Sentences with phrase «gas use»

We probably see less coal use and more natural gas use in coming decades.

There are bad alternatives to natural gas use in the city.

It seems that the amount of gas used to birth a new cat is about 10 times more than is used in a regular transaction.

Annual natural gas use for power topped industrial natural gas for the first time in 2007.

From 1996 to 2016, world oil consumption rose 31 percent, natural gas use rose 59 percent, and coal consumption climbed 62 percent.

This equates to more gas use and more electricity to keep the fan on for longer.

I like the fact that it is a V6, but I don't like how much gas it uses.

The oil and natural gas we use now are the products of solar energy millions of years ago.

The study says that challenges to natural gas use include conversion costs and regulations that can discourage economical natural gas projects.

Coal consumption, in particular, saw steep declines by dropping 18 percent, while natural gas use dipped just 1 percent, versus 2015 rates.

Today — rising natural gas use plays a key role in falling emissions of carbon dioxide — even as levels of methane and ozone decline.

It's worth noting that despite this increase, gas use remains well below the highs seen in the 2000s.

This decrease in overall gas use will reduce capacity constraints of existing pipelines and the need for new pipelines.

And in terms broad direction the most significant reductions is CO2 emission has been the long term use of nuclear energy to make electrical energy and more natural gas use rather than coal.

There are many ways to reduce the amount of gas you use each week.

By 2050, natural gas use for power generation and industry is projected to grow significantly.

Are there any good alternatives to natural gas use in a city?

Residential and commercial coal use remains relatively low, while natural gas use for cooking and heating increases.

Emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- greenhouse gases used as alternatives to ODS chemicals — have rapidly increased, threatening to undo the Montreal Protocol's impressive environmental achievements.

Beginning in 1987, the internationally agreed - upon Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has regulated these ozone - depleting compounds, such as chlorine - containing chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigerants and bromine - containing halon gases used as fire suppressants.

The chart shows last year's volume (green line) of natural gas use at selected natural gas - fired power plants in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon and this year's volume (dark blue line) to date, along with the 5 - year range from 2005 to 2009 (shaded region).

Offsetting 20 % of gas use with 9.3 % of agricultural land According to Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences at UIUC, it would be possible to produce enough cellulosic ethanol with 9.3 % of agricultural land to offset a fifth of our current gasoline consumption.

So damage from looters could be covered, but property damage from tear gas used by the police to remove looters from your property might not be.

Notably, the United States has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, with about two - thirds of those reductions attributable to increased natural gas use made possible by hydraulic fracturing technology.

Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per capita in each city and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are potent greenhouse gases used widely in refrigeration and air - conditioning, despite the availability of alternative climate - friendly refrigerants.

Meanwhile hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), super greenhouse gases used primarily as refrigerants, saw a dramatic rise of over 309 percent.

Navin Fluorine, an Indian maker of industrial gases used in refrigerators, saw its shares rise six per cent today after it was awarded carbon credits under a controversial part of the UN's Clean Development...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for coal seam gas uses a host of chemicals; however this type of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity of the property.

«It would be good for adsorption of bases, but most gases used in chemical warfare are acidic,» he adds.

The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

At the 36th OEWG, Parties have four amendment proposals to consider for negotiating a deal on a global phase - down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); HFCs are a group of potent greenhouse gases used mainly in refrigeration and air - conditioning, with climate impacts hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2.

Originally it became famous as an anesthetic gas used by dentists.

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a prototype device that mimics natural photosynthesis to produce ethylene gas using only sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

In resource - rich regions, such as the Middle East, the case for expanding gas use is relatively straightforward, especially when it can substitute for oil.

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

Although Seattle gets nearly carbon - neutral electricity from municipally - run Seattle City Light, roughly a third of the city's carbon footprint comes from the built environment — primarily due to fossil gas use for heating and hot water.

«While we have programs to increase the use of renewable energy and reduce our reliance on gas plants, we do not have policies in place to replace gas use in buildings with available high - efficiency electric technologies that can be powered by clean energy.»

Increasing the amount of natural gas used relative to non-renewable fuels reduces contributions to global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.

Besides carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases include water vapor, methane (natural gas), nitrous oxide (from fertilizer use), and chlorine - and fluorine - containing gases used in air conditioning units and as solvents.

Engineers already knew how to make hydrogen gas using solar power, but a new approach makes the process more durable