Sentences with phrase «produces large amounts of carbon»

Charcoal and gas grills produce large amounts of carbon monoxide and even small amounts can kill you.

Researchers say they have developed a new chemical process to produce large amounts of carbon nanotubes with relative ease.

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).

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Accompanying the founders of the new Mars colony would be large amounts of equipment, including machines to produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen from Mars» atmospheric nitrogen and carbon dioxide and the planet's subsurface water ice.

Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).

Ocean microbes produce at least fifty percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere while removing large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Research over the last decade, however, has revealed that low levels of carbon monoxide ward off internal injuries caused by such stress, and the team argues that's why elephant seals produce large amounts of the gas.

Animal products generally use larger amounts of resources and energy than various other plant - based foods, plus produce higher carbon emissions.

No matter what other factors affect temperature, the addition of large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere - ocean system will produce large negative effects.

These explosions produced a very large amount (relative to natural levels) of radioactive carbon - 14.

This occurs because transportation in North America produces a substantial amount of black carbon (soot) and ozone (a main ingredient in smog), both of which warm climate, while power generation leads to a large amount of sulfate particles, which cool climate even as they also lead to acid rain and damage human health.

In high - latitude areas like Alaska, frozen ground known as permafrost can trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane produced by layers of decayed plant and animal matter.

Ocean waters globally have become 30 % more acidic due to absorption of large amounts of human - produced carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

In addition, a relatively small amount of uranium can produce a relatively large amount of energy, helping the overall energy cycle of an online nuclear plant to release no more carbon dioxide per kilowatt - hour than solar power, which must account for the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells.