Sentences with phrase «stored by the plants»

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

In other words, when we burn fossil fuels, we are utilizing a small part of the solar energy that had been collected and stored by plants over millions of years, and in the process we are liberating into the atmosphere the carbon dioxide that those plants had absorbed from the atmosphere in the first place.

Its colour coding shows the amount of carbon density stored by the plants.

When we release energy by burning coal, we release sunlight energy stored by the plants millions of years ago.

But if you add carbon capture technology, this facility can catch all the carbon dioxide stored by the plants before it escapes back into the air.

This increase is due to a few centuries of human activities that have released carbon stored by plants — initially in the form of trees (deforestation), and more recently also in the form of fossil plants (fossil fuels).

Not exact matches

Jack Reed can see the recovery taking hold at his family's 109 - year - old clothing store in Tupelo, Mississippi, with sales buoyed in part by the paychecks tied to a Toyota plant up the road and rising confidence that the jobs are here to stay.

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

Overseas visitors make up just part of Alcala's clientele — neighborhood hipsters are a constant, lured by the store's Crayola array of Levi's jeans, and celebrity customers like Robert Plant, Bill Murray, John Malkovich and Steven Tyler have walked through its doors as well.

Customers can take any No. 5 container to Whole Foods stores — margarine tubs, other brands» yogurt containers — where they are collected, taken to a plant for processing, and then turned into toothbrushes and razors by Preserve.

Stores carbon in soil and plant biomass by building organic matter, encouraging agro-forestry and forbidding the clearance of primary ecosystems.

Finally I simply use store bought plant yoghurt and I like to by unsweetened yoghurts and add sweeter toppings like the jam and muesli in this isntance letting the yoghurt be an acidic counter actor.

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Created by plant - based meat company, Beyond Meat, the Beyond Sausage will be located in the meat section of the grocery store, where you can also find the Beyond Burger.

The 26m high flexible storage tank — one of the world's largest of its type — features resilient flexible double membrane storage so that gas produced by the COHRAL plant can be safely stored separately from the gas generator.

But after the «pink slime» reports on ABC News, major grocery stores and fast food outlets ceased purchasing the product and by May 25, 2012, BPI had to close three of its four plants, and lay off at least 650 workers.

Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s.»

Arkema said further explosions of organic peroxides produced by the Crosby, Texas, plant and stored onsite were possible, and it urged people to stay away as the fire burns itself out.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The decomposition of plant material stored by the ants increases the pH of the soil and increases what soil scientists call the exchange capacity — the ability of the soil to hold onto nutrients so that they are not washed out of reach of plants.

Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels

Meanwhile, collaborators Dave Keeling and Stephen Piper of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, charted annual variations in atmospheric CO2 stored or released by tropical plants on land.

The state hosts vast photovoltaic arrays in the desert as well as the nation's first commercial power plant with the technology to use sunshine at night — by storing daytime heat in molten salts.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

Many of the plants used by Native American doctors can now be found on the shelves of commercial stores around the country; they include black cohosh, used to treat cardiovascular disorders, and Echinaceafor infections.

Green plants are able to temporarily store electric charges after the absorption of sunlight by using a so - called molecular charge accumulator.

By some estimates these habitats and their so - called blue carbon stocks — in the soil and the plants themselves — store up to five times more carbon than tropical rainforests the same size.

Although the utility managed to safely remove all 1,533 fuel bundles from the plant's unit No. 4 reactor by December 2014, it still has to do the same for the hundreds of rods stored at the other three units.

They implicitly assume that it all results from additional plant growth when in fact it often occurs by displacing stored carbon, such as forests.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

To make this assessment, Sutton - Grier and her colleagues evaluated how effectively each ecosystem captures carbon dioxide — for example, by plants using it to build their branches and leaves — and how long the carbon is stored, either in plant tissues or in soils.

Though still shocked by the attack, Pellet notes one piece of good fortune: Many of the seeds were already planted in fields and some recently arrived from South America were still stored elsewhere, in a fire - safe room.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

Part of the carbon stored this way is used by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which live on the roots of 80 per cent of plant species.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

By August 2008, the company expects to complete a 30 - megawatt plant near Berlin that will capture and store carbon dioxide in an aquifer outside Berlin.

Exciton diffusion is also a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is transferred by excitons to areas where it can be stored in chemical form for later use in supporting the plant's metabolism.

When completed in 2011, the plant will make hydrogen from petroleum coke, an oil - refining by - product, in the process storing as much as 4 million tons of carbon dioxide a year in California's oil fields.

Worried about the impact of rising temperatures, a group at CIAT led by plant breeder Stephen Beebe examined more than 1000 bean varieties stored in gene banks.

A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored chemical energy.

Map shows the entire area where oil and gas development has reduced the land's ability to fix carbon, measured in «net primary production,» which is the net amount of carbon fixed by plants and stored in biomass.

Repair facilities, dormitories, administrative buildings, a firehouse, power plant, water distillation plant, wharf, stores, clubs, warehouses, a science support center, and the first - class, 4,320 square - meter Crary Lab are linked by above - ground water, sewer, telephone, and power lines.

With air captured CO2 from plants like Climeworks», renewable energy can be efficiently stored by producing synthetic fuels using Power - to - Gas or Power - to - Liquids technology.

This seagrass is not only essential to provide habitat for fish, but the plants store CO2 in their roots, lowering the ocean's pH. Mangroves, which are «forested wetlands,» serve the same function, and are similarly threatened, particularly by shrimp aquaculture.

JBEI, based in Emeryville, Cal., is a multi-institutional research partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) dedicated to developing advanced drop - in biofuels — liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.

Photosynthesis is the process used by plants and organisms to convert light energy into stored chemical energy used to fuel their own needs.

Response: Unlike currently operating nuclear reactors, SMR - 160 has been designed to store the used fuel produced over the entire operating lifetime of the plant in subterranean cavities (formally known as Holtec's HI - STORM UMAX system licensed by the USNRC), occupying a small parcel of land in the plant's backyard.

It is possible to reconstruct past precipitation changes by measuring the stable hydrogen isotopic composition in terrestrial plant waxes because rainfall is the primary source of hydrogen stored in plant material.

Many scientists and ecologists now believe that keeping those ecosystems intact offers a far greater greenhouse gas - reducing benefit — by not disturbing the carbon stored within native plants and in untilled soil — than any benefit which might be conferred by burning ethanol instead of petroleum.