Sentences with phrase «less carbon when»

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These bulbs use at least two - thirds less energy than regular lighting, and when coupled with timers or motion sensors that automatically shut off lights when they aren't needed, will significantly reduce your office's carbon footprint.

Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed - wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

Opinion: Wynne is wrong when she claims the Conservative carbon tax plan will cost families more than cap and trade and do less to cut emissions

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

Owners can burn less gas when they drive, and so release fewer carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

When faced with environmental regulations and the costs they impose, companies may relocate to a less - regulated jurisdiction, taking with them jobs and contributing to «leakage» in which targets of regulation, such as carbon emissions, are not reduced, just redistributed.

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.

Today we are pushing the carbon dioxide level to a height it last reached 24 million years ago, when there was a lot less ice on Earth and the climate was very different.

«When taking into account that production of the far smaller batteries of plug - in hybrids is associated with less carbon dioxide emissions than production of the larger batteries of electric vehicles, their carbon dioxide balance is even better,» says Patrick Jochem of KIT's Institute for Industrial Production.

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.»

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

Natural gas produces less than half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Increased autism risk was also linked to other maternal gene variants related to less efficient one - carbon metabolism, but only when the mother did not take the prenatal vitamins in the early months before and immediately after conception.

Another factor, the carbonic acid's stability, makes it less acidic — carbonic acid reverts to carbon dioxide and water when the pressure is released (when you open the bottle), and this causes the bubbling that can be seen.

As a general rule, the shorter the carbon chain, the more efficiently the MCT will be turned into ketones, which are an excellent source of energy for your body — far preferable to glucose, as ketones produce far less reactive oxygen species (ROS) when they are metabolized to produce ATP.

A widower whose heartbreak touched the world when his childhood sweetheart died from cancer less than a year after their wedding has revealed that he's Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by

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.

Can you even compare it back to 2008 when the GT - R brought innovations like the transaxle setup, carbon fiber driveshafts, 0.27 drag coefficient and a 3.5 sec to 60 that today is less than 2.7 (without the one foot roll trick stuff)?

The regular car does not have the exclusive stitching on the door cards on the «S», just has a «Vantage» badge on the rear, has slightly less pronounced side sills and the front splitter is not made from carbon fibre unless specified when new.

The regular car does not have the exclusive stitching on the door cards of the «S», just has a «Vantage» badge on the rear, has slightly less pronounced side sills (especially noticeable at the back of the sill) and the front splitter is not made from carbon fibre unless specified when new.

And there is already a second DMC Aventador Edizione GT, this time finished in an even more intimidating black shade with lots of clear carbon fiber parts... rolling on the standard Iperione wheels which might look a little out of place, but I guess the owner didn't want to compromise on comfort when driving on less than perfect roads... we don't have silky smooth roads in every part of the world.

Like the Challenger SRT Hellcat the R8 Competition tops out at 199 - mph, but unlike the Dodge its standard all - wheel drive system makes getting there a lot less frightening - and its carbon ceramic brakes mean you won't set the front wheels on fire when it's time to slow things down to a more reasonable rate of travel.

(2) Long - term anoxic permafrost organic matter decomposition releases less carbon but more CO2 — Ce than oxic organic matter decomposition when considering the higher GWP of CH4.

However, when that sink begins to become less effective, the percent falls, and the diminished capacity to absorb our carbon emissions would be counted as a feedback.

Read on for the comment I just posted on the piece, by Katie Herzog *, which hailed the prospect of fewer hills, less traffic and a benefit when it comes to global warming: «Yes, it's stressful to know that you're going to die in one of Seattle's 30,000 predicted landslides, but look on the bright side: The carbon footprint of your lifeless body sliding downhill is zero.»

With human carbon dioxide production accounting for less than 3 % of the earth's total natural carbon dioxide production it is ludicrous to think any small reduction we might make would be perceptible — Remember going back to the old stone age before mankind had fire (when the climate was warmer than it is now) would result in a less than 3 % reduction in carbon dioxide production.

Was human life expectancy significantly less when carbon dioxide was lower?

This is the case even when the solar panels are manufactured in countries where energy production is carbon intensive (e.g. China) and installed in countries where energy production is less carbon intensive (e.g. Germany).

IPCC AR4 WG1, Chapter 6 (buried in the text) states there is more carbon tied up in the biosphere when the planet is warmer and less when colder (i.e. life thrives when the planet is warmer and struggles when colder)

For our part, the United States agreed to emit between 26 percent and 28 percent less CO2 by 2025 than we did in 2005, when we produced 7.1 billion metric tons of carbon.

They further question the claims that a pre-industrial or «below 350 ppm [carbon dioxide]» climate is necessarily more benign or less affected by extreme weather, and they warn that «unachievable» CO2 emissions reduction policies are at risk of being classified as «ill advised, ineffective, and disingenuous» if and / or when the public eventually recognizes how flimsy the evidence is upon which these policies are based.

And as to his claim that there may be «places around the world where global warming will lead to less crop success and yield, even when taking into account the carbon dioxide fertilization effect,» he appears to be equally ignorant that rising levels of atmospheric CO2 tend to raise the temperature of optimum plant photosynthesis beyond the predicted temperature values associated with global warming, effectively nullifying this worn out claim (Idso & Idso, 2011).

Because the day's heat takes longer on average to pass through all those layers than it did when there was less carbon dioxide, Earth's average temperature has gone up.

«By 2015, when this is fully in place, we'll be putting four million tonnes less carbon into the atmosphere than we are today.

A «carbon neutral» bioenergy source would be one that sequestered as much carbon in its growth cycle as it released later when burned as fuel, with the sequestering occurring concurrently with the burning, or nearly so, rather than decades hence, when the negative emissions count for less in stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels.

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 reason for its large Footprint and less favorable results when compared with Germany overall is, in particular, the energy mix in North - Rhine Westphalia, or more specifically its carbon intensity of electricity.

Capstone Turbines have less efficiency, but total carbon release is lower when employed in combined cycle operation, and they are built to produce less smog than any engine and can be run all the time without many repairs.

Scientists complained that the programme makers distorted evidence, and made elementary mistakes such as claiming that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than human activities, when in fact they produce less than 2 % of that caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

The study also contains a cautionary note: if effective heat capacity should prove to be less than estimated in the study, or the carbon dioxide degassing timescale proved longer, it could result in temperature overshoots in which initial temperature decreases are reversed when carbon dioxide re-accumulates in the atmosphere.

How do you answer an 8 - year - old who asks that question, when Oregon's snowpack will be less than 50 % of what it is now within 4 decades if carbon emissions aren't cut quickly and substantially?

And in fact when you look at the scientific literature, it's an interesting disconnect because the modelers who study emissions and how to control those emissions are generally much more comfortable setting goals in terms of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations because that comes more or less directly out of their models and is much more proximate or more closely connected to what humans actually do to screw up the climate in the first place, which is emit these greenhouse gases.

We expect Cap & Trade systems to be more easily exploited the more general their application, the wider they cast their nets: although there are some cases where Cap & Trade might be the most effective and efficient instrument of privatizing the carbon cycle in some industries, these are certainly the minority of the entire economy: when faced with the choice of Fee & Dividend vs. Cap & Trade, the Precautionary Principle thereby indicates we ought favor Fee & Dividend as it is likely the lesser drag on the Market.

Also, why say anything favorable about carbon taxes when cap - and - trade is dead and there's no longer even a weak prudential case for supporting carbon taxes as the lesser evil?

So when you add all the «forcings» together, the atmosphere today «sees» a warming equivalent to about 360 ppm of carbon dioxide, slightly less than today's concentration.

When other huge oil fields or coal mines were opened in the past, we knew much less about the damage that the carbon they contained would do to the Earth's climate system and to its oceans.