Sentences with phrase «than emission controls»

All of this will play much better than calling for nothing more than emission controls involving many economic restraints as they just slow the expanding of the overload and the worsening of global warming.

Since we do not know what adaptations will be required, we can not say whether they will be harder or easier — more expensive or less — than emissions control.

Not exact matches

About 40 percent of the energy used to control the climate in buildings seeps out through windows and doors, producing more than 250 million tons of emissions a year, according to the Department of Energy.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

If emissions continue to rise without significant controls, parts of Texas might experience more than 100 of these ultrahot days by 2080.

Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.

In place of accurate emissions data, Hsu said that China has more control over businesses than democratic governments do, so it can more easily bring them in line and maintain environmental integrity if, for example, allowances are too plentiful and their price crashes, as happened in the E.U.'s system.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

This strategy will be cheaper than installing the extra pollution - control equipment that will be needed when emission standards become more stringent in 2000, says James Davis, the company's senior vice-president for fossil fuel generation.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

The report concluded that the feeding reservoirs were in fact a greater source of dioxins in food than emissions are, «and suggest that further risk management actions to reduce emissions from controlled sources beyond those already in place will have little or no additional impact on food levels.»

The catalytic emission control system was more efficient at reducing emissions than the previous non-catalytic system, and allowed engines to be retuned for improved drivability and fuel economy.

Diesel fuel in the USA (prior to late 2006) had a significantly higher level of sulphur than the fuel used in Europe, which meant that diesel cars from European makers had to either be fitted with specially developed fuel and emissions control system for the (prohibitively small) North American market, or simply could not be sold in that market.

The six - liter TDI uses significantly less fuel than any competing gasoline engine in the high - performance SUV sector; thanks to efficient combustion and the complex exhaust emission control system, the Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro already complies with future emissions standards.

The naturally aspirated 1,130 - horsepower 6.5 - liter V12 engine will be given a significant but undisclosed horsepower bump, and with no mufflers or emissions controls will be much louder than the road car.

Emissions would be among the lowest thanks to a new catalyst that more effectively removes harmful exhaust materials by employing single - nanotechnology to control catalyst particles that are smaller even than those controlled by conventional nanotechnology.

I feel this is party due to the emission of tank controls, making you less vulnerable than you used to.

Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California's plan.

For example, some existing stations may offer cheaper routes for controlling emissions (such as through installation of post combustion capture) than building brand new units.

I ask myself, is population control a much higher quality form of sacrifice than direct reduction of CO2 emissions?

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natEmissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natemissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

Methane emissions are lower than estimated by EPA for well completions and higher for valves and equipment used to control routine operations at the well site.

I'd like to see more, and I'd like to see some attention paid to deforestation, which will have to be brought under control if we are to reduce CO2 emissions and is in any case nothing less than a crime against the human future.

With regard to the combined effects of permafrost and clathrate methane emissions I'm rather less sanguine than you, though I continue to press for the requisite Emissions Control treaty as the paramount mitigation emissions I'm rather less sanguine than you, though I continue to press for the requisite Emissions Control treaty as the paramount mitigation Emissions Control treaty as the paramount mitigation priority.

Beside being commensurate with the predicament, this approach would also preclude the folly of pretense that Geo - E offers anything more than the essential complement to rapid emissions control.

It's less like we'd get a handle on GHG emissions than get populations of undeveloped countries under control (little or no chance without a catastrophic event).

Once it is out of our control we're pretty much in for a terrible ride that will amount to much more harm than broken ribs, and no matter how much of our GHG emissions we reduce, there will be virtually nothing we can do about it — except maybe with huge reductions slightly reduce the severity of the harms.

But, because the nation still has more than 11 million old diesel engines without proper emission control technology, black carbon remains a serious health and environmental threat.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

BTW, Hansen's «Global Warming in the 21st Century: An Alternative Scenario» seems to accept that CO2 control would be much more difficult than cleaning up black carbon emissions from power stations.

The remaining automotive grade reliability, emissions, and control issues look more like engineering developments than further technology breakthroughs.

California has $.5 / gal higher gas prices than the rest of the country because the prop 32 controls on green house emissions and block fracking in the monterey shale.

[C3] Practical solutions like land use policy and landfill seem to be a better choice than hoping to control sea level rise via reducing greenhouse emissions.»

This new administration will be tempted to bring back Clean Air Act regulation and other administrative measures to control greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps with even greater stringency than the Obama administration contemplated.

This means Republicans and Democratic moderates will in effect be choosing higher cost command and control regulation of emissions by EPA rather than a lower - cost market approach that helps the economy.

However, the call for control of greenhouse gas emissions in Agenda 21 is much less precise than the obligations to adopt policies and practices to prevent the threat of climate change that the George H.W. Bush administration had agreed to when it negotiated and Congress ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

Businesses and congressmen who dislike the idea of legislating to control emissions may now decide that a new law, over which they can have some influence, would be better than regulation through an old one.

Australia and the USA are culpable on two counts, they are producing more greenhouse gasses than any other nations (considering population sizes) and they are doing less about controlling their emissions than any of the other major greenhouse gas emitting nations.

The SO2 / BC ratio for industrial coal is much higher than that for the other emission categories, where the fuel has little sulfur or more efficient flue - gas controls are in place.

We know that scope 1 & 2 will be easier for us to tackle because 1 — we have direct control and 2 — those emissions come from industrial processes which are easier to measure and change than agricultural process, so we have elected to «overdeliver» vs. the science on those emissions (by targeting -100 % in 2040 rather than -80 % in 2050).

that «legally» pollute at rates three to seven times higher than new plants with modern emission controls.»

In place of accurate emissions data, Hsu said that China has more control over businesses than democratic governments do, so it can more easily bring them in line and maintain environmental integrity if, for example, allowances are too plentiful and their price crashes, as happened in the E.U.'s system.

Limits the trading of allowances with facilities other than electricity generating facilities to certain carbon dioxide emission control programs.

At present those outputs are evidently advancing much faster than is our global rate of emissions control.

Uncertainty about the magnitude of methane emissions from leaking wells makes it difficult for federal and provincial regulators to identify and set up programs to control methane emissions, a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

Existing designs of NPPs will then provide power more cheaply than can renewables and not much more expensively than newly constructed coal plants with non CO2 emissions control.

In addition, I believe that the control of CO2 emissions will be solved by energy technology breakthroughs rather than CO2 emission control technologies.

Rather than specifying a winning technology, Congress and state legislatures should specify the goals — reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, enhance energy security, maintain electric supply reliability, and control costs — and provide incentives to reach them.

What makes this volta face all the more unexpected is that BACT standards, which apply to individual facilities on a case - by - case basis, are generally more stringent than NSPS, which set minimum emission control standards for categories of industrial sources.

The expert, Dr. James E. Hansen, and his colleagues conclude in a new analysis that the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by other heat - trapping emissions — methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and coal soot and compounds that create the ozone in smog — which are easier to control than carbon dioxide, with many of them already on the decline.