Sentences with phrase «industrial oil burning»

Poking around with Scholar, I found mention of «hydrophobic soot particles from residential coal and industrial oil burning» and also mention of radar being used that distinguishes aerosols from water vapor and clouds.

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Mercury is a neurotoxin that settles into the ocean in large concentrations after we spew it out of industrial smokestacks when burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

Industrial activities like burning oil, coal and natural gas and destroying rainforests have pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at levels unprecedented in human history, according to the United Nations - led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The top sources of air pollution are the burning of fossil fuels (such as gas, oil, and coal) and industrial emissions.

We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.

So half of the CO2 that has been emitted through the whole history of the industrial revolution — burning coal, oil, and gas — half of that is gone.

During the Industrial Revolution, the burning of wood and other traditional materials for fuel was replaced by the burning of coal and later oil and natural gas — so - called fossil fuels.

This strategy could help policy makers overcome a fundamental conflict in the debate over global warming: carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas in the air, is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal and oil — and combustion of fossil fuels is the foundation of industrial societies.

• This challenge has supposedly been «solved» by the CO2 isotope difference between fossilized biomass (oil, coal)(C12) vs. living biomass (C13), and by a reduction of O2 in the atmosphere that parallels the growth of industrial CO2 emissions (O2 eaten up in burning oil and coal and gas).

Carbon can be captured from electricity plants that burn coal or natural gas, or from oil refineries and other kinds of industrial plants.

The burning of coal, oil, and gas, and clearing of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than 40 % since the Industrial Revolution, and it has been known for almost two centuries that this carbon dioxide traps heat.

Eligible CO2 sources include power plants that burn coal, natural gas, or oil and industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, oil and gas production facilities, iron and steel mills, cement plants, fertilizer plants, ethanol distilleries and chemical plants.

The carbon dioxide that is building in the atmosphere, at least in part, gets there through human emissions of carbon dioxide that are the by - product of burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) to produce the vast majority the energy that has powered mankind's industrial and technical ascent since the Industrial Rindustrial and technical ascent since the Industrial RIndustrial Revolution.

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s, the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gasoline have greatly increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially CO2, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Carbon dioxide (CO2)- A naturally occurring gas, also a by - product of burning fossil fuels from fossil carbon deposits, such as oil, gas and coal, of burning biomass and of land use changes and other industrial processes.

Since the industrial revolution took hold we not only burned more CO2 - emitting fuels, from wood to coal to oil, but we have also massively reduced the amount of vegetation on the planet.

Since the Industrial Revolution, however, we have been burning fossil fuels like coal and oil on an unprecedented scale.

However, humans have been seriously releasing CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Age, when we began burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).

The science and engineering website Quest, recently posted: «Since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, we have been mining and burning coal, oil and natural gas for energy and transportation.

And the industrial countries became wealthy largely by burning the coal and oil that produced most of the heat - trapping carbon dioxide that is now in the air.

We've stopped burning liquid fuels to generate electricity, injected powdered coal instead of fuel oil into blast furnaces, raised the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE), lowered the kerosene consumption of jet engines, and improved the efficiency of thousands of industrial processes.