Sentences with phrase «fewer emissions»

A few recent studies still claim that corn ethanol produces fewer emissions than gasoline, but a careful look reveals that their methods don't properly account for land use change.

Compared to coal, the use of natural gas for power generation emits 50 percent fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and even more substantial reductions in traditional air pollutants.

These include less demand for land and pesticides, fewer emissions of methane and more options for developing foods without harmful health impacts.

Each mode clearly has its strengths, but leaving the drivetrain in its auto setting was easy and provided improved fuel economy and fewer emissions as well.

As those emissions come almost entirely from washing and drying, cloth could result in fewer emissions than disposable if residents used energy - saving techniques such as line - drying.

The improved trains will also help lower the region's CO2 emissions, as the services release seven times fewer emissions than aircraft.

It outlined a weak agreement that required fewer emissions cuts from wealthy nations.

A carbon tax does the job until you near net zero, after which there are too few emissions left to tax.

The first is to produce fewer emissions, which means burning fewer fossil fuels.

A comparison of natural - gas - burning versus diesel - burning buses gave the emissions edge to diesel, which accounted for 12 percent fewer emissions, within the range of uncertainty.

It helps the communities where we do business, and buying local leads to less packaging being used and fewer emissions from miles being traveled.

And fewer emissions of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide as well.

The oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an «at - risk» of closure portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal - fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts.

An electric vehicle (EV) emits less than half of the CO2 of a conventional vehicle, and EVs will produce even fewer emissions as technology improves and more electricity is produced by renewables.

DETROIT - The continuously variable transmission - a gearbox that is smaller, lighter and allows a vehicle to use less fuel while creating fewer emissions - is an infant technology.

The oil - burning facilities from which the textile mill gets energy have few emission controls, so the Turners Falls plant will pollute less.

It's a close allegiance, but there are cracks over the president's vocal praise for fossil - fuel development — particularly natural gas, which yields fewer emissions per power unit than oil and coal.

«Just to take one example,» Lusk writes, «Londoners would use less energy and emit fewer emissions if they bought lamb raised half a world away, in New Zealand, rather than locally.»

Environment secretary David Miliband said the 0.1 per cent drop over the year meant Britain was now emitting 15.3 per cent fewer emissions than in 1990, which is already in excess of the Kyoto protocol target of 12.5 per cent by 2012.

He said regulators have always thought that there are few emissions during the drilling process, but when drilling rigs drill through shale layers containing a lot of natural gas, a pressure pulse will send gas out of the well and into the atmosphere.

The non-hybrid V6 makes 30 more horsepower and 75 lb - ft more torque across a wider band than the previous V8, and while spewing fewer emissions.

It features the latest dual VVT - i, which allows the engine to be efficient, providing a broader powerband yet requiring less fuel and generating fewer emissions.

The E.P.A. has also set standards requiring new lawn mowers and other machines with spark - ignition engines to produce 35 percent fewer emissions starting in 2011.

A direct carbon price elevates behaviors that result in fewer emissions above behaviors that result in more emissions — like searching out a car with better fuel efficiency — by including some approximate cost for climate damage into every decision.

Culturally appropriate improved cookstoves are more efficient and require less wood, which means fewer emissions, healthier air, and saving women time.

A life - cycle analysis overseen by Dr. Rajagopal found that battery - electric vehicles (BEV) powered by California's electricity mix produce significantly fewer emissions compared to conventional vehicles (CV):

Fewer emission allowances need to be available in order to ensure the good functioning of the market for the purposes it was created.

They purport that Long Phu will release fewer emissions than even the most efficient plants in the best conditions, such as the Nordjylland coal plant in Denmark.

However, several bottom - up studies indicate fewer emissions from tropical rice agriculture (Li et al., 2002; Yan et al., 2003; Khalil and Shearer 2006).

But Reduces Far Fewer Emissions Than Claimed However, the Carbon Scam report shows how from 1997 - 2009 NKCAP's emission reductions were estimated to be 55 million metric tons per year, but in reality only «as much as» 5.8 million tons of CO2 were actually offset.

For example, four separate proposed coal - fired power plants in Florida have either been rejected by state authorities or withdrawn, including a nearly 2,000 - megawatt coal plant near the Everglades and an additional unit at an existing plant outside Tampa — one of the U.S.'s few integrated gasification and combined cycle (IGCC) power plants, which use an advanced coal - burning technology with fewer emissions.

An EV emits less than half the CO2 of a conventional vehicle, and EVs will produce even fewer emissions as technology improves and more electricity is generated by renewables.

Its conclusion — that drive - thrus create fewer emissions than parking lots — is based on a finding that when parkers turn off their cars, the catalytic converter cools and is less efficient at reducing emissions.

In fact, because of the significant differences they saw from the early 1990's data, the researchers revisited nine sites from the previous study and measured 10 times fewer emissions than 20 years ago.

EVs will be responsible for even fewer emissions as their technology improves and more electricity is generated by renewables.1 Already, EVs are a commercially available technology that can save consumers money, even when gas prices are low.

Daily flights to see Santa Claus will now produce fewer emissions.

This will increase energy efficiency and allow Zimeri to shut down the mill's two oil - burning boilers, which have few emission controls.

The company's eco-friendly production strategy has minimized its environmental footprint by decreasing waste by 40 percent, using 30 percent less energy and producing 20 percent fewer emissions.

But synfuel will not lead to fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global climate change.

6) Could we go somewhere else, resulting in fewer emissions and gain the same bonding experience?

Fewer emissions from increasing renewable sources in the electricity sector could also allow for increased emissions in other sectors like transportation.

In other words, they'll go on «polluting» as they please, accepting only such cuts as may be produced by technology given to them that will allow them to grow with fewer emissions.

There have been vast changes in Energy Star appliances and they now use even less energy and have even fewer emissions.

WMG is analysing the suitability for micro / mild hybridisation (MMH)-- a feasible solution that represents a simple, low - cost implementation to create high fuel efficiency with less energy use and fewer emissions.

She hopes to eventually work with Georgia Tech engineer Jonathan Colton to develop gasifier cook stoves that would burn yak dung in a more efficient matter, producing fewer emissions.

Power is unchanged but there are gains in fuel economy and fewer emissions, with the car now claimed to be capable of delivering 33.6 mpg on the standard EU test when working with the now - standard seven - speed twin - clutch transmission — nearly 5mpg better than before.

The newer engines come with all of the bells and whistles to give you a chance at more miles per gallon while putting out fewer emissions and fewer trips to the garage for costly repairs.