And you have to take into account that, for many households and office buildings, carbon emissions from transportation exceed
those emitted by operation of the building.
While oil and gas companies work to minimize the amount of methane
emitted by their operations, almost no attention has been paid to wells that were drilled decades ago.
Not exact matches
With oil sands
operations currently
emitting roughly 70 Mt / year, the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan leaves «room» for emissions from the oil sands to grow
by 30 Mt / year.
The major culprits are the nitrous oxide that comes from the manure created
by large livestock
operations, and the methane
emitted in cow burps and farts.
A knowledgeable enemy could probe side - channels, such as electromagnetic fields or sounds
emitted by a working device, and potentially gain enough information about its internal
operations to crack even mathematically sound encryption methods used to protect the design.
«People could be exposed to dangerous levels of ultrafine particles
emitted by printers if they are in an environment that is poorly ventilated and the printer
operation is frequent or continuous,» says Lidia Morawska, a physicist and co-author of the study, which appears in this month's online issue of the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology.
In its analysis, the E.P.A. concluded that the amount
emitted by routine
operations at gas wells... is 12 times the agency's longtime estimate of nine billion cubic feet.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing
operations,
by the oil and gas industries can
emit significant amounts of methane.
- A vegetable greenhouse
operation will use the carbon dioxide
emitted by burning landfill gases to spur the growth of plants.