In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, burning plastic is equivalent to burning fossil fuels, says Friends of the Earth (FOE).
"My eyes were burning, my nose started burning, " Mr. Harris recalled.
Dr Alamaro wants to use a gas-burning, rather than a coal- or oil-burning plant, because the exhaust produced by burning natural gas is free from sulphur dioxide, which plants hate.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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If you look at across the whole life cycle of growing corn, making ethanol and burning it in a car, and compare that to what happens when you find oil and make gasoline and burn it in a car, you only have about 15 percent less greenhouse gas going into the air from burning ethanol than you would if you're burning gasoline.
Burning yak dung in a wood-burning-style stove was the only form of heat at night, Ms Lloyd said.
But they argue that this is probably because they inadvertently consume fewer calories, rather than because of the mechanism suggested by Dr Atkins whereby the body switches from a carbohydrate-burning metabolism to a mainly fat-burning metabolism.
I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
This is in contrast to the situation in electricity production, where gas-burning plants are cheaper to build than coal-burning ones.
According to the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, secondhand smoke is the combination of two types of smoke that is produced when burning tobacco: the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker.
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Coal-burning power stations have cut output significantly, while gas-burning has surged ahead, faster than renewables.
Also, burning wood releases three times more carbon into the atmosphere than burning natural gas, per unit energy generated, said Booth.
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But it is possible that in future this may be uneconomic, and that growing coppiced wood for burning will be mainly concentrated on the high-value market for wood-burning stoves in the homes of the rich.
The upper duplex consists of a sunny living room with wood-burning fireplace and sweeping staircase, powder room, dining room with another wood-burning fireplace and a renovated kitchen with laundry.
But there's no denying that burning natural gas (methane, that is) produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy than burning coal.
The concept of burning away tumors with electric current dates back a century, but it took modern imaging machines to make through-the-needle tumor-burning accurate enough to be safe and practical.
Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.
Human sources come principally from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
While Celtic festival fires were burning on Tara, the High Kings forbid other fires in the area.
The fire is still burning and about 100 residents have been unable to go home.
Legal muir burning is being carried out at the moment by hill farmers and landowners.
She nodded at my grandfather while pointing the burning tip of her cigarette at me.
Surprisingly, provided the job situation, the consumer discretionary sector is burning hot right now.
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"Driving away, you could see the town burning up, " she told the Los Angeles Times.
Its report acknowledged the burning of the woman, but said the perpetrator was not a Muslim.
This is partially being done by switching coal-fired plants to the cleaner-burning natural gas.
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All this in addition poaching, illegal burning of forest, illegal trafficking in wildlife, and so on.
Maybe he ought to start buying cloud products rather than burning cash in his labs.
Rumors swirled that the company was burning cash at a much higher rate than Youku.
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"I was tired of being outside, in the rain, snow, burning heat, " she said.
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