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
Not exact matches
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.»