Sentences with phrase «known as biomass»

The NOC's robot - sub, Autosub6000, used seafloor photographs to create the first landscape - scale map of marine snow patches in addition to a map of the abundance of life on the sea - floor (also known as biomass).

With the help of government subsidies, companies are investing in converting wood fibre (known as biomass) into ethanol and diesel.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, when used for juicing, around a third of an apple's biomass — known as apple pomace or pulp — remains after the production process finishes, but is currently discarded or used in low - value animal feed or compost.

It has long been known that biomass burning — burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual, slash - and - burn agriculture and wildfires — figures into both climate change and public health.

A third route, known as pyrolysis, heats dried and ground biomass to about 550 ˚C in an oxygen - depleted chamber (so the biomass doesn't burn), producing a mixture of gases, liquids, and a gray, carbon - rich solid called coke.

The palm oil industry is big business in South Asia, but after harvesting the fruit from the oil palm trees, large amounts of leftover biomass known as empty fruit bunch remain.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

However, it is clear that in the world dominated by humans certain ecological «rules,» such as the correlation between large mammal diversity and plant biomass, no longer apply in the same way as they used to do for millions of years.

Biologically - derived materials are collectively known as «biomass».

Bio-batch, as its known, apparently messes with the molecular structure of several plastics and renders them able to decompose into biogas and biomass.

Given no better models or reasoning, we can only assume that the new ecological niche will create new biomass opportunities (which as I've said earlier, is only a one - time reduction in CO2) at the expense of the biomass currently exploiting the current niche.

As to the carbon sink, I do think we can make a difference (don't know how much) with biomass pyrolysis, but that all depends on how smart the human race chooses to be.

His position: • No evidence of increasing lake clarity as a result of secchi measurements since 1946 • The interplay of stratification and plankton productivity are not «straightforward» • Challenges O'Reilly's assumption on the correlation of wind and productivity - the highest production is on the end of the lake with the lowest winds • A strong caution using diatoms as the productivity proxy (it is one of two different lake modes) • No ability to link climate change to productivity changes • More productivity from river than allowed for in Nature Geopscience article • Externally derived nutrients control productivity for a quarter of the year • Strong indications of overfishing • No evidence of a climate and fishery production link • The current productivity of the lake is within the expected range • Doesn't challenge recent temp increase but cites temperature records do not show a temperature rise in the last century • Phytoplankton chlorophylla seems to have not materially changed from the 1970s to 1990s • Disputes O'Reilly's and Verbug's claims of increased warming and decreased productivity • Rejects Verburgs contention that changes in phytoplankton biomass (biovolume), in dissolved silica and in transparency support the idea of declining productivity.

There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.

The dataset, which is part of the FAO's database of statistics known as FAOSTAT, is based on FAO estimates of forest biomass, deforestation, [continue reading...]

There are no doubt many other niche sources of biomass like this, as well as novel sources like algae, although there may also be competing uses (e.g. sewage gas is one of the cheapest renewable energy sources for electricity generation).

It was announced that in September 2010 PGE teamed with researchers from Washington and Oregon to study how a fast - growing grass known as Arundo Donax could serve as fuel for the utility's controversial coal - fired power plant in Boardman, if the plant ended up being converted to biomass.

The EU - funded project known as DISCO (Discovery of Novel Enzymes & Reaction Mechanisms for Lignocellulose Hydrolysis), is halfway through its four - year quest to develop more efficient and cost - effective enzyme tools from microorganisms to produce bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass waste — such as spruce chips... Read more →

These types of waste are known as lignocellulosic biomass.

As you all probably know, it is possible for energy to be carbon negative e.g. by burning biomass with carbon capture and storage.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt recently told a group of forestry executives and students that from now on the US government would consider burning wood to generate electricity, commonly known as forest or woody biomass, to be «carbon neutral.»

Officially known as the «Law on Special Measures Concerning Procurement of Renewable Energy Sourced Electricity by Electric Utilities,» Japan's feed - in tariff (FiT) includes solar PV, wind, small and medium - scale hydropower, geothermal, and biomass.

KiOR's beginnings were as a company known as BIOeCON, a start - up to create electricity from biomass.