Sentences with phrase «including fuels burned»

The remaining 10 percent of energy - related emissions come from a variety of minor uses, including fuels burned by sea - going ships.

Not exact matches

The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
The Clean Power Plan was part of an effort that included New York and other states to develop required cuts in emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants in order to combat climate change.
Under the Reforming Energy Vision plan, power will come from smaller sources, including solar and wind, not large power plants that burn fossil fuels.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.
Using historical data, they included carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and changes in land use — such as deforestation.
Steps should include the continuation of loan guarantees and cost - sharing programs for building pilot biofuel plants, support for flex - fuel vehicles that can burn both gasoline and biofuels, and R&D incentives from the departments of energy and agriculture.
This July the Navy intends to demonstrate a «Great Green Fleet» in Hawaii, which will include a nuclear - powered carrier and submarine but also all aircraft and surface ships burning a 50 - 50 blend of biofuels and petroleum - derived fuels.
Some, including New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, have suggested that a national carbon tax — an extra cost per amount of fossil fuel burned — would be simpler and more effective than any cap - and - trade system.
This gas is also released by the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, including gasoline.
Emerging economies such as China and India have not joined the Coalition, arguing that its membership of mostly developed nations including Japan, Canada and Australia should focus more on curbing carbon dioxide, released from burning fossil fuels.
According to Viktor Zhukov, scientists are able to accurately simulate the burning of simple gas mixtures, for example, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas, and it is far more difficult to simulate the burning of more complex fuels, including jet fuel.
Emissions that are principal pollutants of concern include: Hydrocarbons — A class of burned or partially burned fuel, hydrocarbons are toxins.
The plan is to match the basic electric - drive system with various recharging sources, including engines that burn gasoline, ethanol and biodiesel fuels as well as hydrogen fuel cells.
Black smoke and sulphur dioxide were produced mainly by burning fossil fuels (including coal, oil, diesel, petrol).
In recent years, engineers have redesigned vehicles with more fuel - efficient technology, including gasoline direct injection engines paired with turbocharging, which results in smaller engines that burn less gas while retaining power.
With the human activity associated with industrialization, however, came the burning of fossil fuels for manufacturing and transportation, putting more carbon dioxide into the air and creating an increased pressure of this gas on some regions of the earth's surface — including coastal areas.
Common outdoor sources include vehicle exhaust, forest fires, and burning of fuels.
But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including developing the technology behind fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.
It can happen naturally or in response to human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.
Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].
There is a broad scientific consensus that human activity — including the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating and industrial manufacturing — is driving recent climate change.
Animals fed sulfur amino acid restricted diets also had health improvements including reductions in body weight, fat and oxidative stress; fewer cancerous tumors; enhanced insulin sensitivity; and more efficient fuel - burning.
Carbon dioxide also is released when organic matter burns (including fossil fuels such as oil or gas).
The strategies investigated include an evolutionary transmutation strategy in which the ADS provides additional flexibility by enabling plutonium utilisation in conventional reactors and confining the minor actinides to a small part of the fuel cycle, and two innovative transuranics (TRU) burning strategies, with an FR or an ADS, in which plutonium and minor actinides are managed together to minimise the proliferation risk.
The Body Fuel System, in addition to the complete 30 - day meal plan, also includes a Blueprint to understanding how the nutrients work together in your body to naturally burn fat, support lean muscle when you're exercising and explains how to eliminate inflammation, detox your body and totally rock your life.
You too can learn to train every cell in your body how to burn stored fat — including omental fat and that cellulite you thought you couldn't get rid of — for fuel.
Other benefits include fewer hunger pangs and a dramatic drop in food cravings once you've made the shift from burning sugar to burning fat as your primary fuel.
I know, I know, many of you have been told not to eat bacon because it is high in fat and isn't heart healthy but my side kick Bacon Boy and I are going to show you why a Low - Carb High - Fat, #LCHF, diet will not only help you lose weight and feel great but when we get your body into ketosis (a state where the body burns fat instead of sugar for fuel) there is a whole next level of healing and repair that can happen within the body including reduced inflammation, improved diabetes control, elimination of hypoglycemia, reducing gout & kidney stones, improving the symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD and autism and so much more!
Soon enough, Mater gets into trouble, starting a rivalry between Lightning and Francesco Bernoulli (voice of John Turturro) and sending Lightning and his crew, including new addition Mater, on a trip around the world to participate in a race sponsored by Sir Miles Axlerod (voice of Eddie Izzard), the inventor of a new clean - burning fuel.
The current crop of hybrids includes cars like this Accord, the Chevy Malibu, the Hyundai Sonata, etc., that, while not returning Prius - like economy numbers, also look and drive more or less like conventional fuel - burning cars.
The Corsa Color Race will be made with a variety of fuel efficient power plants including a 1.4 Liter gas burning engine of either the 87 HP or 100 HP variety as well as the diesel burning top of the line 1.7 Liter four cylinder CDTI making a total of 130 HP.
Standard equipment included power - assisted rack - and - pinion steering; power - assisted front - disc and rear - drum brakes; AM / FM stereo radio with four speakers; 6,000 - rpm tachometer; 85 - mph / 140 - kmh speedometer; ammeter; engine - temperature gauge; oil - pressure gauge; digital clock; graphic systems monitor module that can warn of unclosed doors, burned - out head - or taillights, low fuel level and low brake fluid; special - value package including electrically powered door locks, premium sound package, and speed control.
Human activities that cause global warming include industrial production, burning fossil fuel, mining, cattle rearing or deforestation.
Many rooms (including mine) have a fireplace that burns organic fuel (available for $ 9 and lasting 2.5 hours).
In other words, there is no warming effect of greenhouse gases and humans can carry on with Business As Usual, including massive burn of fossil fuels.
Footnote * It's worth noting that Peter Raven was one of dozens of signatories to a 2014 «open letter to environmentalists on nuclear energy» endorsing this statement: «the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.»
The forward models include emissions of CO2 and carbon monoxide (CO) from fossil fuel burning and wildfires; air - sea gas exchange; and photosynthesis, respiration, and decomposition on land.
Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.
The transition from deeply rooted energy systems based on burning fossil fuels to new norms emitting ever less of this gas — here and in China — is seen by many as requiring a sustained energy quest including much greater direct government investment on the frontiers of relevant technologies (batteries, photovoltaics, superconductivity, photosynthesis).]
They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).
Such factors include increased greenhouse gas concentrations associated with fossil fuel burning, sulphate aerosols produced as an industrial by - product, human - induced changes in land surface properties among other things.
His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.
Brook and Bradshaw argue that the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.
Interestingly, Mr. Gore appeared to put himself at odds with Mr. Obama by including an outright rejection of what Big Coal and both presidential candidates call «clean coal» — burning the fossil fuel but capturing and burying the resulting carbon dioxide.
Furthermore, emissions estimates discussed here include only those from fossil fuels burned within a country's borders, meaning that the tallies do not account for international trade.
Business as usual includes millions of people each year dying — not in the future, but right now — due to air pollution largely from the burning of fossil fuels.
Many lines of evidence, including simple accounting, demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is due to human fossil fuel burning.
No, experts say the effects of climate change, including drought - like conditions, higher temperatures, and abundant fuel for burning, are clearly evident.
Lines in the document include: «It is assumed that the major contributors of CO2 are the burning of fossil fuels... There is no doubt that increases in fossil fuel usage and decreases of forest cover are aggravating the potential problem of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
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