Sentences with phrase «turned on carbon dioxide»

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The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light - absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.

The porous carbon powder he settled on has massive surface area and turns the neat trick of converting gaseous carbon dioxide into solid polymer chains that nestle in the pores.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are making progress on electrofuels [using microbes to turn carbon dioxide back into liquid fuels similar to gasoline].

For Germany, having turned its back on nuclear power and investing heavily in all forms of renewables to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, this is an important breakthrough.

From termites to blue whales, virtually all life on Earth depends on plants» ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food — and without the waste product, oxygen, you would be dead in minutes.

«It's almost like the carbon dioxide gas turned on the visual stimulus for the mosquitoes to go to this black dot.»

As bacteria fed on the creatures that rained from above, they produced toxic gases — methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide — that in turn bubbled up to poison the birds and insects flying overhead.

These partners are called heterotrophs, since they rely on the anammox bacteria — which are primary producers (or autotrophs), like plants capable of photosynthesis — to turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic carbon.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in turn, estimated that China would surpass the United States as the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide by that same year.

It turned out that carbon dioxide had the largest effect on long - term changes in flower production (Global Change Biology, doi.org/cj4n).

A Swiss company on Wednesday is set to become the world's first to commercially remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and turn it into a useful product.

Hi Andrew, Paper you may have, but couldn't find on «The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature» CO2 lagging temp change, which really turns the entire AGW argument on its head: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818112001658 Highlights: ► Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 11 — 12 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature ► Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.

Dr. Aaron Appel, who is leading the efforts to rationally design catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion PNNL's Institute for Integrated Catalysis, shared his team's work on two groups of catalysts that are involved in the first step of turning carbon dioxide into liquid transportation fuels.

Kitagawa described how porous coordination polymers (PCPs) / metal - organic frameworks (MOFs) have been found to be able to store large volumes of gases, which has in turn sparked studies around the world on the mass storage of carbon dioxide and methane.

But a tipping point looms on the horizon — one that may turn one this vital carbon sink into one of the largest sources of carbon dioxide on the planet.

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.

A couple of years later, after the industry was turned upside down by soaring oil prices and economic turmoil, governments began mandating tough new limits on fuel economy and carbon - dioxide emissions.

For years, many environmental groups and experts on the growing human contribution to the planet's heat - trapping greenhouse effect have sought to turn carbon dioxide into a commodity by giving it a rising price.

The trajectories for emissions of carbon dioxide as the world's industrial and industrializing countries boost coal burning are clearly going to be tough to turn around, whether through caps on emissions or efforts to improve non-polluting energy technologies.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science so eagerly practised by academia across the world in order to keep their funding sources open to the governmental decrees, which are in turn based on totally false IPCC dogma (yes, dogma — not science).

It turns out carbon dioxide could have a major impact on shellfish.

As a result, Brulle insisted, the public is uncertain about the alarmist claim that man - made carbon dioxide emissions are causing severe climate change, and the government in turn has failed to enact the kind of restrictions on emissions Brulle favors.

As the deep oceans turn over, on an eight - hundred - year cycle of circulation, they will take the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere down into Davy Jones's Locker, where it will be of no use to man, beast, or plant life.

They're made in the USA and run on propane or natural gas, turning fossil fuels into carbon dioxide.»

The Times clarifies their statement that a Google search produces 7 grams of carbon dioxide — after it turned out to be based on a study that made no mention of Google.

And when the energy - short 1970s turned into the energy surplus of the 1980s, RFF's angst shifted to issues surrounding a human influence on global climate, primarily from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.

In the latest attempt to cost the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the continuous rise in global average temperatures, all as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion and other human action, the economist Chris Hope of the University of Cambridge and the polar expert Kevin Schaefer of the University of Colorado have turned their sights on the Arctic.

Sharks sit atop the nautical food chain and subsist on midlevel ocean life, which in turn feeds on plankton, whose biological processes absorb carbon dioxide.

Lower temperatures = less melting = more ice = lower temperatures, on and on and until factors # 1 and # 2 rescue us from turning into a giant snowball (or, during the most extreme ice age, a spate of volcanic eruptions eventually helped belch out enough carbon dioxide to warm the atmosphere and reset the thermostat.)

My wife and I at one time had an invented propane fireplace in our house an the safety warnings on it said don't operate for more than 8 to 10 hours before turning off for 3 to 4 hours to insure that carbon dioxide emissions don't become dangerous.

Hi Andrew, Paper you may have, but couldn't find on «The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature» CO2 lagging temp change, which really turns the entire AGW argument on its head: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818112001658 Highlights: ► Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 11 — 12 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature ► Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

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.

In turn, that depends on a deterministic model of the climate system in which it is possible to quantify the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) with...

... [To understand why dwarf versions of the various animals appeared and then disappeared from the fossil record, Gingerich turned to colleagues at the University of Michigan Biological Station who are studying the effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels — associated with global warming — on plant growth.

Global warming alarmism is turned on its head and the supposed role of carbon dioxide in climate change may be wrong, if the latest evidence from Japan's scientists is to be believed.

By the way deniers, when one of the next five years turns out to be the hottest on record in all the datasets, which is very likely barring a major volcano — will you admit you were wrong and the planet is warming due to rising human - generated emissions of carbon dioxide as predicted by the scientific community?