Sentences with phrase «more than that of co2»

HFC - 23, a potent greenhouse gas with global warming potential of 14,800 times more than that of CO2, is a by - product of HCFC - 22, which is used in industrial refrigeration.

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This will help to save more than one million tons of CO2 when compared with a «conventional» coal fired plant.

The Volkswagen Group has brought down CO2 emissions of its EU 27 new vehicle fleet from 166 grams (2006) to 144 grams (2010), corresponding to a reduction of more than 13 %.

Despite her criticism of car makers, Merkel rejected a blanket ban on diesel autos, saying that a gasoline - powered vehicle actually emitted more CO2 than a diesel one.

Flying across country puts more than two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — like driving 7,500 miles.

The majority of them come from countries, such as the Philippines, India or China, which are warmer, poorer, and more densely populated than is Canada - and where the typical person produces far fewer CO2 emissions on a per capita basis.

The pipeline would facilitate 80 - 100 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which is more than BC currently emits in total.

There is evidence that California orange groves are about 30 percent more productive today than they were 150 years ago because of the increase of atmospheric CO2.

For an average - size store, energy costs can top more than $ 200,000 per year and emit the same amount of CO2 as 360 vehicles.

The company prevents the release of more than 1,189 tons of CO2 and saves roughly $ 3.5 million a year in trucking costs annually, Planter says.

Worldwide, livestock generate between 14.5 and 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — mainly methane and nitrous oxide, which are more harmful to the climate than even CO2.

Sustainability efforts made by some of Europe's leading food manufacturers slashed CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations by more than half in 2016 compared to a 1990 baseline, says the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).

Through this process, more than 150,000 tons of agrochemical empty plastic bottles have been collected from the field since 2002, saving an estimated 374,000 barrels of crude oil and more than 160,000 tons of CO2 equivalents that were not belched into the atmosphere.

«Meat may be delicious, but the way cows, pigs, sheep and chickens are reared uses lots of fossil fuels and creates lots of CO2 — more than the car industry.

It has been suggested that purchasing a $ 15 Wind Power Card can offset the more than 1,000 pounds of CO2 emissions that are used in hospital deliveries.

For now, the increases in CO2 soaked up by new vegetation — including trees now growing where shrubs used to dominate — more than compensate for the amounts of the gas released by thawing permafrost, the team says.

Today's construction industry is more environmentally - conscious than ever, and the amount of CO2 emissions released by vehicles is a significant factor in deciding which ones to use during an assignment.

Watercourses, and in particular the giant Amazon, were thus considered as net sources of emissions, releasing more CO2 than they absorbed.

So, presently there are relatively more frequent high CO2 times because of the seagrass, but after 2060 there are relatively fewer high CO2 times with seagrass than there would be with no seagrass.

More than 25 percent of CO2 released globally between 1850 and 2012 came from the United States, Department of Justice lawyers said.

Plankton may absorb more of the CO2 causing climate change than previously thought, according to new research

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

To avoid more than two degrees Celsius of global warming, CO2 pollution would have to stop growing soon

Allwood points out that more than half of our industrial CO2 emissions come from producing and processing five sorts of stuff: steel, cement, plastic, paper and aluminium.

Part of the problem is that the benefits of better plant growth, thanks to higher carbon dioxide concentrations (plants use CO2 for photosynthesis) are more than offset by the impact of higher temperatures and differing precipitation.

However, they never witnessed more than 15 percent of the injected CO2 actually escaping from the seafloor.

More detailed measurements for the 1980s suggest that because of this damage, US forests absorbed up to 18 per cent less CO2 than they otherwise would have — even though the decade experienced below - average hurricane damage.

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

Three storms that raged near Bermuda in 1995 boosted the flow of CO2 into the air over part of the Atlantic Ocean by more than half, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

Caldeira explained: «If a power plant is burning continuously, within 3 to 5 months, depending on the type of power plant, the CO2 from the power plant is doing more to heat the Earth than the fires in its boiler.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

But burning such fuels accounts for more than eight billion metric tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere yearly.

To test how rising CO2 might affect their defense mechanism, Weiss exposed stock Daphnias in the lab to levels of CO2 ranging from just above the maximum level seen in global freshwater to about 60 percent more than that maximum, to mimic a worst - case scenario.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Or about it escaping directly to the surface and settling in a smothering cloud on a home or town, as happened in 1986 when Lake Nyos in Cameroon burped out a pure, invisible cloud of natural CO2 that killed more than 1,700 people.

From logging, agricultural production and other economic activities, deforestation adds more atmospheric CO2 than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world's roads

Since then, Statoil has stored more than 12 million tons of CO2 in such formations.

The research demonstrates that the natural resistance of the cap rock minerals to the acidic carbonated waters makes burying CO2 underground a far more predictable and secure process than previously estimated.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

All told, they have injected some 300 billion cubic meters of the gas since the 1970s, according to R. Tim Bradley, Kinder Morgan's president of CO2, to raise the yield from oil fields by some 650,000 extra barrels a day — more than 10 percent of daily U.S. total production.

In a presentation at a recent ocean acidification conference, Tatters reported that the more CO2 and the less silicate, the higher the diatom's toxin production — more than doubling at the level of dissolved CO2 scientists expect the oceans to reach by 2100.

These reservoirs are more than enough for the 3.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted every year by the roughly 4,600 large industrial sources in the country.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

Given the present energy mix that means Mantovani adds more than 3,000 metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

The Department of Energy estimated in May 2007 that a new power plant burning pulverized coal and equipped with amine scrubbers to capture 90 percent of the CO2 would make electricity at a cost of more than $ 114 per megawatt - hour (compared with just $ 63 per MWh without CO2 capture).