Sentences with phrase «much less pollution»

If large cities would just clean up their own act, there would be much less pollution worldwide.

These diesels are quiet, almost clatter - and vibration - free and produce much less pollution.

Engineering and Technology Magazine — African researchers have developed a stove that burns rice husks while emitting much less pollution than conventional wood - burning stoves.

Not exact matches

We are less happy than most of them, so much of our pollution is likely unnecessary and counterproductive.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

Household air pollution is the fourth - highest - ranked risk worldwide, but of much less consequence in the United States and Canada, where it's ranked 24th and marked on the grid in coral green.

Many Olympians are also planning to live and train in South Korea, he says, which is in a similar time zone to Beijing and has similar heat and humidity conditions, but boasts much less air pollution than the Chinese city.

But much less is known about diffuse nutrient pollution that enters the bay after running off of farms, for example.

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.

Nitrogen pollution receives much less notice but is a dramatic example of how human activities now dominate many of the chemical, physical and biological processes that make this plant so amenable to human life.

You have a much better chance of seeing them in the wilderness as there is less light pollution.

They also diminish noise and air pollution, remove traffic jams and require much less parking space.

Coastal development and mangrove removal change the natural tendencies of the coastal waters and high bacteria counts and other pollutants can affect coral much less estuaries whose rivers carry industrial pollution.

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

As I noted above, we can not answer «how much» questions, we can only say «less (pollution) is better.»»

I am all for making fossil fuels cleaner, and much work has already been done to make various fossil fuel devices (coal - fired power stations, internal combustion engines, etc) emit less pollution like NOx, SOx, Hg, Pb, and particulates.

«Despite this pollution, the state of Alabama does not require these plants to monitor for numerous toxic heavy metals typically discharged into the Black Warrior River, much less to control them,» the report says.

The opportunities for improvement are even greater in rapidly developing economies such as China, which now uses much more nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer much less efficiently than either the United States or Europe, and at a much higher cost in pollution and human health.

After six years of research, demonstration airplanes use half the fuel, produce 75 % less pollution and are much quieter — noise is just one - eighth of today's levels, says NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation team.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

Remarkable as it sounds, this is actually feasible at low cost, and with a major side benefit: much less air and water pollution as well.

He also found that much of the effect was due to natural aerosols which would not be affected by human activities, so the cooling effect of changes in industrial pollution would be much less than he had calculated.

But despite the major impacts of the federal coal leasing program on the price of coal and carbon pollution, it has been largely administered by state BLM offices, with minimal oversight from the Interior Department, much less the White House.

Bitumen production releases twice as much air pollution as conventional oil, and Alberta's emissions regulations are less stringent then the international standards.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear energy produces four times less carbon pollution per unit of energy than solar farms, 3.4 times less than solar roofs, three times less than geothermal, and half as much as hydroelectric dams.

It would involve gradually eliminating pollution from factories and tailpipes; replacing them with artificial aerosols in the upper atmosphere where they're much less likely to damage human health; and then hope nothing (else) goes seriously awry.

Natural gas has about half the carbon of coal, and burning it creates much less air pollution.

I looked at smaller cars, but they either had pollution / gas mileage that was just as bad and were more cramped inside or they were much less reliable.

The question is - After the five, or ten, or whatever year elimination of fossil carbon pollution is accomplished in your «plan» to avoid APOCALYPSE, what energy resources will be available to minimally sustain seven billion people, much less «lifestyle maintenance?»

High - efficiency wood stoves do a much better job of providing heat, with less pollution, than an old - fashioned fireplace.