Sentences with phrase «turning plant waste»

Percival Zhang is turning plant waste into starches that could one day be ingredients in human food products.

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As power plants are charged with decreasing their emissions it becomes more profitable for an entrepreneur to innovate a way to turn that wasted heat into useable energy, he says.
on Latest global waste - to - energy plant shows Australasian meat companies how to turn production residuals into an energy - generating resource
But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.
Critics say the technology to turn fibrous, waste plant matter into fuel has been much slower than industry projections (ClimateWire, July 29).
Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.
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.
So confident were we in the seas» seemingly limitless capacity to absorb our gaseous waste that, by the turn of the millennium, the United States, Germany, and Japan were actually proposing to compress CO2 from power plants into a gooey liquid and pipe it directly into the abyss.
Or personal manufacturing plants that turn yard waste into fuel.
When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.
Only 10 % of the mass used is turned into biodiesel, whereas we use whole plant waste and obtain 70 %.
It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).
In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).
RICHLAND, Wash. — A federal project director from the U.S. Department of Energy will discuss how the Hanford waste treatment plant will immobilize radioactive waste by turning it into glass as part of a continuing lecture series from 3 - 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the Washington State University Tri-Cities East Auditorium.
The food, somehow, makes it into the food waste processing plant, gets turned into cow feed, is digested by a cow that is then slaughtered and ends up on the very same researcher's plate three days later while he's on a blind date.
Most recently, Kent Pet Group launched the Advanced Zero Mess line, which uses a special blend of absorbent plant fibers to turn waste into tight, easy - to - scoop clumps.
2004 — September: Work commences on the spacious new breeding area for the Elephants, and at the same time updating and modernizing the infrastructure of the Elephant food area, waste & rubbish removal, plus the implementing of a brand new Elephant Manure Processing Plant in Renon, Denpasar where the elephant waste is turned into an environmentally friendly fertilizer.
We can only increase energy supply while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions if new power plants turn away from using the atmosphere as a waste dump.
The treatment plant handles about 75 million cubic meters of sewage and 35,000 metric tons of food waste each year, effectively turning local waste into local fuel.
He started of by telling us that there is big money to be made for companies who turn more efficient and take responsibility, the Powerday waste recycling plant being only one example.
In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.
Thus, Trump's budget might threaten projects like a $ 3.8 billion plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, meant to turn oil - refinery waste into valuable chemical projects and to capture carbon for oil recovery; that project relies on a $ 2 billion Department of Energy loan.
A trio of Italian and British entrepreneurs are advancing a $ 114 million plan to turn the waste from Brazilian sugar cane production into pellets that can be burned in coal - fired and thermal plants.
For more than a decade, auto manufacturer Subaru has been building their cars plants where 100 % of all manufacturing waste is either recycled or turned into electricity.
Every material - turned - waste that our society produces (including prescription drugs and the sweepings of slaughterhouses), and that wastewater treatment plants are capable of removing from sewage, becomes sludge.
It turns out the five Great Lakes also have garbage patches of their own, fed by plastic debris from waste like discarded planting supplies.
It can be turned into a biodegradable pre-seeded garden tile or a disposable food waste container which is biodegradable or vegetable shaped forms to be planted.
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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.»
Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants.
In fact, Magic Hat uses a unique and patented method to turn the waste from hops, barley, and yeast used in the brewing process into electricity that powers their plant.
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