Sentences with word «biomass»

As the rate of biomass burning increases, so do the impacts to human health.

This study shows a steady increase in biomass in all scenarios, to slowly decrease in the second half of the 21st century.

About 20 percent of black carbon emissions come from biomass burning sourced from activities like cooking.

The same should apply for the broader use of biomass for fuel, heat and electricity.

New generations of biomass energy — ones that do not rely on food crops, unlike the mistaken strategy of making ethanol from corn — are extremely promising.

To achieve this, scientists have to learn how to convert plant biomass into a building block for plastics and fuels cheaply and efficiently.

Turning trees, grass, and other biomass into fuel for automobiles and airplanes is a costly and complex process.

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.

So scientists have been trying to figure out how to use biomass with minimal emissions.

Notably, the plans include replacing coal heating with biomass and other heat sources.

His model research includes studies on the global distribution of carbon sources and sinks and studies on environmental consequences of expanding reliance on biomass for energy supply.

One of the biggest areas of interest will be the growth of energy crops for biomass power stations.

Forest biomass for energy can release three times more carbon than fossil fuels.

In the winter, the farm is even heated by biomass from the pigs themselves while the electricity comes from solar panels.

The team's technique can provide answers on other systems where bond activation is crucial, including in biomass production and carbon storage.

Almost two out of every five rely on wood or other biomass for cooking or heating.

Additional biomass sources currently include low - grade wood fiber and small logs.

It stimulates the diversity of other organisms and can increase biomass production.

If there is enough hydrogen or even excess electricity, there is no need to convert biomass carbon to anything but product.

It might not be long before the ethanol companies are paying to get more biomass waste headed into their plants.

Researchers are trying to develop ways to burn more biomass and less fossil fuels.

Representatives from key organizations in the global biomass industry will be attending to discuss how to further increase their profits from environmental destruction and social injustice.

Areas that store large amounts of biomass carbon overlap with areas of importance for biodiversity.

They can turn about 75 percent of wood biomass into fuel.

A researcher works on developing high quality crops for biomass conversion processes.

We make fuel cell systems that generate electricity from renewable biomass for people without access to an electric grid.

Although relatively inexpensive for electricity generation — there are practical limits to deployment of hydro, geothermal and biomass generation.

This enables plants to maintain their level of biomass at an approximately equal level in species - poor as well as species - rich ecosystems.

The map above shows the predicted global warming impact of all anthropogenic emissions, including biomass burning, on global near - surface air temperature since 1850.

... If it's occurred to you that those areas of the country with the highest available biomass resources aren't exactly those with the highest solar resources, you're right.

Another opportunity to produce biomass for energy generation is the management of secondary forests.

That's the largest absolute increase in fish biomass ever measured in a marine reserve anywhere in the world.

Isn't carbon in biomass like trees highly vulnerable to being lost though fire, deforestation, etc.?

That must be weighed against the warming qualities of the black and brown carbon particles and CO2 emissions generated by biomass combustion to derive a net effect.

For conventional fermentation to yield hydrogen, the process must use carbohydrate - based biomass.

It's one of the nation's leading producers of corn and ethanol but has yet to begin any utility - scale biomass electricity generation.

It produces its own hydrogen gas from biomass which means no gas or coal is used to make the necessary hydrogen in the fuel molecules.

Similarly, microbial biomass was reduced by 20 percent.

Researchers conducted above - ground biomass surveys to determine the amount of carbon storage.

How about biomass, or CSS, or electric, self - driving cars, or so - called smart cities?

Renewable energy including traditional biomass makes up a greater proportion of total energy supplies in developing than in developed countries.

Current adoption [3] of perennial biomass is estimated at 0.2 million hectares, obtained by applying the national rates of four countries to all regions.