Sentences with phrase «turn carbon dioxide and water»

Photosynthesis uses light energy to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar, so plants need to detect light sources to get food.

Not exact matches

One possible strategy for making Mars habitable over the long term is to «terraform» it — manipulate its environment so, in the simplest terms, the planet warms up, ice turns into water, and plants can be introduced, which will convert the atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, with the goal of creating a stable and breathable atmosphere.

Methane in the gas breaks down into carbon dioxide and water vapor when it burns; the vapor helps turn titanium metal to TiO2.

This new research helps to establish how coastal waters influence atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, in turn, climate.

Water covering the surface interacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in ways that can turn chilly planets frigid and make warm ones even hotter.

Under those conditions, reactions between the water and the rock would have liberated hydrogen gas, which in turn would have reacted with carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon grains or other carbonaceous material — producing methane.

The research comes out of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub established in 2010 to develop a cost - effective method of turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel.

Once it sinks into the water, the carbon dioxide reacts with water molecules to form carbonic acid; the carbonic acid then releases hydrogen ions which in turn combine with carbonate ions (the ones that shellfish and other creatures need) removing them from the water.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increaAnd that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increaand is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

Now, scientists at Rensselaer are turning these atmospheric assumptions on their heads with findings that prove the conditions on early Earth were simply not conducive to the formation of this type of atmosphere, but rather to an atmosphere dominated by the more oxygen - rich compounds found within our current atmosphere — including water, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

Kenneth Chang has written a piece in this week's Science Times exploring the Los Alamos National Laboratories concept for nuclear - powered fuel refineries that could turn atmospheric carbon dioxide and water into gasoline, jet fuel or methanol.

There are natural - born cynics, and if they turn the rest of us into cynics then we are their amplifiers, just like water vapor is an amplifier of carbon dioxide's greenhouse effect.

The soil thaws, the surface collapses, lakes form, water flows, land surfaces erode which in turn releases more carbon dioxide to create more warming, to make the tundra even more vulnerable to spring thaw, and of course to accelerated warming.

When these carbohydrates are burned, they turn back into carbon dioxide and water and release the energy they captured from the sun.

Berkeley, CA, May 26, 2015 — Mother Nature makes it happen so effortlessly and efficiently — turning sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into the building blocks for fuel for plants, that is.

The research comes out of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub established in 2010 to develop a cost - effective method of turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increaAnd that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increaand is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.