Sentences with phrase «generated less carbon dioxide»

The study showed that patients on a low - carbohydrate diet generated less carbon dioxide, breathed more slowly, and required less time on a ventilator.

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.

Right now we're taxing sugar - based ethanol at 54 cents per gallon while we are subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 45 cents per gallon, even though sugar - based ethanol is cheaper and producing it generates less carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

In Maine, cooking the same turkey in the same oven but with electricity generated primarily from renewable energy releases less than three pounds of carbon dioxide.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Since carbohydrate is richer in oxygen than fat, its metabolism requires 25 percent less water and generates 50 percent more carbon dioxide.

As research has shown rail travel is a more environmentally - way to holiday and generates ten times less carbon dioxide than flying.

But because they are released in tiny traces, they currently contribute less than 1 percent of the climate - warming effect from human - generated carbon dioxide.

According to Mendiluce, the agriculture and forestry sectors have the potential to generate reductions of around 4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year — more than half of U.S. annual emissions — at a cost of less than $ 10 / tonne.

The rise of shale gas has had an environmental benefit as well — greatly reduced carbon dioxide emissions, because generating electricity by burning natural gas emits less than half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal.

«If the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operation.

They say that, despite the wind farms that have been built, Victoria's coal - fired power stations have not generated any less greenhouse carbon dioxide.

«It's telling that in April 2015 — the month the United States generated more electricity from natural gas than from any other fuel source — the United States also emitted less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than at any time since 1988.