Sentences with phrase «cubic meter raises»

For instance, she says, although an increase in carbon monoxide levels of 10 micrograms per cubic meter raises an individual's short - term heart - attack risk by just 5 % or so, a change in air quality of that magnitude could be expected to account for 4.5 % of all heart attacks in the exposed population.

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All told, they have injected some 300 billion cubic meters of the gas since the 1970s, according to R. Tim Bradley, Kinder Morgan's president of CO2, to raise the yield from oil fields by some 650,000 extra barrels a day — more than 10 percent of daily U.S. total production.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

Journalists and scientists are coming up with many hair - raising forecasts of an environmental disaster where millions of cubic meters of marsh gas, or methane, are released into the atmosphere.

China's goal by 2020 is to octuple domestic natural gas consumption from 39 billion cubic meters in 2004 to 200 billion cubic meters in 2020, raising the percentage of its energy use satisfied by clean - burning gas from three to nine percent.