Sentences with phrase «more biomass»

More CO2 in the water means more biomass which means more O2.

Researchers are trying to develop ways to burn more biomass and less fossil fuels.

Already 62 % of households are connected to district heating systems, by using more biomass energy; this will offer multiple savings, including more efficiency and lower local fuel costs.

As with plants this means more photosynthesis it means more biomass production and a higher CO2 uptake.

It might not be long before the ethanol companies are paying to get more biomass waste headed into their plants.

So that means more biomass, which requires energy to grow.

Clarens» team found algae produce four to five times more biomass energy per hectare than conventional crops.

Grasslands that feature diverse plant species have more carbon storage capacity than less - diverse grasslands, largely because the former produce more biomass, the researchers say.

Wildfires burn much more biomass per area than professional prescribed burns, and pollute at a much higher rate.

So, enabling C3 crops such as wheat, rice and soy to use C4 pathways could provide similar advantages of less photorespiration, which leads to production of more biomass, yet releases less carbon into the atmosphere.

Eastman et al. (2001b), for example, found that with doubled CO2 the grasslands of the central United States were more water efficient on an individual stoma level (biophysical forcing), but grew more biomass (biogeochemical forcing).

If you want more biomass, or to feed more people, then it's a great choice.»

«It's now thought that there's more biomass inside Earth than anywhere else, just living very, very slowly in this dark, energy - limited, starved environment,» said co-author Sarah Bagby, a postdoctoral scholar in the Valentine lab.

If we temporarily cut them back the trees start growing more, with new trees sprouting and less mortality, resulting in more and more biomass in the forest.»

The brilliance is that it allows for multiple animal and plant species to be raised on the same surface area: while a well - run polyculture farm usually produces far fewer pigs than say, a pig factory farm, it has the potential to produce far more biomass on the same surface area.

«Cutting trees for fuel is antithetical to the important role that forests play as a sink for CO2 that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere,» Schlesinger writes in an article published yesterday in the journal Science, adding later that carbon neutrality «is only achieved» if harvested forests are allowed to regrow more biomass than was lost.

With other waste - to - energy plants competing for feedstocks, a shift to more sustainable agriculture requiring more biomass returned to the soil, and (yeah, I am an optimist) an increasing realization that we can't keep wasting food anyway, there will inevitably come a time when organic «waste» will be seen as an expensive, valuable resource.

The impact of the wildebeest appears to be larger, however; they contribute four times more biomass to the Mara than dying salmon add to British Columbia's rivers, Subalusky notes.

To really make a dent, the state would have to build many such facilities — and grow much more biomass, though that is at least a feasible undertaking, given current land availability.

«Eventually, other people will have to study if the tradeoff of more biomass is worth the extra energy required,» Okita said.

The EU could halve its emissions from its power plants by 2050 through the combined use of carbon capturing technologies and burning more biomass, a report has found.

More biomass means more nitrogen.

By August, the city seedlings had developed eight times more biomass than the country ones, mainly by putting out more leaves.

«Prof Lovegrove's idea for a «fully sustainable future» would have farmers growing salt water algae - which he says produces about 40 times more biomass than food crops per hectare.

The opportunity for bamboo as a source of biomass energy is immense and the biomass benefits of bamboo are impressive: from the same acreage, bamboo gives 4.5 times more biomass than eucalyptus.

The more biomass they use and the less coal, the better.

«There's more photosynthesis going on than in the past, and there's more biomass,» said the new study's lead author, Ralph Keeling, a professor of geochemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and program director of the Scripps CO2 Program.