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
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.
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.
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.»
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.