Sentences with phrase «percent less carbon dioxide»

In 2015 the economy was 15 percent larger than in 2005, but the country emitted 23 percent less carbon dioxide per dollar of GDP last year compared with 10 years prior.

On - board hydrogen fuel - cells could be up to 80 percent more fuel - efficient, and emit 45 percent less carbon dioxide, than today's internal - combustion engine.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

The facelifted Mazda Demio will produce 11 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2), 6 percent less nitrous oxide (NOx), 5 percent fewer non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and 7 percent less sulphur oxide (SOx) over its lifetime than the previous model.

The facelifted Mazda Axela will produce five percent less carbon dioxide (CO2), three percent less nitrous oxide (NOx), two percent fewer non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), two percent less sulphur oxide (SOx), and three percent less particulate matter over its lifetime than the previous model

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.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

In 2005, residents of Portland, Oregon — where regulations encourage infill development — emitted 35 percent less carbon dioxide than the average resident of the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas.

Not exact matches

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

The result: Ice containing 2 percent carbon dioxide was 38 percent less resistant to fracturing than pure ice, the study found.

That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

Exhaled air contains 17 percent oxygen, less than 21 percent of fresh air, and 4 percent carbon - dioxide, which can inhibit cardiac contraction.

Since carbohydrate is richer in oxygen than fat, its metabolism requires 25 percent less water and generates 50 percent more carbon dioxide.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

But because they are released in tiny traces, they currently contribute less than 1 percent of the climate - warming effect from human - generated carbon dioxide.

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

Citing but one example, 2.5 billion years ago the sun's brightness was 20 percent to 30 percent less than it is today (compared to the 2 percent change in energy balance associated with a doubling of carbon - dioxide levels) yet the oceans were unfrozen and the temperatures appear to have been similar to today's.

The carbon cost of such expansion, however, is low: to bring electricity to those without it would increase global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent.

Preventing carbon dioxide levels from rising to potentially dangerous levels could cost less far less than originally projected — less 1 percent of gross world product as of 2050 — but a major shift in the way energy is found, transformed, transported and used will be necessary to prevent a severe energy crisis within the next century, say researchers from the The Earth Institute.

Lackner and Sachs estimate that a program to moderate the Earth's carbon dioxide levels could cost less than 1 percent of projected gross world product as of 2050.

In 2010, the Yale Project on Climate Change released a study claiming that «less than half of Americans (45 percent) understand that carbon dioxide traps heat near the Earth's surface, and a majority think that the hole in the ozone layer contributes to global warming.»

Among claims that the US airline industry is moving more people more efficiently and much more quietly than in decades past, it also claims that the «US commercial aviation industry has improved its energy efficiency, moving twelve percent more people and twenty - two percent more freight than it did in 2000, while burning five percent less fuel and producing 10 million tons less carbon dioxide.»

«If the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operation.

Nicholas Akins, chief executive of AEP, one of the nation's largest carbon dioxide emitters, said that his company is already producing 21 percent less CO2 than it did in 2005 and that it plans to retire another 6,600 megawatts of coal plants by late 2015 that will bring it to a level 25 percent below 2005.

So, if you can get 10 miles on less than a gallon of diesel, the carbon emissions will be less than gas; if the 35 percent efficiency upgrade holds (depending on your truck, how big the load is, etc.), then those 10 miles would produce about 14 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions — less than the 19.4 produced from burning a gallon of gas.

I am not holding up China as a model of, of environmental activism, but what the reality here is, is that the United States with less than 5 percent of the world's population, contributes to 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.

-LSB-...] carbon dioxide output will be less than that of today's cleanest production cars and 75 percent less than that of competing vehicles, on average.»

Illinois's power plants have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 3 percent between 2005 and 2012, mostly by using more natural gas and renewables and less coal.

Meanwhile, according to the American Public Transportation Association, mass transit produces 95 percent less carbon monoxide, 90 percent less volatile organic compounds, and about half as much carbon dioxide as private vehicles.