Sentences with phrase «produces less carbon dioxide»

Another automotive engine technology that gets better mileage than standard internal - combustion power plants and hence, produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.

Another technology that gets better mileage than standard engines, and hence produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.

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.

Conversely, understanding how to accelerate dissolution where it would be appropriate would also be beneficial, such as with nontraditional (e.g., aluminosilica) cements that produce less carbon dioxide.

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.

Methane has the advantage over oil and coal of producing less carbon dioxide gas when burned.

Not exact matches

As a result the plant produces more oxygen, consumes more carbon dioxide and has less environmental impact.

Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed - wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.

For comparison's sake, potatoes have a carbon cost of less than 2 kg of carbon dioxide per kilogram produced.

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

Replacing some of the lawn with groundcover would mean spending less weekend time behind a power mower, which produces more carbon dioxide, not to mention noise, per mile than any automobile.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

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

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.

Natural gas produces less than half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned.

And before the middle of the century, we're going to have to be producing less and less carbon dioxide than we are now.

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.

One sentence summary: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that on large palladium particles, the abundance of active hydrogen atoms promotes the formation of methane from carbon dioxide, but on the smaller particles, less hydrogen is available and the reaction produces carbon monoxide.

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

Right now we're taxing sugar - based ethanol at 54 cents per gallon while we are subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 45 cents per gallon, even though sugar - based ethanol is cheaper and producing it generates less carbon dioxide.

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».

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.

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.

Scientists complained that the programme makers distorted evidence, and made elementary mistakes such as claiming that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than human activities, when in fact they produce less than 2 % of that caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

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.»

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.

Supercritical stations burn less coal per megawatt - hour produced and so benefit the environment and the electricity consumer.A modern, highly efficient, supercritical coal - fired station with stack gas cleanup is very clean indeed, essentially emitting only water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

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.

Rather, it is largely a result of coal being displaced by natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide when producing electricity.

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.

There is also the environmental question: trains produce at least four times less carbon dioxide per mile than planes, and even less when compared with short - haul flights.

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.

Well - to - wheel, using hydrogen produced from natural gas to feed a fuel cell produces 30 % — 50 % less carbon dioxide than just burning the fuel to provide the same amount of energy.»

The Contents: Spectra's FAQ about the project tout natural gas as being «the cleanest burning conventional source of energy,» producing «45 % less carbon dioxide than coal and 30 % less than fuel oil when burned.

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.