Sentences with phrase «well as biomass»

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Methanol production is also experiencing a global resurgence, particularly in China where the finished product — typically extracted from solid waste / biomass, but also from natural gas and coal feedstocks — is widely used in chemical production and industrial processes, as well as in blended vehicle fuel.

The bioshelter greenhouse applies passive solar design and models biomass energy as well aquaponics growing systems.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

«If you're serious about addressing global warming, you have to deal with biomass burning as well.»

The German government has boosted funding for new institutes such as the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the country.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

Biomass, which is essentially trees and grasses as well as forestry and agricultural waste, is burned as a source of both heat and electricity all over the world

«While there is likely insufficient waste biomass to sustain a global hydrogen economy, this form of renewable energy production may help offset the substantial costs of wastewater treatment as well as provide a contribution to nations able to harness hydrogen as an energy source,» Logan says.

The researchers are currently working to apply the technique to wood and other biomass feedstock materials, as well as to better understand and fine - tune the interactions between the PILs and lignin.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

«Unquestionably, by providing certainty for the treatment of biomass throughout the agency's permitting decisions, the use of biomass energy will be bolstered, to the benefit not only to the forest products industry but to the environment as well, while furthering the Administration's goal of energy dominance,» he wrote.

Pruitt's statements also came as EPA's Science Advisory Board remains deadlocked after years of debate on the best way to advise regulators on how to account for emissions from burning biomass.

The Biomass mission will be able to study the loss of carbon through the degradation of forests and deforestation, as well as study the effectiveness of reforestation.

Cooperation with AVA Biochem is part of comprehensive KIT activities for manufacture of chemical energy carriers as well as intermediates from biomass with emphasis on so - called hydrothermal methods i.e. reactions in water at increased temperatures.

Published in Scientific Reports, the study showed that adding torrefied biomass to poor soil from Botswana increased water retention in the soil as well as — the amount of plant growth.

«No biomass can be trucked to that site until an operating permit is in hand from the City of Williams,» Good Earth Power stated in its newsletter yesterday, adding that the company «is working to get an operating permit from the City of Williams as fast as legally possible.»

This enables plants to maintain their level of biomass at an approximately equal level in species - poor as well as species - rich ecosystems.

They store carbon in soil and biomass which has massive implications for climate change, but they also hold back and release various nutrients which have effects on natural areas as well as agricultural yield.

Better understanding of the factors that influence the biomass and health of this ecosystem is needed to be able to predict the severity of threats such as climate change and fishing at all levels.

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By doing so, they demonstrated the utility of solar energy for biomass conversion as well as the feasibility of using an oxidative biomass conversion reaction as an anode reaction in a hydrogen - forming PEC.

Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Second generation bioethanol uses the non-food fibres of the plant (biomass), as well as agricultural waste and forestry residues.

Couch investigates such established sources of energy as nuclear, natural gas, and coal as well as cutting - edge technologies involving wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, and biomass production in this accessible guide to urgent energy challenges.

Many sites exhibit astonishing biomass as well as an impressive variety of species.

However, even if net accumulation of biomass continues for a very long time (and produces very deep soils), the rate of accumulation is going to be steady at best — it is certainly not going to increase as the forest matures.

Moreover, he claims that as renewable energy use increases, this measure of efficiency will decrease as the best land for wind, biomass, and solar power gets used up.»

The biomass for biofuel problem is likely to be more acute in these countries as well as they have great issues with food.

Savory's proposal seems dubious but I have seen other studies which show that organic agriculture and reforestation can sequester large amounts of carbon in soils and biomass — and of course they have other benefits as well, for biodiversity and human health.

Given no better models or reasoning, we can only assume that the new ecological niche will create new biomass opportunities (which as I've said earlier, is only a one - time reduction in CO2) at the expense of the biomass currently exploiting the current niche.

Conversion of coal plants to burn wood, dedicated new - build wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for wood pellets.

Both biomass and biogas projects have financial benefits for businesses, since the costs associated with waste processing and disposal are reduced, thus improving economic sustainability as well as environmental performance.

Some renewable energy technologies are thermoelectric as well, including certain types of concentrating solar, geothermal, and biomass power plants.

It buys from avoided deforestation projects in Borneo and Madagascar, a biomass project in Brazil, and wind, cookstoves, and biomass projects in India — as well as two projects in the United States.

Berry claims that nature is responsible for carbon increases from 280ppm to 373ppm, yet it is well established that nature is acting as carbon sink from the ocean and biomass.

RCP4.5 also employed updated historical data series by calibrating to the year 2000 consensus emissions inventories from Lamarque et al. (2010), and the HYDE crop and pasture land use history (Klein Goldewijk et al. 2010) as well as implementing a new representation of residue biomass supply (Gregg and Smith 2010).

Other points of contentions will include the treatment of international aviation and shipping, as well as accounting for emissions embedded in imports of products and biomass.

I have previously weighed in on the current status of cellulosic ethanol technology, as well as the amount of biomass required for implementation.

The American Lung Association calls for effective enforcement of existing laws and regulations governing the combustion of wood and other biomass sources, as well as the expanded regulation of air pollution emissions from these sources.

Further dissemination of state - of - the - art technologies to increase thermal energy efficiency and electric energy efficiency and the use of alternative fuels including biomass as well as to reduce clinker content in cement is needed.

Similarly, a decision by EPA to classify biomass fuels as «carbon neutral» in its Clean Power Plan regulations would boost that sector more than a well - designed and hefty carbon tax would shrink it.

A further step would be to develop a product - based approach that accounts for typical carbon sequestration during the growing phase, carbon emissions from processing, and implicit emissions from land use changes as well as combustion emissions for each biofuel and biomass type.

This compares very favorably with direct biomass combustion for domestic applications (# 395 / te) and for small commercial applications (# 285 / te), as well as with Ground source heat pumps (# 5500 / te).

This technical document provides a brief review of the benefits from various agriculture - based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce emissions or enhance carbon storage in agricultural soils and biomass, focusing in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project - level data.

That includes research into algae as well as programs focused on converting alternative feedstocks like cellulosic biomass.

Of all new capacity built across the E.U. in 2016, 86 percent came from renewable sources like wind and solar, as well as more environmentally controversial sources like hydropower and biomass.

Although amendments to the original law have expanded it to a wide variety of renewable resources and technologies, the original PTC applied to generation from tax - paying owners of new wind plants, as well as eligible biomass power plants.

First Climate assists businesses and the public sector with expert consulting on biomass and wood energy as well as environmentally friendly heating in general.

One questioner suggested that biomass was not a particularly good way of removing carbon from the atmosphere, as growing trees usually takes too long for it to be effective, although other participants thought that fast growing trees were a good way of capturing carbon.