Sentences with phrase «less carbon fuels»

A carbon tax would allow energy efficiencies to become cost effective faster, a carbon tax would cause the utilities to use less carbon fuels in the electrical grid and a carbon tax would promote fuel switching faster.

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Environmental groups are employing the same strategy, in a less direct way, on the oilpatch, by raising public opposition to pipelines and low - carbon fuel standards for refineries in California and Europe.

On the other hand, if higher fuel taxes work as intended and get drivers to burn less carbon, then those people will find themselves ahead.

A gasoline provider could blend ethanol into their fuel to make it less carbon - intensive, for instance — something Canadian fuel providers already do.

The next time the premiers huddle together they should start talking about how to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels that the rest of the world has little need for today and will need even less of tomorrow.

Then I tried the economic freedom line: «A carbon tax makes fossil fuels more expensive, so people have an incentive to consume less.

Although Obama supports clean coal and coal to liquid if they can emit 20 % less carbon over their life cycle then traditional fuels.

Increases in the price of fossil fuels since 1979 have meant that less has been burned and less carbon dioxide has been added to the atmosphere.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

Measuring how and where emissions occur can support carbon - cutting initiatives like eco-lanes that prioritize alternative fuel vehicles and eco-driving practices, or encourage system operators to optimize traffic signals for greater throughput and less fuel consumption.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

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

Plug - ins use about a third of the fuel that a standard hybrid does, which means that the cars themselves emit less carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

Burning gas emits less carbon dioxide than burning other fossil fuels.

Stronger, longer - lasting modern concrete, made with less fuel and less release of carbon into the atmosphere, may be the legacy of a deeper understanding of how the Romans made their incomparable concrete.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

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

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

Most of the needed policies will occur within countries, but some cooperative international efforts will be essential as well, such as new schemes to share technology or fund transitions to less carbon - intensive fuels.

If you need to emit less carbon, you can change your process, you can change what fuel you use, or you can find a company that you can pay to reduce those tons for you, which is what happens when you buy an offset.»

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

It's also critical to a future less dependent on foreign oil: Hydraulic fracturing, «clean coal» technologies, nuclear fuel production, and carbon storage (the keystone of the strategy to address climate change) all count on pushing waste into rock formations below the earth's surface.

The assessments shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide emission rates of different fossil fuel - based electricity, and initially shall be not less than the following amounts for coal, natural gas, and oil:

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

Burning that less carbon - intensive fuel could prevent the emission of 0.5 to one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas, according to one study.

Recent expansions in green renewable power and carbon offset credits enabled us to convert and transfer our previous dependency on non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear to a more sustainable and less harmful energy source.

This suits me just fine since I train in small sessions throughout the day and I can't be bothered with using the car to get to the gym all the time (As an added advantage I consume less fossil fuel these days thus reducing the size of my carbon footprint on the planet.

As well as cutting their fuel bills, LESS CO2 schools are also making significant carbon savings, with schools in Devon and Cornwall reducing their CO2 emissions by over 300 tonnes over the course of the programme.

When run in Europe's standardized fuel economy and emissions test cycle, the Flextreme is expected to produce less than 60 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.

«Gunk» is the carbon deposit build - up on intake valves and fuel injectors.Engines that have carbon deposit build - up, or gunk, on intake valves and fuel injectors, may work less efficiently.

The greater your fuel - efficiency, the less your carbon footprint.

And of course, the car is powered by a fuel - efficient 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that will reduce carbon emissions in a city that sorely needs less pollution.

This 2017 MINI Clubman Cooper S is proudly offered by Mini Of Dutchess County The greater your fuel - efficiency, the less your carbon footprint.

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

Other models that might be unveiled are a new efficient diesel C - Class that will be on the market by 2011 that uses less than five liters of fuel per 100 km and only emits less than 130g of carbon - dioxide per km.

However, for those who are interested in paying substantially less at the fuel pump, and also doing their part to reduce carbon emissions, there is the Escape Hybrid edition.

Although the new 3.0 - litre turbo - diesel V6 engine is less powerful now, it uses significantly less fuel, emits less carbon dioxide and is Euro 6 compliant.

What's important here is that the LS 500h gives you access to a gorgeous, luxurious limousine that gulps less fuel and emits less carbon - dioxide.

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Support companies less dependent on fossil fuels by overweighting their stocks relative to higher carbon - emitting peers

The aircraft structure is made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic, therefore, it uses 25 percent less fuel and produces 25 percent less fewer environmental damaging emissions.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

Significantly, now that our Legislature has passed a carbon tax and Arnie signed it into law, we will approach some of the lesser expensive European locales in terms of fuel costs.

Natural carbon sinks such as soils and forests that are not burned for fuel, are less likely to have unintended consequences.

But cleaner transport also means less carbon emissions, both because buses are cleaner, less fuel intensive per passenger mile, and because people are actually leaving their cars for the faster buses.