Sentences with phrase «feed on carbon dioxide»

Apparently, there is no downside to this scenario as the algae feed on carbon dioxide, are composed of > 50 % lipids and can grow quite nicely in «waste» land i.e. the New Mexico desert.

They feed on carbon dioxide, growing faster and absorbing more of the greenhouse gas as humans produce it.

Israeli company Algatech and Californian company GreenFuel partnered up to develop cost - effective, energy - efficient biofuel made from micro-algae feeding on carbon dioxide.

Not exact matches

As plants build up organic matter, soil animals feed on them and their debris, whilst microbes decompose the complex organic compounds to their mineral components and to carbon dioxide.

remember that the yeast will feed on such sugar to emit carbon dioxide, so it doesn't affect the carb count at all.

As bacteria fed on the creatures that rained from above, they produced toxic gases — methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide — that in turn bubbled up to poison the birds and insects flying overhead.

Phototrophic bacteria uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make its own energy, while heterotrophic bacteria must «feed» on provided organic matter or phototrophic bacteria to survive — think of cows grazing in a grassy field.

But last year, Nocera reported that his team had engineered bacteria called Ralstonia eutropha to feed on the H2 and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and combine them to make hydrocarbon fuels.

Thus, the early Earth was likely a paradise for methanogens that feed directly on hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at least until the atmospheric hydrogen was depleted.

On the other hand, the grasslands and pastures that grass - fed cows live on «can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,» says a Beef Association report, «which can help to mitigate global climate change.&raquOn the other hand, the grasslands and pastures that grass - fed cows live on «can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,» says a Beef Association report, «which can help to mitigate global climate change.&raquon «can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,» says a Beef Association report, «which can help to mitigate global climate change.»

The microbes feed on sugar and produce lactic acid, alcohol (ethanol), and carbon dioxide, yielding a fermented carbonated beverage.

From ridiculous and patently false claims that global warming has slowed, that the world can't be warming because winter still exists, that (seriously) plants like carbon dioxide so we're just feeding them; these people's only purpose is to slow any real progress on fixing the planetary mess we're in.

What's more, a laboratory study by entomologist May Berenbaum of UIUC, who collaborates with DeLucia to understand how soybean and its pest insects interact, showed that beetles that fed on leaves from the high carbon dioxide plots lived longer and laid more eggs.

But as the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere skyrockets and the climate changes, will farmers be able to grow enough crops to feed the nine billion people expected to be living on the planet by midcentury?

[T] hey found that lamb raised on New Zealand's clover - choked pastures and shipped 11,000 miles by boat to Britain produced 1,520 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per ton while British lamb produced 6,280 pounds of carbon dioxide per ton, in part because poorer British pastures force farmers to use feed.

Sharks sit atop the nautical food chain and subsist on midlevel ocean life, which in turn feeds on plankton, whose biological processes absorb carbon dioxide.

That footage is some of the most compelling action in Sharkwater, Stewart's 2006 acclaimed documentary, which explains how the ocean's apex predator has driven the evolution of marine species for over 400 million years and plays a pivotal role in climate stabilization (by feeding on species that eat plankton, which transform carbon dioxide into oxygen).