Sentences with phrase «year life cycle carbon»

Not exact matches

These projects are so efficient in their conservation of heat in the steam that they have a similar life - cycle carbon output to the average of crudes sold in North America, and thus would almost certainly meet the standards to be unveiled by the California Air Resources Board next year, the company told The Calgary Herald recently.

ASG's 2016 study also found the Nissan LEAF to hold the smallest life - cycle carbon footprint of any model year 2016 automobile available in the North American market, again earning the 2016 BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE Award.

State: If #KXL not built, life - cycle carbon emissions associated w / oilsands estimated to decrease 70K to 830K metric tons of CO2e a year

A life cycle assessment was carried out for the prototype, and according to the designers, the Carbon Positive House results in a total design savings of -659 kgCO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent)-- a relative saving of 116 percent per year, per occupant — compared to conventional benchmarks.

As the deep oceans turn over, on an eight - hundred - year cycle of circulation, they will take the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere down into Davy Jones's Locker, where it will be of no use to man, beast, or plant life.

And you also knew, for example, that that an average gas driven car emitted 4.7 tons of carbon dioxide per year and an electric car would cut that in half even when powered from the current polluting grid, and much much less on a life cycle basis from a future global efficient renewable energy system displacing almost all fossil fuels.

For instance, about half the total rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration has occurred in just the last 30 years — and of all the global life - support systems, the carbon cycle is closest to no - return.