Sentences with phrase «co2 as a waste product»

Humans and animals breathe oxygen and emit CO2 as a waste product.

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So what we might like as the effect in a beer or wine is a waste product from the organisms that are excreting this, and those yeast took in Dave as a [n] atom of carbon in a maltose sugar molecule that the brewmeister made — it's part of the beer - making process — and I tracked this back in a few paragraphs to being in the grain of the barley plant, in the starch of a barley plant and then coming from the atmosphere as a CO2 molecule that entered the leaf of the barley plant.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

We hope to offer the product as a commercial capture agent for separating CO2 from chemical or power station waste streams.»

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

These methanotrophs essentially «burn» methane to get energy, producing CO2 and water as waste products.

Re: 220 Chris, you forgot to include in your calcualtions that the number of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry etc have been growing close to exponentially with the rate of human expansion - their waste products mean a nett increase in the amount of CO2 being puffed into the air over time but also the increase in other gasses such as methane and nitrous oxide.

However you sugar - coat it, this shifting all over our plants and us that your CO2 is doing is just another reminder that CO2 is a waste product, and you're trying to dress it up as something else to pull the shift over our eyes.

So that leads me (being naturally inquisitive) to enquire whether you are aware of; as a PhD Bio-Chemist, biological processes in (any) living organisms; which process Oxygen into some final waste product (effluent) that is not CO2.

Incineration of some waste products that were made with fossil fuels, such as plastics and synthetic textiles, also results in minor emissions of CO2.

The question is how far will the levels of CO2, CH4, N - oxide, CFC and HFC, global land - sea temperatures, melting of ice sheets and glaciers, and sea levels need to rise before the critics realize that the delicate balance of the Earth's atmosphere — the thin lung - like membrane on which advanced life depends — must not be abused as an open sewer for industrial waste products.