"Gulf countries sell the world carbon-based petroleum and then turn around and buy carbon-based diamonds, " Voorhees says.
We're using more and more carbon-based fuels, generating greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) that trap heat from the sun in our atmosphere.
The pressure should be on to create real efficiencies in carbon-based fuels to go alongside the requirement to convert out of carbon.
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About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
Pylons are a necessary evil if we are to wean ourselves off carbon-based energy.
The solutions to all three require us to end our dependence on carbon-based fuels.
Some of the more intriguing meteorites are partly composed of carbon-based materials, including amino acids and sugars.
The process involves slathering on a carbon-based lotion, which absorbs the laser light and damages the hair follicles.
All that's needed, apparently, is an energy source, some sort of carbon-based material and a bit of water.
None of the alien planets detected so far appear suitable for conventional carbon-based life as known on Earth.
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The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
In some markets, some of the time, biomass, geothermal, landfill gas and waste-to-energy can compete on price with carbon-based fuels.
And, solar cells that turn sunlight into electric currents could become more efficient and diminish the global need for carbon-based fuels.
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And at least one private firm has come in for criticism for attempting to sell carbon credits based on ocean fertilisation.
These are known generically as inorganic nanotubes, reflecting the distinction in chemists' minds between organic (ie, carbon-based) molecules, and all the others.
Indeed, there are signals that the mental shift away from a carbon-based economy is happening even in the boardrooms of the oil majors.
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The family of these materials includes much-touted, carbon-based members such as graphene and nanotubes, and are notable in part for their surface area-to-weight ratio.
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"As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy, " he said.
Composed of light-absorbing, colloidal quantum dots linked to carbon-based fullerene nanoparticles, these tiny two-particle systems can convert light to electricity in a precisely controlled way.
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To be sure, increasingly capacious chemistry and materials are used to improve the capabilities of batteries such as switching from carbon-based anodes to silicon-based ones.
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In contrast, it took carbon-based life forms (us) four billion years to evolve from the humble amoeba to a species capable of imagining and creating Watson.
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Because the kilowatt-hours used by cars ultimately come from some carbon-based source (power plant or otherwise), the calculation converts kilowatt-hours to equivalent gallons of gasoline consumed.
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The nuclear disaster has come at a crucial time for the world, as most of the governments of the developed world weigh alternatives to traditional carbon-based fuels.
"We need a dramatic shift off carbon-based fuel: coal, oil and also gas, " Bill McKibbern, the founder of 350.org, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
According to Natural England, English peatlands are estimated to contain about 584 million tonnes of carbon, based on the limited information available on peat depth and quality.
Such nanotechnology involves engineering carbon-based polymer molecules, one-millionth the size of a grain of sand, that attach to fibers to wick away moisture and resist stains, water and static.
Other research projects in the field of artificial retinas are currently focusing on carbon-based materials like nanocrystalline diamond and graphene, but those are intended for replacing silicon electrodes, like the Argus 2.
Well, after scooping up some loose sand, Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments found a menagerie of chemicals, including sulfur, chlorine, and traces of carbon-based materials.
There was even speculation about a dark material on the tiny planet that could conceivably contain the same organic molecules being hunted on Mars, the carbon-based building blocks that are essential to all life.
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