Sentences with phrase «lower carbon content»

Right now, our cap and trade program is forced to assign unspecified market purchases a carbon cost that reflects a lower carbon content than coal because we can't actually see which plants are providing that generation.

Crude from the Bakken Formation has a lower carbon content than the foreign sources that help fuel the West Coast.

The formation of the Earth from chondritic rock material in the inner solar system can explain the relatively low carbon content.

The researchers found that Arctic soils containing low carbon content — which make up 87 percent of the soil in permafrost regions globally — not only remove methane from the atmosphere, but also become more efficient as temperatures increase.

As a result, lignite has a low carbon content (25 % to 35 %).

And, due to economics, there is already a shift under way to nat gas, the lowest carbon content of the fossil fuels, at least in the US.

Not exact matches

Not only does Ripple milk boast lower sugar content than most other milk, it uses 25 times less water than milk to produce and has half the carbon footprint.

In principle, a controlled atmosphere high in carbon dioxide and low in oxygen content slows down the rate of respiration, which may extend shelf life of any respiring fruit during storage.

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

Although plants grown in high levels of carbon dioxide — say, double the current atmospheric concentrations — initially grow rapidly, the growth tapers off within weeks and the plants wind up with a low protein content.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

The jelly carbon content is lower on average than that of phytoplankton or marine snow.

Shaping the future Can this mutually threatening scenario change the content of school curriculums to equip those who do not bear responsibility, but who will suffer the consequences, with the knowledge and commitment to help to shape a low carbon clean energy and technology future?

They reduce organic compounds, odors, phenols, toxins, medications, dissolved metals, phosphates and silicates, and their high - capacity pelletized activated carbon has a very low ash content and rinses clean quickly.

Its high - capacity palletized activated carbon has a very low ash content and rinses clean quickly.

(Don't take that as good news, because it has correspondingly lower energy content so you burn more of it as compared to higher carbon coal like Anthracite; Powder River coal is mined largely because of its low sulfur content).

Two stable carbon isotopes occur naturally, C ^ 12 being present in 98.9 % of the atmospheric CO2 and the heavier C ^ 13 occurring in 1.1 % (this latter percentage is decreasing due to the burning of fossil fuels, which releases CO2 with a lower C ^ 13 content).

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The basic options are to have individuals consume less, consume things that require less energy, use energy sources that have lower ‐ carbon content, or have fewer people.

Zhaozhong Feng, of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues looked at the results of eight experiments in four continents on crops, grasslands and forests, and found that as carbon dioxide levels go up, the nitrogen content of the crop is lowered.

In another journal, Geohealth, Dr Myers and a different set of colleagues warn that higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are also associated with lower iron content in food crop staples.

Figure 9 - A Effect of the doubling of the carbon dioxide content of the air: note on the lowest graphic the 7 °C hot spot at 250 mbar and on the middle graphic +12 °C in winter on the rim of Antarctica and on the arctic polar cycle, +5 °C over the Sahara, +4 °C over the whole Pacific ocean.

The latest government figures show that Poland generates more than 80 percent of its electricity from coal, a growing share of which is in the form of lignite, a low - grade mineral with high carbon content that is in ample supply in Poland's mines.

-- If undersea volcanoes emit sufficient amounts of acids (in the enormous carbonate buffer masses of the deep oceans), then the pH of the oceans could lower somewhat, but that would show up in a lower total carbon (DIC: CO2 + - bi-carbonates) content of the oceans as they release CO2 to the atmosphere.

We have two new entries to the long (and growing) list of papers appearing the in recent scientific literature that argue that the earth's climate sensitivity — the ultimate rise in the earth's average surface temperature from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide content — is close to 2 °C, or near the low end of the range of possible values presented by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Scientific confidence of the occurrence of climate change include, for example, that over at least the last 50 years there have been increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2; increased nitrogen and soot (black carbon) deposition; changes in the surface heat and moisture fluxes over land; increases in lower tropospheric and upper ocean temperatures and ocean heat content; the elevation of sea level; and a large decrease in summer Arctic sea ice coverage and a modest increase in Antarctic sea ice coverage.

The high carbon dioxide emission factor for anthracite reflects the coal's relatively small hydrogen content, which lowers its heating value.

There's a low - carbon fuel standard to limit the carbon content of imported fuel.

Blend eco-friendly, ethically sourced and low - carbon elements for rooms that celebrate the beautiful, the balanced and the contented.

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