Sentences with phrase «produce less greenhouse gas»

Natural gas vehicles have been found to produce less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline vehicles, but very little natural gas consumption is currently used for transportation fuel.

Nuclear power produces less greenhouse gas [CO2] than any other source, including coal, natural gas, hydro, solar and wind.

Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco, Dale says that while corn ethanol produces less greenhouse gases than gasoline, it can cause other detrimental environmental effects if not carefully managed.

The implemented wastewater treatment solution requires much less energy and produces less greenhouse gases (GHG), methane in particular, than typical wastewater treatment systems.

Insects not only produce less greenhouse gases, they also return nutrients back to soil, are more easily farmed and require less water than livestock.

Even New Zealand lamb produced less greenhouse gases than English lamb.

Not exact matches

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

This is because firstly, the micro-organisms that break down dead trees produce copious amounts of CO2, and secondly, there is less vegetation remaining that can remove the greenhouse gas from the air by capturing the carbon in leaves, trunks and roots as part of its growth cycle.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

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.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

This process is toxin - free, and they estimate it produces 10 times less greenhouse gas emissions than typical petroleum - based dyes.

The EcoDiesel engine is also capable of running on biofuel, which produces less air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

The carbon dioxide produced by the plant is a far less potent greenhouse gas than the methane produced by Kansas farmers.

It is expensive, and at best produces only slightly less greenhouse gas than gasoline.

Logan has also designed a cooler asphalt that «uses 20 % less energy to make, produced 20 % fewer greenhouse gas emissions when applied and lets the airport use a higher percentage of recycled asphalt.»

With the same scenario of greenhouse gas concentration, some coupled GCMs produce more EN - like climate, and others less EN - like.

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Backers of plug - in hybrids acknowledge that the electricity to boost their cars generally comes from fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases, but they say that process still produces far less pollution than oil.

Billions less mouths to feed, land to use and greenhouse gases to be produced.

It cited «plausible scenarios in which GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from corn - grain ethanol are much higher than those of petroleum - based fuels,» and questioned the method by which EPA determined that ethanol would produce 21 percent less emissions.

According to the most recent EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (2014), transportation produces only four percent less GhGs than the largest emitter, electricity production.

Burning coal, for example, also produces copious quantities of greenhouse gasses (even with «clean coal» technologies) and our coal reserves are decidedly less limited than our oil reserves.

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.

Australia and the USA are culpable on two counts, they are producing more greenhouse gasses than any other nations (considering population sizes) and they are doing less about controlling their emissions than any of the other major greenhouse gas emitting nations.

The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60 percent less than those of conventional diesel fuel.

It's also less than one - sixth of the greenhouse gas emissions produced in the United States.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

The authors found that wells in the Marcellus region emit 20 percent to 50 percent less greenhouse gases than coal used to produce electricity.

You have no grounds for assuming this unless you can produce temperature data evidence that the most predominant greenhouse gas water vapour makes moist regions considerably warmer than dry regions where there may be less than 25 % as much water vapour.

Travelling by bicycle or motor - scooter produces far less polluting greenhouse gasses than travelling by car.

In most cases it would be easy for these people to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas that they produce; buy smaller cars, use public transport more and your private car less, etc..

Each of those assessments attempts to account for all the greenhouse gases emitted during the production and installation of solar cells, as well as how much energy solar cells produce — and, therefore, how much less carbon is emitted when switching from fossil fuels.

Colder countries are less affected, he says, because cold conditions will be less favourable for producing greenhouse gases.

The new impact statement says that extracting, shipping, refining and burning oil from the tar sands produces more climate - altering greenhouse gases than most conventional oil, but less than many of the project's critics claim.

100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and water to produce than virgin plastic and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste.

Generally, coal - fired power stations are inflexible in their power output; gas - fired power stations are much more flexible; they produce greenhouse gasses too, just rather less than coal - fired power stations.

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Ironically, despite a reputation for being dirty, diesel engines produce one - third less greenhouse gases than their gasoline siblings do.

Alternative fueled vehicles are powered by natural gas, propane, ethanol, or electricity, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum fueled vehicles.

We'd all be saving money at the pump, we'd be producing less air pollution and greenhouse gas, Detroit would be in a stronger competitive position and the «Big Three» may not have lost so many more jobs.

While less meat gets wasted than does fruit and vegetables, the amount of energy required to produce meat is «significantly» more than that for plant - based food production, which means that the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from meat production is also much higher, leading researchers to indicate that meat waste has a «greater negative environmental impact.»

If each province in China was to declare itself an independent country tomorrow — each producing much less greenhouse gasses than the whole of China — would this mean that all of the new states would have a much reduced responsibility to lessen their greenhouse gas production rates?

According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner, island nations produce less than 1 percent of the greenhouse gases attributed to climate change yet suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change.