Sentences with phrase «less gas by»

If you were able to plug a hybrid in overnight, you could potentially use a lot less gas by cruising for long stretches on battery power only.

Additionally, DOT has helped Americans use less gas by giving them transportation options, such as bus rapid transit, light rail, streetcars and bike shares.

Furthermore, DOT is helping Americans use less gas by promoting transportation options, such as bus rapid transit, light rail, streetcars and bike shares, as well as raised fuel economy standards for their cars.

Not exact matches

Those factors partly help explain why Exxon is now seen by Wall Street as a less - desirable investment than Chevron, which has several large oil and gas projects coming online by the end of the decade, offering far - stronger growth potential than Exxon.

But by the time the first aluminum F - 150s were produced in late 2014, gas prices were closer to $ 2 and fuel economy was less of a concern for consumers.

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

In Silt, Colorado, a woman named Laura Amos no longer talks about the adrenal - gland tumor and other health complications she developed after her water was contaminated by a gas well drilled less than 1,000 feet from her home.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Saving oil and natural gas through efficiency gains and investment in renewables would also generate profit by allowing BC to import less oil from Alberta and to export more of the natural gas it already extracts.

But by raising the cost of one all - important ingredient, the tariffs could make solar power less competitive with other sources of energy, like gas and wind, resulting in the construction of fewer solar projects.

Even if a midsize EV manages to last 20 years and 150,000 miles, total CO2 emissions would be just 19 % less than a comparable gas - powered car, according to an analysis by Arthur D. Little.

By investing in solar energy, for example, Walmart has contributed to less greenhouse gas emissions, and helped create thousands of jobs for American solar companies.

«Reducing food waste benefits communities by sending less food to landfill, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foundation.

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

By choosing to use Australian almonds, not only have they travelled a shorter distance, less gas has been used to get them to our factory to produce the almond milk.

With less air pressure weighing them down, leavening agents tend to work too quickly at higher altitudes, so by the time the food is cooked, most of the gasses have escaped, producing your flat tire.

Impossible Foods is an example of a firm that has gained consumer support and investments from the likes of Bill Gates by marketing its products on the premise of sustainability, claiming that one of its burgers creates 87 % less greenhouse gas emissions compared to a beef burger.

He stumbled with less than 100 meters to go, appeared to completely lose gas and he was passed immediately by Michael Tinsley.

If Mr wenger built a team who never lost it tells me he can build a team remember a team consists of 11 different characters with different back grounds beliefs and aspirations and problems with another 11 to back them up I remember years ago the press used to talk about arsenal and not having English players on the field never the less I know off our own fatalities as such we were somehow always coming up little short by injuries to such Edwardo vanpercie and even gas diaby ramsy rosiscky carzola and many more and others that did nt seem to gel well I am not blind and I know we are not doing well but to suggest that Mr wenger docent have a clue is totally preposterous and disrespectful

The marketing and advertising companies make it seem so, make them seem so attractive by buying into the biggest pain points that parents have which are: searching for that one bottle that will cause: less air, less gas, less fussier colicky like symptoms.

This set by Playtex participated in a clinical study and is confirmed to deliver less gas and spit up that results in colic discomfort in some babies than other leading bottles with the same criteria.

The end effect is to get people to use less gas when it's in short supply, by immediately raising the price.

By contrast, gas in the Syracuse area was going for twenty cents less.

Households would pay # 600 less annually on their energy bills than having an electricity system largely dependent on increasingly expensive gas as advocated by the chancellor.

A document from Governor Cuomo's administration assessing the health impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

And that, according a just - issued report by the state comptroller, is because of the drop in gasoline prices, causing significantly less sales tax money to be collected at gas stations in Suffolk, as well as other areas of New York State.

A document from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration assessing the health impacts of hydrofracking, written less than a year ago, says the gas drilling process is likely safe if proper precautions are taken by the governor's environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

Tires that our partner companies are now working on can improve gas mileage by up to 10 percent, just by changing the tires, because this rubber rolls with less resistance.

Finding swamp gas on an alien world would be a lot less dramatic than hearing radio beeps from E.T., she concedes, but the message would be shocking all the same: We are surrounded by a living universe.

By removing so much gas from near the core, the bubbles make star formation there less likely, the team say.

By FRED PEARCE The large enterprises that mine coal and drill for oil and gas face a world increasingly determined to use less of their products.

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

There is relatively less interest in power - to - gas in the U.S., where hydrogen from electrolysis, even by taking advantage of cheap excess renewable energy, would have a tough time competing against abundant, low - cost shale gas.

Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing Earth to absorb less solar radiation.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

Led by graduate student Sandra Rincon and her advisor, Haluk Beyenal, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

Astronomers recently gauged the age of the Fermi bubbles less directly, by arguing that whatever produced them also irradiated a long strand of gas shed by two nearby galaxies.

Still, fueling a vehicle like the Clarity emits less than half the CO2 released by its gas - guzzling counterparts for a given distance, says John Turner of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

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.

After a short timescale of less than 1 billion years the star formation has been quenched by powerful gas outflows.»

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, something called a methyl radical.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

Furthermore, it is likely that Miller and Urey erred by simulating Earth's early atmosphere with gases containing hydrogen, which reacts easily, as opposed to carbon dioxide, a gas that is far less reactive but was probably far more plentiful at the time.

The Tufts researchers discovered that dispersing individual, isolated platinum atoms in much less costly copper surfaces can create a highly effective and cost - efficient catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of 1,3 butadiene, a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil.