Sentences with phrase «generates less emissions»

Natural gas prices are at a 7 - year low, it generates less emissions than coal, and we happen to be in the middle of trying to reform our energy policies to make them cheaper and less polluting.

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Certified farms must reduce their carbon footprint by providing cattle with an easy to digest diet — generating less methane emissions — treating manure and protecting the trees in pastures and neighboring forested areas.

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

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.

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

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.

The environment friendly U2 1.4 CRDi diesel engine is low on emission and NVH levels; however it operates at a high pressure 1,800 bars and generates high low end torque resulting in lesser gear shifts in city driving conditions for enhanced drive comfort.

New Volvo vehicles come equipped with powerful, compact, and efficient Drive - E engines that cost less, generate loads of horsepower, and reduce engine emissions by up to 30 %!

It is the cleanest diesel engine produced by General Motors and meets North American diesel emission standards, generating 90 % less NOx and particulate emissions compared to previous - generation diesels.

That means less fuel is consumed and lower emissions generated, including a 25 - percent drop in cold - start hydrocarbon emissions.

It features the latest dual VVT - i, which allows the engine to be efficient, providing a broader powerband yet requiring less fuel and generating fewer emissions.

William Penn from Legal & General America was awarded the EPA's Energy Star Certification for using less energy and generating fewer greenhouse emissions than similar corporate buildings across the nation.

The frequency at which photons are emitted or absorbed is small relative to the rate of energy redistribution among molecules and their modes, so the fraction of some molecules that are excited in some way is only slightly more or less than the characteristic fraction for that temperature (depending on whether photons absorption to generate that particular state is greater than photon emission from that state or vice versa, which depends on the brightness temperature of the incident radiation relative to the local temperature).

Whether you choose actions to curb emissions, save water, spend more time outdoors, generate less waste — or you create your own challenge — you'll be making a world of difference by participating in the EcoChallenge.

You can choose actions to curb emissions, save water, eat more sustainable foods or generate less waste (to name a few).

IGCC plants should benefit from carbon pricing as they generate more power per ton of emission than a less efficient plant.

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.

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.

As an example I gave the case of Denmark where although having the highest wind energy proportion of electricity generation in the world, the consumption within Denmark is much less than is generated; Denmark has the highest cost electricity in Europe and near the highest CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Europe.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

After accounting for all the methane leakage factors mentioned by the Post, the NETL study clearly demonstrates that life cycle GHG emissions from LNG exports from the U.S. are significantly less than emissions from coal generated electricity in China and in Europe.

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.

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

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

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That said, this doesn't make it any less important for us to get our human generated CO2 emissions under control.

One is that they will enjoy tax incentives as a buyer of a hybrid car, two is that they will be able to save a lot of money from the rising cost of precious, expensive and limited supply of fuel and three, it will enable them to generate less pollution to the environment because of the extremely low toxic emissions generated by hybrid cars.cash for clothes

This regulation would have substantially increased the cost of coal generated electricity, thus making coal less competitive and reducing CO2 emissions.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

«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.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

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.

Most of the sampling periods used to generate the N2O emissions from fertilizers in Canada were less than one year; therefore, the estimate of total annual atmospheric emissions might be low.

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.»

''... Overall, all PV technologies generate far less life - cycle air emissions per GWh than conventional fossil - fuel - based electricity generation technologies.

The new Lexus full hybrid targets class - leading emissions and also generates significantly less NOx and particulate emissions than an equivalent diesel engine vehicle, Toyota points out.

Today's coal - fired electricity - generating plants produce more power, with less emission of pollutants, than ever before.

Banner Life from Legal & General America was awarded the EPA's Energy Star Certification for using less energy and generating fewer greenhouse emissions than similar corporate buildings across the nation.

Energy Star buildings consume at least 35 percent less energy and generate 35 percent fewer greenhouse emissions than non-Energy Star buildings of similar size.