Sentences with phrase «significant amounts of carbon dioxide from»

After making headlines last year for pledging to invest $ 3 billion in renewable energy technologies, he's upped the ante on curbing climate change by offering a $ 25 million prize to whoever comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

However, overlapping bands in the lower troposphere where water vapor dominates will keep carbon dioxide from absorbing any significant amount of radiation — in the lower troposphere itself.

One problem is that producing oil from shale or oil sands generates significant amounts of carbon dioxide — but a lot of that carbon dioxide comes from producing the hydrogen needed to process the raw materials.