Sentences with phrase «relatively little gas»

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As a result, theoretical studies tend to focus on the role of dust and ice particles, paying relatively little attention to the gas component.

It's possible that this relatively light galaxy has too little mass — or gravitational pull — to retain the metals, and that a rush of gas called a galactic wind swept them away.

Unlike fossil fuels, chemicals made from microorganisms are indefinitely renewable and emit relatively little greenhouse gas

Majestic, ringed Saturn little resembles the relatively tiny blue marble that is Earth, but the massive gas giant planet is home to at least one phenomenon that would be familiar to high - latitude dwellers here on Earth.

The group A Streptococcus (GAS) data set population represents a clonal population with relatively little genetic variation and a high level of linkage disequilibrium across the genome.

However, taking account of sampling uncertainty (as most more recent detection and attribution studies do, including those shown in Figure 9.9) makes relatively little difference to estimates of attributable warming rates, particularly those due to greenhouse gases; the largest differences occur in estimates of upper bounds for small signals, such as the response to solar forcing (Allen and Stott, 2003; Stott et al., 2003a).

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.

Partly because of the dominance of the oil, gas, and coal industries, which have been providing cheap fuel by omitting the indirect costs of fossil fuel burning, relatively little has been invested in developing the earth's geothermal heat resources.

The share of natural gas in electricity markets is expected to be relatively flat providing a little over 20 percent of global generation through the forecast period.

However, relatively little is known about emissions from one of its largest man - made sources, the oil and gas industry.

Industrial and construction materials may contribute relatively little to greenhouse gas emissions and land use, but anyone who has ever seen (or lived next to) an open pit mine will know that they are ecological disaster zones in all sorts of other ways.