Sentences with phrase «less carbon storage»

Our continued destruction and degradation of natural habitat, driving extinction, means much less carbon storage and the loss of water from natural systems as well as our own.

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That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.

The DOE is asking Congress for $ 407 million to research how to burn coal most efficiently, along with $ 241 million to demonstrate such carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies — at least $ 900 million less than DOE said it would have cost to complete FutureGen.

Grasslands that feature diverse plant species have more carbon storage capacity than less - diverse grasslands, largely because the former produce more biomass, the researchers say.

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.

One explanation (ix) conceived in the 1980s invokes more stratification, less upwelling of carbon and nutrient - rich waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean and increased carbon storage at depth during glacial times.

At the time, he said «the stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change,» because it meant there could be more carbon storage on land and less in the atmosphere than climate models say.

It features the Porsche OEM aerokit that was first introduced in 2007 as a factory option, 19 inch lightweight wheels inherited from the Boxster Spyder, lighter aluminium doors from 997 911 GT3, lighter fiberglass bucket seats with carbon fiber backing from the 997 911 GT2, and with the removal of the radio, storage compartments, air - conditioning, and door handles, the Cayman R weighs in at 54.8 kilograms (121 lb) less than a Cayman S.

However — even including the cost of carbon capture and storage — the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2012 Annual Energy Outlook predicts that five years from now gas - fired power will be less expensive than wind, and about half the cost of state - of - the - art solar power.

The integrated carbon capture and storage (ICCS) project at the Boundary Dam Power Station has scooped up its first major award, even though it has been fully operational for less than three months.

We haven't even come close to defining what will be required in storage, what are the legal liabilities and what are the permitting requirements, much less the infrastructure needed to develop that storage and move the carbon, the C02, into that storage, pipelines or trucks or whatever that is.

At the time, he said «the stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change,» because it meant there could be more carbon storage on land and less in the atmosphere than climate models say.

Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes money — and industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.

Physically, C1 can be thought of as representing the concentration of CO2 in long - term stores such as the deep ocean; C1 + C2 as representing the CO2 concentration in medium - term stores such as the thermocline and the long - term soil - carbon storage; and C = C1 + C2 + C3 as the concentration of CO2 in those sinks that are also in equilibrium with the atmosphere on time scales of a year or less, including the mixed layer, the atmosphere itself and rapid - response biospheric stores.

Dr Hulvey said it was important to know whether more diverse ecosystems provided higher levels of targeted ecosystems services - such as carbon storage - than less diverse ecosystems.

«A forest with more lianas has less woody biomass (long term carbon storage), tree growth is reduced and tree mortality is increasing,» said Hans Verbeeck of Ghent University.

Environmental groups within RSPO tried to mandate that future oil palm expansion can only occur on land with net carbon storage lower than oil palm (less than 40 tons of carbon per hectare averaged over the 25 - 30 year lifespan of an plantation).

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.

There was also less support for carbon capture and storage, new nuclear build, small - scale hydropower and natural gas stations as viable ways to hit targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

American scientists have created the first «wall - to - wall» carbon storage map that shows tropical vegetation contains 21 % more carbon than previously thought and that up to 12 % less carbon may have been released into the atmosphere due to deforestation.