Sentences with phrase «own carbon content»

Another customer recently reached out about having the ashes from his home, which burned down during the wildfires in Ventura County, California, earlier this year, put into a ring — which Archer says the company will be able to execute, thanks to wood's high carbon content.

This commodity has a higher carbon content than thermal coal and burns at much higher temperatures.

Because of its zero carbon content would actually look more attractive in a global carbon tax environment.

INCREASED EFFICIENCY, DECREASED COSTS The multiple preheater reduces electrical power consumption and increases the carbon content of the furnace gas in the smelting process

In such a system, imports from countries that do not price carbon emissions would be subject to a tariff equivalent to the price imposed on the carbon content of such goods made in Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them here.

Crude from the Bakken Formation has a lower carbon content than the foreign sources that help fuel the West Coast.

«There is a lot variation in those prices between flake size, total graphitic carbon content, and location,» he told The Australian Financial Review in early May.

He said that, with more than 100 different blends or grades of crude oil each with its own carbon content, the EPA should not use an «average crude oil» as a standard of comparison.

Research on organic matter concentrates on measuring the soil organic carbon content parameter.

The review of relevant research conducted by Stolze et al. (2000) concludes that under European conditions organic agriculture has beneficial effects on the characteristics of soil organic matter because the soil organic carbon content is higher on organically farmed soils than on conventional ones.

The high - carbon content makes the blade razor sharp and hard — around 57 - 58 HRC.

«You would get exactly the same impact and guarantee a climate win, if instead of just targeting coal, the EPA would require a fraction of the carbon content of all forms of fossil energy should be sequestered,» he said.

Later the creatures will be analyzed for protein, lipids, and total carbon content.

«The combined effect of both parameters showed no real patterns, as some pollutants were more sensitive to changes in temperature and others to increased organic carbon content,» says Matyas Ripszam.

Matyas Ripszam has also examined the effects of higher temperature and different concentration of organic carbon content on the distribution of pollutants in modelled real - life marine ecosystems, so called mesocosms.

Higher temperature alone led to increased losses of pollutants, whereas higher organic carbon content retained more pollutants in the model ecosystems.

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

For soils, scientists must measure the carbon content of a particular soil at a specific location and develop a map from that.

The findings concerning the distribution of tree crowns are important, because they can be used to draw conclusions about, for example, the carbon content or productivity of a forest.

If you increase the carbon content, you improve the quality of the soil.

At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.

The team investigated the fossil - related carbon content of municipal and industrial wastewaters at various points in the treatment process.

Existing satellite maps of the area have estimated trees» carbon content based largely on their height, but have not accounted for large regional variations in their shape and density.

This is a key factor in carbon offset schemes, in which trees are given a cash value according to their carbon content, and credits can be traded in exchange for preserving trees.

Dr Ed Mitchard, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «Satellite maps of the world's forests don't contain enough information about their carbon content.

It looks fairly certain that Europe's next Earth - observing science mission to win approval for construction will be Biomass, a spacecraft that will be able to measure the carbon content of the world's forests with unprecedented range and accuracy.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

Then, she combined these data with results from previous research to estimate the carbon content of beaver meadows throughout the region.

Over the course of four years, she has charted the carbon content of the grasslands, and when the first phase of the project concludes this August, philanthropist Rhonda Willson will pay the ranchers for every additional ton of carbon tucked away in their soils.

She analyzed the carbon content of 29 samples of sediment collected along two of the larger waterways (one of which included remnants of 148 beaver dams, and the other had 100).

The formation of the Earth from chondritic rock material in the inner solar system can explain the relatively low carbon content.

Key to the new estimate are so - called emissions factors, which are derived from the carbon content, heating value, oxidation rate, and other variables that allow carbon emissions to be calculated for the amount of a given fuel consumed.

The plan also includes a border tax adjustment: U.S. companies exporting goods to countries without a similar carbon price would receive a rebate of tax paid, and imports from companies outside the U.S. would face fees based on the carbon content of their products.

These fossil fuels are subject to a «carbon price support rate» based on carbon content which will create in essence a carbon price floor.

The jelly carbon content is lower on average than that of phytoplankton or marine snow.

Within the studied species, scyphozoans had on average the highest carbon content (26.97 percent), followed by thaliaceans (17.20 percent), and ctenophores (1.40 percent).

We convert energy content to carbon content using emission factors of Table 4.2 of [15] for coal, gas and conventional oil, and, also following [15], emission factor of unconventional oil is approximated as being the same as for coal.

Their research has found a direct link between soil's carbon content and its ability to retain water.

Radiocarbon dating definition, the determination of the age of objects of organic origin by measurement of the radioactivity of their carbon content.

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Brakes: The braking system consists of slotted rotors with high carbon content, Project Mu pads and RRM's stainless - steel braided brake line package.

Kia Motors Corporation has announced that the company's new Soul EV (electric vehicle), which will have its world premiere at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show starting later this week, has achieved UL Environment validation for bio-based organic carbon content for 10 % of its interior materials.

South Africa is much poorer than Saudi Arabia, and coal is more vulnerable to climate policy than oil, given its higher carbon content and the greater availability of alternatives.

If phase down of fossil fuel emissions begins soon, improved agricultural and forestry practices, including reforestation and steps to improve soil fertility and increase its carbon content, may provide much of the necessary CO2 extraction.»

The higher the total organic carbon content (TOC), the greater the sorption capacity.

Just as with the LCFS, the goal of RPS policies is to ratchet the average carbon content — unit of fuel or per kilowatt hour — down over time.

Biomass (often agricultural waste) is heated to high temperatures and the oxygen supply closed off so that the biomass's carbon content can not combust and is instead safely stored as charcoal.

Today, as we pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, slightly more flows from the atmosphere into the ocean, leaving enough to increase the atmospheric CO2 concentration, and increasing the oceans carbon content.

And indeed, during the last seven years, the carbon content of British electricity has reduced significantly.