Sentences with phrase «of metric tons»

As per a date presented by Bloomberg, the investment in bullion - backed exchange - traded products has increased up to some thousands of metric tons this month, which is the highest since 2013.

Peatlands — bogs, swamps, and mires — act as vital carbon sinks, keeping billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Bottom graph, labeled «Carbon Emissions,» is captioned «reconstruction of past emissions of CO2 as a result of land clearing and fossil fuel combustion since about 1750 (in billions of metric tons of carbon per year).»

Carbon Emissions: reconstruction of past emissions of CO2 as a result of land clearing and fossil fuel combustion since about 1750 (in billions of metric tons of carbon per year).

There, you will find the figure 8738 (millions of metric tons) for the year 2009.

The increase in production was in millions of metric tons, not billions.

And they're preventing millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere while they're at it.

Using existing, affordable technology, new trucks could be up to 40 percent more efficient compared to today, reducing annual fuel consumption by billions of gallons and preventing millions of metric tons of global warming emissions.

A coal - export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate - changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according...

«(A) review and, if appropriate, revise the carbon dioxide equivalent values established under this section or section 711 (b)(2), based on a determination of the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide that makes the same contribution to global warming over 100 years as 1 metric ton of each greenhouse gas; and

The Administrator shall establish and distribute to the destroying entity a quantity of destruction offset credits equal to 0.8 times the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents of reduction achieved through the destruction.

«(i) the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions avoided through capture and sequestration of emissions by the project, as determined pursuant to such methodology as the Administrator shall prescribe by regulation; and

«(A) review, and if appropriate, revise the carbon dioxide equivalent values established for class II, group II substances based on a determination of the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide that makes the same contributions to global warming over 100 years as 1 metric ton of each class II, group II substance; and

Simultaneously with establishing the list of class II, group II substances, and simultaneously with any addition to that list, the Administrator shall publish the carbon dioxide equivalent value of each listed class II, group II substance, based on a determination of the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide that makes the same contribution to global warming over 100 years as 1 metric ton of each class II, group II substance.

We shiver to think of the metric tons of money it took to execute the project, which involved 3,500 man - hours of labor at Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works in Coventry.

Dance; 18 19 Year Old; Denmark sex tube Plumper; White; German hd Hardcore; Uncut On October 13th, 2017, a massive cache of an estimated 300,000 copper coins for a total weight of metric tons were discovered during construction work

The Administrator shall establish and distribute to the destroying entity a quantity of destruction offset credits equal to 0.8 times the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents of reduction achieved through the destruction.

The sum of these efforts in developing countries will reduce growth in warming emissions by billions of metric tons of warming gases per year over the coming decade.

A tiny microbe one day could devour the millions of metric tons of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, that pile up in landfills each year.

An analysis of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands of metric tons per degree Celsius increase.

More than 2000 times as massive as the blast that ripped open Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Indonesian «super-volcano» Toba ejected millions of metric tons of volcanic ash, sulfur, and other debris into the atmosphere 74,000 years ago.

The thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from power plants each year doesn't have to go into the atmosphere.

Earth System Threshold Measure Boundary Current Level Preindustrial Climate Change CO2 Concentration 350 ppm 387 ppm 280 ppm Biodiversity Loss Extinction Rate 10 pm > 100 pm * 0.1 - one pm Nitrogen Cycle N2 Tonnage 35 mmt ** 121 mmt 0 Phosphorous Cycle Level in Ocean 11 mmt 8.5 - 9.5 mmt — 1 mmt Ozone Layer O3 Concentration 276 DU # 283 DU 290 DU Ocean Acidification Aragonite ^ ^ Levels 2.75 2.90 3.44 Freshwater Usage Consumption 4,000 km3 ^ 2,600 km3 415 km3 Land Use Change Cropland Conversion 15 km3 11.7 km3 Low Aerosols Soot Concentration TBD TBD TBD Chemical Pollution TBD TBD TBD TBD * pm = per million ** mmt = millions of metric tons #DU = dobson unit ^ km3 = cubic kilometers ^ ^ Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

Millions of metric tons reach the oceans, yet researchers are finding between 6,350 and 245,000 metric tons floating on the surface — a mere fraction of the total.

Espinal noted that millions of metric tons of food ends up in landfills per year and costs local governments $ 1.5 billion a year.

«Further, the plant helps avoid millions of metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions each year and serves as a clean energy bridge to meeting the state's 50 % renewable energy goal by 2030.»

The first null result this summer came from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a third of a metric ton of liquid xenon held at a frosty − 100 degrees Celsius inside a giant, water - filled tank buried one and a half kilometers under the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Consisting of a metric ton of water sunk into the floor of Frieze, filled with spray paint and items ranging from a wineglass and belt to spring onions and plastic rings, it's an eye - catching example of the way in which the artist uses «the detritus of everyday consumerism» in her work.

Not exact matches

Oregon produces between 132 tons (120 metric tons) and 900 tons (816 metric tons) more marijuana than what Oregonians can conceivably consume, the report said, using statistics from the legal industry and estimates of illicit grows.

The bust tops a high - seas seizure of 7.6 metric tons of cocaine made in 1999, and the operation follows a bust in December of 6 metric tons of cocaine also in Algeciras, the Mediterranean's largest port and a transshipment hub used by firms to unload cargo and redistribute it in Europe or the Middle East.

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Pretty soon, he says, the global industry will be up and running and major corporations will have energy efficient grows outside, producing metric ton after metric ton of high - grade marijuana at a low cost production.

S - IC) measured 42 meters (138 feet) tall and 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter and had a dry weight of 131 metric tons (289,000 lbs) and a total weight of over 2,300 metric tons (5.1 million lbs) when fully fueled.

Fully fueled, the Saturn V weighed 2,950 metric tons (6.5 million pounds), and it had a payload capacity estimated at 118,000 kg (261,000 lbs) to LEO but was designed for the purpose of sending 41,000 kg (90,000 lbs) to translunar insertion.

In fact, by 2020, Mars and Barry Callebaut predict that we will want 1 million more metric tons of chocolate than the industry will be able to churn out.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

By way of comparison, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were 6.5 billion metric tons.

The rule Pruitt wants to repeal is projected to cut 6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases over a 13 - year window.

We like metrics, tons of numbers.»

McDonald's has announced its first targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, claiming it will «prevent 150 million metric tons of emissions by 2030.»

«A DPRK - flagged tanker, SAM MA 2 owned by Korea Samma Shipping Company, conducted a ship - to - ship transfer of oil and fabricated documents in mid-October 2017, loading almost 1,600 metric tons of fuel oil in one transaction,» the United Nations said.

Under another agreement, Washington and Moscow each are required to render unusable for weapons 34 metric tons of plutonium.

It takes a metric ton of concentration to resist slamming on the brakes, so I play the role of distracted driver.

In Energy Department facilities around the country, there are 54 metric tons of surplus plutonium.

A place in the sun Photovoltaic (PV) panels installed throughout the campus divert more than 600 metric tons of carbon each year, equivalent to removing 125 cars from the road annually.

Under an agreement with Russia, the United States was to convert 34 metric tons of plutonium into fuel for civilian reactors that generate electricity.

CNN Money's commodities index had cocoa futures at $ 2,746 per metric ton as of 11:59 am ET.

By April, the numbers had grown to more than two metric tons (4,409.2 pounds) of cannabis and 230 buyers and sellers.

On Saturday, police aided by dogs discovered more than a metric ton of cocaine hidden in a container with a commercial banana shipment (a popular smuggling method for traffickers) destined for Belgium.