Sentences with phrase «less carbon dioxide»

Rather, it is largely a result of coal being displaced by natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide when producing electricity.

On - board hydrogen fuel - cells could be up to 80 percent more fuel - efficient, and emit 45 percent less carbon dioxide, than today's internal - combustion engine.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

Though there is much less carbon dioxide produced during production, it does have a product footprint.

At the same time, warmer water also absorbs less carbon dioxide, which makes the ocean less acidic.

In addition, the drought caused the forest to take up about 1.4 billion tonnes less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal.

Natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal when it burns, and new reserves have driven down its price, greatly expanding its use in power plants, homes, and businesses.

Less coal means less carbon dioxide, so the impact on emissions could be enormous.

As a result, small - scale sustainable farms have been found to emit between one - half and two - thirds less carbon dioxide for every acre of production.

These touches contribute in improved fuel economy, as well as less carbon dioxide emissions.

As the temperature increased in the past, oceans also released more carbon dioxide because warm water holds less carbon dioxide than cold water.

There is also the environmental question: trains produce at least four times less carbon dioxide per mile than planes, and even less when compared with short - haul flights.

If less carbon dioxide makes it into the water, the ocean will stop becoming more acidic, and calcium carbonate will be left available to the organisms that use it to build shells.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

The world needs more, not less carbon dioxide, as frequently discussed on this blog.

As the developed nations already have a financial set of problems, it should be relatively easy to manipulate some progress towards less carbon dioxide production without trying to squeeze out false economic arguments.

With climate change, the ocean is warming and it's absorbing less carbon dioxide.

Natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than coal, accounts for about 27 percent of emissions.

What if all the plants there started to capture less and less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

Natural gas, which is mostly methane, produces less carbon dioxide than oil or coal.

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

While research is still underway, studies suggest that babies get less oxygen and get rid of less carbon dioxide when they sleep on their bellies.

Water absorbs less carbon dioxide when it is warmer, which is why you should always keep a carbonated beverage cold.

Operations at AAAS release much less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1518 fewer tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year as of 2008 — compared with the industry standard for a similar building, according to data available through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program.

As climate change affects forests, they'll store less carbon dioxide because drought stresses them and hinders their ability to grow, making man - made global warming even worse.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

Although natural gas releases less carbon dioxide when burned, there is a concern about the possibility of leakages along the supply chain.

For instance, team member Linda Sohl used the GISS 3D model to see whether Earth circa 715 million years ago, with less carbon dioxide in the air, would be fully or partially covered in ice.

Natural gas (NG) is a potential «bridge fuel» during transition to a decarbonized energy system: It emits less carbon dioxide during combustion than other fossil fuels and can be used in many industries.

Hansen's assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to use power in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator in a house).

The emissions savings assume that future power plants will generate significantly less carbon dioxide per kilowatt than today's plants, however.

Europeans want fuel - efficient cars that spout less carbon dioxide (CO2), the suspected culprit in global warming.

The United Arab Emirates went so far as to suggest that oil is an environmentally friendly fuel, since it produces marginally less carbon dioxide than burning coal.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

In the meantime, paying less at the pump and spewing less carbon dioxide and pollutants is a good feeling.

Jesse Ausubel, an energy and environment expert at Rockefeller University, said in an e-mail message that the climate negotiations from 1992 onward have mainly enshrined a natural trend, with plenty of bumps and dips, toward ever less carbon dioxide emissions from energy production.

Polar ocean is sucking up less carbon dioxide Windy waters may mean less greenhouse gas is stored at sea.

Deforestation is another significant source of greenhouse gases, as exposed soils release carbon dioxide, and fewer trees mean less carbon dioxide conversion to oxygen.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

The project will result in two thirds of a million tonnes less carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere each year, slowing climate and ocean acidity damage;

Drought also stunts forest growth, which leads to less carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, Keeling wrote.

Interior The interior exhibits the quality materials for which Lexus is known, and sections of the cabin and trunk are covered in ecological plastics, also known as bioplastic, which is said to produce 20 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than traditional plastic in its manufacture and life cycle.

Because gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, some researchers have linked the natural gas boom to recent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.