Sentences with phrase «much gas develops»

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Adding to it are ever tougher government constraints on greenhouse - gas emissions: Europe, China, and much of the rest of the developing world are moving to curb carbon even as President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

The U.S.'s shale gas industry, though, is more developed than Canada's, and much of the infrastructure needed to deep - freeze the gas and load it in liquid form onto tanker ships already exists.

The opportunity for the Calgary - based company, which produces about 5 % of the gas in North America, is not so much to grow demand of a commodity, but to develop new business lines around these new applications.

Certainly, it is going to be needed to some degree, we have substantial amounts of coal and nuclear and natural gas — central generation currently in this country — but because of the distributed generation from wind, solar, geothermal and hydrokinetic, I think we are going to have to develop a different grid that can accommodate that in a much more efficient way.

The solution Boyd hit upon was to use a system first developed in the 1960s to generate a hydrogen plasma — that is, hydrogen gas that has been electrified to separate the electrons from the protons — to remove the copper oxide at much lower temperatures.

China and much of the developing world would like to see industrialized countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, but analysts say such drastic cuts are unlikely to fly with U.S. politicians.

«Ifbattery is developing an energy storage system that would enable drivers to fill up their electric or hybrid vehicles with fluid electrolytes to re-energize spent battery fluids much like refueling their gas tanks.»

But the technology is not just useful for so - called stranded natural gas in the developing world; in Alaska, much natural gas is simply reinjected back into the oil wells from which it came either to boost oil production or simply avoid atmospheric venting or flaring.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

«As a result, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock keep going up and up in much of the developing world.»

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

«It will be much more interesting to see what the agency says when it actually develops a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — and therefore has to estimate the effects of that proposal.»

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

After Exxon got the rights to develop the Natuna gas field, company researchers determined that the project site was contaminated with much more carbon dioxide than normal.

Indeed, sometime after the tenuous gas of the Solar nebula began collapsing into the proto - Sun within its host molecular cloud, a strong magnetic field developed that was instrumental in transporting rotational energy away from its core region in bi-polar jets of gas so that centrifugal forces created by the nebula's collapse did not grow so much as to halt continuing gravitational contraction.

Hyundai also says the Portico is «hybrid ready,» so if the company should develop gas - electric hybrid technology, it could arrive wearing a body much like this.

Unfortunately, after taking ten years to develop a much improved battery for use in cars, the gas powered cars had improved so much that electric vehicles were much less common, but his invention still proved useful for lighting railway cars, maritime buoys and miners» lamps.

If you give them too much asparagus, they might develop diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, or foul - smelling gas!

However, he is much more likely to develop this condition when he eats foods that are known to cause excess gas.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Now, the United States, as a highly developed country, as I said before, per capita, consumes much more energy and emits much more greenhouse gases for each individual than does China.

HFC emissions (excluding HFC - 23 by - product) currently account for around 1 % of global greenhouse gas emissions and as much as 3 % in many developed countries.

But the difference also suggests that the economic gap between developed and developing countries — one measured as much by greenhouse - gas emissions as by standard economic statistics — has narrowed significantly.

Experiences in developed nations such as Japan could provide good examples for achieving public consensus on coal use by showing how CCT uses coal more efficiently; that it is much cleaner than conventional plants; and that emissions from plants using CCT are very close to that of gas - fired power plants.

If little is done to reduce emissions from developing countries, experts fear that by 2030 they could account for as much as 60 % of all greenhouse gas emissions.

In regards to Kyoto, what I always try to emphasize is that it is not so much about the specific emission cuts as it is about putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions so that the market will respond by developing the technologies to minimize (and / or sequester) those emissions.

Advanced building codes in developing countries can be implemented quickly, preventing decades of much higher greenhouse gas emissions.

Some projects don't deliver as many credits as promised; it turns out that landfills in the developing world don't yield as much methane gas as expected because poor people don't throw away as much food as well - fed Westerners do.

Ironically, climate change is receiving the least coverage in the media in developing countries — areas which have not contributed much to greenhouse gas emissions but which will be the first to suffer the worst effects of climate change.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

After Exxon got the rights to develop the Natuna gas field, company researchers determined that the project site was contaminated with much more carbon dioxide than normal.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

It also said that while there is no doubt that «people cause climate change,» the developing world has been responsible for a much smaller share of world's greenhouse gas emissions than developed countries.

The power needs in their near - future will also be far greater than today, so today's existing natural gas infrastructure won't do as much to address power variability as it does in developed countries (and developing countries generally have little or no existing nuclear baseload power to help out).

«Those who want to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, reduce deforestation or increase the ability of people to spend quality time with their friends, families and communities will need to spend as much time thinking about the cultural drivers of the problems they seek to solve as developing policy solutions to them.»

it may be much more cost effective to reduce greenhouse gases in developing countries than in their developed brethren), it may be possible to develop an unusual coalition between corporations, developing countries, and environmental organizations which would collectively press their governments to forge international agreements.