Not exact matches
Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the
waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded
gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me
with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.
Once
wasted food reaches landfills, it produces methane, a
gas with 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.
Reducing energy
waste in manufacturing and improving production line efficiency is essential if manufacturers are to comply
with mandatory greenhouse
gas emissions regulations and EU targets - and it'll also help lower energy bills.
Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food
waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system
with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse
gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.
When food
waste decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse
gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
It contains 90 % coffee by weight,
with diversion of this nitrogen - rich food from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of
waste diversion and greenhouse -
gas targets;
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Oshkosh, Wis.) Implemented a kitchen and dining recycling program that combines a food pulper
with an innovative dry fermentation anaerobic biodigester that digests food
waste to produce methane
gas that is used to generate electricity that meets up to 10 % of the campus» needs.
The (inane) announcers
gassed on about what a huge impact she was making when subbed in (and Lussi was kind of invisible), but Iffy
wasted multiple on - a-plate chances
with her horrible touch and slow reactions.
With online shopping in our store, you don't need to drive,
waste gas and
waste time to fall in line to wait for your turn in the cashier!
Each
gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed
with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated
with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as
gas waste «brine.»
«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal
waste treatment and
gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps
with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.
Rick Roles, whose ranch is dotted
with gas wells and used to be near a set of large open - air
waste pits, complained of intense fatigue.
One of the byproducts of the natural
gas boom has been that environmental agencies set up to handle issues of permitting and
waste disposal are grappling
with questions of health and epidemiology, subjects in which they have little training or experience.
Nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution,
with virtually limitless supplies of fuel, no greenhouse
gases, and little radioactive
waste.
«
With Synfuels plants, if you captured and processed all the natural
gas that is being reinjected and
wasted today, you could make 550,000 barrels (87.5 million liters) of gasoline a day,» Rolfe says.
Thierry Dujardin, an official
with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear
waste and cut greenhouse
gas emissions.
«Our findings could help significantly reduce greenhouse
gas emissions associated
with electricity generation and agricultural
wastes.
What she came up
with was, as the study describes it, «the first comprehensive and consistent estimates of the global emissions of greenhouse
gases, particulate matter, reactive trace
gases, and toxic compounds from open
waste burning.»
They called in the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and they learned it was very heavily contaminated
with arsenic,
with a lot of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and
with other things contained in
waste from a manufactured
gas plant.
SRIC networks
with dozens of groups throughout the nation on various issues, and staff are widely recognized as policy experts on nuclear
wastes, oil and
gas, and mining.
Earth's much thicker layer of low - level ozone, however, has a much larger contribution from the build - up of molecular oxygen beginning some 2.4 billion years ago from photosynthetic microbes excreting oxygen as a
waste gas, which now along
with plant life is constantly replenishing Earth's two - atom as well as three - stom ozone oxygen molecules.
The bacteria is essential for helping break down food
with minimal
waste products (i.e.
gas).
Two tanks of
gas wasted, over 20 hours of my life
wasted waiting for things to be replaced and things that were meant to come
with the car given to me but never were and still haven't been.
I filled up
with pure, no ethanol
gas last week at a 50 cent per gallon premium and felt no diff in driving or economy numbers,
wasted freaking $ 5.
The exhaust system has been optimised in order to channel the
waste gases away from the engine
with the greatest efficiency.
When combined
with modern - day turbocharging — which uses
waste energy from the exhaust
gas to drive the turbine — direct injection provides the best of both worlds: the responsiveness of a larger - displacement engine
with fewer trips to the
gas pump.
Green - minded enthusiasts will be pleased to know that the S65 Cabriolet comes
with stop - start technology to cut down on emissions and
wasted gas at idle.
«I just got off the phone
with the
gas company and I had to write this tax loan review — I don't want anyone else
wasting time during an emergency like I did!
However, be careful not to obsess and spend an hour driving around looking for the station
with the best price, only to
waste more
gas in the process.
The bacteria is essential for helping break down food
with minimal
waste products (i.e.
gas).
If the food is made
with lower quality ingredients such as by - products, grain fractions, and chemical preservatives, it will be less digestible and therefore excreted as
waste in the form of higher stool volume and excess
gas.
The lodge supports the Green lodge policy
with gas and solar and a
waste policy.
Water in the B&B is heated
with gas geysers and glass, paper, plastic and organic
waste is recycled.
The emergence of the camera technology has reduced cost and time associated
with leak detection and repair programs and is leading to significant reductions in emissions and
wasted natural
gas with very little cost.
It would be a far better use of most scientists and PhDs time who comment on this forum and on others like Open Mind to just STOP
wasting YOUR time arguing
with idiotic «drunken» deniers, and spend their time much more effectively by scouring the internet for such «events» as «
Gas Fracking reviews by Government» etc etc in all nations across the world and use your education and skills and knowledge and actually make a positive difference to AGW / CC action by sending them a FORMAL SUBMISSION or offering up YOUR OPINION and EXPERTISE to be considered in their deliberations.
The impurities that emerge
with natural
gas become a wellhead
waste disposal problem that is often poorly regulated.
As it decomposes under piles of
waste with no access to sunlight or oxygen, it decomposes anaerobically — a process that inevitably generates methane, a greenhouse
gas that according to Science Daily, «is roughly 30 times as potent as a heat - trapping
gas [compared to carbon dioxide].»
Combined
with the President's other actions to increase the efficiency of our cars and household appliances, the President's plan will help American families cut energy
waste, lowering their
gas and utility bills.
The future of sustainable public transport could come through fueling buses
with gas made from two of the things that we seem to have a lot of, human
waste and food
waste.
Re: 220 Chris, you forgot to include in your calcualtions that the number of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry etc have been growing close to exponentially
with the rate of human expansion - their
waste products mean a nett increase in the amount of CO2 being puffed into the air over time but also the increase in other
gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide.
Ford's new SYNC system will guide drivers
with allergies to alternate routes along less pollinated roads, to avoid congestion that
wastes gas, and warn diabetics of low blood sugar problems, recognizing more than 10,000 voice commands.
While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural
gas, many panel makers are nevertheless grappling
with a hazardous
waste problem.
Consequently, our proposed CES would include a percentage of natural
gas when replacing existing coal capacity, 25 coal
with carbon capture and sequestration,
waste - to - energy, biomass, energy efficiency and nuclear power.
Still, all regions of the nation can take advantage of cleaner electric power, like nuclear,
waste - to - energy, coal
with carbon capture and sequestration, and natural
gas.
New Zealand - based Lanzatech, the developer of
gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial
waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding
with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to... Read more →
Another pathway for converting
gas to electricity is fuel cells, which produce electricity
with no byproducts except distilled water and a little bit of
waste heat.
With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large facilities, the use of animal
waste in anaerobic digesters to produce methane (natural
gas) is catching on fast.
It is a particularly vicious circle; and the only way out is to diversify
gas production
with the virtually unlimited potential of biomethane (from wastewater, agriculture, municiple
waste, food
waste, forestry
waste etc) and hydrogen from renewables.
Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired
with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as
waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural
gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.
[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural
gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified
waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity
with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»