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That means the atmosphere in 2100 would hold an extra 4 1/2 years» worth of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning at current rates, the researchers report in the Sept. 23 Science.

That means the atmosphere in 2100 would hold an extra 4 1/2 years» worth of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning at current rates,...

One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies.

Not exact matches

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

while at sea, safer to drink alcohol with no access to fresh water or fuel to burn.

It will follow the evolution of similar stars, eventually running out of hydrogen fuel, at which point it will shift to burning helium at a much higher temperature, and will eventually, 5 billion years from now, gradually become a red giant with a diameter greater than the Earth's present orbit.

Poor nations are at present relatively minor contributors to the carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels.

An intensive workout, for example, damages tissues at a micro level and burns fuel, which is what makes us stronger, leaner and fitter.

When we clear forests, we're not only knocking out our best ally in capturing the staggering amount of GHGs we humans create (which we do primarily by burning fossil fuels at energy facilities, and of course, in cars, planes, and trains).

2007 was one of the years of the «fuel burn» phase at the start of Q3.

To claim otherwise is complete assumption based on nothing other than the need to invent further fuel to burn Ms Fraser at the stake.

By stoking the skill set of their children at the earliest possible age, they are adding fuel to a fire they hope to burn in perpetuity.

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

By the end of the week jerry can sales were up 500 %, there were queues and fights at petrol stations and a woman had suffered 40 % burns after trying to decant fuel in her kitchen.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

The government mandated filter mufflers for diesel trucks on state jobs then exempted themselves it seems the mufflers reduced power by at least a third and made the trucks burn twice the fuel.

Ghana's forests, which once covered a third of its 24 - million - hectare landmass, have been degraded at an alarming rate by excessive and often illegal logging, slash - and - burn agriculture, mining and quarrying, and fuel wood collection.

But the mayor could get in a good sweat at several gyms in the area surrounding Gracie Mansion, which would require nothing more than a short walk, rather than fuel - burning SUVs.

Indeed, four conventional power plants burning fossil fuels are due to come online in the Hudson Valley, at least two of which are possibly being lured by the promise of higher profits due to the Zone configuration.

In another approach, called aerocapture, an arriving spacecraft dives into the Martian atmosphere and lets friction eat away at some of its excess velocity, rather than relying solely on a big fuel burn to do the trick.

For 50 years we manage to keep the planet at its current temperature, sea levels stabilize, endangered species rebuild, and all this while we're still burning fossil fuels at a leisurely pace.

In an upcoming paper, Max Bothwell, a scientist at Environment Canada, proposed that climate change is one of four factors — along with atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from fossil fuel burning — boosting the blooms.

But Jones is not sure if Manley did as well at capturing slower changes, of a few tenths of a degree over decades, which is important for detecting the onset of warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Noting that diet and weight loss surgery are often recommended for the care of metabolic syndrome, Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil., professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School, said, «This drug amplifies the biological rhythms of metabolic genes to the extent that the animals burn more fuel and store less fuel.

Asa - Awuku, an associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the CE - CERT, said agencies that oversee prescribed burns should consider these findings when they predict the likely impact of prescribed burning of forest fuels in areas subjected to chronic air pollution.

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.

Hydrogen seems to be an excellent and clean energy vector, and catalysis is expected to be at the core of the new developing technologies for the production, storage, and burning of hydrogen in fuel cells.

At Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, Jacqueline Chen and Chun Sang Yoo use supercomputers to simulate burning fuel.

And burning fossil fuels at the same increasing rates through 2050 would drive those levels to their highest point in 50 million years, according to an April study in Nature Communications.

What we see is that if we continue in our current trends in burning fossil fuels, the ocean will become more acidic than it has been at any time in the past 65 million years.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.

For the past two years, Winget and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have been creating searing plasmas that are, in effect, miniature versions of white dwarfs, ancient stars that have burned up all their nuclear fuel.

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.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel burning has released sulfate and nitrate ions — both acid rain precursors — into the atmosphere at unprecedented levels.

A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.

Along with black holes, neutron stars are the result of stars collapsing under gravity once their fuel burns out, until their density is about the same as that of the nucleus of an atom, at which point the protons and electrons «melt» into pure neutrons.

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

Yet I have done some calculations that I think can answer those questions now: If the world keeps burning fossil fuels at the current rate, it will cross a threshold into environmental ruin by 2036.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

At Hughes Associates, a Baltimore - based fire science and engineering firm, senior engineer Dan Gottuk was struck by one experiment in which he compared burn patterns left by a liquid - fueled fire to those left by a melting polyurethane couch.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

Four groups — based at MIT, Boeing, GE, and Northrup Grumman — tackled NASA's challenge to improve subsonic flight, in which the agency asked for aircraft designs that burn 70 percent less fuel and create less noise than existing planes.

Hennessy claims that these can produce «at least a 50 percent reduction in the burning of diesel fuel, plus the diesels will need less maintenance and last much longer.

Yet if greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced at all, in a business - as - usual scenario, water management will clearly not suffice to outweigh the negative climate effects.

In fact, cadmium telluride solar cells are currently the most ecofriendly devices, even though they use a toxic heavy metal, primarily because they require the least energy — typically provided by burning fossil fuels — to manufacture, says environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and Columbia University.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

Using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, as well as computing systems at NASA and UM, Martins has developed improved wing designs capable of burning less fuel, as well as tools that help the aerospace industry build more efficient aircraft.