Sentences with phrase «tonnes per year»

So we currently need about 104,500 tonnes per year of uranium mined.

The Ceres project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by well over a million tonnes per year.

Each 1GWe uses about 27 tonnes per year.

The company's carbon footprint went down by 45 %, or about 233 tonnes per year.

That's cut our carbon footprint by about 25 %, but we're still at 11 tonnes per year between the four of us.

That's 7.3 million tonnes per year in the UK, or 20,000 tonnes every day.

The energy savings and resultant carbon emissions savings will be about 55 million tonnes per year.

Now a gigantic passenger ferry running between Turku, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden has done the same, retrofitting a rotary sail that the operator Viking Line says will reduce emissions by as much as 900 tonnes per year.

The company will use 139 new propane - powered trucks that are expected to reduce UPS» CO2 emissions by 254 metric tonnes per year, a 35 % improvement compared to conventional engines.

Accounting for cost constraints, the researchers calculated that natural climate solutions could reduce emissions by 11.3 billion tonnes per year by 2030 — equivalent to halting the burning of oil, and offering 37 % of the emissions reductions needed to hold global warming below 2 degrees Celsius by 2030.

The report doesn't even project this: 178 million tonnes per year after 1992 vs. 281 million tonnes before 1992.

The operation of an average 2 MW wind turbine will reduce CO emissions by 4.4 tonnes per year.

I suppose it could be worse though: If converted to other cropland that would go down to a mere 2 tonnes per year.

So: 1.91 Billion Tonnes per year Global average.

530 Billion Tonnes divided by 250 years, = 2.12 Billion Tonnes per year (Global average)(Australia is only 223 years old, so I will factor our industrialisation in as 90 % of the 2.12 Billion Tonnes, = 1.91 Billion Tonnes)

Pacific Hydro state that the CO2 abatement due to the power production of each of their 1.5 MW turbines is 5000 tonnes per year (13.7 tonnes per day).

The pilot plant will use some 75,000 tonnes per year of forest and local agricultural residue to produce about 23,000 tonnes / year of second - generation biofuel (diesel, kerosene and naptha).

The recent paper only looked at sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice sheets and does not take into account sea level rise contributions from the Greenland ice sheet (currently about 280 billion tonnes per year), which would more than double the Antarctic contribution.

AB 32's goal of 80 percent reduction in GHGs by 2050 compared to 1990 levels requires a reduction from 1200 million metric tonnes per year down to 87 million metric tonnes per year.

Using the Petra Nova project as an example for the scale of a new carbon capture project at an existing coal - fuelled power plant, a 240 - MW capture project could yield about 1.4 million metric tonnes per year for enhanced oil recovery.

It is currently building a coal liquefaction plant with a capacity of a million tonnes per year.

CTI's analysis shows that in a low demand scenario the seaborne coal market will account for an average of 850 million tonnes per year over the next 20 years.

We are adding carbon to the Earth system at some 10 billion tonnes per year.

CCS activity commenced in 2008 and the capacity is 0.7 million tonnes per year.

Since 2013, around 0.7 million tonnes per year of carbon dioxide stripped from the gas is being pumped back into the production reservoir to enhance oil recovery.

It posits a minimum 200-fold increase in CCS capacity by 2030, and the IPCC scenarios see capture capacity grow to around 10,000 million tonnes per year in 2050 (below right)-- somewhat higher than the IEA expectation.

Two sites — an existing fertiliser plant and a new refinery that will produce oil from tar sand bitumen — are to be the first users of the pipeline, capturing 1.6 - 2 million tonnes per year from 2015.

It has a capture capacity of 0.9 million tonnes per year and uses a saline aquifer for storage.

This amounts to an average release rate of 2.6 - 4.3 billion tonnes per year.

Phasing out federal leases for fossil fuel extraction could reduce global CO2 emissions by 100 million tonnes per year by 2030, and by greater amounts thereafter.

Implementing current international pledges will only slow down the projected rise in energy - related carbon emissions from an average of 650 million tonnes per year since 2000 to around 150 million tonnes per year in 2040.

The researchers simulated applying three different levels of CDR to the RCP8.5 high emissions scenario: none («CDR0»), five billion tonnes per year («CDR5») and 25bn tonnes per year («CDR25»).

For example, a global shift to energy - efficient appliances and equipment — including lighting, air - conditioners, refrigerators, electric motors, ceiling fans and distribution transformers — would reduce electricity consumption by over 10 per cent, save $ 350 billion annually in bills and reduce CO2 emissions by 1.25 billion tonnes per year.

This way, it will supply clean and safe energy to 25,000 homes, and reduce CO2 emissions by more than 27,000 tonnes per year.

This is about 1 % of human CO2 emissions which is around 29 billion tonnes per year.

Line 272: I'd suggest removing all calculations based on the Virgin Earth Challenge and confine the paper to dealing with the 4 B tonnes per year.

Or somewhere around 1 trillon tonnes per year over next few centuries.

«The three 333kW turbines will reduce the amount of diesel required for power generation by around 463 000 litres and cut CO2 emissions by 1242 tonnes per year.»

Reserves are increasing at the rate of about 500,000 tonnes per year http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html.

Recent studies have indicated that the country has 286 million tonnes of standing wood biomass with a mean annual growth of 50 million tonnes per year.

«Studies so far assume that what we do will cost $ 600 per tonne — this is a study by the American Physical Society, and one study by MIT, Stanford and Berkeley even assumed $ 1,000 per tonne — for plants which are a) industrialised and b) have a much bigger scale, so not one thousand tonnes per year, but a factor one thousand more, so a million tonnes per year.

Regarding the «cash - for - clunkers» program, there were a total of 660,000 clunkers disposed of, and for our math, we assume that they spewed twice the amount of CO2 - 9.5 metric tonnes per year instead of 4.75.

It is believed that there is about 800 billion tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere and human activities release about another 27 billion tonnes per year, or 3 % of the total.

Had shuttered nuclear reactors operated as planned, critics pointed out, and Energiewende not been instituted, Germany could have reduced its carbon emissions to an all - time low of 897 million tonnes per year.

Humans emit around 80 million tonnes per year, mainly in the troposphere where it lasts for average 4 days.

I think that GRACE last estimated ice loss at about 500 billion tonnes per year.

WWF Reports Finds Industrial Biotechnology Could Reduce CO2 Emissions Between 1 - 2.5 Billion Tonnes per Year by 2030

Projections indicate that the institute until 2020, amount of raw materials will rise to 82 billion tonnes per year [INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE ALTOS ESTUDOS DE DIREITO PÚBLICO.

The present - day ice loss from the Antarctic Peninsula is -41.5 giga - tonnes per year [16].

The project should bring numerous environmental benefits, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880 to 1111 tonnes per year, cutting chemical fertiliser use and water consumption by 20 % and increasing carbon sequestration in soil by the same amount.