Sentences with phrase «by carbon dioxide gas»

Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean.

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An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose by an average of 0.73 percent for every 1 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, Richard York of the University of Oregon wrote in his report.

In 2016, the solar, landfill gas, and fuel cell projects funded by New Energy Capital offset over 1,190,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.

The solar, landfill gas, and fuel cell projects funded by New Energy Capital through the New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund offset over 482 thousand metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents («MT CO2 Eq.»)

The big advantage with CO2 extraction is that by simply reducing the pressure, the carbon dioxide turns back to a gas and only the pure extract remains.

Compared to conventional plastics, PEF is characterized by improved barrier properties for gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen.

As the carbon dioxide tries to escape from the dough, the gluten (which has been properly activated during the autolyse and by stretching and folding) expands and captures this gas, causing wonderful holes (aka crumb).

Upgraded biogas is injected into the national gas grid, while the carbon dioxide (CO2) by - product goes straight to the farms» tomato greenhouses.

This structure, or network of gluten strands, captures the carbon dioxide gas produced by the yeast allowing the dough to rise and expand.

The bubbles produced by the reaction are the carbon dioxide gas escaping the water.

The bubbles produced by the reaction are the carbon dioxide gas escaping the water.]

Erie County and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority («NYSERDA») have announced the development of a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations which is expected to save more than $ 700,000 in energy costs and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2020, equivalent to taking 925 cars off the road.

A climate change denier who believes carbon dioxide is a harmless gas and once said there are «almost no major environmental problems» has been nominated by Trump to serve as a top environmental adviser.

By analyzing the light from molecular clouds, astronomers have observed not just H2O, but 200 different molecules — including H2, carbon dioxide and ammonia — existing either as gases or in ice that coats dust grains.

Conversely, climate policy that results in little or no effort to control greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide would likely result in a substantial release of carbon from the permafrost region by 2300, the study found.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

Ultimately, if steel could be produced by such a process, it could have a major impact, because «steel - making is the number one source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide,» the main greenhouse gas, Sadoway says.

Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.

As humans emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of the gas is absorbed by the oceans, gradually making the water more acidic.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

Ruling in a suit brought by Massachusetts over the regulation of car emissions, the court said that the EPA has the authority to regulate such climate - destabilizing greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide — something the agency had denied.

A porous material invented by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour sequesters carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, at ambient temperature with pressure provided by the wellhead and lets it go once the pressure is released.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

The Tour lab, with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), produced the patented material that pulls only carbon dioxide molecules from flowing natural gas and polymerizes them while under pressure naturally provided by the well.

Research has indicated that no - till methods could reduce emissions of nitrous oxide — a gas with 300 times the greenhouse potency of carbon dioxide — by 57 percent (ClimateWire, Jan. 6).

Particles of nitrogen - containing porous carbon are able to capture carbon dioxide from natural gas under pressure at a wellhead by polymerizing it, according to researchers at Rice University.

Originally, Cajuns merely exterminated these slugs as pests who preyed on spotted owls.This was done by ringing trees where the spotted owls roosted with Alka - Selzters, and when the slugs raced across the tablets, the carbon - dioxide gas generated by the interaction of the slime and the Alka - Seltzer would gas them to death.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

The water - gas shift reaction, in which carbon monoxide is removed from the fuel gas stream by reacting with water to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen, is a key step in the process.

Two potential scenarios: gas seeping from the liquid solution, like carbon dioxide escaping from an open soda can, and a pressure difference caused by the slow freezing of liquids.

Those trees are going to fall down and rot and turn into methane, which is much worse than carbon dioxide,» he said, noting that by turning wood chips into biofuel, his company would actually be reducing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

By releasing carbon dioxide higher in the atmosphere, airplanes allow the molecule more time to trap heat, also contributing via contrails and other chemically active gases, the IPCC notes.

Transportation: Saab Combustion Control (SCC) Engine - «A car that digests its own pollutants» Eric Olofsson, Combustion and Gas Exchange Manager at Saab Automobile AB in Södertälje, Sweden was honored for the SCC innovation which reduces carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon emissions by 10 percent and other emissions by 75 percent.

Already, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, are approaching 400 ppm, and at least the amount of warming caused by that level is likely by century's end.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

The so - called greenhouse gases — mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide — make the planet warm and habitable by trapping solar heat as it radiates back off the Earth.

While overall emissions of greenhouse gases from CDP's «Global 500» have shrunk from 4.2 billion to 3.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent since 2009, the index's 50 largest - emitting firms have actually seen greenhouse gas emissions rise by 1.65 percent over the same period, the organization has found.

Vertical carbon fluxes involve the amount of carbon going from the ground into the atmosphere or from the atmosphere into the ecosystem and will be estimated by measuring fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), two important greenhouse gases.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

Today, many scientists argue that the early atmosphere was dominated by other gases, such as carbon dioxide.

Indeed, the reduction in the emission of precursors to polluting particles (sulphur dioxide) would diminish the concealing effects of Chinese aerosols, and would speed up warming, unless this effect were to be compensated elsewhere, for instance by significantly reducing long - life greenhouse gas emissions and «black carbon.»

The next most abundant gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — do absorb a portion of the infrared heat radiated by the earth's surface, thereby preventing it from reaching space.

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

If all nine plants planned by the Chinese government were built, they would emit 21 billion tons of carbon dioxide over a typical 40 - year lifetime, seven times the greenhouse gas that would be emitted by traditional natural gas plants,» Jackson said.

Destruction of tropical rain forests, however, would significantly increase the concentration of carbon dioxide — the most important greenhouse gas — in the atmosphere by 26 percent.

That's reducing to 427 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted per year; current emissions in the state are roughly 525 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and have been projected to exceed 600 million metric tons by 2020 without such efforts.