Sentences with phrase «waste carbon dioxide into»

«Our energy system is leaking waste carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

All fossil fuel fired power stations in Australia have what amounts to an unlimited license to dump their waste carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

There are similarities between the mind - set of those who dump rubbish wherever it is convenient for them to do so and the mind - set of those who dump waste carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change — and those in government who encourage it.

Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way of converting waste carbon dioxide into a molecule that forms the basis of making plastics.

That's why at Swansea we have converted waste carbon dioxide into a molecule called ethylene.

Not exact matches

The idea is to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies that can take waste carbon dioxide streams from industrial facilities, and turn them into valuable and useful items, from t - shirts to toothpaste.

He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

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.

Then the resulting waste gas, largely carbon dioxide and water, is cycled back into a boiler in a process that concentrates the carbon dioxide.

«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.

In addition, a supercritical turbine could fit into a directly heated cycle, where a fuel like natural gas burns in the presence of pure oxygen inside the turbine, creating only water and carbon dioxide as waste.

Converting carbon dioxide into an alcohol without causing unwanted waste products requires a two - step reaction.

This treelike structure of villi absorbs oxygen and nutrients from maternal blood; fetal waste and carbon dioxide meanwhile diffuse into the maternal bloodstream.

A catalyst that allows waste gas to be easily converted into a useful chemical could cut the industry's carbon dioxide emissions.

Powered by wasted heat from the incinerator, the collectors use fans to suck ambient air into filters, which absorb carbon dioxide.

In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.

As bacteria feast, they convert the chemical energy in wastes into carbon dioxide, protons and electrons.

We have to cut into the 35 % and growing overload GHGs, mainly carbon dioxide, In that comment I have outlined several actions that can be taken with many benefits in cutting into the natural biorecycling of GHGs from organic wastes.

At high heat, limestone's calcium carbonate splits into calcium oxide (the desired lime content) and carbon dioxide (the waste).

The mind - set of those who dump rubbish on road - sides is, I believe, similar to the mind - set of the corporations that dump waste gasses such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing climate change and ocean acidification — and of the governments that allow it to happen.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

It makes clear that we can not burn fossil fuels and pump excessive amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without coming up against the earth's ability to absorb such waste.

Fossil fuel electricity has only been cheaper than the more economically viable of the environmentally friendly options (for example wind and solar power) because the fossil fuel power station operators are allowed to dump their waste (carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, toxic metals and particulate matter) into the atmosphere at no cost to themselves.

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.»

The oxygen is released as waste and the protons and electrons are used to convert carbon dioxide into the carbohydrate sugars that plants use for energy.