Sentences with phrase «fuels burned in»

In fact, we make most of our own snacks now (no fossil fuels burned in transportation, no GMO's in our food, no HFC).

Buying your food locally cuts down on the fossil fuels burned in trucking or flying food in from across the country.

Or, alternatively, that all of the heat energy from all of the fossil fuels burned in history is equivalent to anthropogenic GHG warming over about five months of 2013.

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York,» stated Bambrick.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York.

In Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the fuel burned in passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcane.

«Anecdotally, our customers are saying, «If you give me the tools, I'll help you out when the wind quits blowing so you don't have to keep the fossil fuels burning in the background,»» Carlson says.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Under the law, in fact, the United States can intervene in the management of any fuel burned in a U.S. - made reactor.

Why it matters: In the last half of the 20th century, sulfur emissions from fossil fuel burning in China increased by a factor of nine, dramatically reducing visibility.

Overall, the work shows that, of worldwide sources, India's wildfires, cooking fuel and fossil fuel burning contribute the most soot to the mountain range and plateau region, followed by fossil fuel burning in China and other East Asian countries.

In the close up, the majority of soot that arrives in the Himalayas and the central Plateau comes from biofuel and fossil fuel burning in India; soot arriving in the northeast Plateau in all seasons and the southeast Plateau in the summer come from fossil fuel and biomass burning in China.

The latest short - term energy outlook from the Energy Information Administration projects a 5 percent drop in carbon dioxide emissions from fuel burning in the United States this year, but a quick turnaround in 2010.

The sentiment that day, it seemed, was that, with a decision on health care reform near and a symbol of the dangers of fossil fuels burning in the Gulf, our representatives would finally be forced to address the critical issues of energy and environmental policy.

Perhaps you are unaware of the progress that has been made in attribution during these periods to a combination of lower volcanism, increased insolation and increased greenhouse warming in the former period and to increased aerosols from fossil fuel burning in the latter.

Not surprisingly, given the depth of the recession, emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burning in the United States declined 2.8 percent last year, the biggest annual drop since the early 1980's, according to a preliminary estimate released by the Energy Department on Wednesday.

Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,

They are opposed to fossil fuel burning in general and coal burning in particular.

@PA: They are opposed to fossil fuel burning in general and coal burning in particular.

All such «life cycle» studies attempt to estimate all the carbon emissions created by producing and burning ethanol, including carbon released from soil by plowing and from fuel burned in planting, harvesting and refining.

Detailed analysis of the results suggests that year - round surface emissions of CO, probably from fossil fuel burning in East Asia, and seasonal biomass burning emissions in South - central Africa, are greatly underestimated in current inventories used to drive models.

We find that across - the - board emissions reductions in domestic fuel burning in developing Asia and in surface transportation in North America are likely to offer the greatest potential for substantial, simultaneous improvement in local air quality and near - term mitigation of global climate change.

Unlike the traditional GHG emissions inventory which only accounts for carbon emissions associated with energy use in buildings and fuel burned in local vehicles, the Consumption - Based Emissions Inventory for San Francisco looks at carbon impacts of the full lifecycle of goods and services.

Compared to the 1930's Great Depression, there was a huge increase in industrial activity in producing all the materials used in the war, as well as all the fuel burned in all the trucks, ships, airplanes, etc, and also the CO2 produced by all the burned cities.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel Burning in Industrial Countries and the Rest of the World, 1751 - 2012 (XLS)

A quarter of the world's oil refineries risk closure by 2035 if governments meet targets to limit fossil fuel burning in the fight against global warming, a report released on Thursday said.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel Burning in Industrial Countries and the Rest of the World, 1751 - 2013

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Person from Fossil Fuel Burning in Top Ten Countries and the World, 2013

That's because they found that the vast majority of a vehicle's environmental impact comes from the fuel it burns in the course of daily operation.

Black carbon from the northern Tibetan Plateau came mostly from fossil fuel burned in China.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), who has long advocated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate whether Exxon and other fossil fuel companies violated the RICO statute by disputing the role of fossil fuel burning in global warming, at a recent hearing, asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch if she'd considered using RICO against fossil fuel companies.

Not exact matches

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

In aviation terms, weight translates into fuel, and more fuel burned means a greater environmental impact.

Working out first thing in the morning appears to push the body to tap into its fat reserves for fuel, as opposed to simply «burning off» our most recent snack or meal.

In response, Airbus says the A380Plus has a new wing design which can save up to 4 percent in fuel burIn response, Airbus says the A380Plus has a new wing design which can save up to 4 percent in fuel burin fuel burn.

The nice thing about Tiny + is that it doesn't require the burning of any fossil fuels, even in the cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers of the Northeast.

Even though it's considered the dirtiest of fossil fuels and as a result is being burned less in many developed countries, there's no way that it would suddenly stop being used.

As carbon dioxide is burned to fuel our lives, a percentage of that carbon ends up in the world's oceans.

Demand for natural gas is on the rise as more domestic power plants burn the fuel and a number of liquefied natural gas export terminals are slated to open in the coming years.

In terms of engineering, it would be simpler to design than existing gasoline - electric hybrids, since both fuels could be burned in the same enginIn terms of engineering, it would be simpler to design than existing gasoline - electric hybrids, since both fuels could be burned in the same enginin the same engine.

But the effects can still be significant: for a 300,000 barrel - per - day refinery that burns fuel oil for internal consumption, for example, a 50 percent drop in oil prices can translate into an annual cost benefit of $ 200 million.

Startups, in general, are facing it tougher to raise Series A funding as investors turn cautious and focus on profitability instead of quick expansion fueled by high cash burn.

Even with fuel efficiency improving in automobiles, Americans burned through a massive 406 million gallons a day in June, the most recent month of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

It should be the fuel of the future as you can burn it in a car or furnace, use it to generate electricity.

Conversely, the tortoise, was slow but he was consistent and methodical, he wasn't in a rush, he wasn't burning up all his fuel right away and he wasn't emotional or arrogant or lazy.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

The rules and regulations that took place last October added a lot more fuel to a fire that was already burning in the commodities sector, and thus the TSX Venture.

The answer to that question would be a book in its own right, but he built his wealth by turning gasoline into fuel while his competitors treated gasoline as a waste product to pour into the Cuyahoga River and watch it burn.