Sentences with phrase «less nitrogen»

If their efficiency could be transferred to crops, we could grow more food in less time using less water and less nitrogen fertilizer.

The engine is designed to be environmentally friendly with about 90 percent less nitrogen oxide than other diesel engines.

By doing this, we absorb less nitrogen and can have more bottom time to enjoy your dives.

Emissions decreased as the proportion of soybeans in the diet increased, as soybeans require less nitrogen fertilization than corn grain.

For example, farmers would like to use less nitrogen fertilizer, because organic fertilizers are much more expensive compared to conventional fertilizers.

They help the soil stockpile nitrate, allowing farmers, in theory, to apply less nitrogen fertilizer on the next set of crops planted in that field.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

In 2014, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the increased use of natural gas combined cycles in power generation has led to 40 percent less nitrogen oxide emissions and 44 percent less sulfur oxides emissions since 1997.

Cows bred to produce less nitrogen in their urine are diverting this nutrient into the production of milk protein.

More biological nitrogen fixation, and less nitrogen through fertilizer, can also increase sustainability.

Recently, research has revealed bioenergy grasses such as Miscanthus and switchgrasses such as Alamo and Cave - in - Rock causes less nitrogen to be lost due to rain and irrigation than corn.

The models suggested that levels of air pollution would fall without the government having to do much as older diesel vehicles are replaced by newer ones that emit less nitrogen dioxide.

EANx does this by replacing some of the nitrogen in the air with oxygen, this means you absorb less nitrogen during a dive, which gives you longer no decompression limits.

The Nitrox - Enriched Air specialty course allows to extend the dive bottom time by absorving less nitrogen while diving.

A: The primary benefit of diving with Enriched Air (Nitrox) is that you take on less nitrogen into your body compared to diving with air.

Recent polling shows that 85 percent of Long Island voters strongly support tougher water quality standards if it means that less nitrogen pollution will enter our waters, and they understand that it's going to cost quite a few... clams.

A GM crop requiring less nitrogen would not only benefit the environment but also save farmers money.

«I found out we can use less nitrogen and get away with it through those studies,» Ortner said.

Crikey John, I didn't know Norway's city buses was run on biomethane a by - product of treated sewage which emits 78 percent less nitrogen oxide and 98 percent fewer fine particles two causes of respiratory illnesses and is 92 percent less noisy.

Hill reports that they applied 75 - 80 % less herbicide to the field, thanks to the clover outcompeting harmful weeds, and less nitrogen fertilizer because of the nutrients the corn gets from the clover.

«However, the greatest reduction in nitrogen leaching occurs when bioenergy crops displace other cropland or grassland, because energy crops consume more water and less nitrogen fertilizer than the crops and grasses that they replace, resulting in less water runoff and nitrogen loss.»

Many behind the project, however, assert that this new knowledge will help create varieties that will be more environmentally sound and even more specially tuned for each location (being more drought tolerant or requiring less nitrogen, for example).

The feat of introducing nitrogen fixation into corn and sorghum — or other genes that allow a crop to require less nitrogen — alone would cut costs and pollution markedly as well as drive higher yields.

Makemake is very much a Pluto analog — it has both methane and nitrogen detected on the surface, but unlike Pluto there is less nitrogen, so more methane atoms are in contact with each other.

Nitrox contains reduced levels of nitrogen compared to air and less nitrogen.

Would this reduce nitrous oxide emissions from the corn, assuming that less nitrogen fertilizer would lead to lower nitrous oxide emissions?