Not exact matches
The actual molecules were a
mix of gas of
varied provenance, coming as they did from a storage tank in the U.K. that also contained
fuel from Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago and Qatar, among others.
A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility
fuel mixes are more
varied.
Of course, the energy
mix used also matters — emissions
vary depending on where the solar modules are made, perhaps also where nuclear
fuel is mined, how far oil and coal must be transported, etc..
The
mix of
fuels and technologies for clean cooking in rural areas
varies, depending on locally available resources and infrastructure, but in total around 1 billion people in rural areas gain access via improved biomass cookstoves, while LPG and biogas provide for the remaining 1 billion people.
However, sulphate is invariably internally and externally
mixed to
varying degrees with other compounds such as biomass burning aerosol (e.g., Formenti et al., 2003), fossil
fuel black carbon (e.g., Russell and Heintzenberg, 2000), organic carbon (Novakov et al., 1997; Brock et al., 2004), mineral dust (e.g., Huebert et al., 2003) and nitrate aerosol (e.g., Schaap et al., 2004).