A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and
factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.
Not exact matches
While
burning algae - derived
fuel in an engine or
factory generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions just like
fossil fuels do, the algae itself requires CO2 to photosynthesize — so overall no new CO2 is added to the atmosphere.
That has resulted in water 30 percent more acidic than it was before
factories, cars, planes and other
fossil fuel -
burning machines became widespread.
The traditional model has been that electric load (electric demand) drives electric generation... your
factory turns on, and you have to turn on a
fossil -
fuel burning power plant.
Industrial Revolution
factories and growing human populations
burned more wood and
fossil fuels, baked more bread, and brewed more beer, adding still more CO2 to the atmosphere.
There were no
factories, cars or
fossil fuel burning devices of any type thousands of years ago.