In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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The incorporated backup application and DVD burning software make the entire process a breeze.
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If, however, they are subjected instead to pyrolysis a process of controlled burning in a low-oxygen atmosphere the result is charcoal, a substance that is mostly elemental carbon.
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By contrast, two other recent telecom IPOs, Clearwire and Vonage, are pursuing far more ambitious plans--and burning serious amounts of money in the process.
Some climate change "sceptics" claim that this process, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, can explain much of the Earth's recent rise in temperature.
Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.
The concept of heating underground coal to a combustion point may lead one to recall Centralia, PA, an abandoned town in Pennsylvania sitting on a coal seam which has been burning for 50 years, but the UCG controlled process makes that outcome highly unlikely.
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As well as destroying such native ecosystems, deforestation also diminishes so-called "carbon sinks" -- thereby reducing the Earth's capacity to absorb and re-process atmospheric carbon dioxide -- while also adding to air pollution through the burning of land to clear it for cultivation (sugarcane fields are traditionally fired prior to harvest to remove leaves and drive away snakes).
If the process can be repeated on an industrial scale, it could provide a clean-burning liquid alternative for millions of motorists.
But anyone who has tried blending ice to make a smoothie will tell you that the process is loud, takes a while and usually leaves your blender emanating a strange burning smell.
ALADDIN's agents which might include fire alarms in burning buildings, devices carried by emergency services and drones flying over enemy territory collect and process data using a range of algorithms that form the core of the project.
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