Sentences with phrase «of waste carbon dioxide»

THIS year the world's power stations, farms, cars and the like will generate the equivalent of nearly 37 billion tonnes of waste carbon dioxide.

Instead, Simbol will take advantage of waste carbon dioxide from the geothermal power plant itself to create the material.

Not exact matches

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

In addition to representing 17 percent of the total waste stream, food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

The idea is to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies that can take waste carbon dioxide streams from industrial facilities, and turn them into valuable and useful items, from t - shirts to toothpaste.

Once wasted food reaches landfills, it produces methane, a gas with 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.

When food waste decomposes in a landfill, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

To grow, your baby needs nutrients, water, oxygen, antibodies against diseases, and a way to get rid of unneeded waste like carbon dioxide.

Chock full of valuable vitamins and minerals, the placenta is a powerhouse that also provides oxygen to your baby while also facilitating the removal of waste and the filtration of carbon dioxide.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

That's the equivalent of 38 trips around the Earth, 178,000 litres of wasted gasoline and 662 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

«These effects include wasted resources, foregone revenue and outsized emissions of carbon dioxide as well as local pollutants such as sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

The driving element of MELiSSA is the recovery of food, water and oxygen from waste, carbon dioxide and breath condensate through the development of technology for long - term manned space missions.

The project demonstrated the possibility of cultivating algae by using carbon dioxide source in the summer, when light is available and waste sugar in the winter.

The information can help promote behavioral changes to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from transportation of wastes.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

Instead of sugar, Kanan's team developed a process that uses carbon dioxide and furfural, a compound derived from corn harvest waste.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

Crocodiles use a waste product of metabolism — the bicarbonate ions formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water — as the trigger for haemoglobin to unload the oxygen it carries.

That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.

This treelike structure of villi absorbs oxygen and nutrients from maternal blood; fetal waste and carbon dioxide meanwhile diffuse into the maternal bloodstream.

Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way of converting waste carbon dioxide into a molecule that forms the basis of making plastics.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

IPCC scientists have suspected for a decade that aerosols of smoke and other particles from burning rainforest, crop waste and fossil fuels are blocking sunlight and counteracting the warming effect of carbon dioxide emissions.

When scientists try to print thicker layers of tissue, cells on the interior starve for oxygen and nutrients, and have no good way of removing carbon dioxide and other waste.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

And, of course, we need to stop using the sea and sky as waste dumps for our carbon dioxide pollution.»

Although Solar radiation and lightning (which has been detected by the ESA's Venus Express probe in 2007) should be producing large amounts of carbon monoxide (CO), the gas was found to be scarce, as if something was removing it (such as hydrogenogens, diverse bacteria and archaea that grow anaerobically utilizing CO as their sole carbon source and water as an electron acceptor to produce carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen as waste products).

The «waste» products from that process will be 61.7 lbs of carbon dioxide and 24.2 lbs of H2O (water).

And very important part of the process of training is the increasement of blood circulation, which supplies the active muscles with oxygen and vital nutrients, at the same time removing the waste products like lactic acid and carbon dioxide.

The lungs eliminate a variety of waste products especially carbon dioxide.

An under - producing heart means a reduction in the transport of oxygen and nutrients to the organs of the body, and a reduction in the transport of wastes, toxins and carbon dioxide out of the body».

There are many benefits to this method, including the efficient uptake of oxygen and removal of carbon dioxide and other waste products in the lungs.

A longer exhale ensures a larger expulsion of carbon dioxide and wastes in the body.

Apana: The eliminative forces of your body i.e. bodily waste / bi-products such as carbon dioxide, sweat, bowel movements, coughing, phlegm etc..

(Every pound of waste diverted from a landfill saves 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide.)

Growing, processing, shipping, and preparing food — particularly the kind Americans typically eat (and schools typically serve)-- requires huge amounts of energy and produces tons of waste: Animal agriculture contributes nearly one - fifth of the greenhouse - gas emissions responsible for climate change — 1 pound of beef generates the equivalent of 36 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to researchers.

Its major role is to get oxygenated blood distributed to all of the organs in the ferret's little body, and to remove carbon dioxide and other waste products from the organs.

The pulmonary arteries connect the heart to the lungs; they are essential for transfer of oxygen and other nutrients throughout the body, and for removal of carbon dioxide and other waste products from circulation.

carbon dioxide is a waste product of the coral polyps respiration 2.

Around a staggering # 12.5 billion worth of food is thrown away in Britain annually, if we stopped wasting good food we could avoid around 17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents being emitted each year, the same as taking 1 in 4 cars off of UK roads.

It is mainly food not used, while carbon dioxide released from our lungs and the urine we pee out, are the real waste products of our bodies.

As it decomposes under piles of waste with no access to sunlight or oxygen, it decomposes anaerobically — a process that inevitably generates methane, a greenhouse gas that according to Science Daily, «is roughly 30 times as potent as a heat - trapping gas [compared to carbon dioxide].»

We have to cut into the 35 % and growing overload GHGs, mainly carbon dioxide, In that comment I have outlined several actions that can be taken with many benefits in cutting into the natural biorecycling of GHGs from organic wastes.

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.

A truly sustainable forest products operation, possibly, since they would deplete no wood if there biomass was kept constant, their energy - mostly generated from their own wood waste - would also be sustainable, and they would have a negative input of carbon dioxide.

In that comment, the process of pyrolyzing those wastes is outlined to reduce some useless reemission of carbon dioxide occurring as those wastes biodegrade, and stopping the pollution of water from the dumping of those wastes containing germs, toxics and drugs.