Sentences with phrase «other less carbon»

By betting heavily on energy efficiency, on wind, solar and other renewables, as well as other less carbon - intensive technologies, these countries are increasingly leading the way.

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On the other hand, if higher fuel taxes work as intended and get drivers to burn less carbon, then those people will find themselves ahead.

Not only does Ripple milk boast lower sugar content than most other milk, it uses 25 times less water than milk to produce and has half the carbon footprint.

Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

«The goal of our work was to develop an alternative approach to making ammonia, but the insights that have come from this collaboration between our research groups can be applied to other difficult chemical processes, such as converting carbon dioxide into a less harmful and more useful product.

«In other words, if greenness declines, this is an indication that less carbon will be removed from the atmosphere.

The system also uses much less water than other types of carbon capture proposals, the company said.

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

Plug - ins use about a third of the fuel that a standard hybrid does, which means that the cars themselves emit less carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

Burning gas emits less carbon dioxide than burning other fossil fuels.

This is fair to all, and the poor come out ahead because they burn less carbon than other people do.

Other factors come into play: Increasing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are making all oceans more acidic, forcing species to use more energy to adapt, leaving them with less energy to reproduce and grow.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

The plane's three - piece wing spar and some other components were made from carbon fiber tapes that each weigh less than a tenth of an ounce per square foot — one - third the weight of a sheet of paper.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

Goddard and Gray created two environments for the yeast in their lab — one containing relatively little carbon at an uncomfortably hot 37 °C, the other limited for nitrogen instead, at a less stressful 30 °C but with an «osmotic stress» caused by an unusual balance of salts.

Earth's average temperature has remained more or less steady since 2001, despite rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — a trend that has perplexed most climate scientists.

Those simulations, which included nitrogen limitations in northern hemisphere soils and phosphorus limitations in the tropics, predicted that land plants will absorb 23 % less carbon than is projected by other models.

Millet is a so - called C4 plant, which has a very efficient photosynthetic system for capturing carbon dioxide, whereas most other plants that grow in northern China are less efficient C3 plants.

She and others have also proposed Colstrip explore less carbon - intensive ways to send power down the valuable twin, 500 - kilovolt transmission lines originating at the plant.

Moreover, if the new rice supplies less carbon and other nutrients to the soil, farmers might eventually want to use more nitrogen - based fertilizers, resulting in the release of nitrous oxide, another strong greenhouse gas.

On a sprawling roof that covers most of a city block a kind of park has been laid, sucking up carbon dioxide and other air pollution, filtering rainfall, making it less acidic.

A new report published today by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Sheffield shows that global carbon emissions could be cut by one gigatonne per year (3 % of global emissions) in less than five years if other countries followed the same strategy.

«Because the carbon dioxide levels fluctuate greatly due to the flow conditions in the fjord, organisms may be adapted to elevated levels and suffer less than their counterparts in other waters», the biologist supposes.

So more carbon dioxide means less carbonates for shell building by swimming snails and other creatures.

Increased autism risk was also linked to other maternal gene variants related to less efficient one - carbon metabolism, but only when the mother did not take the prenatal vitamins in the early months before and immediately after conception.

It also supports over the counter sales, allows either caterers and schools to justifiably claim that the containers they sell can be recovered for recycling after - use, and also carries numerous other benefits; such as improved janitor utilisation (so less time's spent on litter control / cleaning), reduction in skip use as materials are removed separately for recycling and / or are stored in a compacted form, and reduction of carbon emissions within the recovery chain.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

The Zafira and Combo CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) produce almost no soot particles, 20 percent less carbon dioxide than a comparable gasoline model and an up to 80 percent reduction in other harmful emissions.

But there are other, less expensive options too in the Mansory catalog... like a new steering wheel combining leather and carbon, but also available in leather / leather or leather / alcantara, and if you change the original steering wheel why not opt for carbon fiber shift paddles to match the special carbon fiber dashboard trim, dashboard pod cover, central console frame and door handles... even the hexagon air vents on top of the dashboard receive a carbon fiber finish at Mansory.

Other models that might be unveiled are a new efficient diesel C - Class that will be on the market by 2011 that uses less than five liters of fuel per 100 km and only emits less than 130g of carbon - dioxide per km.

European carmakers have invested heavily in diesel engines, which produce less carbon dioxide but more of other pollutants blamed for causing respiratory disease than petrol engines.

$ 42k might be a lot, but this is a BMW — and this particular BMW is the first mass production vehicle with a carbon fiber body, which rests atop an aluminum chassis, giving it a weight 500 pounds less than other EVs.

Admittedly, a carbon tub, performance suspension and sticky, stiff sidewalled tires will never be luxury car smooth, but the GT certainly gives up nothing to other supercars and is noticeably less jarring than many track - focused production cars (GT2 RS, M3 GTS, ZL1 1LE, etc.).

While the exposed carbon - fiber elements and windowed hood symbolize the car's character, there are numerous other design details that are less obvious yet no less important to the ZR1's performance.

I've tried to choose some of the lesser known hotels and have (where possible) focused on boutique hotels, where each of the rooms available is unique (rather than carbon copies of each other).

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

We need to use less carbon and other materials, create less waste, create more real wealth and quality of life.

On your other point that «the only viable way to remove carbon from the atmosphere — ,» I offer my approach which is, «The most viable way to reduce CO2 from the atmosphere is to put a lot less into it and then let nature work through our past excesses.»

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

Mixed farming using human and animal labor is superior and would emit less carbon among other advantages.

What the skeptics have really done so far is use simple models to observe the «missing sink,» which other carbon cycle modelers discovered and named years ago (and more or less attributed to NH terrestrial biosphere).

In fact, that all things green love carbon - dioxide rich environments is the ONLY thing we KNOW about the effects of increase CO2 levels, other than the fact that higher and higher levels of CO2 produce increasingly lesser and lesser amounts of heating due to the «greenhouse effect».

One driver of temperatures in this region is the abundance and variability of ozone, but water vapor, volcanic aerosols, and dynamical changes such as the Quasi - Biennial Oscillation (QBO) are also significant; anthropogenic increases in other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide play a lesser but significant role in the lower stratosphere.

What are other ways smart technologies are already allowing you to live a less carbon - intensive lifestyle?

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

The same for land occupation and sea algues: a doubling of CO2 will increase the amount of carbon fixed over decades, but that is less than double: even with all other necessities available in unlimited quantities (which are the limiting factors in many cases), that gives about 20 - 40 % extra growth, not 100 %.

It is a very gross assumption that the carbon cycle varies by less than 0.02 % p.a. because few — if any — other processes in nature are that stable.

Those whose «carbon footprint» is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others, less virtuous than themselves.