Sentences with phrase «co2 out of the air»

These draw CO2 out of the air as they erode.

«The advantage is that you can suck CO2 out of the air wherever you are, keeping transport costs down ``

But what if we had a system of artificial «trees» a thousand times more efficient than real ones that could suck CO2 out of the air and keep it out?

«More than anything else this requires rapid and strong reductions of burning fossil fuels such as coal; but some emissions, for instance from industrial processes, will be difficult to reduce — therefore getting CO2 out of the air and storing it safely is a rather hot topic.

And that's why some scientists think that artificially fertilizing such waters with the metal could promote blooms that suck CO2 out of the air.

If we could do that [with a solar cell], then we could actually deal with global warming problems even more directly because we'd be pulling the CO2 out of the air to make our fuel.

«We need to work out a way to take CO2 out of the air and bury it,» Broecker says.

My colleagues and I believe we can suck CO2 out of the air and put it into stable carbonate rocks at prices of a few hundred dollars a ton, and we think we can probably go lower.

Sandwiched between towering cliffs and a dramatic coastline 50 kilometres north of Vancouver, the site is home to a small pilot plant where engineers are busy pulling CO2 out of the air so it can be stored or turned into a fuel that displaces conventional gasoline.

Using sodium or potassium to take CO2 out of the air seems to me like a good idea for terraforming Venus, if you find an enormous supply of reduced sodium or potassium in the Oort cloud.

Yes, a major concern is that a scheme to take the co2 out of the air will just encourage the proliferation of coal burning.

We need the trees to pull the CO2 out of the air, which means we need to stop wasting paper.

More carbon dioxide should mean more heat stress resistance in plants, as they shouldn't have to breathe as hard to suck CO2 out of the air, and should mean higher yields.

Solving it will take much longer since we need to be taking CO2 out of the air by 2020.

2 / cutting GG's now, alone will NOT save the planet, we have to extract the CO2 out of the air en - masse, convert it to charcoal and plough it back into farmer's feilds....

It also destroys greenhouse gases that would otherwise have escaped from its manure storage lagoons — equivalent to keeping an additional 31,000 tons of CO2 out of the air over its first 20 years of operation.

Adjust your thermostat Turning up your air conditioning by several degrees can reduce your energy bill, keeping CO2 out of the air and dollars in your wallet.

The reason that was a surprise is that it is not enough just to have photosynthesis taking CO2 out of the air, what we are saying is... the growth of new plants is more than the death of old plants.

Chilling CO2 out of the air, even with the temp advantage of Antarctica, will require power plants and a huge industrial footprint.

Trees may not take as much CO2 out of the air as corn plants do but they only have to take out less than half as much, since three to four times as much CO2 is in the whole corn plant as there is in the ethanol produced from it.

The iron hypothesis posits that adding iron to the oceans will trigger blooms of plankton and algae, which pull CO2 out of the air.

CO2 out of the air bubbles is pure nonsense.

This may be premised on the notion that a tree or crop pulls co2 out of the air, whereas a fossil fuel is sequestered underground, such that burning it contributes more carbon up to the biosphere.

I think there are other technologies that can also take CO2 out of the air and I imagine there's going to be a portfolio of different approaches.

You take the CO2 out of the power plant [inaudible 00:13:05] from the biomass, put it into the ground and repeat the cycle, and you're essentially pumping CO2 out of the air and under ground.

After opening the world's first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant designed to pull CO2 out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now joining forces with a geothermal power plant in Iceland to create the world's first «negative emission» power plant.

Very true, there are massive natural processes that pull CO2 out of the air and store the C.

Then, later on, if you need to remediate, you turn some fraction of a mature system for dragging CO2 out of the air to sequestration, rather than try do do it with immature technology.

Nations may need to physically remove carbon from the atmosphere, and they may have to deploy «negative emissions technology» - techniques that scrub CO2 out of the air.

«We're not saying it's infeasible to take CO2 out of the air; we're asking if this is an economic way to mitigate climate change, and here we're very clear it's not,» said Herzog.»

I ask because the paper has a freshwater pulse (taking CO2 out of the air) and later CO2 outgassing from the (diluted) ocean.

Through a magical process called photosynthesis, trees suck CO2 out of the air, turn the C into cellulose (wood), and release the O2 (oxygen) back into the air.

But the possibility of doing CCS and biomass co-firing — resulting in negative - carbon electricity that actually pulls CO2 out of the air — makes this too important a strategy not to pursue aggressively.

Every spring plants bloom, sucking CO2 out of the air, and every fall CO2 is released back into the air as plants either decay or lose their leaves.

The authors meant this as a method of offsetting CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants by taking the CO2 out of the air and sequestering it.

«The idea is that the brand new Appalachian Mountains eroded so fast, and in the process pulled so much CO2 out of the air, that it caused global temperatures to plummet»

It will require not only sucking CO2 out of the air, but a nearly equal and additional amount out of the oceans.

After all, what strategy could be more important for averting catastrophic global warming than pulling CO2 out of the air with biomass and then sequestering that CO2 in underground repositories.

We're «pulling» CO2 out of the air to get the materials to make our ink products.

«The loss of carbon from tropical forests in El Niño years is temporary as the forests tend to regrow in normal years, building back their biomass and sucking CO2 out of the air in the process,» Keeling concluded.

Expressed a different way, there are just over four years» worth of current emissions left before it becomes unlikely that we'll meet the 1.5 C target without overshooting and relying on unproven «negative emissions» technologies to remove large amounts of CO2 out of the air later in the century.

But this would require creating and implementing some kind of geo - engineering system that sucks more CO2 out of the air than all the plant life of... oh what... 7 earths?

Not exact matches

Who cares who bloody cares, look if I turn all my lights out do not use a car or do not put any CO2 into the air even farting into a bag and the disposing of it, Jesus the Asians are pumping out so much it will not make a blind bit of difference.

«If biomass were combusted and the CO2 separated out, not only would that be a CO2 - neutral process, it would even reduce the total amount of CO2 in the air.

CO2 is already taken out of the air in enclosed spaces such as submarines and space capsules.

In other words, for every kilowatt - hour of electricity used the microbes could scrub 130 grams of CO2 out of 230,000 liters of air to make 60 grams of isopropanol fuel.

It also reinforces the notion, however, that deliberately seeding the oceans with iron — which has been proposed as a way to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere — might do almost nothing to change the CO2 content of the air.

CO2 molecules will trap heat for centuries or more unless drawn back out of the air.

This assumes that the oceans and forests will carry on absorbing about 40 per cent of all the CO2 pushed out into the air.

In the meantime, capturing carbon out of the air and sequestering it is the most direct way we know how to provide energy without CO2 emissions and without building another infrastructure.