Sentences with phrase «generate less greenhouse gases»

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

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He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Food systems that lose and waste less will generate fewer greenhouse gases and contribute less to global warming.

Moreover, PET plastic bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.

It uses about 75 % less water, generates about 87 % fewer greenhouse gases, and requires around 95 % less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

One was a paper published in Science a week ago, by Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University and colleagues, that generated cheers from doubters of global warming because the authors concluded the climate was less responsive to a big buildup of greenhouse gases than some previous work had concluded.

Electric hybrids generated 40 to 65 percent less greenhouse gas than gas - fueled vehicles and 7 to 46 percent less than conventional hybrids.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

This technology is expected to become commercially competitive and generate much less greenhouse gases compared to fossil fuels.

Is the heat that is generated from the combustion process less than the heat that results from CO2 acting as a greenhouse gas?

Natural gas generates more than 50 % less greenhouse gas emissions than coal, not even including the many harmful particulate pollutants coal emits.

Carbon dioxide is the biggest long - term human - generated contributor to global warming — other molecules like methane and water vapor are also greenhouse gases, but their levels are more or less constant; the amount of anthropogenic CO2 has been going up steadily for decades and is higher now than in any point in human history.

100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and water to produce than virgin plastic and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste.

No building should define itself as «green» unless it consumes less energy and generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than average.

Less generous was the 2008 offer from the Heartland Institute of $ 1000 plus an all - expenses - paid trip to New York to any scientist willing to help «generate international media attention to the fact that many scientists believe forecasts of rapid warming and catastrophic events are not supported by sound science, and that expensive campaigns to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not necessary or cost - effective.»

«There are things we can do in the interim, such as encourage people to drive less, and adapt their lifestyles which will get people more physically active and generate fewer greenhouse gasses.»