Sentences with phrase «greater than the emission»

Carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas — fired power plants will be 10 percent greater than emissions from coal - fired plants in 2016

2) If you're using your car to go to the supermarket, start shopping online, since the carbon emissions resulting from the drive, and more specifically from maintaining the energy - guzzling environment of a retail shop are far greater than the emissions from home delivery.

What is not mentioned is that natural CO2 emissions today are something like 20 times greater than our emissions.

If the amount of absorption is greater than the emission then something has to change so that the emission increases.

Not exact matches

This, it added, was greater than the annual emissions of all trucks and cars in the U.S.

In other words, says Surace, the «built environment» presents a far greater opportunity than oft - demonized cars and light trucks, which produce 9 percent of emissions.

You get some sense of the scale of the emissions trail that has accompanied this shift in economic geography when you consider that the emissions coming from China's export sector alone are greater than the total emissions from any other economy other than the US's.

The Fuel Quality Directive has attracted a great deal of attention here in Canada because it would assign a higher emissions rating to Alberta oilsands than to other sources of crude oil, and I have -LSB-...]

Plan sponsors want portfolios screened for emissions exposure — which in itself may be far greater than immediately apparent.

As part of a greater need than ever before to protect our environment, it makes sense to know whether your bamboo flooring is fully compliant with formaldehyde emissions requirements and you should also be aware that the quality and type of resins used during the manufacturing process will have a direct impact on the price that you pay for your flooring product.

«At the end of the day, economic incentives for cleaner, less - polluting energy will have a greater impact on reducing CO2 emissions than a non-binding agreement with no enforcement mechanisms,» Faso said in a statement.

At radio frequencies greater than 10 gigahertz the radio emission matched that of the microwave background, but at lower frequencies it was several times stronger.

These results indicate that the polymers studied have large cross sections for stimulated emission, that population inversion can be achieved at low pump energies, and that the emitted photons travel distances greater than the gain length within the gain medium.

Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, «we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history.

The researchers measured emissions rates of 34 grams of methane per second — 100 to 1,000 times greater than those estimates.

Whilst methane - burning is cleaner that other fossil fuels, any methane not burnt and released in the emissions from the engine has a much greater warming effect than oil - based fuel.

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

This is greater than the volcano's emissions of sulphur and silicates.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

Total annual production emissions, averaged over five years, would equal about 100 grams of carbon dioxide per megajoule — which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

The new galaxy's Lyman alpha emission, a sign of star formation, suggests it has a star formation rate two to three times greater than the Milky Way's present one.

Kirk Smith does a great job of explaining the importance of addressing emissions of all greenhouse gases rather than focusing...

Think of a holiday road trip's effect on the climate this way: The amount of heat a car contributes to the atmosphere because of its carbon emissions may be 100,000 times greater than the actual heat given off by its engine.

Their original plan was to reduce pollution the most where this will have the greatest ecological benefit, rather than calling for more blanket reductions of emissions.

«(B) international offset credits may be sold at a strategic reserve auction under this subsection only if the Administrator determines that it is highly likely that covered entities will, to cover emissions occurring in the year the auction is held, use offset credits to demonstrate compliance under section 722 for emissions equal to or greater than 80 percent of 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent;

That path (no new emitting capital, but no abandonment) is a better reflection of what's possible with great effort than the zero - emissions - now path suggested.

«Our work shows that the terrestrial biosphere might have greater potential than previously thought to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

Even without figuring these surprising methane emissions, I think these fuels may possibly entail greater GHG emissions than they offset — in the manufacture of pesticides, fertilizers, farm equipment; irrigation water & energy to pump it; transporation of bauxite from S. America (harming rainforests) to make farm equipment, ag schools, secretaries, and all the paper work at each stage... the list goes on & on & on.

And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG emissions — business as usual) of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a greater / lesser / same chance of this?

Methane emissions from fossil fuel industry and natural geological leakage are up to 110 per cent greater than current estimates, according to a detailed analysis of methane sources published in Nature this week.

By detecting this pulsar in the radio spectrum, astronomers may now follow its evolution with greater ease and flexibility than with X-ray telescopes on satellites, study the pulsar emission mechanisms, and also characterize the dynamic interstellar medium between the Earth and the pulsar.

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), developed by the European Space Agency, was capable of greater spectral resolution than the Einstein Observatory and was more sensitive to X-ray emissions at shorter wavelengths.

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater emissions greater than B1).

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have found that greenhouse - gas emissions from lakes and inland waterways may be as much as 45 percent greater than previously thought.

The envelopes have emission measures an order of magnitude greater than that of the warm ionized gas, and are just a few parsecs away from the central stars, which have type O5 or earlier.

It should be pointed out here, that the amount of change in downward heat radiation from changes in cloud cover in the experiment, are far greater than the gradual change in warming provided by human greenhouse gas emissions, but the relationship was nevertheless established.

Responsible for more than 70 percent of global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions, cities represent the single greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

The report concluded that the feeding reservoirs were in fact a greater source of dioxins in food than emissions are, «and suggest that further risk management actions to reduce emissions from controlled sources beyond those already in place will have little or no additional impact on food levels.»

That's a great shame, but perhaps not unexpected - for one, Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal has meant significant belt - tightening and it's cheaper to spin off new versions of existing models - like Clubsport Golfs - than it is to develop an entirely new car, even on a modular platform like the MQB setup underpinning many of the Group's current models.

''... Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle.

A joint initiative that increases demand for zero emission buses in both countries would encourage significant investment and allow U.S. and Chinese manufacturers and suppliers to achieve greater economies of scale at a greater level than one country's market could promote.

All units are now Euro 6 emissions compliant, and naturally boast more power, torque and greater economy than their predecessors.

The Kia Niro will combine a stylish SUV design with greater fuel economy than its rivals, with a target CO2 emissions rating of under 90 g / km (combined, based on the New European Driving Cycle).

Expected fuel and emissions savings would be greater than 10 %.

In all, the reduction in average CO2 emissions achieved by the BMW Group, as calculated by the German Motor Vehicle Registration Authority, is four times greater than the average figure for all car makers operating in the German market.

Made of lighter materials and improved engine technologies, our new vehicles deliver improved fuel consumption, greater flexibility and lower CO2 emissions than others in their class.

«The K5 Plug - in Hybrid also boasts an exclusive new powertrain, with greater zero - emissions range than any other Kia hybrid to date and will seek to lead the new energy vehicle market in China,» said Nam Young So, CEO and executive vice president, in a statement.

The premium manufacturer boasts not only great driving pleasure in this segment but great efficiency as well seeing how five of the engines come with an emissions rating of less than 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer.

I should have added that I am hoping it will be pretty much equivalent in fuel economy to diesel, and if it is it will have done its job of providing great fuel economy and far lower emissions than diesel.