Sentences with phrase «vast volumes of gas»

Indeed, to shove aside such vast volumes of gas, the jets have churned out as much energy as nearly a billion gamma - ray bursts — the most powerful instantaneous explosions known.

Not exact matches

If you look at unconventional gas production, we will have vast volumes of natural gas available for the next 25 years at very low prices.»

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

State oil and gas regulators pushed back against the regulations, too, saying that enforcing the rules for Class 2 wells — which handle the vast majority of injected waste by volume — would be expensive and difficult.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

Nitrogen gas makes up the vast majority of the air we breathe, around 78 % by volume.

The huge volumes of lava pouring out from this area were accompanied by vast quantities of CO2 - the well - known greenhouse gas, thought to be causing global warming today.