Sentences with phrase «co2 per year»

«The burning of fossil fuels sends about seven gigatons of CO2 per year into the atmosphere, which sounds like a lot.

A GT demonstration plant opened last fall at the facilities of the research institute SRI International in Menlo Park, California, is currently is absorbing 700 tons of CO2 per year — about the amount emitted by burning 77,160 gallons (292,080 liters) of gasoline.

For example, a car sharing member can save up to 290 kg of CO2 per year due to a more common use of public transportation in comparison to a private car owner.

Leaving the car keys at home and pulling out the walking shoes or bike helmet can save you gas money, reduce your emissions by up to 250 kilograms of CO2 per year, and help you become more physically active.»

That means Mongstad will continue to emit 2.2 million tonnes of CO2 per year until CCS is implemented, if it ever is.

Environmentalists everywhere should be getting loud about the issue of cryptocurrencies; right now, according to the Digiconomist, making them is creating 30,162 kilotons of CO2 per year, and using enough electricity to power 5,699,560 American households.

Our project team, based in Kenya, have estimated that the humble efficient cooking stove, costing a mere $ 5 - $ 30 each, could save over 100 million tonnes of CO2 per year — the same as taking 45 million cars off the road - if it was adopted across sub-Saharan Africa.

Note, however, that a Prius puts about 1.9 T of CO2 per year, so that would be a $ 400 tax to the prius driver, and it's about the same % that they would have spent on gas, too.

So to produce about 83 % of US annual consumption we would increase from 7 billion tons of CO2 to 12 billion more tons of CO2 per year.

That means our 300 million tons of plastics are generating between 300 and 900 million tons of CO2 per year.

The large focus that DAC has received during the last years looks to me as a smokescreen considering that there are more than 6000 power and industrial point sources that each emit more than 1 million tonne CO2 per year with a typical concentration of 12 % CO2.

It would avoid the emission of 140 tons of CO2 per year.

But, if the average american produces roughly 20 tons CO2 per year and scientists say the goal is to be at 3 - 4 tons CO2 per year, just how exactly are we going to do that?

The city of Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast is one city that is waiting CDM approval for a large - scale project that would capture 52,267 metric tonnes of CO2 per year.

So I divide the EIA's «1 trillion metric tons of additional... CO2» by the length of their projection (26 years) and get 38.5 Gt of CO2 per year.

So when the Irvings propose a new seven billion dollar, 300,000 barrel per day refinery there is no real worry about it, even though the existing refinery pumps out 3.3 million tonnes of CO2 per year and is one of Canada's 25 biggest emitters.

Suppose an optimal emissions target is 30 billion tons of CO2 per year.

And the benefits, in terms of tackling global warming, would be measly: a reduction of just 86 megatons of CO2 per year for two decades.

If each plane spent just one extra minute on each round trip flight, that would mean that commercial jets would spend 300,000 hours longer in the air, burn an additional billion gallons of jet fuel, and emit an extra 10,000 million kilograms of CO2 per year.

That all works out to just shy of 144 million short tons of CO2 per year for direct emissions from burning the oil.

I would predict that the Aldrin method would not be able to accurately determine 2xCO2 ECS for CMIP5 models if tested against historical runs rather than 1 % CO2 per year, and that it would tend towards significant underestimates.

I took the mid-point of that range, 21.7 percent, and added 31 million tons of CO2 per year for the pipeline oil.

In a bid to defuse political objections from poor countries, their study also proposes a way of adjusting the formula for emission targets so developing world nations aren't penalized for allowing fossil fuel consumption by the 2 billion people who barely generate any emissions — or roughly under 1 ton of CO2 per year.

Most authorities think the human contribution of CO2 per year is 4 - 5 %.

Do all the algebra, and you arrive at 199 million tons of CO2 per year in «direct» emissions from the coal exports.

Lack of sufficient proximate storage geology, as the failed Decatur IL program proved (goal was 1 million metric tons CO2 per year).

In total, this delivers 15 % of the EU's energy efficiency and 20 % of the EU's climate 2020 objectives, saving Europe about 200 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

According to the IPCC, who produce the original numbers, humans produce approximately 9 gigatons of CO2 per year.

Because of the accounting trick, the United States will be able to emit an additional 760 million tons of CO2 per year in 2020, or about as much as Germany currently emits.

It's main BLUE Map Scenario has carbon emissions levelling off by 2020 and then declining by 50 % from today's level by 2050, to about 14 Gt of CO2 per year, with fuel saving / efficiency contributing 58 % of this reduction.

The scenario has a key constraint that limits worldwide CO2 emissions to a level of 3.7 Gt CO2 per year by 2050.

Annualizing emissions over a 20 - year period — as required under the EU Renewable Energy Directive — boosts the figure to 106 tons of CO2 per year.

The Southern California city has replaced over 140,000 fixtures with LEDs, reducing emissions by over 47,000 tons CO2 per year

Published reviews of the scientific literature by Mörner and Etiope (2002) and Kerrick (2001) report a range of emission of 65 to 319 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

The report goes on to note that «a coal export facility with the capacity to ship 20 - 30 million tons per year of Peabody Powder River Basin coal would result in the export of 35 - 53 million tons of CO2 per year.

Exporting 140 million tons a year would produce roughly 280 million tons of CO2 per year.»

He says the prototype sucks down about 1,000 tons of CO2 per year.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

The prototype sucks down about 1,000 tons of CO2 per year.

The average American carbon footprint (from driving, home energy use, and flying) is approximately 18 tonnes of CO2 per year, but you can of course offset a portion of your footprint if you like.

The way I see it is that we are adding about 4 % to the manmade fraction of CO2 per year of which half stays in the atmosphere.

David Victor, an energy expert at UC - San Diego, estimates that the shift from coal to natural gas has reduced U.S. emissions by 400 to 500 megatons CO2 per year.

In this way, METRO will save up to 12,000 tons of CO2 per year in the long term as operator of the plants in Germany.

Accounting for a reduction of 50 Mt of CO2 per year, America's 30,000 wind turbines reduce emissions by just one - 10th the amount that natural gas does.

Again Henrys Law goes both ways, if the atmosphere is increasing at the rate of 30 billion tonnes of CO2 per year then the extra CO2 in the atmosphere has disturbed the equilibrium and CO2 will move into the oceans.

So, that amounts to about 2ppm of CO2 per year.

A 2012 article in the journal Nature points out that around 10 years ago, the Amazon rainforest absorbed about 1.5 billion tons of CO2 per year.

Since every newly planted tree seedling in the tropics removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20 — 50 years, compared with 13 kilograms of CO2 per year for a tree in the temperate regions, much of the afforestation and reforestation opportunity is found in tropical countries.

In contrast, the United States has produced an average of 2.1 billion tons of CO2 per year by the use of coal.

The average per capita carbon emission (1970 - 2011) was 4.2 tons CO2 per year.