Sentences with phrase «pounds of carbon dioxide»

The East Coast program alone is expected to offset 370 million pounds of carbon dioxide over 20 years or the equivalent of removing more than 33,200 cars from the roads for one year.

Most estimates for concentrating solar power range from 0.08 to 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

Industry officials say the average advanced coal plant currently emits about 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour.

For us metric - challenged Americans, that comes to just over 32 square feet for every 2204.62 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Based on that ratio, and assuming complete combustion, 1 pound of carbon combines with 2.667 pounds of oxygen to produce 3.667 pounds of carbon dioxide.

We get charts and graphs and lists telling us how many pounds of carbon dioxide we're putting into the atmosphere by driving 10 miles or eating a hamburger or doing our laundry — but what do the numbers really mean?

2Examples of previously published emission factors include, in pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu, single emission factors of 205.7 in «United States Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to the Earth's Atmosphere,» Energy Systems Policy, Vol.

The emission factor for lignite from the Gulf Coast Coal Region in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas is 213.5 pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu.

The carbon dioxide emission factors in this article are expressed in terms of the energy content of coal as pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu.

(11) In pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu, U.S. average factors are 227.4 for anthracite, 216.3 for lignite, 211.9 for subbituminous coal, and 205.3 for bituminous coal.

West of the Mississippi River, the emission factors for bituminous coal range from more than 201 pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu in Missouri, Iowa, and Nevada to more than 209 in Arizona, Arkansas, and Montana.

Multiply pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu by 0.123706 to get million metric tons (MMT) of carbon per quadrillion (1015) Btu.

Riding your bike to work emits zero greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 0.85 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile for the average car.

Climate Central tells us that «a typical gasoline - powered passenger car emits 20 pounds of carbon dioxide for each gallon of gas burned, or about a pound for each mile traveled, and both electric and hybrid vehicles can cut back on those emissions.»

«Coors, for example, generates roughly 300 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year during the fermentation steps, but only needs 80 million pounds, most of which is currently purchased through suppliers.»

The manufacture of one pound of PET — polyethylene terephthalate — plastic can produce up to three pounds of carbon dioxide.

A healthy tree absorbs about 50 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

The sales pitch for the homes is that the photovoltaic systems can reduce electric bills to zero and avoid release of nearly 11,500 pounds of carbon dioxide annually, as well as around 40 pounds of SO2 and 30 pounds of NOx that would be emitted if coal - generated energy was used in a newly - built home.

The carbon footprint of moving Each gallon of burned gasoline produces 19.4 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to the EPA, while diesel produces 22.2 pounds per gallon.

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.

Trees remove over 26,000 pounds of pollutants from the air each year, absorb 1.8 million gallons of runoff annually, store 1.4 billion pounds of carbon dioxide, and sequester an additional 870,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

[T] hey found that lamb raised on New Zealand's clover - choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

Guest post by Alec Rawls The upcoming rule:... will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced.

Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

A typical advanced coal plant today emits about 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per hour compared with natural gas plants that emit around 800 pounds on average — less than the proposed new standards.

Estimates of global warming emissions for open - loop systems are approximately 0.1 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

This process can remove 5 pounds of carbon dioxide per kWh of electricity, the company estimated, as opposed to U.S. coal - fired power stations which emit 2 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kWh of electricity created.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.

Burn 1,000 gallons of fuel oil for heat releases 22.4 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon according to the EIA or 10.15 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

China emits 10,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per person, while in the United States producers nearly 42,500 pounds per person

The fact that organic agriculture systems also absorb and retain significant amounts of carbon in the soil has implications for global warming, Pimentel said, pointing out that soil carbon in the organic systems increased by 15 to 28 percent, the equivalent of taking about 3,500 pounds of carbon dioxide per hectare out of the air.

Small run - of - the - river plants emit between 0.01 and 0.03 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

It would prevent more than 13 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere — which is like taking more than a million cars off the road for an entire year.

Life - cycle emissions from large - scale hydroelectric plants built in semi-arid regions are also modest: approximately 0.06 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

However, current estimates suggest that life - cycle emissions can be over 0.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [5,6].

The proposed rules would limit future coal plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity.

Emissions coefficient: A unique value for scaling emissions to activity data in terms of a standard rate of emissions per unit of activity (e.g., pounds of carbon dioxide emitted per Btu of fossil fuel consumed).

«Each gallon of gasoline we burn emits between 24 and 28 pounds of carbon dioxide — the most common greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere.»

That single replacement will eliminate emissions of 1000 pounds of carbon dioxide, 4 - 6 pounds of sulfur dioxide, and 8 mg of mercury on average.

[8] Originally proposed in March 2012 with a standard threshold of 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per megawatt hour, the EPA reproposed new source performance standards on September 20, 2013, that placed different thresholds on new coal - fired plants and new gas - fired plants.

The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

Most estimates of wind turbine life - cycle global warming emissions are between 0.02 and 0.04 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

The bill would limit emissions for plants that come online between 2009 and 2014, and new plants permitted after Jan. 1, 2015 would need to emit less than 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour of output.

(In a recent NY Times article, the relationship was described as 19.4 pounds of carbon dioxide produced per gallon of gasoline.)

My guess is that 99 % of the general population does not realize that you generate roughly 19 pounds of carbon dioxide gas for every single gallon of gasoline you use.

For every single pound of gasoline you burn in your car, the combustion generates roughly three pounds of carbon dioxide.

Rodale Institute has proved (explanation by downloadable PDF file here) that organic agricultural methods can remove about 7,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year and store it in an acre of farmland.

(Twenty - four pounds of carbon dioxide is released into Earth's atmosphere for each gallon of gas an automobile uses.)