Sentences with phrase «generated by burning fossil fuels»

We make solar energy available to homeowners, businesses, schools, and government organizations at a lower cost than they pay for energy generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.

However, I read in Kate Ascher's book The Works that the MTA is by far the largest consumer of electricity in the city, and since power is generated by burning fossil fuels, I find myself wondering how much gasoline it saves to use the subway versus, say, driving a hybrid or taking the bus?

I have been shouted down and abused for suggesting that variations in solar emissions, let alone the heat generated by burning fossil fuels, might contribute to global warming.

Much of the electricity used in the US and abroad is generated by burning fossil fuels.

The energy used by buildings is mostly generated by burning fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

By producing this electricity, the project reduces the total amount of electricity that would have been generated by burning fossil fuels.

This energy is mostly generated by burning fossil fuels, which releases greenhouse gas emissions.

The most efficient way to stabilize a growing population was to raise its standard of living above the poverty line, and the cheapest way to do that was to give the population electricity generated by burning fossil fuels.

Less happily, the electricity for running all these air conditioners is generated by burning fossil fuels.

While the world has been preoccupied with reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is generated by burning fossil fuels, sulphur dioxide emissions have not received the same attention.

Under the Paris accord, which took years to reach, rich and poor countries committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases generated by burning fossil fuels that are blamed by scientists for warming the planet.

Electricity, especially in Australia, is commonly generated by burning fossil fuels; this is obviously unsustainable from several points of view.

Poor nations are at present relatively minor contributors to the carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels.

The main difference with this was that it was often (especially in Australia) generated by burning another fossil fuel: coal rather than oil.

Therefore the best possible outcome would be 26 % GHG reduction since 74 % of the time the demand has to be generated by burning fossil fuel.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

According to previous studies, that amount — between 44 million and 146 million metric tons of CO2 — offsets a tiny fraction of the estimated 35.3 billion metric tons of CO2 generated by the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activity in 2013.

The ocean absorbs a third of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning of fossil fuels — a priceless «service» reducing global warming.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

In just the past 2 hours, the sun showered more energy on earth than humanity has ever generated by digging up and burning fossil fuels over the past 2000 years.

Yet the fact that oceans are currently a net sink for CO2 and actively absorbing in the neighborhood of 40 % of the CO2 emissions generated by the burning of fossil fuels is well - documented through observations.

Consider telling africain countries that generate their electicity by burning fossil fuels, that they have to stop.

The idea that CO2 generated from burning fossil fuels will raise the atmospheric concentration of CO2 for centuries, as represented by the Bern model, was already ridiculous.

We already know we are putting too much heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air when we burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, fuel our cars, and heat our homes — but by cutting down and burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding amount of the same heat - trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The consumption of fossil fuels is really by means such as burning coal or oil to generate electricity, or using oil products as automotive fuels.

If the propaganda and articles generated by the industry are any indication there is serious concern by fossil fuel users over any attempts to impose limits on mercury emissions from coal burning sources.

A 2007 study by Susan Page of the University of Leicester found that one ton of palm oil produced on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of carbon dioxide, largely the result of deforestation and draining of peatlands, making palm oil - based - biofuels produced by peatlands conversion worse for climate than burning of conventional fossil fuels.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.

According to a study in Nature, the extra CO2 generated by our burning of fossil fuels has postponed the next ice age for at least 100,000 years.

Their efforts have primarily been directed towards reducing CO2 emitted by electric power generating plants burning fossil fuels.

Climate change and ocean acidification are both largely caused by the release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, much of which comes from the burning fossil fuels to generate electricity.

He shows no indication of caring about the ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air pollution from burning coal to generate power.

By reducing the need for the burning of fossil - fuels to generate electricity wind farms will reduce climate change / global warming.

A carbon footprint means the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by someone's lifestyle, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.

The science is settled as agreed by 97 % of scientists and the solution is stop burning fossil fuels and trying to survive on a windmill and solar panel on your house that generates enough electricity to power your laptop for a day.

They certainly don't want the demand for their products — and consequently their profits — to be reduced by a large - scale, rapid move away from burning fossil fuels and towards climate - friendly renewables like wind and solar generated electricity.

As nobody here can do these kind of sums, which I learnt in school some 55 years ago, the output from burning gasoline by that formula is 54 % CO2 and 46 % H2O, and as none here is aware, the radiative forcing from atmospheric H2O relative to CO2 is about 2 - 4:1 in favour of H2O (Houghton, TAR and 2004), it is clear that burning fossil fuels is very beneficial to all of us, by generating both CO2 and H2O each of which has enormous benefits for us by increasing yields in agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fisheries.

«Black carbon is generated by fossil - fuel combustion and biomass burning.

Thermal plants generate steam by burning fossil fuel in boilers.

So, imagine this — the world now has a ship that can claim to be zero emissions even though it is powered by electricity generated by burning coal, one of the dirtiest of fossil fuels in terms of carbon emissions, and is used to transport coal more cheaply.

The RPS are state impositions on utility companies, requiring them to generate a proportion of their electricity from sources that do not burn fossil fuels and thus stoke global warming by emitting the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.