Sentences with phrase «fuel produces roughly»

Not exact matches

There are now more than 50 different fuel suppliers producing roughly 135 different fuels in the province.

Land - use changes over the past 250 years in Europe have been huge, yet, they only caused a relatively small temperature increase, equal to roughly 6 % of the warming produced by global fossil fuel burning, Naudts noted.

«We have a billion tons of biomass that go unutilized in the U.S. on an annual basis, and if we could turn that into fuel, we could roughly produce a third of the need in the U.S.,» Keasling says.

Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity or heat is responsible for roughly half of global warming pollution.

Keasling has estimated that in the past such engineered microbes would need to chew up only 40.5 million hectares — roughly one quarter of the current amount of land devoted to raising crops in the U.S. — of a common tall Asian grass to produce enough fuel to meet all of the U.S.'s transportation needs.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

For example, a farmer in northern Iowa could plant an acre in corn that yields enough grain to produce roughly $ 1,000 worth of fuel - grade ethanol per year, or he could use that same acre to site a turbine producing $ 300,000 worth of electricity each year.

In 2010, the second «100 - year drought» in five years in the Amazon led to net emissions of 5 billion tons of CO2 — a stunning amount roughly equivalent to a fifth of the global CO2 emissions produced that year from burning fossil fuels.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

On average, roughly 12 calories of (mostly fossil fuel) energy go into producing just one calorie...

5) One barrel of crude oil produces roughly 10 gallons of diesel and 19 gallons of gasoline which means diesel is a better niche fuel and gasoline is better general purpose fuel.

It's going to cost the UK roughly the same amount of money to produce a «low carbon economy» over the next eight years as the entire world spends in a year on «subsidising fossil fuels» in a year.

Fuelling the arsenal of crypto pessimists has been instances arising such as TRON (TRX), a protocol that is valued at roughly $ 11b despite being an abstraction (for now); having produced no product (let alone an alpha version), only this whitepaper.