Sentences with phrase «like air capture»

A report released in April by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that avoiding the internationally agreed upon goal of 2 °C of global warming will likely require the global deployment of «carbon dioxide removal» strategies like air capture.

Energy sources for the energy - intensive process must be continuous to maintain the process, rather like the air capture machine.

Not exact matches

Holbrook's technique could be a big piece of the clean energy puzzle, alongside technologies like carbon - capture and storage, and nuclear, says Steve Wittrig of the Clean Air Task Force, a non-profit organisation based in Boston, who was previously the director of advanced technologies at BP.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

To obtain sufficient moisture for photosynthesis and growth, redwoods reach into the air with leaves shaped like baseball mitts and capture the fog that rolls in by night and languishes through most mornings.

Climeworks will be using a similar process called direct air capture (DAC), in which normal ambient air is pushed through a fibrous sponge - like filter material that has been impregnated with chemicals called amines, derived from ammonia, which bind to C02.

But alternative approaches, like capturing CO2 directly from the air using chemical reactions or absorbing it with ground - up minerals added to soils, are just beginning to see their first real - world tests.

If you are going to go down the path of air capture, serpentine mineral carbonation (a la the UBC group) seems like a much more sensible alternative.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

Darius Khondji captures the darkness of the city, a polluted air, and manages to create an eerie, near horror film - like setting.

Ostensibly a spin on Western films of all stripes, the most obvious being The Magnificent Seven, Ridiculous 6 follows Tommy Stockburn (Sandler), a white man raised among Apaches as the warrior White Knife, as he goes on a mission to rescue his newly - discovered biological father Frank (Nick Nolte, his voice sounding more like passing air through a gravel truck with each passing year) who's been captured by stock baddie Cicero (Danny Trejo).

From its opening shot — a slowly zooming pan of a diffuse Los Angeles vista — Greenberg seems imbued with the air of those movies like The Long Goodbye, Shampoo, and Leigh's own co-directed The Anniversary Party that managed to capture, in a few shorthand gestures, the literal and figurative haze that can seem to envelop the city and everyone in it.

Still, like all convertibles, the Murano CC captures the magic of open - air motoring, and arriving at the beach with the top down is a quick reminder that life is good.

One of the cars, captured by YouTube channel 19Bozzy92, appears to be a modified GT2 RS sporting additional air vents, a more aggressive rear wing from the 911 GT3 Cup car, and center - mounted exhausts instead of the edges like the standard road car.

This past summer saw national news coverage trumpeting the popularity of Pokémon Go, as participants ran around attempting to capture Zubats, Lickitungs, and the like (at least gamesters were outside, getting some fresh air).

Furthermore, the wide range of mounts available mean that you can capture images with the GoPro in environments where other cameras may fear to tread — like underwater or tumbling through the air.

Haan's boasts some specialist muck diving just off the east coast of Gili Air and is largely frequented by photographers seeking to capture a glimpse of stranger creatures like Flying gunard, frogfish and many varieties of pipefish.

Melbourne autumn mornings be like... The Yarra River and a glowing city backdrop captured from Southbank at that early magical hour when hot air balloons bob past by @philiplapik.

In A Landscape Study at San Vigilio, Lake Garada, Sargent painted en plein air, like many of the French artists of the day, seeking to capture not just the landscape but also a moment in time and the transient quality of light.

Creed likes to make little of nothing very much: a sheet of A4 crumpled into a perfect sphere, half the air in a room captured in white balloons, the other half free for all.

A master of plein - air painting, his rapid minimalist - inclined brushwork captures glistening light like no other artist I've seen.

Alfred Sisley, the «forgotton Impressionist», was - like his friends Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) and Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)- a devotee of plein air painting, which facilitated the capture of the «fleeting moment» of light and colour.

Or if you have emissions taking place far away, in the poor countries, the idea that you could do free air capture, like Carbon Engineering is trying to do and a few other people are trying to do — that would have to be part of the mix.

But as mentioned earlier, it is unlikely that the CPP would enable compliance through non-power-sector carbon removal approaches like reforestation, direct air capture, and enhanced weathering, which are «outside the fence» of existing power plants and likely off limits for CPP regulation.

EOR has the potential to aid in the development of CDR approaches like biomass power generation with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC).

Companies like Carbon Engineering in Canada, Global Thermostat in California, and Infinitree in NY also have operational direct air capture demonstration plants with commercial scale projects in their sights for the near future.

As the need for CDR approaches like Direct Air Capture (DAC) and bio-CCS increases, it is critical that all CDR approaches get appropriate financial remuneration alongside fossil CCS projects.

Historically, direct air capture has been largely framed as overwhelmingly expensive or impractical at commercial scale by carbon capture experts, due to the challenge of capturing the dilute CO2 in the air (exhaust streams of power plants and other industrial facilities like oil refineries, steel mills, and cement plants have much more concentrated CO2 steams).

«Less land - intensive technologies like Direct Air Capture (DAC) have to be urgently considered as part of the climate change mitigation portfolio.»

Direct air capture is just what it sounds like: sucking CO2 straight from the atmosphere, rather than from a concentrated source like a power plant or steel mill.

Broader economic approaches, however, can attach monetary values to non-market impacts, referred to as externalities, placing an economic value on ecosystem services like breathable air, carbon capture and storage (in forests and oceans) and usable water.

I think that, ultimately, carbon dioxide removal strategies, things like bioenergy and carbon capture (BECCS) or direct air capture will have a modest role to play.

The best American models still lack sufficient resolution to capture critical features like the Rocky Mountains, which funnel humid Gulf of Mexico air over the heartland, or the Gulf Stream, which pumps tropical warmth north along the East Coast.

But this upper - level system will align itself right on top of the coastal low, causing the storm to be captured by the upper level air flow, like a spinning figure skater balancing another on top of them.

The implication: in addition to rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use, we'll likely need big industrial CCS processes to generate negative emissions via approaches like sustainable bioenergy coupled with CCS and / or direct air capture (DAC) + sequestration to make our climate goals a reality.

The other way to get to negative emissions is through something called Direct Air Capture, where a device sucks carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere like a vacuum.

Some ideas, such as CO2 irrigation using direct air capture, seem like long shots today, but could hold breakthrough carbon sequestration potential in the future.

But air - capture machines, installed anywhere on earth, could deal with the 52 percent of carbon - dioxide emissions that are caused by distributed, smaller sources like cars, farms, and homes.

With events like the ongoing volcano eruptions in Iceland and the Gulf oil spill capturing headlines every day, more and more people are becoming aware of the value of trip insurance when air travel is disrupted or destinations change.

There are features like «Air Command» and «Scroll capture» that are specifically designed for using the smartphone with the S Pen.