Sentences with phrase «producing less emissions»

Natural gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport fuel.

The software fooled EPA emissions testers into thinking that Volkswagen's diesel engines produced less emissions of nitrogen oxides than they released in the real world.

Surely it was in the depressed 1930's that industry would have produced less emissions, and that was a warm decade.

2) Every new generation of vehicle is more energy efficient and produces less emissions than the prior generation.

Not exact matches

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.»

If the goods they produced end up being imported from jurisdictions with less stringent environmental standards, then we lose twice — higher global GHG emissions and less economic activity in Canada.

The company's eco-friendly production strategy has minimized its environmental footprint by decreasing waste by 40 percent, using 30 percent less energy and producing 20 percent fewer emissions.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

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

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

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.

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.

In the process, it produces less than a tea cup (several ounces) of NOx 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.

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.

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.

A brown dwarf is more like a star, producing some kind of stellar wind emissions, though that's probably much less energetic than the radiation belts of Jupiter.

By producing more food on less land, it may be possible to reduce these emissions, but this so - called intensification often involves increasing fertilizer use, which can lead to large emissions of nitrogen - containing gases that also contribute to global warming.

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

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.

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.

It's also a much cleaner and more efficient engine, producing 25 percent less emissions than the outgoing Clio.

Mercedes says the plug - in hybrid produces 42 percent less C02 emissions than the gas variant.

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

Rated at an EPA - estimated 0 to 26 miles of All - Electric Range1, Niro PHEV can help some drivers consume less gasoline in most driving conditions5 and in all - electric mode it produces zero emissions.

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 T6, incidentally, still produces 225 kW and 400 Nm, but the CO2 emission drops to a class leading 149 g / km — identical to the far less powerful BMW 328i.

The smaller engine uses 14 percent less fuel than the two - liter unit, and therefore also produces less CO2 emissions.

Rated at an EPA - estimated 26 miles of All - Electric Range, Niro PHEV can help some drivers consume less gasoline in most driving conditions and in all - electric mode it produces zero emissions.

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.

It is the cleanest diesel engine produced by General Motors and meets North American diesel emission standards, generating 90 % less NOx and particulate emissions compared to previous - generation diesels.

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.

US cars produce slightly less power than their European counterparts due to emissions restrictions in place at the time.

Compared to a standard six - cylinder powertrain, the mHEV manages to drink one less liter of fuel for every 100 km traveled, while also producing 25 g / km (40 g / mile) less in CO2 emissions.

Although GDI vehicles offer the potential of improved fuel economy, less fuel pumping, and charge air cooling, they tend to produce higher particulate matter (PM) emissions when compared with the traditional port fuel injection engines.

The fuel, which supposedly produces less volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions than regular diesel fuel or ethanol, is being produced by RenTech in Rialto, California.

A pair of new - generation diesel engines, producing more power but once again burning less fuel, serve to improve dynamic performance and reduce pollutant emissions.

FOR BODY SCANNERS: The TSA claims, «Each full body scan produces less than 10 microREM of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of an airplane flight at altitude.»

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.

Developing nations on the other hand are spending money today on establishing an energy infrastructure and they can make choices about spending this money on a system that will produce a lot of Carbon emissions or one that will be produce less.

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.»

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

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.