Sentences with phrase «convert carbon dioxide in the air»

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In any community of plants and animals, the basis of the life of the community life is the plants that convert the energy from the sun, the minerals from the soil and the carbon dioxide from the air into plant tissue.

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

So in a sense, the cleanup will cost that much, whether it is converting hydrogen from coal or pulling carbon dioxide from the air.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

A real «clean coal» plant uses either gasification which converts the coal to purified syngas or oxygen enrichment in the boiler to eliminate excess air in the flue gases so that the carbon dioxide can be easily separated.

Through the process of photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants captures the sun's energy by converting carbon dioxide from the air and water from the ground into carbohydrates — complex compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

As the «energy crop» is growing, it takes in carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into organic carbon, which accounts for most of the fuel value of biomass.