Sentences with phrase «as biomass»

Consumers are able to offset their carbon emissions by purchasing credits to fund projects which avoid or reduce emissions, such as biomass generation plants and wind farms.

With the help of government subsidies, companies are investing in converting wood fibre (known as biomass) into ethanol and diesel.

Other renewable sources, such as biomass, geothermal, wave and small - scale solar power, will be integrated with the grid without the need to trade on the market.

The algae is then expected to be harvested and used as biomass fuel in the plant's cement kiln.

What can't be harvested can be used as Biomass fuel and fertilizer

They are based on estimating a measure for plant energy called gross primary production (GPP), which is the rate at which plants capture and store a unit of chemical energy as biomass over a specific time.

The demand for wood as biomass for fuel wood and charcoal making is a threat to the use of resources in Kenya and is expected to remain unchanged for many decades to come.

The demand for wood as biomass for fuel wood and charcoal making is a threat to the use of resources in Kenya and is expected to remain unchanged for many decades to come.

Additionally, the nutritional value of rice (according to FACE open air experiments) will be diminished to a by nearly the same degree as biomass increases by 2050.

4.91 % is known as biomass as we also burn food (ethanol) and energy forest (trees or woody shrubs) in the rich world.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have identified nearly 4,100 contaminated sites deemed economically suitable for wind and solar power development, as well as biomass.

Trials are just beginning in Britain of a giant reed which may have a higher yield as a biomass fuel than any other crop.

«Our research focuses on the development of reforming catalysts that can be applied to a host of technologies, such as biomass gasification, pyrolysis, and natural gas — and will further the understanding for how catalysts function at the molecular level,» said Robert Dagle, who led this experimental research at PNNL.

As a biomass facility, Mt. Poso would produce about 44MW of power, DTE said, enough electricity to supply about 35,000 homes.

This is a USDA Farm Service Agency program that can help farmers get a better price for any agricultural product they sell as biomass (like wood pellets).

The authors argue that the Kyoto Protocol as currently written does little to advance solutions that benefit biodiversity, and in many ways could unwittingly promote further biodiversity loss from the kinds of projects it encourages, such as biomass monoculture plantations and hydro dams.

PowerMundo's solution is to sell such simple, low - cost products as biomass cook stoves, wind - up radios, and solar lanterns to low - income households, focusing first on the poorest communities in Peru.

Alternately, the whole stalk may be burned as biomass for fuel.

A global Biogeochemical - Argo array would enable direct observation of the seasonal to decadal - scale variability in net community production (the rate at which life - forms capture and store chemical energy as biomass), the supply of essential plant nutrients transported from deep waters to the sunlit surface layer, ocean acidification, hypoxia (low oxygen levels), and ocean uptake of carbon dioxide.

A group of researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory hope to develop the pieces of that puzzle to create a clearer picture of what takes place within a plant and how that applies to its downstream uses as biomass.

However, sulphate is invariably internally and externally mixed to varying degrees with other compounds such as biomass burning aerosol (e.g., Formenti et al., 2003), fossil fuel black carbon (e.g., Russell and Heintzenberg, 2000), organic carbon (Novakov et al., 1997; Brock et al., 2004), mineral dust (e.g., Huebert et al., 2003) and nitrate aerosol (e.g., Schaap et al., 2004).

Photo via: J Hull Poop power, err otherwise known as biomass energy, has been a part of the Treehugger vocabulary for awhile now, but especially over the past couple months.

«As the biomass increased in phosphorus content, the more of it landed in layers of sedimentary rock,» Reinhard said.

The Waxman - Markey bill that passed through the House last year included language that would ultimately create a market for small - diameter trees, brush and forest slash to be used as biomass fuel.

For over one hundred years, the distribution of different sizes of trees in forests has been one of the core attributes recorded by foresters and ecologists world - wide, as it can be used to derive many other structural features, such as biomass and productivity.

The NOC's robot - sub, Autosub6000, used seafloor photographs to create the first landscape - scale map of marine snow patches in addition to a map of the abundance of life on the sea - floor (also known as biomass).

Grimes thinks they are likely to fund nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, carbon sequestration, cleaner generating capacity, and renewables such as biomass.

The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.

Novem calculates that if some 0.5 million hectares of agricultural land were turned over to production of such biomass sources of energy, this would meet around 5 per cent of Dutch energy requirements; this would increase to 12 per cent if waste and refuse materials were used as biomass.

Like its cousins, common forms of algae, cyanobacteria suck in huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the environment and convert it into other materials, such as biomass.

Distributed energy such as biomass has potential, and simple technologies such as solar water heaters could make a huge difference in securing energy for the poor.

The player has a tool / weapon which allows them to harvest various resources such as biomass, seeds, carbon and iron!

Measuring physical properties such as temperature or salinity is relatively straightforward in comparison to biological properties such as biomass or productivity.

As biomass is a carbon neutral fuel, the power generation will have zero GHG emissions.

This waste is currently used as biomass, but its calorific value is seven times lower than heating oil.

Ontario's climate plan pledges to work with First Nations to support economic growth by reducing reliance on diesel fuel and enabling stable sources of power such as biomass, solar, and waterpower.

But the Amazon could be protected and people's energy needs met through aggressive investment in energy efficiency and true renewables such as biomass, small hydro, solar and wind.

► Renewable energy is obtained from the continuing or repetitive currents of energy occurring in the natural environment and includes non-carbon technologies such as solar energy, hydropower, wind, tide and waves and geothermal heat, as well as carbon - neutral technologies such as biomass.

A 2011 UCS analysis of new nuclear projects in Florida and Georgia shows that the power provided by the new plants would be more expensive per kilowatt than several alternatives, including energy efficiency measures, renewable energy sources such as biomass and wind, and new natural gas plants.

Scientists will also use soot spectroscopy observations to fine - tune their understanding of how heat - producing activities, such as biomass burning and oil and gas production, contribute to Arctic warming.

Renewable energy consists of energy produced and / or derived from sources that can be renewed indefinitely, such as hydro -, solar and wind power, or sustainably produced, such as biomass.

It won't go to the landfill - it will be chipped and used as biomass (boiler fuel).