Sentences with phrase «efficiently than carbon»

In contrast, the water vapor interferes to 40 % of those photons, i.e. 236 times more frequently and efficiently than the carbon dioxide.

It's very powerful, trapping heat 25 times more efficiently than carbon dioxide, but it's also ephemeral.

Short - lived climate pollutants are so called because even though they warm the planet more efficiently than carbon dioxide, they only remain in the atmosphere for a period of weeks to roughly a decade whereas carbon dioxide molecules remain in the atmosphere for a century or more.

Not exact matches

The DOE is asking Congress for $ 407 million to research how to burn coal most efficiently, along with $ 241 million to demonstrate such carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies — at least $ 900 million less than DOE said it would have cost to complete FutureGen.

Colorado led the way in 1988 when Denver became the first city to introduce the additives on the basis of research claiming that they helped the fuel's hydrocarbons to burn more efficiently at low temperatures, thereby producing more carbon dioxide than CO and also reducing emissions of the polluting hydrocarbons themselves.

After three rounds of mutations, the protein could bond silicon to carbon 15 times more efficiently than any synthetic catalyst.

«Melanie Sanford's insightful studies on the details as well as applications in the field of carbon - hydrogen bond activation have led to new methods to efficiently modify existing pharmaceuticals to arrive at new and better forms in a more efficient and rapid way than was previously possible.

While bacteria also contribute to carbon stabilization, they tend to use carbon less efficiently than fungi and to produce residues that are more readily degraded.

For example, a particle with a shell of copper oxide its aluminium core reduces carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide faster and more efficiently than particles made of either material alone.

This clears the alveoli deep in the lungs of stale air with a high carbon dioxide content more efficiently than trying to inhale as much air as possible.

In the presence of diffuse light, plants photosynthesize more efficiently and can draw more than twice as much carbon from the air than when radiated by direct light.

While the macroeconomic impacts of a regulatory scheme or a carbon tax should be broadly comparable, economists generally agree that in practice a carbon tax induces desired responses more efficiently than regulations.

Examples: Since leaves function more efficiently in diffuse light than in dappled bright - or - dark direct light, clearer skies will reduce carbon uptake: Mercado et al. (2009); a multi-year study of grass found carbon uptake sharply decreased in hotter summers: Arnone et al. (2008); warming kills plankton, resulting in less emission of DMS and thus less cooling clouds: Six et al. (2013); changes in Arctic rivers and coastlines could bring more carbon loss than models anticipated: Abbott et al. (2016).

Once this has been done, the marketplace can sort out any practical alternatives to carbon fuels much more quickly efficiently than crony capitalism ever could.

Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered a means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal - fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today.

Among claims that the US airline industry is moving more people more efficiently and much more quietly than in decades past, it also claims that the «US commercial aviation industry has improved its energy efficiency, moving twelve percent more people and twenty - two percent more freight than it did in 2000, while burning five percent less fuel and producing 10 million tons less carbon dioxide.»

Thus, the problem with the proposals currently being discussed in Congress: They will, for the foreseeable future, direct private investment toward the least expensive emissions reductions (such as burning methane from landfills, purchasing forest land for carbon sequestration, or retrofitting power plants and buildings so they operate more efficiently) rather than toward breakthrough technologies (like low - cost solar energy and carbon capture and storage), which are too expensive to become widely adopted today but which are vital for creating a new energy economy and thus drastically reducing emissions.

How can we convey the notion that while some sing the praises of cap - and - trade because it's somehow more market - based than carbon tax, the latter is also solidly market - based in that it is designed directly to correct a market failure and enable that beloved sacred marketplace to function more efficiently?

For example, PSBs can mandate using energy efficiently, fuels that emit low levels of carbon dioxide, or renewable energy, each of which currently costs more than coal.