Ethanol is a safe replacement for toxic octane enhances in gasoline and does not increase atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The carbon dioxide formed during the combustion of ethanol is balanced by that absorbed during the annual growth of plants used to produce ethanol. ... Similarly, ethanol reduces carbon monoxide and other toxic hydrocarbon like benzene emissions. ... As a result, the use of ethanol as a fuel would increase the performance of vehicles and perhaps the most attractive advantage of lowering the amount of pollutant emissions such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and ozo...

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So, by burning biomass fuels we release no more carbon dioxide than would have been produced in any case by natural processes such as crop and plant decay. ... Carbon tax is a form of pollution tax. ... The primary purpose of carbon tax is to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The tax charges a fee on fossil fuels based on how much carbon they emit when burned. A carbon tax is the most efficient means to instill crucial price signals that spur carbon reducing investment. ...

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The combustion of coal releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are the causes for the global climate change that we are experiencing. ... In 2006, China added over 90 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants and they added about 500 million tons of carbon dioxide to China's annual emissions. ... The total carbon dioxide emissions per capita of the Chinese has also grown by 9% in 2011, reaching 6.6 tons which is comparable to that of the European Union's 7.3 tons, but is still much lower than the United States' 17.2 tons. The most recent analysis done by the Glo...

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Meanwhile, IKEA is encouraging their suppliers to reduce more unnecessary carbon dioxide and greenhouse emissions during the transport process. ... The reason why many firms anticipate to lower down its carbon emission is that its business process includes revenue potentials in the supply chain. ... These improvements in energy efficiency and renewable energy use, carbon efficiency of suppliers has constantly remained stable. ... This indicates that a business needs to encourage suppliers to develop and implement plans to reach the goal. 2.2 Low carbon footprint： There was an estimate tha...

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The downside to this operation is that during the combustion stage there is a release of unhealthy gases and solids that will be let out into the atmosphere, increasing air pollution and carbon emission. ... The release of these extra Carbon emissions aside from the ones that occur naturally in the environment upset the balance of the Earth's gases. ... These harmful greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide damage the Ozone Layer of the atmosphere which protects us from harmful radiation being omitted from the sun. ... An efficient fix to these harmful emissions would be switching to al...

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It is human nature to under value our possessions when we become accustomed to its presence. For example, non-renewable resources such as coal are abundant, making them the most used energy source in the United States. However, these same abundant resources are harming the health of the environment ...

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Now that an international consensus has confirmed the very real and very dangerous threat of global warming, every nation should consider renewable energy electrification as a possible solution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions per the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. ...

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Sustainability became the modern quota for almost all the communities and engineering around the world as we approached depletion of raw materials. The definition of sustainability in engineering and almost all communities is the responsible inclusion of alternatives in the design process that benef...

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On a national and global scale, humans have developed growing and life threatening addiction to energy in order to provide electricity and heat. As a potential solution, natural gas is highly abundant throughout the world and can help nations like the United States become less dependent on fossil fu...

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