Sentences with phrase «equivalent of taking»

The plant's carbon emissions have been reduced by about 22,000 tons a year — the equivalent of taking 4,833 cars off I - 95, or planting 5,390 acres of pine forest, by Water Department calculations.

The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that if 30 % of Californians participate in this voluntary coverage, California could avoid 55 million tons of CO2 between 2009 and 2020, which is the equivalent of taking 10 million cars off the road.

Deploying this kind of strategy in a buyer's market, however, is the equivalent of taking a short but exciting drive off your local pier.

The financial consequences when markets for such paper fail amount to the equivalent of taking a long walk off a short pier.

Ivanpah: An Environmentally - Responsible Project The Ivanpah project will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually, which is the equivalent of taking more than 70,000 cars off the road.

An Environmentally Responsible Project The Ivanpah project will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually, which is the equivalent of taking more than 70,000 cars off the road.

They conclude that if we simply stopped wasting food, it would be the equivalent of taking a quarter of all the cars in America off the road.

Since then, these emissions have fallen by 14 percent, or 101 million tons of carbon — the equivalent of taking 77 million cars off the road.

The new solar farm will prevent the release of 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere annually — the equivalent of taking 8,000 cars off the road.

Another way to look at it - this will reduce the plant emissions by roughly 1,000 metric tons or the equivalent of taking 190 cars off the road.

CARAS has practices in place to reduce the carbon footprint of operations and is offsetting over 600 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of taking 6,420 cars off the road for one week!

This is the equivalent of taking approximately 350 thousand cars off the road each year or 20 million cars off the road over 50 years.

To put this in perspective, this would be the equivalent of taking 630 million cars off the road for a year.

The combined action by Apple's suppliers represents a carbon saving of 1.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 — the equivalent of taking more than 300,000 cars off the road.

There are some 3500 ARGO bathythermograph buoys, but — as Willis Eschenbach has pointed out — they are doing no more the equivalent of taking a temperature and salinity profile of the whole of Lake Superior less than once a year.

Sourcing 27 % of their electricity consumption with renewable solar energy would provide the environmental equivalent of taking 8 cars off the road, growing 883 tree seedlings for 10 years, or driving 82,007 fewer miles!

This year, we are offsetting our carbon footprint by a total of 602 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, that's the equivalent of taking almost 6,420 cars off the road for one week!

The awarded projects — including 22 utility - scale solar farms, three wind farms and one hydroelectric project — are expected to create more than 3,000 short - and long - term jobs, generate enough clean energy to power more than 430,000 homes and reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons, the equivalent of taking nearly 340,000 cars off the road.

The forest is now certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) management standards and absorbs and stores approximately 2,500 more metric tons of C02 a year than neighboring forests, or the equivalent of taking 550 cars off the road each year.

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

But this is, at least in my experience, the first time that «warmers» - those who, like Dr Romm, believe climate change is taking us to hell in a handcart and who lobby for more urgent action on the issue - have resorted to the internet equivalent of taking banners onto the street in an attempt to influence reporting of the issue.

The Seaver building's low - flow toilets, waterless urinals, and other water - saving techniques save 35,200 gallons of water each year, or the equivalent of taking two 10 - minute showers every day for the entire year, doing 782 loads of laundry, flushing a normal toilet over 7,000 times, or doing 2,347 loads of dishes in a dishwasher.

· The direct emission benefits alone of transitioning to HFC - free systems by the evaluated companies by 2030, would be the equivalent of taking 1.5 million cars off the road for one year.

Four reactors in Texas prevented 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere last year, the equivalent of taking almost one million cars off the road.

BrightSource's Ivanpah plants will produce enough clean energy to power 150,000 homes and displace more than 450,000 tons (408,000 metric tonnes) of CO2 annually, which is the equivalent of taking more than 75,000 cars off the road.

Increasing Maryland's RPS to 50 % clean power by 2030 would reduce 8.1 million metric tons of CO2, which is the carbon equivalent of taking 1.7 million cars off the road each year.

Collectively, the homes upgraded so far in the KEEM program have saved more than 6,055 MWh annually, the equivalent of taking 900 cars off the road.

The research, conducted by Environment and Climate Change Canada, found that making businesses pay a price for polluting could help reduce carbon emissions between 80 - 90 million tonnes by 2022; the equivalent of taking between 23 and 26 million cars off the road.

This is equivalent of taking an entire China (at 2005 emitting levels), and then a bit more, out of the picture by 2020.]

This would be the equivalent of taking 522 million petrol - driven cars off the road.

Further they claim to provide a «90 % greenhouse gas reduction... the equivalent of taking more than 250,000 cars off the road annually.»

This is the equivalent of taking four cars off the road for an entire year, or planting five acres of trees.

Because this is only for 75 flights, the total impact will be rather small - the equivalent of taking 26 cars off the road for a year - but if the airline powered all of its flights with a 20 % biofuel blend for one year, the annual emissions reductions would equal taking about 64,000 cars off the road or providing electricity to 28,000 homes.

A single, large coal plant, if built with the best - available technology, can reduce emissions by the annual equivalent of taking a million cars off the road compared to the subcritical coal - plant technology still prevalent in most countries.

That is, you do the mathematical equivalent of taking the fluctuating behavior of h around f given by the interaction of f and g to mean that the upward trend curve underlying h given by f doesn't exist when it does.

As many of you know, SEGA tasked my company, Gearbox with creating Aliens: Colonial Marines, which essentially turned out being the equivalent of taking a six - year - long dump.

To put it bluntly, The MasterCard Black Card is basically the equivalent of taking a $ 7 bottle of gas station vodka, dumping it in to an empty Grey Goose bottle, then strutting around a nightclub like you own the place.

Many people even compare taking care of a puppy as the equivalent of taking care of a child.

It's the equivalent of taking the Kings of Medieval Europe and forcing them to bake bread and sell loaves of bread to the filthy peasants they used to rule over.

The decision even has the blessing of Toyota President Akio Toyoda, which is the equivalent of taking this development to the bank.

The X5 was admittedly the class of a disagreeable segment and sold well, but that didn't change the fact that it was and is an overweight indulgence that's the dynamic equivalent of taking a refrigerator and strapping it to the roof of one of the company's fine 5 - series sedans before jacking it up for further degraded handling.

Some of this could be overcome (more belt adjustment margin to allow a greater range of pulley wheel sizes), but that still leaves a significantly higher cost for alternative sizes of pulley wheels compared to sprockets, and the impossibility of doing the equivalent of taking a couple of links out of a chain (or indeed the impossibility of swapping out a belt in a hurry without removing the swinging arm).

School, in a way, was the equivalent of taking off the training wheels from a bike, or moving from the car seat to a seatbelt.

It's about the cinematic equivalent of taking the passenger plane to the runway without any intention of taking off.

According to the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research and education organization, if everyone in the U.S. abstained from meat and cheese just one day per week, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road.

If every American did so, it'd be the equivalent of taking 5.8 million cars off the road in terms of greenhouse gas emissions saved.

The researchers say that breast - feeding could be the equivalent of taking the drug tamoxifen for 5 years, which is a well - known way to cut breast cancer risk in women with a family history of the disease.

Although that embryo may only contain four or five cells, some religious leaders say that destroying it is the equivalent of taking a human life.

That would be the equivalent of taking a dozen people off the plane, the researchers calculated.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.