Sentences with phrase «tons per year»

However, environmentalists point out that the average solar panel system can reduce carbon emissions by up to nine tons per year and that, they claim, is the true benefit.

Emissions from fires and peat mining (for horticulture and fuel) amount to another 700,000 million tons per year.

However, the new study shows that in certain parts, called scour zones, some 90 percent — an estimated 80 billion tons per year — is instead being vaporized, and removed altogether.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which is dumped into the atmosphere by humans to the tune of 30 billion tons per year, 100 times the amount from volcanoes.

China's rapid industrialization has seen it claim the mantle as the world's largest emitter of C02, some 10,357 million metric tons per year, according to the Global Carbon Project.

Emissions from E.U. countries amount to 174 million tons per year and 160 million tons per year in Russia, according to a study published last year.

Since U.S. production capacity for all uses of activated charcoal — a conventional alternative to biochar — is 197,000 tons per year, the EPA's mandate could expand the effective market demand by roughly 50 percent.

By 1990 that number grew to 205.2 million tons per year and 4.5 pounds per person per day.

The system will reduce paper used for shoeboxes by 65 % and carbon emissions by 10 tons per year.

But Reduces Far Fewer Emissions Than Claimed However, the Carbon Scam report shows how from 1997 - 2009 NKCAP's emission reductions were estimated to be 55 million metric tons per year, but in reality only «as much as» 5.8 million tons of CO2 were actually offset.

The amount of CO2 that would be generated by unconventional oil would be about 700 billion tons of C02 — the US releases about 7 billion tons per year.

And the FutureGen Alliance estimated the plant would use up to 1 million tons per year.

During the same time period, carbon dioxide emissions have soared, from about 18 billion metric tons per year to almost 37 billion metric tons per year.

Instead of reducing utility mercury pollution to as low as 5 tons per year in 2008, Holmstead's plan would only drop emissions to 15 tons annually by 2018.

«We found that the total regional forest carbon storage was about 395 million metric tons and emissions reached about 630,000 metric tons per year,» explained lead author Greg Asner.

According to Evolution Markets (29 Sept 2008): «The CO2 emissions cap under RGGI is 188 million tons per year.

Since 2006, China's grain use has been climbing by 17 million tons per year.

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.

We were inspired and impressed to see first - hand how this liberal arts college has managed to reduce its carbon emissions by 10,000 metric tons per year using wind and biomass energy sources — an 80 % reduction!

The plant will consume about 700,000 tons per year of biomass; about 90 percent of that will be poultry litter (mostly turkey), with the remaining 10 percent encompassing other agricultural biomass.

From 1990 to 2005, world grain consumption, driven largely by population growth and rising consumption of grain - based animal products, climbed by an average of 21 million tons per year.

The 76 kW photovoltaic system supplies 40 % of the electricity used by the building; nonrenewable energy costs are reduced by 51 % and operating carbon is reduced by 76.2 tons per year.»

She and her co-authors concluded that the country's fisheries were catching more than 3.5 times the number of sharks that the government officially reported — about 7,000 tons per year, or half a million sharks.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33 % to 65.4 million tons per year — the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

The average family in America emits about 20 tons per year; the Super Bowl private jets emit as much CO2 as 632 American families living for an entire year.

It would require some 12 — 14 of Princeton's «stabilization wedges» — strategies and / or technologies that over a period of a few decades each ultimately reduce projected global carbon emissions by one billion metric tons per year (see technical paper here, less technical one here).

Greenland's ice loss has accelerated from 51 billion tons per year in the 1990s to 263 billion tons per year today.

But since nature has been absorbing only about 5 billion tons per year in oceans, soils, and vegetation, nearly half of those emissions stay in the atmosphere, pushing up CO2 levels.

No matter which specific approach Lyft takes, by combining clean cars and clean energy with self - driving technology, the company expects to cut CO2 emissions for the US transportation sector by «at least 5 million tons per year by 2025,» at which point it estimates that it will be providing at least 1 billion rides each year with its autonomous EVs.

The Decatur plant is expected to convert up to 1.4 million tons per year of Illinois coal into natural gas.

At the same time, North Korea, largely deforested and suffering from flood - induced soil erosion and land degradation, has watched its yearly grain harvest fall from a peak of almost 6 million tons during the 1980s to scarcely 3 million tons per year today.

Over half of the lighting costs have now been covered by Creation - loving parishioners or parish groups, and the church is on track to decrease its CO2 emissions by five tons per year.

By providing grid - scale energy storage, the new battery could address the intermittent nature of renewable energy resources — and help reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 150 million tons per year.

Carbon Model: Help Build ™ Carbon Project Type: Landfill Gas - to - Energy Location: Wewoka, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Volume: 30,000 metric tons per year Standard: Verified Carbon Standard

In its conclusion, the document states that the commitments have the potential to reduce emissions by «4.5 [billion to] 8.8 billion tons per year by 2030.»

The project will avoid approximately 25,000 - 30,000 tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions.

On average each cargo ship produces 500 tons per year.

5 Pacala and Socolow described 15 proven technologies, including efficiency gains and new energy from various renewables, that could each cut carbon emissions 1 billion tons per year by 2054.

To a first approximation Bartlett states that «the magnitude of the effect of humans in producing global climate change is proportional to the product of the size of the global population P and the average percapita annual consumption of resources, A the total annual consumption of resources (tons per year).

Some major sources of hazardous air pollutants such as the Deer Park chemical manufacturing in Houston, TX (a subsidiary of OxyChem), could increase its emissions of hazardous air pollutants from 0.64 to nearly 25 tons per year if it stops using MACT to control emissions.

And due to Earth having more atmosphere, Earth may lose as much [tons per year] as Mars currently does.

And, meanwhile, the EPA has proposed a «tailoring rule» that will make sure its regulations only apply to large stationary polluters — sources emitting more than 25,000 tons per year.

If humans are emitting 30 billion tons per year and atmospheric CO2 is rising 17 billion tons per year then nature must be absorbing 13 billion tons per year.

All the current solar and wind power in the market today have reduced U.S. CO2 emissions by 30 to 35 million metric tons per year, which is less than one - 10th of 1 % of the current worldwide total.

A wedge is a scenario of activities that reduced CO2 emissions by 150 million metric tons per year in 2020, increasing to 750 million metric tons per year in 2060.

Some coal travels through terminals in British Columbia, most notably through the Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank, which moves about 21 million metric tons per year.

Currently Asian markets, which also include India, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, import 140 million tons per year of subbituminous coal, all from Indonesia.

To avoid administrative paralysis, economic disruption, and political backlash, the Tailoring Rule exempts all but the largest GHG emitters from PSD and Title permitting requirements over the next six years, raising from 100/250 tons per year to 75,000 / 100,000 tons per year the cutoff for regulation as a «major» emitting facility.

By relying on the sun, the citizens of Rizhao have cut carbon dioxide emissions by almost 53 thousand tons per year.

How hot is it going to get if global coal consumption peaks at 7 billion tons per year, oil consumption peaks at 100 million barrels per day and natural gas consumption peaks at 150 trillion cubic feet per year?