Sentences with phrase «as much carbon»

Meanwhile, according to the American Public Transportation Association, mass transit produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide, 90 percent less volatile organic compounds, and about half as much carbon dioxide as private vehicles.

Lane last ran this model in December, when bitcoin was priced at $ 1000, and calculated that the entire bitcoin network was putting out about as much carbon as Cyprus.

Specifically, a flight from New York to Denver can produce as much carbon dioxide — per passenger -LSB-...]

Energy efficient homes which use electricity and not gas could be hit under the new regulations because electricity requires approximately twice as much carbon as gas for the same energy output.

At present, though, Fresh Energy's analysis found the power mix GRE uses results in more than twice as much carbon as the least efficient fossil - fuel water heaters.

(11/12/2009) A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations.

As arid as it is, this landscape absorbs as much carbon from the atmosphere as an African savannah, he tells me.

Frozen in permafrost soil, northern latitudes store almost twice as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere.

To within a factor of two Venus's atmosphere contains about as much carbon as the whole of Earth, yet that's only enough to get it up something like 500 K, I forget the precise number.

If all farmable fields in the world accumulated as much carbon as fast as the organic fields at Rodale Institute, we could store 40 percent of the world's annual global greenhouse gas emissions in the soil.

As regards the reserves of fuel these would be sufficient to give at least ten times as much carbon dioxide as there is in the air at present.

In fact, 10,000 medium - sized organic farms can store as much carbon in the soil as we would save if we took one million cars off the road.

In other words, our atmosphere already contains as much carbon dioxide as did the Pliocene version — and that was a world so different from ours that beech shrubs grew only 500 kilometers from the South Pole, in an area where the average temperature is -39 C today.

Once we realize that we must leave as much carbon as we can in the ground, all of these schemes which «allow» emissions need to be cast aside.

1Coal combustion emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as does the combustion of natural gas, whereas the amount from crude oil combustion falls between coal and natural gas, according to Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1985 - 1990, DOE / EIA -0573 (Washington, DC, September 1993), p. 16.

Natural gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as coal does.

Although the melting of underlying permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gases blamed for fueling global warming, researchers who sampled three sites in boreal Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have discovered that the warmer, softer, wetter soil that results also promotes the growth of new mosses that capture and store about as much carbon from the atmosphere as the thawed ground releases.

Burned for power, gas emits about half as much carbon as coal.

These companies have shown that they are willing to burn five times as much carbon as the most conservative estimates say is compatible with a livable planet.

An American will legally and forever be able to spew ~ four times as much carbon as an Asian, and a Qatarian ~ 2.5 times more than an American.

I don't think it could double the human impact, releasing as much carbon as we do, or else the natural world would be «tippier» than it is observed to be, with the occasional meltdown like the PETM but not meltdowns all the time, like models do if you set them up with a carbon cycle feedback that is too strong or acts too quickly.

We should encourage developing nations to burn as much carbon as they like, since they have the most need and it's hypocritical for us to wag the finger.

She is also, almost certainly, feeling a nagging sense of hypocrisy, because she knows what I have recently learned: that we spew as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere on a cross-country flight as we would if we drove a Hummer to work for the entire year.

Within a decade they had recovered, and were again storing as much carbon as pre-drought.

States are already devising plans to comply with the proposed carbon rules, and one of the most obvious and least expensive strategies is to replace coal with natural gas, which emits about half as much carbon.

Mangroves also store a lot of carbon, with a hectare of mangrove forest sequestering up to four times as much carbon as a similarly sized tract of rainforest.

Remember: an acre of salt marsh can remove as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as can ten acres of (tree farm) pine or oak plantings.

A Canadian grassland fixed roughly five times as much carbon in a year with 30 % higher rainfall, while a 15 % rainfall reduction led to a net carbon loss (Flanagan et al., 2002).

The expedition started from the well - established fact that an enormous amount of methane is frozen into a kind of ice known as methane hydrate, buried in seafloor sediments and containing perhaps twice as much carbon as all the world's fossil - fuel reserves combined.

In large part because of how much we drive, the average American produces roughly three times as much carbon dioxide pollution from transportation as the average resident of the United Kingdom, France or Germany.

The official treaty to curb greenhouse - gas emissions hasn't gone into effect yet and already three countries are planning to build nearly 850 new coal - fired plants, which would pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce.

A study in Environmental Research Letters found that converting grasslands for ethanol production generated as much carbon emissions as 28 million cars.

Forests growing in nutrient - rich soils are able to absorb five times as much carbon from the atmosphere as those in nutrient - poor soils.

«Public transport emits less than half as much carbon dioxide per passenger.

Fossil fuels, which were made from plants that pulled CO2 from the atmosphere account for 5,000 — 10,000 billion tons of carbon, 6 — 12 times as much carbon as is in the atmosphere.

With twice as much carbon in the soil as that in the atmosphere, the transfer between these two great stores is significant for us.

Venus has over 105, closing in on 106, times as much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than planet earth.

Doesn't computing use as much carbon as aviation?

We fund our carbon mitigation by gouging and selling as much carbon as we can.

Although a fossil fuel, combustion of natural gas emits only 45 % as much carbon dioxide as combustion of coal, and hydroelectric is of course a very low - carbon energy source.

«Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration», the fourth report in the CEF publication series, examines electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological formations.

Permafrost soils throughout the entire Arctic contain almost twice as much carbon as the atmosphere.94 Warming and thawing of these soils increases the release of carbon dioxide and methane through increased decomposition.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

There is almost as much carbon in fossil fuel reserves as there carbon in atmosphere (within about 10 %).

Today, forests and soils contain three times as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere.

It drives home the basic notion that while natural gas emits half as much carbon as coal, it still produces twice as much as alternative fuel sources.

«A striking implication of very large wildfires is that a severe fire season lasting only one or two months can release as much carbon as the annual emissions from the entire transportation or energy sector of an individual state,» they write in a paper in Carbon Balance and Management.

«San Onofre produced as much carbon - free energy as all the wind power installed in California to date,» Cohen says.

San Onofre produced as much carbon - free energy as all the wind power installed in California to date.

According to the Zero Emissions Research Institute (ZERI), a bamboo forest can sequester 17 times as much carbon as a typical tree forest.