Sentences with phrase «relatively less fossil fuels»

However, while New York may consume relatively less fossil fuels than other American cities and may do a good job in providing clean water, it does a poor job of reducing, recycling and disposing of its waste.

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According to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, wind power has «relatively little economic value» and because of its intermittent nature it needs back - up from natural gas, which means more fossil fuel use for power, not less.

It should be noted though that eliminating the indirect fossil fuel subsidy could actually make wind & solar less competitive because they are dependent on flexible dispatchable plants with relatively low CAPEX.

But less in the spotlight is its widely claimed role as a relatively clean fossil fuel - one that can ease the path from the old - energy to the clean - energy economy.

If the Earth's climate is relatively insensitive to rising carbon levels, then it's somewhat less urgent that we stop burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.

When the carbon comes back up, the ratios of 12C to 13C are preserved: emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, for example, are relatively «light» because they originated from the tissues of living organisms; emissions from volcanoes are more or less «normal» because they came from molten crust that was once the ocean floor.

Observational evidence suggests that some organic aerosol compounds from fossil fuels are relatively weakly absorbing but do absorb solar radiation at some ultraviolet and visible wavelengths (e.g., Bond et al., 1999; Jacobson, 1999; Bond, 2001) although organic aerosol from high - temperature combustion such as fossil fuel burning (Dubovik et al., 1998; Kirchstetter et al., 2004) appears less absorbing than from low - temperature combustion such as open biomass burning.