Sentences with phrase «annual fuel use»

GHG emissions are required by no less than 3 regulations and all three are tabulated: a. GHG emission reporting CDX; b. Annual emissions reports for large discharges required by state SIP's, Title V and CAA, and c. monthly / quarterly / annual fuel use reporting requirements.

Best - in - class vehicles have the lowest estimated annual fuel use, based on 20,000 km driven with a mix of 55 percent city and 45 percent highway.

Not exact matches

The grant will also be used to host an annual workshop focused on developing chemical separations for the fuel cycle designed for undergraduate and graduate students, post doctorate fellows and faculty from collaborating institutions and a summer school course for any U.S. undergraduates interested in the field.

Down in the fine print, we have highlighted the annual fuel cost to operate the Malibu on premium versus the two very similar cars which use regular.

Using the EPA's standard calculations of 15,000 annual miles and current fuel prices, the Hybrid power train will start paying for itself within five years of ownership — sooner, if you drive more annual miles than that conservative estimate.

The 2015 edition of the EPA's annual report «Light - Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Fuel Economy Trends» estimates the following utility factors for 2015 model year plug - in hybrids to represent the percentage of miles that will be driven using electricity by an average driver, whether in electric only or blended modes: 83 % for the BMW i3 REx, 66 % for the Chevrolet Volt, 45 % for the Ford Energi models, 43 % for the McLaren P1, 37 % for the BMW i8, and 29 % for the Toyota Prius PHV.

Based on average driving distances, the EPA estimates annual fuel cost for the Pacifica Hybrid to be about $ 900 — both gas and electricity costs were used in the calculation.

Using this, you'll be able to see how cars of different years, make and model compare in terms of depreciation, annual taxes and fees, fuel costs, insurance rates, maintenance costs and repair costs.

Using EPA city estimates for fuel consumption and driving 15,000 miles per year, the Hybrid will save 265 gallons of fuel, translating into $ 663 annual fuel savings.

The Annual Fuel UtilizationEfficiency rating tells you how much heat a furnace produces compared to the energy it uses to produce it.If an older furnace operates at 50 % AFUE, 50 cents of every dollar spent is, well, going up in smoke.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

However, there is some correlation between CO2 levels (and even annual fossil fuel use) and temperature.

-- All but 4.3 cents - per - gallon of the taxes on highway gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and alternative fuels (Secs. 4041 (a) and 4081 (d)(1)-RRB--- Reduced rate of tax on partially exempt methanol or ethanol fuel (Sec. 4041 (m)-RRB--- Tax on retail sale of heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4051 (c)-RRB--- Tax on heavy truck tires (Sec. 4071 (d)-RRB--- Annual use tax on heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4481 (f)-RRB-

This year alone, China is expected to increase its coal - fueled power capacity by 50 gigawatts, representing several hundred million tons of additional annual coal use.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

Does your model fit not only Mauna Loa but Law Dome as well using as input only total annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel, cement production and land use changes?

This paper analyses the individual taxes as well as the combination of all these taxes and duties related to environmental concerns, including taxes on heating, transport fuels, electricity, water, waste, plastic bags, registration of cars, annual car use, pesticides, etc..

Reducing CO2 Emissions • Drive a fuel - efficient car, walk, bike, carpool, and use mass transit • Use energy - efficient windows • Use energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissions of Cuse mass transit • Use energy - efficient windows • Use energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissions of CUse energy - efficient windows • Use energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissions of CUse energy - efficient appliances and lights • Heavily insulate your house and seal all drafts • Reduce garbage by recycling and reuse • Insulate your hot water heater • Use compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissions of CUse compact fluorescent bulbs • Plant trees to shade your house during summer • Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) Figure 20.16 Individuals matter: ways to reduce your annual emissions of CO2.

Using a combination of the NOAA annual global temperature dataset and two sources of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, it can be determined how each new tonne of CO2 emissions is «accelerating» temperatures, or not.

LONDON, 2 March, 2016 — Heatwaves that used to arrive once every 20 years or so could become annual events by 2075 across almost two - thirds of the planet's land surface — if humans go on burning ever more fossil fuels and releasing ever more greenhouse gases.

Using existing, affordable technology, new trucks could be up to 40 percent more efficient compared to today, reducing annual fuel consumption by billions of gallons and preventing millions of metric tons of global warming emissions.

At current annual rates of ~ 41 Gt CO2 for fossil fuels, industrial and land - use emissions combined (Le Quéré et al 2017), time is running out on our ability to keep global average temperature increases below 2 °C and, even more immediately, anything close to 1.5 °C (Rogelj et al 2015).

THE conventional representation of the impact on the atmosphere of the use of fossil fuels is to state that the annual increases in concentration of CO2 come from fossil fuels and the balance of some 50 % of fossil fuel CO2 is absorbed in the oceans or on land by physical and chemical processes.

If you plot average annual temperatures on Earth, solar cycles and mankind's supposed most significant climate altering activity, the burning of fossil fuels, the solar cycles and temperatures match and the use of fossil fuels seems to be unrelated.

where Ea represents annual carbon emissions from anthropogenic sources (fossil fuel use and land use change), En represents the carbon emissions from all natural sources (the oceans, soil respiration, volcanos etc.) and Un represent the uptake of carbon by all natural carbon sinks (oceans, photosynthesis, etc.).

Annual supply - side investment to 2030 remains relatively flat from today's levels, although a substantial shift occurs away from fossil - fuel supply and fossil - fuel power generation, for which investment falls by USD 2.8 trillion through 2030, moving towards toward low - carbon power supply and improving the energy efficiency of end - use sectors.

China and the U.S. are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) in absolute terms on annual basis, both are heavily reliant coal for power and imported petroleum for transportation fuel and other non-transportation uses and both have had (and continue) to build continental - wide energy infrastructure to support a large population.

note 67, p. 115; CO2 emissions calculated using Gavin M. Mudd, «Resource Consumption Intensity and the Sustainability of Gold Mining,» 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 — 23 February 2007; USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries, electronic database at minerals.usgs.gov/products/index.html, updated January 2007; EPA, Emission Facts: Average Annual Emissions and Fuel Consumption for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks (Washington, DC: April 2000).

The author then compares the emissions from the cyclist's breathing to the annual emissions from a vehicle's fuel use.

Emissions would be determined by annual fuel purchases and the airlines» use of low - carbon alternatives.

The US Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2017 (AEO2017) Reference case projects a decline in light - duty vehicle energy use between 2018 and 2040 as improvements in fuel economy more than offset increases in light - duty vehicle (LDV) miles.

Basically, it concludes that e.g. if we need a 10 % annual demand reduction in fossil fuel use to stay within a 2 C temperature ceiling, as Anderson recommends, then, if six critical parameters are taken into account, we essentially need to double the emissions reduction number, or 20 % per year in the Anderson case.

However, two recent papers published in Science, including the one we discussed in our post, have pointed out that when you take into account land use changes, the global warming pollution benefit of corn ethanol is negligible or not a benefit at all but a negative (researcher Joseph Fargione's team found that most biofuels «create a «biofuel carbon debt» by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels.»)

Fees cover insurance; repairs, maintenance and upgrades; crew, fuel, and work charges; and a $ 12,000 annual use - it - or - lose - it credit for spa, beverage, and food services.