Sentences with phrase «from real carbon»

For the V12 Vantage the iconic Aston Martin side strake was fashioned from real carbon fibre backed by a black mesh and complimented with gloss black 10 spoke diamond turned alloy wheels.

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The administration should focus on the real science of reducing our carbon output to address the challenges communities already face from sea - level rise, extreme storms, longer droughts, longer wildfire seasons, and other environmental disasters.
From carbon trading markets to new green products, certain industries and geographies are seeing real financial costs and opportunities emerge.
«A John Horgan New Democrat government will put forward a climate action plan before the next election that will have real targets to cut carbon pollution, with a commitment to meet them, and will have a plan to create many new clean technology and renewable energy jobs while protecting our existing industries from unfair competition.
Local Real Salt comes from right here in the USA, which means less food miles and a smaller carbon footprint.
The increase in real prices after June 2012 of around 14 % for household electricity and 13 % for household gas is associated with the implementation of a carbon price from July 2013.
The new analysis, led by former UW civil and environmental engineering graduate student Jordan Toy, compares carbon dioxide emissions and vehicle miles traveled from drone and truck deliveries in 10 different, real - world scenarios in Los Angeles.
In other words, what happens when you pluck BECCS from the idealized realm of global carbon accounting and plop it into a real place, with patchwork lands, messy politics, and interconnected ecological, physical, and economic systems?
In 1960 they reported that the greenhouse threat was real and would worsen seriously unless strong action was taken to halt the rise in emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
And the way to fix the accounting error is to count the very real emissions from using bioenergy and then provide a credit to that bioenergy which results from a source that really is «additional» carbon.
«These are initial necessary steps in taking carbon nanotubes from the chemistry lab to a real environment,» said Supratik Guha, director of physical sciences for IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a world leader in CNT research.
Taking Lessons from the Gecko Real - world Spidermen could one day scamper up walls thanks to an adhesive made of carbon nanotubes.
Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be used on a global scale and can prevent the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.
Scientists say that even though the cooling effect from aerosols is real, the biggest climate challenge from the tar sands is their carbon dioxide emissions.
He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.
Local Real Salt comes from right here in the USA, which means less food miles and a smaller carbon footprint.
Flared, vented, and bulged from several miles of carbon fiber, the BMW 3.0 CSL Homage R is a surprise take on one of my favorite BMWs of all - time, and in this classic livery, a real knockout.
The new turbocharged V - 8 is a never - ending well of power and emits a luscious and enticing sound from its quad exhaust; the cabin is the epitome of Mercedes luxury with leather, carbon fiber, and real metal swathed across every surface; and the exterior design is breathtaking in its sultry undulations and intricate surface detailing.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the skeptical environmentalist himself, Bj ¯ rn Lomborg, recently revealed a devastating analysis of the EV's real carbon footprint: «If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles in its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar - size gasoline - powered car driven the same number of miles.»
From the exterior, the only real hints of the car's performance potential are the «F» spec badges on the side and trunk, carbon fiber real spoiler and quad chrome rear exhaust outlets.
The car does not have several comforts we expect from a car at this price point (panoramic sunroof; carbon fiber; ceramic brakes; optional all - wheel drive) but Bluetooth, park assist, multiple USB ports, Navigation, and interior trim made from real «reclaimed wood» all come standard.
From carbon trading markets to new green products, certain industries and geographies are seeing real financial costs and opportunities emerge.
The Red Apple Farm Stall is less than 30 kilometres from Port Alfred, in the Eastern Cape, and is set apart by the owner's very real passion for South Africa as well as their commitment to reducing the carbon footprint that they and their customers leave behind.
The Red Apple Farm Stall is less than 30 kilometres from Port Alfred, in the Eastern Cape, and is set apart by the owner's very real passion for South Africa as well as their commitment to reducing the carbon footprint that they and their customers leave behin...
It is mainly food not used, while carbon dioxide released from our lungs and the urine we pee out, are the real waste products of our bodies.
The bike weighs in at about 26 lb (~ 12 kg), making it a real lightweight in the world of electric bikes, and it gets its motive power from a 250 W internal hub motor with an integral battery pack, which can be configured with either a chain and derailleur (less costly) or a carbon belt drive system.
I had hoped for some real sense of substantive policy direction from the president — how he intends to use the Clean Air Act to deal with power plant carbon pollution.
I've always thought that CCS was an inelegant way to lick the carbon problem — because it involves burning fuels and then corralling a huge mass of pollution rather than avoiding the pollution in the first place — but if gas is to be a real «bridge» to a low emission future rather than a nice - looking dead end then we must seriously explore ways to further cut emissions from gas plants.
What's in question is not the effect per se, which is certainly real, but the issue of sensitivity, i.e., how sensitive is the environment to the greenhouse effect produced by carbon from fossil fuel emissions?
His video illustrates what carbon dioxide emissions from human activities would look like if you could watch the gas volume accumulate in front of you in real - time.
I feel it differs in, albiet maybe only a little, from carbon offsets in that it is more tangable, where its differences are real and seen.
And this brings up what to me is the real question: how much of the hiatus is pure internal variability and how much is a forced response (from loading the atmosphere with carbon).
Furthermore, by buying unverified offsets, you will be diverting funds from genuine, high - quality projects that could deliver real, verified carbon savings.
Using data from the new carbon storage map, scientists from Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) at Boston University and the University of Maryland say the real figure may be up to 12 % lower.
Late in October, California Governor Jerry Brown threatened to sue the administration of President Donald Trump for implementation of environmental policies focused more on real pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) and less on contrived ones (e.g., carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion.
We are implementing scaled - up, real - world initiatives to attack large sources of emissions, such as methane from landfills and from oil and gas production; black carbon from heavy - duty diesel engines; and HFCs used in refrigeration and air conditioners.
«Your Administration can point to important areas where it is making real progress towards sustainability — including making major new investments in renewable energy, promulgating EPA rules on carbon pollution from power plants, and proposing to reduce fossil fuel subsidies, among others,» the letter reads.
It's sad to see however how little the rest of the industry cares, from the biggest companies like Channel Islands not even making the simple step of getting carbon offsets, let alone taking real steps to change how they do things, to the local shapers who have mounds of toxic waste outside their shape shacks, and have more resin dribble and waste on the floor than we have in an entire board.
But apparently, according to this article at the Guardian, it is totally for real and includes contributions from some fairly prominent artists, as well as funding from the UK government and the 10:10 program (a plea to reduce carbon emissions by 10 % per year, eerily with a name probably purposely similar to 9 - 11).
If we were certain that the ensemble mean warming represents the real climate systemt we could read out from figure 1c at which cumulative carbon emission we could expect to cross this threshold.
Indeed, there are practical, real - world reasons for the carbon tax to start below the SCC — to allow households and businesses at least a little time to adjust to higher fossil fuel costs — but to soon rise to meet or even exceed the SCC, in order to counterbalance institutional barriers that prevent societies from responding to price signals fully and instantly.
It will launch a lot adapatation planning and new spending, and it will make people more aware that sea level rise is real and serious, but to assume that it will also lead to a major shift in carbon usage and stop the tar sands from being exploited and Keystone built, extend the wind tax credit, among many other things, is an assumption that can't be made.
While the debate about price trajectory is probably a long way from real political salience, we feel it's important to point out now that a carbon tax isn't a quick fix.
Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?
Because they don't have real gases with gravity their imaginary massless hard dots of nothing carbon dioxide «goes at great speeds in empty space mixing so thoroughly bouncing off other hard dots of nothing that it can't be separated out from the other ideal gases»; so it accumulates for hundreds and thousands of years.
They have not only excised the water cycle, and excised rain from the carbon cycle, but have excised the whole atmosphere which is the heavy voluminous fluid ocean of real gas Air weighting a ton on our shoulders and in its place have empty space with imaginary ideal gas molecules travelling under their own molecular momentum at great speeds through this empty space miles apart from each other bouncing off each other in elastic collisions, no attraction, and so «thoroughly mixing».
Many scientists have assumed that the net flows of carbon to and from natural sinks and sources of CO2 cancel each other out, but there is no real data to confirm this and it's just a convenient assumption.
The public money will fund projects exploring the real - world potential of «negative emissions» technologies (NETs), including soil carbon management, afforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), enhanced weathering and direct capture of methane from the air.
The global - warming doomsayers have been in full throat since Sandy, and a carbon tax — a disincentive to use fossil fuels allegedly responsible for global warming — has suddenly become a real possibility, on top of all the other fatuous taxes already exacted from the American public.
From ridiculous and patently false claims that global warming has slowed, that the world can't be warming because winter still exists, that (seriously) plants like carbon dioxide so we're just feeding them; these people's only purpose is to slow any real progress on fixing the planetary mess we're in.
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