Sentences with phrase «generate large amounts of carbon»

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Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Take, for instance, large - scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a geoengineering technology that generates power by growing significant amounts of biomass, burning it, and then storing the carbon underground.

Though cleaner than coal, natural gas still generates unacceptably large amounts of carbon pollution, especially when the leakage of natural gas from pipelines and other infrastructure is considered.

Moreover, it reaches this goal without making (as many climate modelers do) desperate assumptions about horrifically large - scale deployment of bioenergy - based carbon capture and storage systems (the acronym is BECCS) that generate fantastic amounts of «negative emissions.»