Sentences with phrase «crop waste»

Soot comes from sources such as wood - burning stoves, diesel engines, forest fires and open burning of crop waste.

Some forms of carbon removal are also subject to significant debate, such as whether bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)-- which involves burning biomass like crop wastes for energy and capturing and storing the carbon emissions underground in geological formations — can be truly sustainable at a large scale given competing needs for land, among other concerns.

It would be good if FT could be done small scale to use local crop wastes and heat or electricity used nearby.

The trend of using crop waste for fuel continues to grow, and Copenhagen will capitalize on these advancements.

«The environmental and cost benefits of COHRAL (TM) technology as deployed by Oakey Abattoir are outstanding and something we expect to attract world attention for agribusiness, including meat, dairy and crop waste processing,» says Michael Bambridge, whose company represents GWE anaerobic wastewater technologies in Australasia.Global Water Engineering has been a world leader in clean water and green energy solutions for more than 35 years.

Here's what we need to do: reduce crop waste, consumer waste and meat consumption; integrate appropriate seed technologies and management practices; engage consumers about the challenges farmers face in both the developed and the developing world; increase public funding for agricultural research and development; and focus on advancing the socioeconomic and environmental aspects of farming that characterize sustainable agriculture.»

«From a biotech perspective, that gives us a recipe to try to build similar complexes that could then be engineered to more efficiently break down widely available crop waste,» O'Malley noted.

Cellulosic ethanol continues to struggle to use inedible crop waste to match ethanol from corn — and fossil fuels

I have proposed that we develop the process of pyrolysis to be used on organic wastes to cut the reemitting of GHGs from the wastes that are basically a biofuels crop wasted that usurp no land or water from food production.

The most commonly mentioned method of negative emissions entails generating electricity by burning biomass — mainly crop waste, wood waste, and crops grown for the purpose — capturing the carbon dioxide from the emissions and storing them underground.

Researchers continue to struggle to develop «second generation» biofuels that they hope will use enzymes to turn cellulose from wood and crop waste into ethanol.

Turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

An international team of scientists has discovered a new plant enzyme that could eventually lead to a breakthrough in the production of cellulosic bio-based fuels made from crop wastes, as well as chemicals and plastics.

Other biomass - based fuels, however, are genuinely sustainable — fuels derived from things like crop waste, or switchgrass, or sustainably harvested cover crops.

And the Park will be using local crop waste and the sun to generate clean, renewable power close to the point of use.

If current levels of crop waste were used to produce biogas, 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced every year.

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 4.3 million people died prematurely in 2012 due to indoor air pollution from traditional stoves, fueled by coal, wood, dung or crop waste.

IPCC scientists have suspected for a decade that aerosols of smoke and other particles from burning rainforest, crop waste and fossil fuels are blocking sunlight and counteracting the warming effect of carbon dioxide emissions.

Unlike other models, GCAM includes carbon stored in forests, causing forest acreage to increase even as energy systems change to include fuels generated from bioenergy crops and crop waste.

Around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, and crop waste) and coal.

Biomass - derived chemical raw materials which previously derived from petroleum could one day come from crop waste.

Biomass from crop waste, yard waste, pallets and other wood materials is produced in large quantities in Ohio, but most of that ends up in landfills instead of providing a potential 14 million kilowatt hours every year.

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

The company takes wood chips and crop wastes and gasifies them, which means that it zaps them into a fuel gas made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

Most people in Ghana are forced to cook and heat with wood, crop wastes or dung, says Franklin Cudjoe, director of the Imani (Hope) Center for Policy and Education, in Accra.

More than 3 billion people cook in their homes burning biomass fuels such as wood, dung, and crop waste, notes Envirofit in a press release, producing «lethal flames» from these cooking fires.

What we can do is cheat those consumers by getting farmers to burn their crop waste at very low oxygen levels to turn it into charcoal, which the farmer then ploughs into the field.

A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.

Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.