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T&E: Rising use of private jets sends CO2 emissions soaring

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According to the report, a four-hour private flight emits as much as the average person does in a year. , finds that private jets are 10 times more carbon-intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains in terms of CO 2 emitted per passenger-km.

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One Tonne Life family reduces emissions down to level of 1.5 tonnes CO2 per person per year

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tonnes per person, per year, to just one tonne. tonnes per person, per year—a reduction level of 80%. In January 2011, one Swedish family undertook to take part in the “One Tonne Life” project—a six-month experiment to find out if they could reduce their carbon emissions from the national average of 7.3

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. The most important thing about this test is that we got Sandia to agree to take the power. It took us a long time to get the data needed to let us connect to the grid.

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EPA annual report on CO2, fuel economy and technology trends finds 2012 heading for all-time best; rapid adoption of new technologies

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report summarizing key trends in carbon dioxide emissions, fuel economy, and CO 2 - and fuel economy-related technology for gasoline- and diesel-fueled personal vehicles sold in the United States, from model years (MY) 1975 through 2012.

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A Good Reason To Cut Cars' Carbon Emissions: CO2 Makes You Fat

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Carbon footprints are a big talking point at the moment - they're your personal contribution to greenhouse gases, usually in terms of carbon dioxide, or CO2 emissions. The latest research out of Denmark suggests our footprints might be getting deeper as well as larger, with the news that CO2 emissions could be making us all fatter.

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Final EPA report shows total US GHG emissions up 3.2% in 2010, total CO2 up 3.5%, total transportation CO2 up 1%

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for personal vehicle use. Transportation activities (excluding international bunker fuels) accounted for 32% of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in 2010. Virtually all of the energy consumed in this end-use sector came from petroleum products. Nearly 65% of the emissions resulted from gasoline consumption.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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tonnes of CO 2 per person), followed by North Dakota (80.4 tonnes/person) and Alaska (54.6 tonnes/person). Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 mt CO 2 ); and Pennsylvania (256.6 In terms of per capita emissions, the top emitter was Wyoming (118.5

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