Sentences with phrase «fuels produces pollution»

Even if we put aside climate change, burning fossil fuels produces pollution.

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Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

By leaving their engines idling for long periods, drivers contribute to air pollution, waste fuel, and produce noise and fumes that harm the environment and public health.

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

If the mathematics of the pollution produced by burning a gallon of fossil fuel seems daunting, it's even worse to look the other way: what went into making that gallon.

Two - stroke engines produce a lot of pollution because the fuel - air mixture in them gets contaminated with the engine's lubricating oils.

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

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

Hydrogen is clean - burning, producing only water vapor as waste, so fuel - cell vehicles using hydrogen will be zero - emission, an important factor given the need to reduce air pollution.

Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined — a figure that is growing.

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.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has assembled a special team to assess the risk of water pollution and to investigate potential problems at the undisclosed number of nuclear reactors in Sichuan, where uranium fuel is produced.

In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat - trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year.

And the pollution may be more or equal to those produced by the combustion of fuel in an ICE for the time being.

Both engines use variable valve - timing technology to produce maximum zoom with minimum fuel consumption and tailpipe pollution.

The Prius, the world's first mass - produced hybrid car, is a mechanical marvel that makes little pollution and delivers astounding fuel mileage.

In fact, it has such stringent pollution controls and the fuel - burning process is so complete, the exhaust produced can actually be cleaner than the air outside — and cleaner than some hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles.

If you want to assume that aerosols resulting from pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels were responsible for the cooling evident from 1940 through the late 70's, then you have no reason to claim ANY degree of warming due to CO2 forcing during any earlier period.

The level «pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels» is not determined by the amount of FF you burn but by what sort of FF you burn and how you burn it.

311 MARodger: «The level «pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels» is not determined by the amount of FF you burn but by what sort of FF you burn and how you burn it.»

I believe that it's possible, in the next 20 years, for vehicles to use half the fuel and produce half the pollution that they do today.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

Backers of plug - in hybrids acknowledge that the electricity to boost their cars generally comes from fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases, but they say that process still produces far less pollution than oil.

, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

In 2014 alone, the fossil fuel energy produced from public lands included 706 million barrels of oil, 3.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 421 million tons of coal, contributing billions of tons worth of carbon pollution.

After six years of research, demonstration airplanes use half the fuel, produce 75 % less pollution and are much quieter — noise is just one - eighth of today's levels, says NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation team.

Yet despite this innovation, the transportation sector — and specifically, oil — still produces more than a third of Oregon's fossil - fuel carbon pollution.

These improvements are driven by consumer demand, new technologies, and strong fuel economy and pollution standards, which require automakers to produce cleaner, more fuel - efficient vehicles.

Those solid household fuels produce health - damaging indoor pollution that contributes to about four million premature deaths a year, most of them women and children.

Considering the risks inherent in nuclear power, the chronic political instability gripping some key oil - producing regions, and the climate volatility and pollution - related disease resulting from continued fossil fuel use, Japan's current energy economy is far from secure.

The answer: idling for longer than 10 seconds consumes more fuel and produces more global warming pollution than stopping and restarting, so you're better off going inside the restaurant.

The report also found wide disparities in emission rates — the amount of pollution generated for every kilowatt of electricity produced — reflecting differences in management strategies, fuel mix and pollution control technologies.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

-- Apparently all combustion engines can run on hydrogen technology using water as the fuel and produces little or no pollution, as per Stanley Meyer's inventions;

He said that «as long as producing carbon pollution carries no cost, traditional plants that use fossil fuels will be more cost - effective than plants that use nuclear fuel.»

The Department of Health must produce by Dec. 2018 a cumulative impact analysis to designate communities highly impacted by fossil fuel pollution and climate change in Washington.

«Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.»

The NAS National Research Council calculates that the health costs from fossil fuel combustion are in the billions: «WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates «hidden» costs of energy production and use — such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health — that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

Most of the world's deadliest pollution is concentrated in the Third World, largely among poor households which have little or no access to electricity produced by fossil - fuel power.

Fossil fuels produce enormous amounts of pollution, and as long as we burn them, as long as we use the atmosphere as a sewer, the costs of pollution should be paid by the polluter.

have played prominent roles in the decades - long work of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, which has produced the overarching scientific consensus on the risks of climate change due to human pollution, mostly from burning fossil fuels.

The problem was historically not realizing the ecological impact of producing and burning fossil fuels (both in terms of global warming as well as other forms of pollution) until it was a problem of catastrophic proportions.

And over the decades, we've seen firsthand the dangers of relying on oil as a fuel source — the price gouging, the geopolitical struggles it produces, the pollution it creates.

Not so: those fossil fuel industries produce plenty of pollution that adversely impacts the public at large — and pay zilch for it.

«It is... going to generate pollution, not just from fossil fuels but also from lithium plants, which produce sulphur dioxide,» Luis Alberto Echazu, Bolivian minister for mining, told BBC News.

The plan would charge drivers $ 8 to enter Manhattan on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., which would help us reduce the congestion that is choking our economy, the pollution that has helped produce asthma rates that are twice the national average, and the carbon dioxide that is fueling global warming.

In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat - trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year.

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Another thing is that, global production of goods mostly happens in those «cheap» countries, so they can hardly be criticised for having fuel pollution issues can they as they produce probably 80 % of the worlds goods.