Sentences with phrase «dioxide per ton»

[T] hey found that lamb raised on New Zealand's clover - choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed.

Research commissioned by RAN in 2010 estimated that APP's emissions from paper production on peatlands were 16 — 21 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of paper, or 500 times the figure put forth by the company at the time.

That would be a significant improvement over steam cracking, which generates between 1 1/2 and 3 tons of carbon dioxide per ton of ethylene, according to the researchers» own analysis.

Not exact matches

The 747 - 8 model emits 16 fewer tons of carbon dioxide emissions per trip and it can fly 1,000 miles farther than its current counterpart.

According to one study, widespread implementation of the SkySails technology could save 100 - million tons of carbon dioxide per year.

The EPA claims that the extraction, transport, refining and use of the oilsands crude that would be transported daily through the pipeline would result in «an additional 1.3 to 27.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year» compared to lighter crudes.

The 50 MW is enough to power 6,500 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 45,300 tons per year as well as reducing other environmental pollutants.

With two space shuttle launches per year, on average, that amounts to roughly 5 tons of carbon dioxide per month (by comparison, your average car generates about half a ton per month).

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

But there are technology options on the horizon that might allow for future coal - fired power plants to avoid the average emissions of more than four million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year per plant.

As of 2007, the Juhnde bioenergy village had reduced its carbon dioxide output by 3,300 tons per year, or by 60 percent per capita.

The World Bank reports that Mexico's per capita emissions are 3.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide, just a hair below the global average of 4 metric tons.

Current releases of the carbon contained in carbon dioxide total about 10 billion tons per year.

A World Bank study last year found that the removal of the typical coastal wetland has added about 2,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per square kilometer per year to the atmosphere over 50 years (ClimateWire, April 12, 2011).

Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

The price would be roughly comparable to that of capturing carbon dioxide at power plants and storing it underground, which would eventually cost about $ 200 per ton of carbon, according to a recent study from Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, compared with about $ 400 per ton of carbon for the forests.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

A billion - dollar scheme to reduce household emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as much per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.

Wild U.S. or Canadian salmon take an average of just over six gallons (23 liters) of fuel per metric ton to catch, releasing about 133 pounds (60 kilograms) of carbon dioxide.

It takes 243 gallons (920 liters) of diesel fuel to trawl about 1.1 tons (one metric ton) of the shellfish, according to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, making shrimp one of the most energy - intensive wild seafood harvests, with a footprint of 5,395 pounds (2,447 kilograms) of carbon dioxide per metric ton even before processing and transportation are taken into account.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

Such savings are key as U.S. households are responsible for 626 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, nearly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 8 percent of global emissions.

That's reducing to 427 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted per year; current emissions in the state are roughly 525 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and have been projected to exceed 600 million metric tons by 2020 without such efforts.

Norilsk factories also emit 2 million tons of acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide per year, roughly 1 percent of all that is emitted worldwide.

In the U.S. alone, our cars» tailpipes spew some 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Hochschild thinks that «appropriate price» is roughly $ 20 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide - or roughly twice what carbon dioxide trades for in the European market.

In addition to cutting energy use by 10 percent in five years, such improvements are also projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 6.5 million tons per year, which the energy department says is akin to removing nearly 1.3 million cars from the road annually.

«The break - even carbon tariff we calculated, which is at the range of $ 105 - 129 per ton of carbon dioxide, depending on the possible carbon tax to be imposed by these two regions in the near term, is close to the reported CO2 capture and sequestration cost,» You said.

And such techniques might be capable, at best, of sequestering one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (based on the extent of iron - deficient waters around the globe), compared with annual human emissions of more than eight billion metric tons and rising.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Under this arrangement, every E.U. government allocates emission credits — each representing a ton of carbon dioxide gas per year — to its industrial plants.

Specifically, the tax on power generation includes a fixed cost of $ 5 per ton of carbon dioxide, plus a variable tax based on the pollution and environmental damage to the community where the plant is located.

But to give you a sense of the challenge, here are his estimates of the scale of the challenge: six billion metric tons of coal burned every year, producing 18 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and requiring an underground storage volume of 30,000 cubic kilometers per year with untold consequences on subsurface pressure, mineral composition and the like.

A third project, in Salah, Algeria, expects to store 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide per year in natural gas wells.

An analysis of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands of metric tons per degree Celsius increase.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

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And the oceans absorb a third of that carbon dioxide, or approximately 22 million tons per day, in a process that Feely likens to adding carbon to water to make soda.

Furthermore, livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51 % of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

Economists and policy makers used the metric to place a dollar cost on the economic impact of planet - warming carbon dioxide pollution: about $ 36 per ton.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

Given that a coal - fired electricity generation plant produces about 1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour, Borenstein estimated that the price of greenhouse gas reductions would have to range from about $ 150 to $ 500 per ton of greenhouse gases to make the current solar PV technology a worthwhile investment when greenhouse gas reductions are considered.

Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

China and France, for very different reasons, now have roughly the same emissions of carbon dioxide per citizen — about 6 tons per person per year.

It was clear by 2006 that seven «wedges» of avoided emissions (each reaching 3.66 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2050) were merely step one in what would unavoidably be a century - long process and little was being done to chart a path toward step two and beyond.

«Today's global emissions rate for carbon dioxide is 30 billion tons per year.

We are told as Americans, that CO2 is a pollutant and that we release upwards of 20 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year into the atmosphere.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.