«The atmosphere cares about carbon, not
about your carbon intensity.»
But he also advocates for airlines or booking agencies providing more transparent information to consumers
about the carbon intensity of different flights.
The researchers go on to point out that the 2004 paper was based in part on incorrect assumptions
about the carbon intensity of world economies.
Not exact matches
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has updated
carbon intensities (CIs) and other information
about registered biorefineries, and posted the information at the Low
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[A] paper by a former University of California Energy and Resources Group faculty member and a student now on the faculty at Stanford [«Risks of the oil transition,» A. E. Farrell and A. R. Brandt] lays this out in a figure where each axis alone is cause for major worry, and together, the
carbon intensity / barrel combined with the fact that if unconventional oil is now part of the resource, we have a not near «peak oil, but are, in fact, only
about 1 / 50th of the way through this resource.
If one looks at the
carbon intensity of wind farms it works out at
about 10 or 12 grams of CO2 per kWh of energy generated.
Most were
about cutting the
carbon intensity of their economies rather than actually cutting emissions.
She noted in the request that «Knutson is the co-author of a 2004 paper that indicated that if
carbon dioxide continues to rise at its current rate that hurricane
intensity can rise
about 5 percent over the next 80 years.»
About half of this reduction is due to differing
carbon intensities of the fuels (natural gas emits 40 percent less
carbon than coal per unit of heat).
It is odd to look at my state, MT, and see the fairly high
carbon intensity and think
about the clean power plan requirement for us that is quite high.
Mr Cumming: If you look through the annual reports from 2005 report through to
about 2013 you will see that
carbon intensity has continued to rise.
Among transition economies, Poland's performance appears better: its
carbon intensity on a per capita basis is situated in
about the middle of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia.
French
carbon intensity stalled at
about half of global
carbon intensity, because of fossil fuel use in transportation, heating and manufacturing.»
SGER was designed around the concept of
carbon intensity, which, when talking
about the oil sands, equates to the amount of emissions that result from the production of a barrel of oil.