Unless the forests and peat are harvested before flooding, the rotting vegetation is a source of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > and methane comparable in magnitude to the amount of carbon released by a fossil-fuel powered plant of equivalent power.

Peat is available in considerable quantities: Some estimates put the amount of peat in Finland alone to be twice the size of the North Sea oil reserves.

The contribution of peat to greenhouse gas emissions of Finland can exceed a yearly amount of 10 million tonnes carbon dioxide, equal to the total emissions of all passenger car traffic in Finland.

This estimate excludes emissions from peat fires ( conservative estimates amount to at least 4, 000 Mton /- eq ./ yr for south-east Asia.

It is estimated that in 1997, peat and forest fires in Indonesia released between 0. 81 and 2. 57 Gt of carbon ; equivalent to 13 – 40 percent of the amount released by global fossil fuel burning, and greater than the carbon uptake of the world's biosphere.

These old rocks lie beneath sea-level and are invisible beneath drift made up of glacial till deposits and post-glacial colluvium and alluvium deposits ; there is a smaller amount of peat.

The waters of the lake have a high acidity level due to the amount of vegetation that is decomposing and the build up peat on the lake bottom.

The Edenderry Power Station is now ( 2012 ) deriving a lot of its fuel from woodchip and types of biomass and the amount of peat arriving by rail is diminishing.

Since British Government guidelines require manufacturers to reduce the amount of peat used in their products, Bord na Móna intends to capitalise on its system of fertiliser production which converts organic waste from gardens and parks, reducing the need for peat moss.

Operators of composting toilets commonly add a small amount of absorbent carbon material ( such as untreated sawdust, coconut coir, peat moss ) after each use to create air pockets for better aerobic processing, to absorb liquid, and to create an odor barrier.

It has been observed that increasing the amount of soil organic matter through the working-in of manure, compost or peat can both improve local drainage and promote the proliferation of earth worms that can, over time, break relatively thin hardpan layers.

They were once deep pits, up to in depth, from which an enormous amount of peat was dug over a period of centuries.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.

A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years ''.

The amount which may be borrowed from the SBA depends on how much is required to carry out the intended purpose of the loan.

It is obvious that this is a potential and lucrative source of revenue for the assessors of those towns where a substantial amount of such property would be subject to taxation.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Any claimant whose claim is denied, or is approved for less than the full amount of such claim, shall be entitled, under such regulations as the Commission may prescribe, to a hearing before the Commission, or its duly authorized representatives, with respect to such claim.

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, as prescribed by Section 8 of this Title, an amount not exceeding the principal of each award, plus accrued interests on such awards as bear interest, certified pursuant to Section 5 of this Title, in accordance with the award.

Determine the ratio that the amount being allotted is to the sum of the products for all the States.

Upon receipt of an application which the Export-Import Bank is prepared to consider, the Export-Import Bank will inform the Department of Economic Affairs of the identity of the applicant, the nature of the proposed business, the amount of the proposed loan, and the general purposes for which the loan proceeds would be expended.

If you file a Form 1040, you should indicate in the place provided that there is an overpayment of tax and the amount you want refunded and the amount you want credited against your estimated tax.

It is the amount you enter on line 9, page 1 of Form 1040.

The amount of liquid poured into the chamber is determined by subtracting the quantity still in the beaker when the chamber is full from the original quantity.

The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.

The small reaction occurring at 337-degrees-C is probably caused by decomposition of occluded nitrates, and perhaps by a small amount of some hydrous material other than Af.

In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

The international unit is equipotent with the USP unit adopted in 1952, which was defined as the amount of activity present in 20 mg of the USP reference substance.

As the sample size gets larger the amount of bias gets smaller,

During the early phases of the Big Bang, nucleosynthesis of hydrogen nuclei resulted in the production of hydrogen-1 ( protonium, < sup > 1 </ sup > H ) and helium-4 (< sup > 4 </ sup > He ), as well as a smaller amount of deuterium (< sup > 2 </ sup > H ) and very minuscule amounts ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) of lithium and beryllium.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Due to the matter wave nature of electrons and their smaller mass, they occupy a much larger amount of volume compared with the nuclei, and this volume occupied by the electrons keeps the atomic nuclei relatively far apart, as compared with the size of the nuclei themselves.

In the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, a smaller amount of fresh dill is mainly cooked along with cut potatoes and fresh fenugreek leaves ( Hindi आल ू- म े थ ी- स ो य ा).

Because this band is higher in frequency than bands currently in use by deep-space missions, the same amount of data can be sent by smaller equipment in space and on the ground.

Compared to an equivalent class-AB device, a class-D amplifier's lower losses permit the use of a smaller heat sink for the MOSFETs while also reducing the amount of input power required, allowing for a lower-capacity power supply design.

When light strikes a material, most of the light is absorbed while a smaller amount of a particular frequency or wavelength is reflected.

Rifle cartridges require lubrication of every case, due to the large amount of force required, while smaller, thinner handgun cartridges can get away with alternating lubricated and unlubricated cases.

The nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl released a huge amount of radioactive tritium into the atmosphere, and smaller problems cause smaller releases.

Romanovsky and other French scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount.

These layers are generally peeled away prior to cooking or serving raw, with the result that the stems often provide a smaller amount of food than one might assume from their intact appearance.

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is either a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts ( lighter nuclei ), often producing free neutrons and photons ( in the form of gamma rays ), and releasing a very large amount of energy, even by the energetic standards of radioactive decay.

The thickness of the ozone layer — that is, the total amount of ozone in a column overhead — varies by a large factor worldwide, being in general smaller near the equator and larger towards the poles.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

The index typically requires a smaller amount of computer storage, which is why some search engines only store the indexed information and not the full content of each item, and instead provide a method of navigating to the items in the search engine result page.

A smaller amount of deeper saltier and therefore denser waters continually work their way westwards ( the Mediterranean outflow ), while a larger amount of surface waters with lower salinity and density continually work their way eastwards ( the Mediterranean inflow ).

The courtship ritual can involve several other behaviours such as juddering and a cheliceral kiss, in which the male's chelicerae – pincers – grasp the female's in a smaller more intimate version of the male's grasping the female's pedipalps and in some cases injecting a small amount of his venom into her pedipalp or on the edge of her cephalothorax, probably as a means of pacifying the female.

However, the Muslim and medieval practice was to draw a smaller amount blood from a distant location.

* This minimal amount of information translates to a much smaller file size compared to large raster images ( the size of representation does not depend on the dimensions of the object ), though a vector graphic with a small file size is often said to lack detail compared with a real world photo.

Less than 0. 3 % of all freshwater is in rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere, and an even smaller amount of the Earth's freshwater ( 0. 003 %) is contained within biological bodies and manufactured products.

The structure's walls consist of three components: an outer layer ( tilted inwards and made of many layers of stones whose size diminishes with height: mostly, lower layers consist of rubble masonry, while upper layers tend to ashlar masonry ) shaped like a tower, an inner layer, made of smaller stones ( to form a bullet shaped dome called " Tholos ": ashlar masonry is used here more frequently ), an intermediate layer of very small pieces and dirt, which makes the whole construction very sturdy: it stands only by virtue of the weight of its stones, which may each amount to several tons.

As ions entering the separator are of approximately equal energy, those ions with a smaller mass will be deflected by the magnetic field by a greater amount than those with a heavier mass.