Sentences with phrase «produce less carbon emissions»

The study, which was led by University of Surrey Engineering Doctorate student Helen Skudder, also found that many burglary prevention measures installed individually or in combination, produce less carbon emissions than an incidence of burglary.

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Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

Organic foods are also locally sourced and produced, which means there is less carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

From 2000 - 2013 China produced 2.9 gigatonnes less carbon than previous estimates of its cumulative emissions.

Broccoli also produces the carbon emission equivalent of less than one mile driven per 4 - oz.

Tofu produces the carbon emission equivalent of less than one mile driven per four ounces consumed.

When run in Europe's standardized fuel economy and emissions test cycle, the Flextreme is expected to produce less than 60 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.

The engine was developed as part of the «Limo - Green» project funded by the U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board to produce a large sedan with an emissions rating of less than 120 g / km of carbon dioxide.

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.

The diesel engine will meet emissions standards in all 50 states and will produce up to 20 percent less carbon emissions than a regular gas - powered engine.

The aircraft structure is made of lightweight carbon fiber reinforced plastic, therefore, it uses 25 percent less fuel and produces 25 percent less fewer environmental damaging emissions.

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.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Transportation contributes the majority of emissions in the Northwest, where the region's hydro - reliant grid produces less carbon.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

Cities are major contributors to climate change: although they cover less than 2 per cent of the earth's surface, cities consume 78 per cent of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of all carbon dioxide and significant amounts of other greenhouse gas emissions, mainly through energy generation, vehicles, industry, and biomass use.

The «tri-generation system» produces less than one third the carbon emissions of standard electric power generators, and it's compatible with rooftop solar panels.

The proposed emissions trading scheme will be more complicated, slower to produce the desired effect, and less effective than a simple carbon tax.

The consumption - based emissions (carbon footprint) in each country consist of the production - based emissions, less emissions to produce exports, including emissions in other countries to produce imports.

And according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear produces four times less carbon emissions than solar does.

The authors found that carbon emissions could be reduced by roughly one gigaton per year within five years — equivalent to 3 % of worldwide emissions — if other countries followed the U.K.'s example by switching to natural gas from coal in power stations, as natural gas produces less than one - half the carbon dioxide produced by coal.

They have developed a new way of producing ammonia which reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by 87 per cent, sulphur dioxide by 95 per cent and carbon dioxide by 60 per cent — and it uses less resources.

And a survey by the US General Services Administration found that the first dozen LEED buildings in its portfolio consumed 26 per cent less energy and produced 33 per cent lower carbon dioxide emissions than comparable government - owned buildings.

Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.

Burning the fuel produces no sulfur, less carbon monoxide, and fewer nitrogen oxides, particulates, and other emissions, compared with petroleum diesel.

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.

Coal is the worst offender, a dirty energy source that produces less than half our electricity but nearly 80 percent of all power plant carbon emissions.