Sentences with phrase «requires less land»

Home Price: A smaller home will likely cost less to buy simply because it requires less land and fewer materials to build.

Additionally, growing palm oil requires less land in comparison to other vegetable oils and supports the livelihoods of more than 4 million farmers globally.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

They analyzed nutrients needed for a vegetarian diet, because growing vegetables, grains and nuts usually requires less land than raising livestock for meat.

Thus, although vegetarian diets in New York state may require less land per person, they use more high - valued land.

If we want to grow X amount of food conventional farming practices will require less land (thanks to higher yields) than we would need using organic agriculture.

Not exact matches

Lab - grown meat requires 100 times less land and 5.5 times less water than traditional meat.

The in situ method is more costly than the mining method, but it is much less damaging to the environment, requiring only a few hundred meters of land and a nearby water source to operate.

Clean meat will require much less land and will cause far less climate change than conventional meat.

«Palm oil is already widely used in food manufacture and for good reason; oil palms are highly efficient oil producers requiring ten times less land than other oil - producing crops.

He claimed their lab - created burger uses about 74 percent less water, generates about 87 percent fewer greenhouse gases and requires around 95 percent less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

The Impossible Burger reportedly requires roughly 95 per cent less land and 75 per cent less water than ground beef.

Clean meat will require much less land and will cause far less climate change than conventional meat.

It uses about 75 % less water, generates about 87 % fewer greenhouse gases, and requires around 95 % less land than conventional ground beef from cows.

Compared to cane sugar, cultivation of stevia also requires fewer resources like water and land because products need less of it to achieve a sugar - like taste as parts of the stevia leaf are 400 times sweeter than regular sugar, she claimed.

Park District officials said the land that would be affected is less than a half - acre owned by the city, far less than the necessary 10 percent of the overall affected land that requires city involvement.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

And many types of biofuel require vast amounts of land, leaving less acreage available for food crops.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

It requires much less land to produce enough vegetables to feed a person.

An Oxford study determined that spirulina & chlorella require the least amount of land per unit of protein and unit of human digestible energy, meaning that they need less land to produce the same amount of protein and energy as livestock does.

That means, in turn, less land required to grow the feed for animals, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and less water pollution.

It's actually debatable which has less impact on the environment, as the natural dyes require growing of the dyestuff, which requires a lot of water, land, and energy.

To get to very low NOx, the lower pressure system essentially delays the moment of recirculation back to the turbo and an intercooler, and as a result, there's less NOx and Land Rover says that will result in lower required intervals to refill the DEF / AdBlue urea fluid.

These costs may include a land transfer tax (an escalating levy that rises to 2 % of the purchase price), a bank appraisal fee ($ 300), legal fees (roughly $ 1,200), as well as a high - ratio mortgage insurance premium, which is required if you make a down payment of less than 20 %.

Hop on a Cape Air puddle jumper plane in San Juan, and less than 30 minutes later you'll land in the laid - back island haven of Vieques — no passport required.

Ramps provide a risk and reward factor as the appropriate combination of just the right amount of air, momentum and a stunt that requires less air to still be able to land accordingly will result in earning a boost, although if a stunt is performed which is too ambitious for the angle of the ramp, then you will crash and lose a few seconds.

If so, will it be beef, which requires more land than poultry and fish, which require less?

As a reminder, Calisolar claims their UMG - Si process requires one - sixth the CAPEX, the electricity (less than 24 kWh per kilogram), and the land area of a typical Siemens process polysilicon plant.

They add: «Direct air capture could become a major industry if the technology matures and prices drop dramatically... Direct air capture might require much less land [than other negative emissions techniques], but entail much higher costs and consumption of a large fraction of global energy production.

National policy should require greater emphasis on land areas that are less critical for other productive uses or for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

Confronting backbenchers in his own party who wanted big cuts in on land wind, Tim Yeo, Tory chair of the all - party energy and climate change select committee, commented «The way to deal with this - and realise the savings the Treasury wants to achieve - is to have more onshore renewable energy, which requires lower levels of subsidy, and less offshore, which requires more.

Growing more food on less land with fewer environmental impacts will require better seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and things such as vertical greenhouses and laboratory meat that make us less dependent on land and water to grow food.

And there are real - world reasons to be rooting for the rise of lab meat — it requires much less water to make lab meat than real meat (cows and pigs consume prodigious amounts of feed, which must be grown as crops), and 99 % less land.

Because the wind turbines would require a modest amount of spacing between them to allow room for the blades to spin, wind farms would occupy about 0.5 percent of all U.S. land, but this amount is more than 30 times less than that required for growing corn or grasses for ethanol.

I fearlessly assert that here the primeval forest can be converted into rich pasture and meadow land, into cultivated fields, gardens, and orchards, containing every variety of produce, with half the labor, and, what is of more importance, in less than half the time that would be required at home, even though there we had clear instead of forest ground to commence upon.

The panels themselves only account for about 20 percent of the cost, but if the solar panels had a much greater energy output, there could be fewer of them generating the same amount of energy, meaning less land required and fewer labor hours.

If these seeds are engineered to use less herbicides when, according to recent indications, many weeds are becoming Roundup - resistant, requiring a cocktail of herbicide applications in certain farming areas while crop land is just being abandoned in others, they have most certainly failed!

Less is More on Intake Forms Intake forms and website landing pages that require only the consumer's contact information had a higher conversion rate, ranging from 10 to 35 percent.

A guard must be provided that is not less than 920 mm, measured vertically to the top of the guard from a line drawn through the outside edges of the stair nosings and 1,070 mm around the landings, is required on each side of a stairway where the difference in elevation between ground level and the top step is more than 600 mm but, where there is a wall, a guard is not required on that side

If you already have a family child care home but you are moving to a new house or apartment, ask your Community Care licensing analyst when you have to tell your land Sometimes the amount of time required for the notice can be shortened because it might take less than 30 days to transfer your license to the new home.

- ft. supermarket typically requires 170,000 sq. ft. of land, Goldstein says he can fit one on half that by going to structured parking and on even less by making the store itself multi-story.

In 2002, San Francisco required that surplus public land be transferred to the mayor's office to support housing for the city's low - income and homeless populations, but the action led to «less than a handful» of projects, said Michael Martin, project director of the public site development program.