When Lynas started down the path of building the largest rare -
earths processing plant outside of China several years ago, the price of rare earths was at heady levels.
The lake of toxic waste at Baotou, China, which as been dumped by the rare
earth processing plants in the background
Not exact matches
Lynas» market capitalisation swelled to over $ 4 billion during the 2011 rare
earths bubble but a collapse in prices and problems with the company's
processing plant saw its share price tank.
To say, as Joe says, that «God making evolution appear undirected is similar to the idea that he
planted dinosaur fossils and created geological strata to fool us into thinking the
earth has been around more than 6,000 years,» is in my view completely to misunderstand what scientists and ordinary people mean when they speak about random
processes.
When Loren Eiseley describes the
process of evolution of
plant and animal life struggling through the hot, red winds of the young
earth, and when space shots send back data from the Moon and Mars, our cosmic vision expands.
Yet it is the supermarkets and
processed food companies that present food to us as something that should be cheap, plentiful and industrial - devoid of any connection with the
earth, sun, animals,
plants and people who produce it.
My first job was in the local meat
processing plant, working with people described as «salt of the
earth, working class», who had historically toiled in appalling conditions because they had no choice.
Through the
process you'll discover how to allow shapes and elements to emerge, including light, fire, and
earth; sun, moon, and stars;
plants, birds, fishes, and animals; and the human being itself.
It envisions grabbing C02 from an industrial
process or a power
plant stack, piping the gas to a suitable storage spot and injecting it deep beneath the
Earth's surface.
But before the dawn of
plants, scientists thought
Earth's oxygen originated from a multistep
process that starts when carbon dioxide reacts to ultraviolet light.
When combined with a separate, related sequestration project starting this fall on the same corn
processing plant, the initiative will pump more industrially captured carbon dioxide underneath the
earth for permanent storage in deep saline rock reservoirs than ever has been attempted in the United States.
Professor Henry said photosynthesis — the
process by which
plants converted sunlight into energy for growth and produce oxygen — was arguably the most important biological
process on
earth.
Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating
Earth's biogeochemical
processes; everything from regulating
plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments,
processes that can impact global climate.
This is the
process that fuels the sun and other stars but has yet to be realized in a controlled way for power
plants on
Earth.
On
Earth, the
process is quite simple:
plants supply us with oxygen to breathe and food to eat; we supply them with carbon dioxide and fertilizer, which they convert back into oxygen and food.
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative
process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on
Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and
plants.
We are beginning to unlock a
process which is taking us back to the first stages of
plant life on land some 450 million years ago, one of the key evolutionary steps of life on planet
Earth,» she said.
Do you think it could be related to the rising temperatures and how it affects the
Earth's capability to sequester atmospheric CO2 by natural
processes like the photosintesis of the
plants?
Plants are major contributors to the chemical weathering of continental rocks, a key
process in the carbon cycle that regulates
Earth's atmosphere and climate over millions of years.
Eating the foods that the
Earth provides for us with minimal
processing, letting the body heal itself with natural medicine,
plants, and herbs, and learning to listen to your own body.
Real food is whole
plant foods, grown close to Mother
Earth and minimally
processed.
One interesting facet of the graph above is how much of the stimulus spending has been focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the
process of catching CO2 as it leaves a power
plant, compressing it and stashing it in the
earth for safekeeping.
Many scientists previously thought the reduction in sunlight lowered the
Earth's temperature and slowed
plant and soil respiration, a
process where
plants and soil emit CO2.
However, even today's most sophisticated
Earth system models suffer from uncertainties that stem from the difficulty of simulating small - scale or complex
processes, such as raindrop formation and carbon uptake by
plants.
Co-founded by Graciela Chichilnisky, an architect of the Kyoto Protocol's carbon market, and Peter Eisenberger, founder of the
Earth Institute at Columbia University, Global Thermostat has developed a proprietary technology that uses low - cost leftover
process heat to grab carbon pollution from power
plants — which then can be sold back to other companies as a power source.
Climate depends on a multitude of non-linear
processes such as the transfer of carbon from the atmosphere to the oceans, the
earth and
plants, but the models used by the IPCC depend on many simplifying assumptions of linearity between causes and effects in order to make the computation feasible.
Actually declaring a species extinct, however, is a long and laborious
process that requires evidence beyond a reasonable doubt the
plant or animal has disappeared from the face of the
earth.