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Despite official figures suggesting that Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are declining, after factors beyond the federal government's influence are considered, such as deforestation and emissions from soil and forestry, Australia's exposure to the climate crisis has risen over the last 15 years.
May 20, 2021 09:57 PM EDT
(Photo : Kim Kenny) Biofuels turned out to be very good choices because they have zero or very, very low sulfur relative to fossil fuels, said Eric Tan, NREL s senior research engineer and lead author of a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Ling Tao, also from NREL, and scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the US Department of Transportation s Maritime Administration are co-authors of Biofuel Options for Marine Applications: Techno-Economic and Life-Cycle Analyses.
Reduced Volumes of Sulfur Oxide
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After 2005, the International Marine Organization (IMO) has gradually reduced the volume of sulfur oxides that ships are permitted to emit. The sulfur content of ships fuel oil was lowered to 0.5 percent from 3.5 percent under the most recent upper cap, which went into operation at the start of 2020. According to the IMO, the reduction w
May 16, 2021 10:58 PM EDT
In Australia s collective mythology, the outback plays a significant role. For others, it s a mythical land of extreme beauty and adversity that shaped the Australian psyche. For some, though, this is a false myth - a tale that Australia wished to tell itself and desired to believe, of a property that had been taken from Aboriginal people, as author Alexis Wright puts it.
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Outback
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What is certain is that the enormous country, which encompasses 5.6 million square kilometers and includes the Northern Territory, much of Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and a corner of New South Wales, is one of the world s few great untamed regions.