Sentences with phrase «gas than smaller ones»

Larger vehicles typically consume more fuel than compact cars and larger engines usually burn more gas than smaller ones.

Not exact matches

Over more than two decades, he built Chesapeake from a small wildcatter into one of the world's biggest natural gas producers before resigning in 2013, after a corporate governance crisis and investor concerns over his heavy spending

However, their long - term contracts and the fact that greater use of frac sand is one way for oil and gas companies to maximize productivity from each well means that demand declines might prove smaller than those of other oil services companies.

I didn't really want one during my first labour but as it went on so long, my baby was back to back and a decent size for my small frame, I needed something a bit stronger than gas and air!

This share may seem relatively small — for perspective, electricity generation and home heating account for more than 40 percent — but aviation is one of the world's fastest - growing greenhouse gas sources.

The process may also play a part in the mixing between atmosphere and oceans, as smaller bubbles tend to absorb gas faster than big ones and are better at spitting out aerosol droplets when they pop.

Theoretical studies show it's hard to prevent those gas clouds from fragmenting to form a cluster of small stars, rather than collapsing into one large star, says physicist Dominik Schleicher of the University of Concepción in Chile.

With its iconic red - and - yellow seashell logo, the Shell Oil Company is one of the most easily recognizable brands in the US — thanks in no small part to its more than 25,000 gas stations and service centers across the country.

With its iconic red - and - yellow seashell logo, the Shell Oil Company is one of the most easily recognizable brands in the US — thanks in no small part to its more than 25,000 gas stations and service centers across the country.

In practice, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) operates more like a straight up carbon tax than a cap and trade — and a small one at that.

Poorer nations typically have far smaller accumulated or annual per - capita greenhouse gas emissions than industrialised ones.

You appear to have your knickers all twisted about the generally accepted greenhouse theory, which states that GH gases (primarily water vapor, plus some smaller ones, such as CO2) keep our planet warmer than it would otherwise be if they were not in our atmosphere.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

I try to conserve water and gas heat by using my dishwasher only once a week (I'm single, so I can wait till it fills up:) and waiting to do oneload of wash rather than several small ones.