Sentences with phrase «as emitters»

The bill will preempt both the states» and EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, as long as emitters comply with the standards outlined in the measure.

A high mobility semiconductor is required for the pixel electronics in an OLED display, and making this layer organic (as well as the emitter materials) is the real breakthrough as it fully enables the flexibility and industrial benefits of OLED displays.

Essentially a socket is a bone which serves a secondary purpose within the game system or engine as an emitter for bullets or particle effects or a place to attach secondary models to an existing model.

Moreover, the ocean (which has been responsible for absorbing as much as 80 % of anthropogenic emissions) can become saturated, or as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in arctic regions and stir up carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter.

«as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in arctic regions and stir up carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter»

Most solid and liquid surfaces are very close to a blackbody as emitter and absorber of LWIR (that's true even for the whitest snow).

CO2 does enhance downward radiation at the surface, but its effect at the top is to reduce upward radiation, because it radiates to space from higher generally colder layers, being more efficient as an emitter.

Not exact matches

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

Environment Minister Iain Rankin said Friday that regulations are being developed that would make participation mandatory for about 20 large industrial emitters including Nova Scotia Power, Northern Pulp, Lafarge, and large oil and gasoline companies such as ExxonMobil, Imperial and Irving.

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007.

The federal policy of regulating emitters sector by sector — «command and control,» as business likes to call the approach — also carries hidden costs.

Manitoba's premier Greg Selinger announced last week his state would introduce a similar carbon trading scheme for 20 large emitters as part of the region's climate change plan.

Overwhelming disapproval was launched at the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with claims that it was acting fecklessly rejecting what many nations see as necessary progression towards a greener planet.

«I've come here personally as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second - largest emitter,» he said Monday in Paris.

Its sovereignty would be jeopardized, the argument went, because it would be controlled by the prices set by large carbon emitters — such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom — who might contribute to the fund, in effect paying Brazil not to develop its forests.

The survey unearthed 72 candidate galaxies known as Lyman - alpha emitters that shine only in Lyman - alpha light.

But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

Unlike earlier prototypes that fell apart at temperatures below 2200 degrees Fahrenheit (1200 degrees Celsius), the new thermal emitter remains stable at temperatures as high as 2500 F (1400 C).

Some of that current is lost, however, as moving electrons from the emitter drop into «holes» — places in the base where electrons are missing — releasing energy in the process.

The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.

But that still leaves a load of pollution: China this year surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind global warming.

«There is no question now China is the largest emitter, and the gap between Number 1 and Number 2 is enlarging,» Qi said as part of a Brookings Institution panel discussion on China's low - carbon development.

U.S. Seeing Red as Temps Rise Derelict Oil Wells May Be Major Methane Emitters

Volk: Yeah and this really gets me going Steve, when I start reading in the paper that China has now surpassed the U.S. as the number one CO2 emitter, and they don't seem to be willing to do anything about it, but it's 1.2 [billion] to 1.3 billion people in China.

Conversely, the same apparatus can act as a directional receiver to precisely locate radio emitters.

The problem is that large emitters such as power stations and steel or cement works have no economic incentive to capture and bury their waste gases.

The mirrors allow visible light to pass through, but they reflect infrared light back to the emitter, where it's absorbed and some of the energy is re-emitted as visible light.

In 2007, China surpassed the United States as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally.

Existing heavy emitters will insist on grandfather status; companies such as DuPont that have already cut emissions will want exemption from further cuts.

The sandwiches can be sculpted into numerous basic devices such as transistors, light detectors and light emitters, says Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Bioident Technologies in Menlo Park, Calif., a U.S. subsidiary of Nanoident.

The United States still holds the title as the world's biggest consumer of world resources and largest emitter of all greenhouse gases.

As U.S. EPA finalizes its unprecedented rule aimed at reducing the national power sector's carbon footprint, the agency is also focusing its aim on another greenhouse gas emitter: airlines.

This force comes from the acoustic wave, which the researchers generate as a standing wave between an emitter and a reflector that reverberates the acoustic waves.

At a news briefing in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, the NDRC's Xie welcomed the closer partnership of the world's top two CO2 emitters, but said more was needed in areas such as technological cooperation.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in turn, estimated that China would surpass the United States as the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide by that same year.

Mike Thorne, a uranium expert from AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, points out that as an alpha - emitter, it poses a similar risk to plutonium if it gets inside the body.

WHILE Australia's new carbon tax, announced last week, is a step in the right direction it is unlikely to change the country's status as the largest per - capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the developed world.

Under Aldy's scheme, as in many states, emitters may buy permits from the government at a set price.

Mexico is the world's 11th - largest economy, as well as the 11th - largest greenhouse gas emitter.

«There are billions of emitters of greenhouse gasses on the planet and billions of potential victims as well.»

While as a proof - of - concept the research group built a more energy - efficient incandescent light bulb, the same approach could also be used to improve the performance of other hot thermal emitters, including thermo - photovoltaic devices.

BEIJING — As the United States reverses its climate policies, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter is in the midst of setting up a national carbon - trading system.

In recent years, carbon nanotubes have emerged as a promising material of electron field emitters, owing to their nano - scale needle shape and extraordinary properties of chemical stability, thermal conductivity and mechanical strength.

As exciting as these wildlife changes have been, Hey notes that potentially more important is a change in the environment's chemistry — a change that has turned the wetland from a net emitter of nitrates to an eliminator of these pollutantAs exciting as these wildlife changes have been, Hey notes that potentially more important is a change in the environment's chemistry — a change that has turned the wetland from a net emitter of nitrates to an eliminator of these pollutantas these wildlife changes have been, Hey notes that potentially more important is a change in the environment's chemistry — a change that has turned the wetland from a net emitter of nitrates to an eliminator of these pollutants.

«Many researchers have attempted to construct light sources with carbon nanotubes as field emitter,» Shimoi said.

As U.S. EPA announces new commitments to cut potent greenhouse gases, the Department of Energy is highlighting all the ways emitters can meet those goals.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

«HFC 23 emitters can earn almost twice as much from the CDM credits as they can from selling refrigerant gases — by any measure a major distortion of the market,» writes Michael Wara of Stanford University, US, in the journal Nature.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

China: A November report predicts that the coal - powered, populous country will surpass the United States in 2009 as the world's biggest emitter of climate - warming carbon dioxide.