Sentences with phrase «than emissions generated»

Overall, the carbon dioxide emissions generated by exported goods and services from developing countries rose by 46 percent between 2004 and 2011, and emissions generated by South - South trade grew more quickly than emissions generated by exports to developed countries.

That is more than the amount the United States puts into the atmosphere from all sources and more than the emissions generated by all of the world's cars, trucks, buses and airplanes.

Not exact matches

The emissions from natural - gas - fired boilers used to generate steam make the well site more carbon - intensive than conventional oil wells.

Worldwide, livestock generate between 14.5 and 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — mainly methane and nitrous oxide, which are more harmful to the climate than even CO2.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Moreover, PET plastic bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.

This comprises the single largest component of municipal solid waste9 — generating a large portion of U.S. methane emissions (a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide.)

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

The time evolving model shows that the eastern (left) side of the expanding shock front expands more quickly than the other side, and generates more radio emission than its weaker counterpart.

Field studies in southeastern Morocco, just a few kilometers away from the site of this dust storm, show that electric fields generated by blowing sand boost dust emissions up to 10 times more than expected from wind alone.

The industries can generate cash by selling unused carbon allowances for profit if they reduce emissions more than required.

Hydrogen is a very good carrier for renewable energy because it is abundant, generates zero emissions, and is much easier to store than other energy sources, like solar or wind energy.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

And while CNG vehicles would generate emissions from their tailpipes, the Argonne team believes that their overall emissions footprint would be smaller than that of an electric vehicle drawing power from the fossil - fuel - based electric grid.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

The process generates copious amounts of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, while the output of methane — another potent greenhouse gas — from cattle is estimated to generate some 20 percent of overall U.S. methane emissions.

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.

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.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

And to negate some of the advantage this approach automatically gives to electric cars (whose greenhouse emissions include those generated by electric utilities), the award also incorporates other measures in its criteria, including a cap on greenhouse gas emissions of no more than 200 grams per mile.

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall prepare and publish in the Federal Register a list of domestic agricultural and forestry practice types that are eligible to generate offset credits under this title because the practices avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions or sequester greenhouse gases.

PASADENA >> Caltech researchers have produced an «artificial leaf» that uses sunlight to generate fuel free of carbon emissions in a process 10 times more efficient than photosynthesis.

Without mitigation of emissions, we may generate greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures more akin to those of the early Paleogene, over forty million years ago, than those of the current geological period, the Neogene.

Considering that electricity production generates more than 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, a simple flick of the switch is a good start.

So far, hybrids have reduced the gasoline consumed, and emissions and pollutants generated by cars, far more than electric vehicles have.

In addition, the Auris HSD generates significantly lower NOx emissions than diesel engined cars of comparable performance, Toyota points out.

In addition, the Toyota Auris HSD generates significantly lower NOX and PM emissions than diesel engined cars of comparable performance.

William Penn from Legal & General America was awarded the EPA's Energy Star Certification for using less energy and generating fewer greenhouse emissions than similar corporate buildings across the nation.

And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

The frequency at which photons are emitted or absorbed is small relative to the rate of energy redistribution among molecules and their modes, so the fraction of some molecules that are excited in some way is only slightly more or less than the characteristic fraction for that temperature (depending on whether photons absorption to generate that particular state is greater than photon emission from that state or vice versa, which depends on the brightness temperature of the incident radiation relative to the local temperature).

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

IGCC plants should benefit from carbon pricing as they generate more power per ton of emission than a less efficient plant.

You'll still own all the VERs to be generated by a share of the alternate project (s)» generating capacity, adjusted for expected generation and expected operating life to produce at least your chosen number of tons of VERs over a term no longer than its Crediting Period, according to the standard under which the project is validated and its emissions reductions verified.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

«Use of full or partial CCS technology should not be part of the BSER [best system of emissions reduction] for existing EGUs [electricity generating units] because it would be more expensive than the measures determined to be part of the BSER, particularly if applied broadly to the overall source category.»

In the entirely subjective opinion of a particular group of IPCC authors, it's «extremely likely» (95 % certain) that «more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» was caused by human - generated greenhouse gas emissions (see the bottom of p. 13 here).

The 300 plants produce one - quarter of all the electricity generated in the EU but are responsible for more than 70 % of the EU's sulphur dioxide emissions and more than 40 % of nitrogen oxide emissions from the power sector.

First, the challengers claim that the «best system of emission reduction» — a key statutory term — can mean nothing more than making minimal carbon pollution reductions through small improvements in generating efficiency at individual power plants.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to «increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century».

Over the past century, surface warming over global drylands (1.2 — 1.3 °C) has been 20 — 40 % higher than that over humid lands (0.8 — 1.0 °C), while anthropogenic CO2 emissions generated from drylands (∼ 230 Gt) have been only ∼ 30 % of those generated from humid lands (∼ 750 Gt).

With nuclear power cheaper than fossil fuel generated electricity it could avoid 50 % of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by around mid 21st Century (and achieve the other objectives in the list).