Sentences with phrase «much waste gas»

The plants also used inefficient manufacturing processes to generate as much waste gas as possible, said Samuel LaBudde of the Environmental Investigation Agency, an organization based in Washington that has long spearheaded a campaign against what he called «an incredibly perverse subsidy.»

Not exact matches

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

But Wara discovered that offset sales from destruction of the gas were far more lucrative than the sale of the refrigerant responsible for creating the pollutant in the first place, giving factories a perverse incentive to produce as much waste as possible and then create projects that sell offsets to destroy it.

In theUnited States, 96 billion pounds of foodis wasted each year and much of it ends up in landfills where it emitsgreenhouse gases.

Earth's much thicker layer of low - level ozone, however, has a much larger contribution from the build - up of molecular oxygen beginning some 2.4 billion years ago from photosynthetic microbes excreting oxygen as a waste gas, which now along with plant life is constantly replenishing Earth's two - atom as well as three - stom ozone oxygen molecules.

It requires just enough fuel to stay at a specific RPM, but not too much that you increase RPM, waste gas, or stall out.

Had they matched the trade in price we wouldnt have wasted so much time and gas traveling to north charlotte.

One of the downsides, however, would be how much gas it wastes.

The sound of the 310 HP V8 engine makes me waste too much gas.

The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that idling wastes as much as 7/10 of a gallon of gas per hour.

It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP wasting YOUR time arguing with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.

Much of our food waste ends up in landfill where it rots releasing methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.

Puzzled at why a green conference was allowing so much printing to happen, I flipped the catalogue over and saw that it is printed by New Leaf Paper, and the stats on how much energy, water, trees, solid waste and greenhouse gasses were avoided by using the recycled, chlorine - free paper made me realize that a highly professional conference can be done in a very green way.

A bigger question is just how much the European Union's decision to disallow, as of next year, the waste gas credits in its immense carbon trading system will decrease their value.

Destroying the waste gas is cheap and simple, but it is hard to know exactly how much any one company has earned from doing so, since the market price for carbon credits has varied considerably with demand — from about $ 9 to nearly $ 40 per credit — and they can be sold at a discount through futures contracts.

Shale - gas has drawn much flack of late, for problems associated with its extraction - contaminated drinking water - wells, problems with waste disposal and even earthquakes.

Time to shrink oil, gas, coal to much smaller industry, before they waste any more money.

Animal waste contributes to greenhouse gases, but the quality of feed can impact how much.

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»

The 40 % of food that gets wasted from farm to plate creates 3.3 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases... and much of that is methane, which is much more potent than the more common carbon dioxide.

Time wasted running all over town, gas wasted and comparison shopping can take way too much time and energy.