Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels using carbon»

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Why also is eco-friendly British Columbia, home of a provincial carbon tax designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels, being such a willing conduit for transporting US coal to Asian markets?

For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.

In addition to carbon dioxide there are other disruptive products from the use of fossil fuels such as the nitrogen oxides that have already been referred to.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels are estimated to have to be reduced by 75 to 80 per cent.

Why does the carbon dioxide increase as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, yet the oxygen which is used up in this burning is not significantly depleted?

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

«The carbon floor price mechanism presents an excellent opportunity to raise finance to support a new generation of low carbon fossil fuel electricity generation, using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.

«If that was a universal phenomenon on land, then you would see more of the carbon emitted from fossil fuel and land - use change staying in the atmosphere,» Houghton said, «but we are not really seeing that yet.»

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

Now a group of researchers led by Steven Kuznicki at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and Anthony Ku at General Electric think they can be used to screen out the carbon dioxide produced when processing or burning fossil fuels.

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

If we could pull carbon out of the air and use it to wean cars off fossil fuels, that would go a long way toward reducing humankind's production of greenhouse gases without impeding technological progress.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Also, while electrolysis uses a renewable feedstock (water), burning fossil fuels at a power plant to run an electrolysis machine undermines the fuel's low - carbon attributes.

Although natural photosynthesis plays a vital role in absorbing and «fixing» carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel use, it has not prevented the net increase of this gas in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

«New method for identifying carbon compounds derived from fossil fuels: Technique may find many industrial applications and can be used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions..»

«We found that nearly a billion metric tons of above - ground carbon stocks in Peru are at imminent risk for emission into the atmosphere due to land uses such as fossil fuel oil exploration, cattle ranching, oil palm plantations and gold mining,» Asner said.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

The 1997 Kyoto Conference — a world meeting on fossil - fuel use — produced an agreement by a handful of highly industrialized countries to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2010.

Using carbon dioxide to pump out more fossil fuels — and permanently storing the gas in the process — might sound counterproductive to limiting climate change because those fuels, when burned, put more CO2 into the atmosphere.

Turning down Keystone makes the statement that it is time to stop investing in technologies that lock us into continued fossil fuel use, and to make a bigger play on efficiency and carbon - neutral energy (including nuclear).

«There is a danger in believing that land carbon sinks can solve the problem of atmospheric carbon emissions because this legitimises the ongoing use of fossil fuels,» Professor Mackey said.

Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.

Other algorithms — including one that scans for certain pore shapes using techniques derived from facial - recognition software — then seek out the best candidates for absorbing carbon dioxide from the flues of fossil - fuel power plants.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

Dutch scientists have a use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel - burning power stations: Harvest it for even more electricity

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

Alongside burning fossil fuels, land - use change is a major source of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere.

Fossil - fuel use sends high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but high levels of carbon dioxide aren't fingerprints of intelligent life, Shostak said — you can find tons of carbon dioxide on Venus.

«Most scenarios consistent with 2 °C used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report largely depend on carbon capture and storage (CCS), both from fossil - fuel combustion and, particularly, bioenergy,» said Andrew.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

And, if it were found in large enough quantities, some experts speculate that it could be used as a clean - burning substitute for fossil fuels today because it gives off high amounts of energy when burned but emits only water, not carbon.

It is stupid to use irreplaceable fossil fuels to produce food with the by - product of carbon dioxide pollution, when we can do the same using energy from sunlight and actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

No matter how you look at it, I think there's only one long - term solution: to stop using carbon as a source of energy, to switch away from using fossil fuels.

«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.

carbon price floor tax: a tax on fossil fuels used in electricity generation.

«Some novel research on nanomaterials used to capture carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels actually led us to this discovery,» said McGrail.

There's widespread agreement that a high and rapidly rising carbon price is needed to deter fossil fuel use and drive emissions reductions.

It concluded that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations had already increased by about 25 percent in the past century, and continued use of fossil fuels would lead to substantial temperature increases in the future.

The fossil fuels that we use contain carbon and hydrocarbons, and in the combustion of these fuels, carbon dioxide is released along with energy.

Synthetic fuels have one particular advantage over batteries or hydrogen as a route to low - carbon transport: by dropping in exactly where fossil fuels are used now, they can reduce emissions dramatically without the need for major new infrastructure or changes in consumer behaviour, which may be decisive in certain cases.

Knisely projected that unless fossil fuel use was constrained, there would be «noticeable temperature changes» and 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air by 2010, up from about 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution.

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.