Sentences with phrase «better plant carbon»

«Better plant carbon - cycle models.»

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GreenBuilt searched for a healthy, durable, climate resilient material that could provide high - quality permanent housing as well as temporary shelter, and hempcrete (a bio-composite made of the hemp plant's inner woody core combined with a lime - based binder) appeared to be a superior option because of its sustainability and carbon sequestration properties, as well as its potential to spur economic development.

As well, the NIF has postulated that bringing the plants online in the 2030s will have a major impact on reducing carbon emissions as older, coal - producing power plants are then retired.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

We are aware that running our business leaves a carbon footprint, so we try our best to offset these omissions through planting trees with Treesponsibility, who have granted us carbon neutral status.

Made from 100 per cent renewable, natural wood fibres from well - managed forests and high - quality recycled content from James Cropper's own world - class recycling plant, COLOURFORM ™ acts as a sustainable alternative to plastic and other packaging materials and aims to help brands reduce their carbon footprint.

We pride ourselves on our expertise in industrial refrigeration with an emphasis on ammonia plants as well as hydro carbon and fluorocarbon refrigeration (Freon).

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

Known more accurately as soil organic carbon, it is part of soil organic matter, which is made up of decaying plant and animal matter, and essential elements for good plant growth such as calcium, phosphorous, and nitrogen.

The company said the continued operation of the nuclear plants is a «crucial way» to keep down New York's carbon emissions, as well as electric costs, and a «realistic» plan to meet the state's 2030 clean energy standards.

Bambrick said he could «think of a lot better ways to reduce the state's carbon emissions than blowing $ 100 million on nuclear plant operations.»

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

Friedlingstein says the land and marine sinks performed better in 2009, because the La Niña conditions in the Pacific meant the tropics were wetter, allowing plants to grow more and store away more carbon.

Part of the problem is that the benefits of better plant growth, thanks to higher carbon dioxide concentrations (plants use CO2 for photosynthesis) are more than offset by the impact of higher temperatures and differing precipitation.

Limestone scrubbers deployed at natural gas power plants could help reduce carbon emissions as well as lower ocean acidification by pumping a byproduct of the scrubbing process back into the water, according to an experiment conducted by the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

They found that returning Earth to 350 ppm by 2100 requires planting trees on an epic scale, as well as substantial investments to boost soil fertility so it holds more carbon.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Industrial - scale carbon capture facilities like the Great Plains Synfuel Plant in Beulah, North Dakota (which pipes CO2 to Canada, where it is injected into oil wells to improve oil recovery), already exist, and leaks have never been detected.

Lee Spangler, an MSU chemist involved with the project, is studying whether any of the 11,000 wells near the Colstrip Power Plant in eastern Montana, for instance, would be good conduits for injecting carbon underground.

As well as analysing plant communities, the team also tested the soil at different sites but found that rhododendron had not affected its acidity, nutrient levels or carbon / nitrogen ratio.

Many experts believe that truly clean coal - fired power plants, coupled with such carbon capture and storage systems, offer one of the best hopes of keeping global greenhouse warming at bay in coming decades.

He wonders whether megaplumes carry the gases of an eruption, such as carbon dioxide and methane and helium 3, as well as minerals such as sulfur and iron, to upper layers of the ocean where most plant and animal life resides.

The impact of these results is wide - reaching, and Dr Pullen suggests that it may even change how we think about global climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.»

It's a process that may well accelerate under the Obama administration's new proposed carbon pollution regulations for existing coal power plants, to be unveiled June 2.

This analysis may help city planners determine the best locations to focus tree - planting efforts, while helping them realize that the strategy of adding trees needs to be complemented by other reduction and energy - conservation efforts if their communities are to reach their carbon - reduction targets.

That will be important for other capture projects down the road, he said, since a large power plant would require multiple injection wells to store all its carbon dioxide.

In the longest - running experiment of its kind, the plants that were supposed to thrive in higher carbon dioxide levels have instead done less well.

Other algorithms — including one that scans for certain pore shapes using techniques derived from facial - recognition software — then seek out the best candidates for absorbing carbon dioxide from the flues of fossil - fuel power plants.

It's not clear how much of a greenhouse effect that would produce, but it's a good bet that Earth would be a lot warmer — much as it would be, say, if there were no plants drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The municipality, which will ultimately aim to be zero carbon and zero waste, will boast a plant to produce hydrogen as well as fuel from the residents» sewage, according to planners Foster + Partners.

This carbon storage ability is so well - known it has spurred an international tree - planting movement to slow global warming.

A plant, for example, is much better at capturing and routing solar energy through itself than an unstructured heap of carbon atoms.

The study has important implications for predicting which arctic plant species will dominate as the climate warms, as well as how much carbon tundra ecosystems can store.

When too many animals roam a field, they will trample plants and soil and impede carbon storage; when it's too wet, carbon uptake is impeded as well.

The project's current phase injects carbon dioxide from a nearby geothermal well instead of the generation plant.

This material has been tested as a fertilizer and has proven to stimulate the growth of several plant species, both forestry and herbaceous, increasing up to the 10 % its total content of nitrogen and carbon as well as an increase of its roots.

Some experts are testing how well devices can capture the carbon dioxide normally released by electric - power plants.

Another automotive engine technology that gets better mileage than standard internal - combustion power plants and hence, produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.

A good option is the snake plant, which is very sturdy and produces oxygen and removes carbon dioxide at night!

It's well - known that plants breathe by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.

Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.

On the list of NASA's best air - purifying plants, and with an abundance of rich foliage and tiny white flowers, the spider plant confiscates from your indoor air benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and xylene, a solvent used in the leather, rubber and printing industries.

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Make Sure You Plant the Right Tree This 2006 article discusses the benefits of tree planting and the types of trees that best fight carbon emissions.

But the committee said more research was needed to find better ways to mine coal, to estimate reserves and to store carbon dioxide captured from plants.

That said, if Action # 1 is to put a complete moratorium on new coal - fired power plants until carbon storage works, then we can decide what it means for carbon storage to «work» in due course, and people may decide that it's not a good, safe, solution at all?

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.