Sentences with phrase «captured by a carbon dioxide»

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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).

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

Within a few years, we could be capturing the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and recycling it into fuel.

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.

Capturing that carbon dioxide and storing it will be essential if climate change induced by such pollution is to be averted, according to reports from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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.

Rather than looking to forests to solve the current climate crisis by capturing carbon dioxide, he suggests targeting our «energy system,» which continues to create the pollutant.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Research at the Rodale Institute found that «organic farming helps combat global warming by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and incorporating it into the soil, whereas conventional farming exacerbates the greenhouse effect by producing a net release of carbon into the atmosphere.»

If damaged, they would stop capturing carbon dioxide and a large amount of it could be released into the atmosphere by decomposing vegetation

American Electric Power will begin capturing at best just over 3 percent of the 8.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by its 1,300 - MW Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia later this year and injecting the CO2 more than three kilometers underground.

To make this assessment, Sutton - Grier and her colleagues evaluated how effectively each ecosystem captures carbon dioxide — for example, by plants using it to build their branches and leaves — and how long the carbon is stored, either in plant tissues or in soils.

In addition to its direct contribution to global warming, ozone may worsen climate change by preventing plant growth that would otherwise capture carbon dioxide

A copper tetramer catalyst created by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory may help capture and convert carbon dioxide in a way that ultimately saves energy.

«The break - even carbon tariff we calculated, which is at the range of $ 105 - 129 per ton of carbon dioxide, depending on the possible carbon tax to be imposed by these two regions in the near term, is close to the reported CO2 capture and sequestration cost,» You said.

HFC - 23, an industrial greenhouse gas thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced as a by - product in the manufacture of refrigerant, and a number of major offset projects capture and destroy HFC - 23, doing a huge service to the climate.

There have been several attempts to capture the carbon dioxide released by the world's 7000 - plus coal - fired plants.

By August 2008, the company expects to complete a 30 - megawatt plant near Berlin that will capture and store carbon dioxide in an aquifer outside Berlin.

The prospects of meaningfully tackling climate change by capturing and using carbon dioxide seem slim, as Michael Marshall states (17...

The CarbFix pilot program aims to resolve this problem by capturing carbon dioxide from the Hellisheiði Power Station, Iceland's largest geothermal heat and energy facility and the second - largest in the world.

That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.

Smith and Croyle had read some of Schrag's papers about carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS — a technique for keeping globe - warming carbon dioxide out of the air by burying it — and they were ready to put it into action.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

CAM plants can flourish here by conserving water more effectively than traditional crops — they capture carbon dioxide from the air at night and convert it to malate, which fuels photosynthesis during the day.

By producing proteins that slice and recombine carbon dioxide molecules, these microbes work in tandem with the grasses to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into solid, carbon - rich biological matter that gets stored underground.

Some experts are testing how well devices can capture the carbon dioxide normally released by electric - power plants.

The process captures and sequesters the carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide generated naturally during biological methane production, accelerating renewable methane production rates by 10 percent to 30 percent while sequestering carbon dioxide.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game - changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

@raydowe - The carbon by - product is called carbon dioxide, and if the ethanol is from biological sources the carbon dioxide has in the fuel production stage been captured from the atmosphere, so there are no net carbon dioxide emissions.

The discussions in Paris — and elsewhere — breezily circumvented the potential climate impact of large - scale fuel production this way by noting that the carbon dioxide could be captured, compressed, and buried.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

I have stumbled onto Carbon Capture Report, a Web site maintained by the University of Illinois to track global news coverage of climate change and work on capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide (a big focus in Illinois and other states with significant coal resources).

Successes 1) Storage of carbon dioxide captured from land based industrial sources in geological formations under the sea bed is now accepted (Nov. 2006) by the London Convention and its Protocol.

(See «Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons,» a 2009 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for just one of many sobering takes on what's needed.)

There's plenty more, including a great question about making climate - friendly fuels using carbon dioxide captured from air, posed by 14 - year - old Benji Fields (the son of a friend).

Rudolph W. Giuliani called for moving from energy rhetoric to action, using the popular Republican phrasing «clean coal,» a phrase with no meaning in the climate context until someone comes up with a cheap way to capture and store carbon dioxide emitted by power plants on the scale of billions of tons a year.

The scientists find much merit in pursuing further research on both, but only see practical prospects for capturing and storing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities.

Forestry experts were dumbfounded by Mr. Rohrabacher's line of questioning, noting that the world's forests currently absorb far more carbon dioxide than they emit — capturing roughly one - third of all man - made emissions and helping mitigate climate change.

Interestingly, Mr. Gore appeared to put himself at odds with Mr. Obama by including an outright rejection of what Big Coal and both presidential candidates call «clean coal» — burning the fossil fuel but capturing and burying the resulting carbon dioxide.

I still think this 2010 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology very nicely lays out what to look for to gauge if countries are serious about this issue: «Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons.»

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

By capturing this landfill gas and using it to produce electricity, the methane and carbon dioxide contained within are destroyed, reducing the emissions released.

In its latest report, the IPCC said: «Net negative emissions can be achieved when more GHGs are sequestered than are released into the atmosphere (e.g., by using bio-energy in combination with carbon dioxide capture and storage).

Two major classes of these systems are metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) but a major challenge in carbon dioxide capture has been to carry it out in the presence of water; that challenge is now being met by MOFs and COFs.

Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).

An EPS achieves this by setting the investment standard between 500 - 550 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour, which only allows for coal - fired power plants that effectively capture and store their carbon emissions.

This means that instead of drilling gases out of the bottom of the planet, there is now a push to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the gases discarded by industry and transporting and injecting it into underground geological formations.