Sentences with phrase «emitted by natural gas»

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Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

If all nine plants planned by the Chinese government were built, they would emit 21 billion tons of carbon dioxide over a typical 40 - year lifetime, seven times the greenhouse gas that would be emitted by traditional natural gas plants,» Jackson said.

Natural gas produces a quarter of the nitrogen oxides emitted by coal and half the carbon dioxide for every unit of electricity generated.

At present pace, the trillionth tonne would be emitted just before Christmas in 2040, according to calculations by Oxford physicist Myles Allen, and there's more than enough coal, oil and natural gas left in the ground to cook the climate.

The next step, Wright notes, is to look at a more complete assessment of beaver meadows» carbon budget that takes into account the greenhouse gases emitted by microbes that tend to thrive in moist sediments such as natural wetlands and rice paddies.

The unnecessary investments and energy expended and greenhouse gasses emitted to the atmosphere while exploring and exploiting unproven natural resources in the Arctic Basin such as oil, natural gas, coal and minerals should be prohibited by International Law as was done in Antarctica.

But this is silly, since the atmospheric lifetime of aerosols is just a matter of days, so once we stop burning coal, as we eventually must, the aerosols disappear quickly, unmasking the pent - up warming due to all the extra CO2 we emitted by not switching from coal to natural gas.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

Colorado's coal - and natural gas - fired power plants harm public health by emitting smog - forming pollution.

A U.S. Energy Department study found that liquefied natural gas from the U.S., used for power generation in Asia and Europe, will emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions from a lifecycle perspective than electricity generated by regional coal.

Some skeptics have attributed contemporary climate change to natural fluctuations in solar activity, rather than human - emitted greenhouse gases — the explanation endorsed by nearly all climate scientists, including those convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

«A power plant burning wood chips will typically emit one and a half times the carbon dioxide of a plant burning coal and at least three times the carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant burning natural gas.

Tomcat, Behind the bluelight emitted by burning natural gas, LPG, acetylene is the huge heat (when C+O 2 released chemical heat) or thermal heat (thermal radiation) or Myrrh's invisible or dark light.

Natural gas has been promoted as a «bridge fuel» even by some environmentalists because it emits half as much CO2 as coal to produce a given amount of electricity.

By engaging in this practice — known as resource shuffling — electricity importers are able to preferentially replace high - emitting coal power imports with lower - emitting natural gas and renewable energy sources.

The rise of shale gas has had an environmental benefit as well — greatly reduced carbon dioxide emissions, because generating electricity by burning natural gas emits less than half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal.

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

The air and water pollution emitted by coal and natural gas plants is linked with breathing problems, neurological damage, heart attacks, cancer, premature death, and a host of other serious problems.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

There aren't many natural parallels between the physics of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and the biology of natural selection, but the American conservative movement depends on the cozy relationship between oil and the Christian right.

Overall, although natural gas is a non-renewable fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide, the cumulative emissions saved by fuel switching over the next decade from coal to natural gas are likely to prove far cheaper than the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in future decades.

Rather, it is largely a result of coal being displaced by natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide when producing electricity.

Greenhouse Gas (GHG)- Geenhouse gases are those gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, the atmosphere itself, and by clouds.

David Cameron, the leader of the conservative party and possibly the next primer minister of the UK, said today that a Conservative government would put a tax on the carbon emitted by coal and natural gas power plants.

Although natural variations in the solar output can explain most of the temperature variations over the past centuries, it appears that global warming by heat - trapping gases, emitted by human activity, is required to explain the sharp rise in global temperatures during the 1990s.

Currently, carbon is emitted primarily by burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas.

The deeply controversial and unconstitutional agreement comes about a month after what might be among the most revealing developments so far in the supposed war on man - emitted carbon dioxide — an essential natural gas exhaled by humans that makes up a fraction of one percent of the greenhouse gases naturally in the atmosphere.

Hence in this latter comparison, which primarily compares the effect of the CO2 and CH4 emitted by these two sectors (and hence the leak rate threshold decreases with a nearer - term perspective), even very small leak rates would make the mean natural gas plant as environmentally damaging as coal.

Research by Fresh Energy, a Minnesota - based nonprofit that is also the publisher of Midwest Energy News, found that the electric storage water heater program operated by Great River Energy (GRE) emits substantially more carbon than heaters using natural gas or propane, because the utility still depends on coal for two - thirds of its generation.