Sentences with phrase «less methane production»

The quality of food is better, so more of the hydrocarbon goes to fat — less methane production per unit of food, but still a lot of methane.

«Luckily, the opposite is also true: if we emit less greenhouse gas and the temperature drops, we gain a bonus in the form of less methane production.

Not exact matches

Molecular nitrogen (N2) dominates the atmosphere (at altitudes of less than 1800 kilometers or so), whereas methane (CH4), acetylene (C2H2), ethylene (C2H4), and ethane (C2H6) are abundant minor species and likely feed the production of an extensive haze that encompasses Pluto.

While leakage rates of «fugitive methane» are currently around 4 percent according to EPA, they need to be at less than 1 percent of total production.

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

Although the study acknowledges that methane sources come from a range of natural and man - made activities — oil extraction, natural gas leaks, wetlands, landfills, warming permafrost — researchers say they found less evidence that the boom in oil and gas production is the primary driver of the spike.

If methane is present on Mars, we're talking about the production of just 10 or 20 tons per year — about 50 million times less than the methane produced by life on Earth.

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.

The production of methane is accelerated because stationary pools of water contain much less oxygen than a flowing river interacting with the atmosphere and microbes thrive in low - oxygen environments.

In the industrialized world, there is less production of the sorts of waste products which yield methane than there was 30 years ago.

Any federal rules to tackle our non-existent methane problem will only complicate existing industry - led efforts, resulting in less domestic energy production and thus higher energy costs for American families.

Work to assure that there is less waste in the actual extraction and production process — such as driving down methane leakage during gas production.

Cutting methane leakage rates from natural gas systems to less than 1 percent of total production would ensure that the climate impacts of natural gas are lower than coal or diesel fuel over any time horizon.

Another study takes on methane leaks from natural gas production, saying that because of these natural gas vehicles are less green than claimed, though replacing coal power plants with natural gas will help the climate.