Sentences with phrase «suck in huge amounts»

Like its cousins, common forms of algae, cyanobacteria suck in huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the environment and convert it into other materials, such as biomass.

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The soil is hard and rocky in the mountains, so Maca survives by sucking minerals and vitamins from the rocks with unique structure that contain huge amount of minerals and rare food components.

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000 - megawatt coal power plant, it would require air - sucking machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American Physical Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equipment to transport and store the waste underground.

It was very clear that the blackout was caused by the huge amount of energy sucked up by air - conditioners in addition to the regular energy use (it happened when businesses were still open and many people had returned home also).

Its a good thing that Google is interested in environmental issues, because it is an energy hog; Its massive data centers, which house hundreds of thousands of servers by some estimates, suck up huge amounts of power.

According to Bitcoin critics, the process of mining for Bitcoin is sucking up huge amounts of energy, which in turn are shooting up energy costs.