Sentences with phrase «emissions out of the air»

A few Indian companies and entrepreneurs have been even more ambitious, pioneering local carbon - capture solutions that could keep even more emissions out of the air.

Negative emissions can refer to carbon capture and storage technology powered by biomass, geo - engineering of the atmosphere and oceans, or CO2 removal that sucks emissions out of the air.

Meanwhile, carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, and hardly anyone doubts anymore that projects to pull carbon dioxide emissions out of the air will be a necessary transitional measure if the population of humans on Earth hope to continue energy - spurred growth while converting to renewable energy sources.

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Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

Since, as the editorial points out, federal laws such as the Clean Air Act are not subject to the whim of this or any future president, carbon emissions also need to be addressed by federal legislation.

We reported Monday that the risk to public health from air pollution released from chemical and industrial plants, most of them in or around Niagara Falls, is higher in Niagara County than in nine out of every 10 counties across the United States where emissions are reported to the federal government.

The benefits of capturing tons of truck and automotive emissions in a tunnel that would scrub the particulates out of the air was as obvious to then - Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion when we briefed him on this plan as it was to Long Island residents who live along the Long Island Expressway.

Phasing out coal is one of the first steps the Cuomo administration must make if it hopes to meet its goal of drastically reducing air emissions by about 40 percent in the next decade, said Lisa Dix, senior New York representative for Sierra Club.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

Under a regime using the Clean Air Act that the Obama Administration has already begun to roll out, the rules could cut as much as 800 million metric tons of emissions annually by 2030.

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

In the meantime, capturing carbon out of the air and sequestering it is the most direct way we know how to provide energy without CO2 emissions and without building another infrastructure.

We carry out research, testing and development of air quality measuring methods and equipment, emission inventories, dispersion models and the chemical analyses of air quality.

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.

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The tangible benefits of B - Line cargo bike delivery — reduced air pollutants and CO2 emissions, alleviation of traffic congestion — should behoove logistic experts to figure out what part of city deliveries could be sustainably shifted to bike delivery.

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

It is assigned only to the new GHGs, because it is assumed that the old GHGs had already come to equilibrium with the air and the pre-existing energy - out flux prior to the emission of the new GHGs.

Using carbon dioxide emissions data from 2006 and 1750 - for an estimate of preindustrial levels - Jacobson found that each extra degree of warming accounted for roughly 1,000 out of every 50,000 - 100,000 air pollution - related deaths.

«No textbook suggested having fewer children as a way to reduce emissions, and only two out of ten mentioned avoiding air travel.

If Congress were to not only eliminate EPA's regulatory authority, but take CO2 completely out of the Clean Air Act, it would still be up to the courts to decide whether or not that would eliminate state authority over vehicle tailpipe emissions.

The other is to capture fossil fuel emissions before they enter the atmosphere, or to suck them directly out of the air — a technique known as carbon dioxide removal.

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The model, which captures fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors out to 2030, with fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution, household and industry groups.

This year brought us the first commercial «direct air capture» plant, a negative emissions technology that involves sucking CO2 directly out of the air.

The company plans a three - year phase out of all natural gas - powered production equipment that may emit methane, replacing it with lower - emission designs that use compressed air instead.

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Could new air capture machines suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it underground so cheaply as to obviate the need to slow emissions?

Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

After opening the world's first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant designed to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world's first «negative emission» power plaAir Capture (DAC) plant designed to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world's first «negative emission» power plaair, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world's first «negative emission» power plant.

As long as 1/3 of all emissions go unaccounted (see the infamous «carbon missing sink»), there is no basis to state as precise numbers as 5 % which seems to be plucked out of the air.

As governments seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, carbon - intensive coal power generation is falling out of favour.

Nations may need to physically remove carbon from the atmosphere, and they may have to deploy «negative emissions technology» - techniques that scrub CO2 out of the air.

A large scale roll - out of electric cars on European roads would result in significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and lower levels of certain air pollutants, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

«This solar bill retains the industry infrastructure necessary for New Jersey to meet its renewable goals and ensure a cleaner air environment for New Jersey citizens, improving our air quality by reducing emissions in New Jersey, as opposed to meeting our goals with less expensive out of state renewable credits that improve air quality in other states where New Jersey residents don't directly benefit,» said James Spano, President of the New Jersey Grid Supply Association (NJSGSA) and Vice President of MSEIA.

Almost 20 years since the signing of the Clean Air Act of 1990, the cap - and - trade system continues to let polluters figure out the least expensive way to reduce their acid rain emissions.

For years, experts have been debating whether sucking greenhouse gases out of the air using carbon capture technologies are a viable and effective way of curbing emissions on a large scale.

Reducing emissions is certainly not the only way to remove CO2 from the air, we already use CO2 scrubbers in space craft to recycle air quality, and I imagine if mankind decided to do so, something of that nature could be constructed on a large scale assuming it turns out to be necessary.

The authors meant this as a method of offsetting CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants by taking the CO2 out of the air and sequestering it.

Although a move to further limit mercury emissions under the Clean Air Act was nixed by the Supreme Court last month, efforts over the decades to reduce the toxins coming out of smokestacks have had an impact.

Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»

What's more, humanity has daillied so long that avoiding the worst impacts will now require extremely sharp emissions cuts — and possibly taking carbon out of the air.

Under the theory of offsets, an organization calculates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it pumps into the air from activities, chiefly energy use and travel, and then pays for someone else to prevent that much in emissions or to take them out of the atmosphere.

This demonstrates that there are larger changes to natural flows in and out of the air than the flow to the air that is the anthropogenic emission.

Expressed a different way, there are just over four years» worth of current emissions left before it becomes unlikely that we'll meet the 1.5 C target without overshooting and relying on unproven «negative emissions» technologies to remove large amounts of CO2 out of the air later in the century.