discharge dangerous levels of nitrous dioxide in the heavily populated Mission Hill area of Boston...