Sentences with phrase «with added carbon dioxide»

Club soda is pretty much just water with added carbon dioxide.

Club soda is pretty much just water with added carbon dioxide.

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Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

And while salt in the air can accelerate corrosion, Ramirez says, it also adds to a protective covering on the statue called a patina, the result of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other compounds reacting with the copper.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

The research adds one important data point to the ongoing question of how much methane, a greenhouse gas with a warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide, is emitted in the life cycle of natural gas production, transport and use.

«The problem with [the skeptics»] argument is that it's as if you can cherry - pick the CO2 fertilization effect from the overall effect of adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,» Myers says.

He also sat down with Scientific American senior editor, Mark Fischetti to explain how the basic measurements of carbon dioxide in parts per million in the air and the added heat in the atmosphere that the carbon dioxide creates called Forcing leads to water, water everywhere.

«Significant increases in summer temperatures will affect the carbon cycling in the lakes, with potential consequences on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the Earth's climate,» he added.

Sensors to measure pH and carbon dioxide abundance have so far been added to 17 existing observing systems nationally, says Dick Feely, a panel member and marine chemist with the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

In his strategy for bringing down British carbon dioxide emissions by 60 over cent over the coming 50 years, Barker envisages phasing out all British value - added taxes and replacing them with a swingeing carbon tax.

As with any biomass fuel, any carbon dioxide produced when the reed is burnt was extracted from the air when it grew, so producing and burning it does not add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Next, they added water to the supercritical carbon dioxide and mixed it with the forsterite.

By this time next year we'll probably be able to add another effect to that list: This El Niño is likely to tip us over into a world with carbon dioxide concentrations permanently above 400 parts per million.

The chemical process of ocean acidification starts with the extra carbon dioxide humans are adding to the air.

However, the chemical reactions releases carbon dioxide, so when we take the eggshell, we get the added benefit of the carbon dioxide that you miss with the lemon juice.

By adding fire inside the cup, oxygen is removed which is replaced with an equal amount of carbon dioxide and suction is created by air cooling down again and contracting.

The Genesis also features a wealth of technological features including the world's first carbon dioxide sensor which automatically activates the ventilation system to add fresh air to the cabin, a 9.2 - inch HD touchscreen, and rain - sensing wipers with an auto defogging system.

This is the case with the absorption of energy as more carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere.

California alone has 1/6 of CA agriculture, add in a need for more agriculture with a shift to biopower and biofuels, add in the effect of increased carbon dioxide on decreasing food quality in many species, and increased temperatures in decreasing food productivity in many cases (rice).

When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly.

When this is burned, united with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly.

Last month, in an interview with James Kanter of The Times and International Herald Tribune, the new head of the energy agency, Maria van der Hoeven, discussed one point made in the report today — that concerns raised by the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant could continue to dampen expansion of nuclear power and add to the challenge of avoiding a big accumulation of carbon dioxide, saying: «Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature to 2 degrees Centigrade.»

Global warming is everyone's problem — but with China on course to overtake the United States by 2009 as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the report adds to the crucial call for the Middle Kingdom to put all hands on deck.

Note 2: Including «Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Lands «as part of a «Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration» (emphasis added) report is an important win for advocates of soil carbon sequestration: many geologic sequestration proponents have called into question the permanence of soil carbon sequestration as a major issue with these approaches, which the NAS report largely doesn't raise as an issue.

To me all the witnesses and senators are obviously persons of consequence but I don't think your excerpt shows that anyone should think he takes issue with this statement — «No one questions that surface temperatures have increased overall since 1880, or that humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, or that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the planet.»

The carbon dioxide capture facility is configured to transfer carbon dioxide from a gas to the portion of the growth medium to yield an enriched growth medium, such that the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the enriched growth medium exceeds the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the growth medium, where dissolved carbon dioxide includes ions formed by the reaction of carbon dioxide with a species in solution, including such ions formed in the growth medium and added to the growth medium.

The Ministry has added two nitrogen compounds, Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas with an effect 300 times greater than carbon dioxide; and ammonia, to previous sulphur dioxide and water pollution targets.

As used herein, «dissolved carbon dioxide» includes carbon dioxide in solution and ions formed by the reaction of carbon dioxide with species in solution, including such ions formed in the growth medium and added to the growth medium (e.g., in the form of a solution, salt, slurry, or the like).

Some estimates claim Germany will add up to 40 million tons of carbon dioxide with (supposedly temporary) new fossil - fuel plants to replace its nuclear power — an increase «equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia,» as Reuters put it not long ago.

Two years ago, an authoritative study predicted there could be as little as 10 years before this «tipping point» for global warming was reached, adding a rise of 0.8 degrees had already been reached with further rises already locked in because of the time lag in the way carbon dioxide the principal greenhouse gas is absorbed into the atmosphere.

«In our system, nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria, where carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of a variety of targeted, value - added chemical products.»

The USGS is also investigating other risks involved with injecting carbon dioxide deep underground, including whether this process could induce unwanted seismic activity, Warwick added.

So, that's 1.2 degrees C for the basic physics of added greenhouse effect of a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; coupled with a further increase of a similar magnitude from changes in atmospheric water vapour that come about as a direct consequence.

Houghton (2004: 259) explains that when converting from carbon dioxide only concentrations to carbon dioxide equivalent concentrations, the amount that needs to be added varies with different concentrations of greenhouse gases as the relationship between radiative forcing and concentration is non-linear.

The theory of abrupt climate change suggests that we are adding to instability of the climate system with emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, CFC's and aerosols.

These and other human activities add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year into the atmosphere, with the greatest contribution from fossil fuel burning.

It has also been established that periodic, very substantial increases in the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere for a period of 420 thousand years never preceded warming, but, on the contrary, always followed an increase in the temperature with a delay of 200 - 800 years, i.e., they were its consequence (italics and boldface added.)

The trail was picked up again in 1931, when American physicist E.O Hulburt ran calculations to determine the effect of doubling carbon dioxide once again, and, including the added burden of water vapour, he came up with a figure of around 4 °C of warming.

Almost 100 million tonnes of carbon is stored in timber in Australian houses, with about 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent added each year as new houses are built...

The world must scale up technologies that capture carbon dioxide, instead of replacing the polluting fuels with renewable sources, he added.

Unlike with the economy, our added carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere always goes in the wrong direction; it increases.