Sentences with phrase «organic material in»

That means that the biosphere as a whole is a net producer of oxygen, thus a net user of CO2 by more growth than decay and a buildup of organic material in roots, humus, peat,..

«These are much more tractable,» Dr. Hansen said, citing as an example existing systems for capturing methane produced by decomposing organic material in landfills.

«For example, the natural decay of organic material in forests and grasslands and the action of forest fires results in the release of about 439 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide every year, while new growth entirely counteracts this effect, absorbing 450 gigatonnes per year.»

The basic premise is to steep the organic material in water to make an infusion and strain through muslin / cheesecloth / nylon mesh alternatively an old tea towel or a pair of tights serves the purpose just as well.

The installation — a workshop set up for producing these sculptures from start to finish, from casting the organic material in a single mold all the way to the phase of fixation — does not cease to evolve with the opening of the show: it continues to unfold through decomposition and composition, death and regeneration.

The centerpiece of the piece is an indoor installation featuring geometric light projections that interact with organic material in an immersive experience, according to the museum.

Larvae avoid sunlight and are blind, feeding on organic material in your carpet, bed, or furniture.

The system comes with ready - to - use organic material in the form of shaved coconut shells, so you don't need to do as much of the prep work.

In the first stage, the high temperature bacteria which Pirt has dubbed London caldoactive bacteria — consume 55 per cent of the organic material in the sludge, converting it to carbon dioxide and vegetable matter (biomass).

Natural mercury found in the atmosphere binds with organic material in the soil, gets buried by sediment, and becomes frozen into permafrost, where it remains trapped for thousands of years unless liberated by changes such as permafrost thaw.

Secondly, the organic material in sewage normally contains long - chain carboxylic molecules, which are negatively charged — something Booker calls «a lucky stroke of nature».

Previously, researchers believed that microorganisms, in particular fungi, chlorinate organic material in order to break it down into smaller «edible» pieces.

The team measured the amount of organic material in each sample and isolated and identified amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — as well as amines — the products of amino acid degradation.

«The way carbon gets buried usually starts with photosynthesis, through which carbon dioxide is converted to organic material in the form of plankton, marsh grass, mangroves, or sea grass,» he said.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

The level of organic material in wastewater is similarly reduced.»

Earth is the only known celestial object to have organic material in its regolith!

The chances are very very very low, but when you apply the vast amounts of matter in the universe over the entire history of it all, and apply the fact that we have seen organic materials in comets and Saturns moons, not to mention the undeniable evidence that we are here talking about it, those numbers become very likely.

Closed anaerobic reactors generate large quantities of methane (CH4) from the organic materials in the wastewater that can diminish or even completely replace the use of fossil fuels in the production process.

If you are planning to choose this mattress type we recommend you to read as much reviews as you can and contact the manufacturer to get the information about the percentage of organic materials in the crib.

Colgate is committed to the health and safety of babies, and introduced the use of organic materials in crib mattresses, such as coconut coir, organic cotton and other plant - based materials.

The Ecoposh OBV One Size Fitted Pocket Cloth Diaper is a premium solution for parents looking for organic materials in a cloth diaper.

Use of natural, organic materials in your garden will help ensure a safe and healthy crop.

The Ecoposh OBV Newborn Fitted Cloth Diaper is a premium solution for parents looking for organic materials in a cloth diaper.

We know about the health benefits of buying organic food and using organic cleaning products, but what about organic materials in fashion?

Standards set by the government state that companies manufacturing crib mattresses only have to use 70 % organic materials in order to label their product as organic, so there are still chemicals and toxins used to manufacture the other 30 % of the mattress.

The process remains experimental, and the engineers can not yet precisely control the alignment of organic materials in their transistors or achieve uniform carrier mobility.

«When we use different organic materials in the plasmonic structure, we can extend the lifetime of excited charge carriers, therefore they can travel longer within the structure before they get captured by the metal,» says Kaveh - Baghbadorani.

«One challenge for any biomolecular analysis of tropical specimens is the poor preservation of organic materials in hot and humid conditions,» states Dr. Mary Prendergast of Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, lead author of the study.

My research focuses on developing robust multiscale computational paradigms to model the structure - property relations of minerals in order to develop a fundamental understanding of the origins of water and organic materials in our Solar System.

«The complex suite of organic materials in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites probably originally formed in the interstellar medium and / or the solar protoplanetary disk, but were subsequently modified in the meteorites» asteroidal parent bodies.

This is an ongoing consideration of landscape and land art for LaTocha in which she explores the use of reclaimed and found organic materials in her image making process.

Although historically follies were constructed purely for decoration rather than function, Gallaccio's work engages the artist and viewer with natural, organic materials in a way that challenges perception and form and continues to articulate Gallaccio's process that wholly connects her work with the history and feel of the site.

Michael E. Smith is a really interesting sculptor who works with organic materials in a profound way.

The C sequestration potential of any soil depends on its capacity to store resistant plant components in the medium term and to protect and accumulate the humic substances (HS) formed from the transformations or organic materials in the soil environment.

Corporations and utilities are also tapping the methane produced in landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose, to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

89 Until we get zero waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

Natural wetlands are the largest source, emitting CH4 from bacteria that decompose organic materials in the absence of oxygen.

Not exact matches

For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

As microorganisms in the soil break down the organic material into an inorganic soluble form, a slow release of nutrients is provided over a longer period of time.

With organic fertilizers a buildup of toxicity in the soil is unlikely, as long as the amount of organic material incorporated into the soil is fully decomposed.

Proteins and amino acids from organic material combined in the warm oxygen rich sludge a few billions of years ago.

Biological evolution has a direction that can be clearly charted through all of the stages in material, organic, and cultural creation.

9Just as Whitehead's organic cosmology is a refutation of Newtonian material atomism with respect to the problem of «simple location,» so in a correlative fashion his organic sociology stands in sharp contrast to the modern contractual theory of civil society, which conceives of individuals as autonomous existents externally related only by agreement.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly live as he lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.

The concept even seems to us indispensable if in such cases we are also to display the organic» character of the material thing.