Sentences with phrase «emits huge quantities»

Methane is many times more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere, and since the fracking process emits huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere, gas is not preferable to coal in the short term or long term.

They calculate that, around 3.9 billion years ago, erupting volcanoes emitted huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which eventually settled and dissolved in water as sulfidic anions — specifically, sulfites and bisulfites.

Most Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), which are now widely used as a source of outdoor light because they are more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, emit a huge quantity of blue - white light.