The facility run by Climeworks is the first to extract CO2 from the air and sell it directly to buyers, such as companies that run greenhouses growing vegetables, or for
producing carbonated drinks and carbon - neutral fuels.
Offering a variety of options, the Australian beverages industry
produces a carbonated drink suitable for any taste preference or dietary need.
Not exact matches
The plant's bottling machines can
produce up to 250 bottles of
carbonated drinks and 160 bottles of sauce every minute.
In addition to
producing carbonated soft
drinks, Adirondack also
produces spring water, purified water, sparkling waters, seltzers, energy
drinks and non-
carbonated beverages.
The canning line is
producing carbonated soft
drinks and still
drinks, ranging from fruit and sports
drinks to ice teas in 33 cl cans.
The range of beverages,
produced by members includes
carbonated diet and regular soft
drinks, sports and isotonic
drinks, bottled and packaged waters, fruit juice
drinks, cordials and iced teas.
According to Harold McGee in On Food and Cooking (second edition, page 429), they are not simply pungent; «they
produce a strange tingling, buzzing, numbing sensation that is something like the effect of
carbonated drinks or of a mild electrical current (touching the terminals of a nine - volt battery to the tongue).
When CO2 from the atmosphere combines with water, it
produces carbonic acid (the ingredient that gives soft
drinks their fizz) and decreases
carbonate ions, a key building block of marine animals» shells.
Atmospheric CO2 absorbed by the oceans» surface water
produces carbonic acid, the same acid that gives soft
drinks their fizz, making certain
carbonate minerals dissolve more readily in seawater.
Thus, the actual answer is zero, if we look only at the
carbonated water — but if we look at the entire process of
producing and
drinking a can of soda, we get a different number.
As acids go, H2CO3 is relatively innocuous — we
drink it all the time in Coke and other
carbonated beverages — but in sufficient quantities it can change the water's pH. Already, humans have pumped enough carbon into the oceans — some hundred and twenty billion tons — to
produce a.1 decline in surface pH. Since pH, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic measure, a.1 drop represents a rise in acidity of about thirty per cent.