Sentences with phrase «carbon efficient form»

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Europe is leading the industrial hemp comeback, making major strides in using the crop as a carbon - sequestering, energy - efficient building material in the form of hempcrete and as hemp insulation.

But in February a team of researchers found that bundles of carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen form a more efficient and more compact catalyst.

«Melanie Sanford's insightful studies on the details as well as applications in the field of carbon - hydrogen bond activation have led to new methods to efficiently modify existing pharmaceuticals to arrive at new and better forms in a more efficient and rapid way than was previously possible.

This coming year at Weizmann, his project, dealing with making carbon fixation more efficient, will involve collaboration with the newly - formed Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley.

Hempcrete, which sounds rather like a made up hippie word instead of an alternative building material, is a fascinating green construction option that uses the hurds, or inner woody core of the hemp stalk (as opposed to the bast fibers, which are used for textiles and cordage), in a mineral matrix, to form a non-toxic, carbon - negative, and energy - efficient material.

However, this assumes coal will dominate as a profitable investment over other forms of cleaner, more efficient energy despite increasing action by the public and private sector to limit carbon emissions.

These subsidies, in my view, represent a gigantic misallocation of resources that could otherwise be put toward more efficient forms of low - carbon energy production and conservation, which carry a tiny fraction of nuclear's risk premium.

Because the burning of the fuel is never 100 % efficient, trace amounts of pollutants including unburnt carbon are produced in the form of fine particulates (soot), hydrocarbon gases and carbon monoxide.