Sentences with phrase «on on biomass»

«More light shed on on biomass breakdown.»

Not exact matches

The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 % of methane emissions — a much more potent greenhouse gas.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

Curt Whittaker, Managing Partner, has spent over 30 years in the renewable energy industry as legal counsel to developers, investors and lenders, working on landfill gas, wind, hydroelectric, solar and biomass development projects.

Middlebury, for example, spent a one - time $ 12 million on a biomass gasification plant, and spends almost $ 5 million per year to achieve its goal of becoming carbon - neutral by 2016.

(263) Biodegradable is defined in the standard as «capable of microbial decomposition within 24 months in soil (with the exception of plant biomass), one month in aerated water, two months in anaerobic water, with minimal impact on the environment» (see 3.10 in CAN / CGSB -32.310).

California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

In the third year, herbicides were used in the non-organic system to control monocotyledonous weeds, while only biomass ashes were spread on the soil surface in the organic system for weed control, but also to prevent frost damage.

Research carried out on tomato plots on the effects of weed control on surface - dwelling arthropod species found the abundance of species is clearly influenced by weed biomass.

We also helped achieve key changes in laws and regulations on biomass energy to ensure forests are managed sustainably in their roles in providing renewable energy and sequestering carbon.

It brings renewable power from wind, solar, biomass, and «cow power» (manure) to the grid on participants» behalf — all without changing their regular utility company.

Other trips included multi-day visits to Antigua, one funded by a trade union and another by a regional forum; visits to Rio de Janeiro for conferences; trips to Dubai sponsored by conference organisers; visits to Saudi Arabia and the UAE covered by the respective governments of each country; and a visit to Florida to speak on biomass power generation.

The company is in the midst of converting the plant to run on biomass — in this case, the wood byproducts of the logging industry.

«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.

His Green New Deal calls for 100 % clean energy by 2030 (no natural gas, nukes, biomass) combined with a full employment job guarantee program based on a sustainable economy.

The SusWEF Center, funded through the NSF EPSCoR program, focuses on research towards the sustainable use of chemical catalysis for water treatment and for the conversion of biomass to simple chemicals — including for crop production.

Microbiologist James Holden of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst speculates that our planet's deep biomass could weigh as much as all the things living up here on the surface.

In an encouraging sign, the House recently voted to provide extra money to pay for its pork - barrel add - ons; the Energy Department's biomass request was fully funded.

Overall, the study shows that forest biomass and tree species composition and their combined impact on carbon storage are affected by climatic variability on a sensitive and short timeline — just a few decades.

Ecologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his colleagues used data on hurricanes and the damage they have caused to estimate the total loss of biomass in US forests for every year from 1851 to 2000.

NREL, he says, has spent 40 percent of its biomass research budget on gasification.

Data were collected on the amount of irrigation, total plant biomass, moisture content at harvest, forage quality and other agronomic traits.

It will also depend on the success of competing emission - free technologies — solar, wind, biomass, and fuel cell energy, among others — that promise less environmental impact.

That makes nuclear fission look a bit more competitive, at least until the price comes down on solar, wind, biomass, fuel cell, and other, less controversial emissions - free energy sources.

«Because [biomass] is new in this company, I really have a good view of all the projects going on here, and I am always asked by my colleagues to give my advice.

Many materials can sustain a smouldering reaction, including coal, tobacco, wood, biomass fuels on the forest surface (duff) and subsurface (peat), cotton clothing and string, and polymeric foams (e.g. upholstery and bedding materials).

Common examples are the initiation of fires on upholstered furniture by weak heat sources (e.g. a cigarette, a short - circuited wire), and the persistent combustion of biomass behind the flaming front of wildland fires.

A researcher works on developing high quality crops for biomass conversion processes.

In the meantime, the TU Wien research team has already set its sights on its next scientific goal: «We want to develop the method further so it can burn not just natural gas, but biomass too,» says Penthor.

Jacobson's research, detailed in a paper published July 30 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, is based on a three - dimensional computer model simulation of the impacts of biomass burning.

«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

Bourtourault, 31, is currently working on biomass and renewable energy for a leading French renewable - energy company.

After creating their catalyst, the researchers tested it on levulinic acid (LA) from biomass.

This makes auxin a significant driver of plant biomass creation on our planet.

The authors hope that future estimates of carbon storage and water - use by tropical forests will include information on root biomass and architecture.

The researchers conclude in today's Science that stability — as measured by total biomass — depends more on the ability of species in an ecosystem to withstand environmental stress, than on the sheer number of species.

Initiated in 2009, CCEI has focused on transformational catalytic technology to produce renewable chemicals and biofuels from natural biomass sources.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

Aaron Kreider, a Web developer in Philadelphia who runs a site called the Energy Justice Network, a nonprofit group that supports clean energy and advocates phasing out all nuclear, fossil - fuel, large hydro and biomass plants, said he uses the CARMA data to supplement information on power plants in the United States.

«The idea is to demonstrate that the combination of our pyrolysis and our upgrading technology provides superior economic returns for people who own biomass and want to turn it into transportation fuels,» Rekoske says — an effort that could be useful on other islands or even the U.S. mainland.

The amount of carbon monoxide in Mars's atmosphere suggests that any existing bacteria that feed on it make up no more than one billionth of Earth's biomass

You just don't get a lot of biomass and on an economic scale that means it would not work to use this alga.

«A biorefinery that focuses not only on ethanol, but on other products that can be made from the biomass is more efficient and profitable overall,» he said.

Without their crucial landscaping services, including grazing on plants and leaf litter, biomass builds up on the forest floor and frequently causes wildfires.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

«Almost all of their expenses are based on buying oil or natural gas or biomass,» says Teamey.

Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

This, together with current trawling technology, was largely responsible for destroying one of the world's largest fish biomasses — 4 million tonnes of cod resources on the Canadian Grand Banks.

The lineages of these groups are not restricted to extreme habitats, as was once thought common for archaeal species; rather, archaea are widespread and occur in all thinkable environments on Earth, where they can make up substantial portions of the microbial biomass.

That time to recover initial carbon stocks after selective logging depended almost exclusively on logging intensity — that is, on the amount of tree biomass removed or killed during timber harvesting.