Sentences with phrase «much higher carbon footprint»

Foods that arrive by air have a much higher carbon footprint than those that arrive by ship.

Combinations with five or six different devices notably resulted in a much higher carbon footprint, and are seen as unnecessarily carbon intensive and undesirable as they offered little more in terms of security than the WIDE combination.

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On a unit - cost basis alone, the desalination option is cheaper compared to pipeline plan, Ahmad reported, but it would use twice as much energy and its carbon footprint would be 48 percent higher.

It takes so much energy to make them that the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

It takes so much energy to make batteries the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

My historic and current carbon footprint is certainly much higher than most of humanity's.