Sentences with phrase «when additional carbon»

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They implicitly assume that it all results from additional plant growth when in fact it often occurs by displacing stored carbon, such as forests.

Additional carbon molecules could have been cooked up when ALH84001 was ejected from Mars, they note.

Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

Over the course of four years, she has charted the carbon content of the grasslands, and when the first phase of the project concludes this August, philanthropist Rhonda Willson will pay the ranchers for every additional ton of carbon tucked away in their soils.

Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which causes additional carbon dioxide emissions and use resources.

Wider bumpers, a huge carbon trunk - mounted spoiler, and large lower front undercover make for a fearsome and aggressive look that also delivers on performance; the exterior modifications combine to help achieve 220 additional pounds of downforce when traveling at 186 mph.

An additional benefit for both the community and the rest of the world is that the trees and the soil in their forest contain large quantities of carbon, which bonds with oxygen to form the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere.

When ethanol diverts the already - growing maize to biofuels to run the automobiles, those maize fields do not absorb any additional carbon, and the automobiles still emit roughly the same quantity of carbon dioxide.

This occurs when additional nutrients promote atmospheric carbon sequestration via enhanced photosynthesis leading to accelerated rates of organic carbon sedimentation and burial.

Jason Frisbie, general manager and CEO of Platte River, said: «Our municipal owners and their customers want additional carbon - free energy resources when it makes sense.

[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.

When large areas of peat - accumulating swamps are buried, additional carbon is trapped and forms coal.