Sentences with phrase «grass plants convert»

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.

Not exact matches

Amazonian grasses, sometimes called macrophytes, convert atmospheric carbon to plant biomass, which is then processed by aquatic microorganisms upon decomposition.

Biofuel brewers would prefer to convert either agricultural waste or other nonfood plants, such as trees and grasses, to fuels.

Third, animals actually function very effectively to convert plants, such as grass, that people could not live on, into animal protein that people can digest.

Large plants break into grass leaves, sticks protruding from the earth are converted into broken branches, and the ground can be condensed into collectible cubes of dirt.

It was announced that in September 2010 PGE teamed with researchers from Washington and Oregon to study how a fast - growing grass known as Arundo Donax could serve as fuel for the utility's controversial coal - fired power plant in Boardman, if the plant ended up being converted to biomass.

Actually our plants, ie trees, grasses... take in our (people, animals, pollution...) carbon dioxide and use it while converting it back into just oxygen, which they emit and we breathe.