Although life is, in essence, a complicated form of carbon chemistry, living creatures cannot process carbon in its elemental form.
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Dr Morris added that artefacts from the site would need to be very carefully analysed, and pointed out that the C14 carbon dating process is not without its error margins.
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).
We know how to sequester carbon dioxide during this process.
Transition works by helping local people get together and find ways they can reduce their reliance on oil as a community, and cut their carbon footprint in the process.
Not only are the buggers capable of creating a byproduct which can quickly be refined into fuel for vehicles, but scientists say the process is carbon-negative -- it outputs less carbon than is required to produce it.
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Carbon could also be used as a fuel, NASA scientists speculate, and the process would turn the carbon into nitrogen, the most abundant element in the atmosphere.
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Many communities have therefore expressed concern about their water quality, in addition to the production process that is carbon intensive.
Although the process of making carbon fiber is hardly particularly daunting, the real challenge is in delivering consistently high quality.
Most plants use an enzyme called rubisco to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into sugars containing three carbon atoms a process known as C3 photosynthesis.
The Skyonic scheme is a creative approach to the process of capturing carbon from emissions and locking it up before it can contribute to climate change.
Apple also declines to provide key details about its manufacturing process to the Carbon Disclosure Project, which collects data about corporate greenhouse emissions via annual questionnaires that are publicly available.
Some of the hydrogen and carbon monoxide created in the process are fed back into the reactor to keep it going, while GreatPoint recovers most of the catalyst from the char and applies it to more coal.
At the moment it comes from natural gas, oil or coal, in a process that spits out carbon dioxide.
Yes, open pit bitumen mining blights the landscape, the process releases too much carbon dioxide, and tailing ponds occasionally kill ducks.
This process, known as carbon leakage, may increase overall global carbon emissions since more efficient plants in Europe are closed in favor of less efficient plants outside.
In the process, after the carbon that is kept earthbound as a result is tallied, it can be sold as a carbon credit to anyone who wants to offset their own carbon dioxide emissions.
The process involves slathering on a carbon-based lotion, which absorbs the laser light and damages the hair follicles.
During photosynthesis -- the process when the plant absorbs carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen -- organic tissue absorbs airborne toxins.
The idea is to highlight the process of making low-carbon aviation fuel.
The process will not be truly carbon-neutral (for that, the CO2 would have to come out of the atmosphere, and if the algae could use only the limited amount of the gas in natural air, they would not grow fast enough) but each carbon atom will have been made to do double duty in a fuel before it finally escapes.
So although the cars are technically zero emission, the process of making the hydrogen produces carbon dioxide.
The planning white paper puts carbon reductions at the heart of the planning process and obliges local councils to plan new buildings to optimise people's ability to walk or cycle to work.
In order to be awarded the Carbon Trust Water standard, Mr Delay said the process was "relatively straightforward".
Among the flourishes is the Vanquish's rear-spoiler hoop that, being made of carbon composite, required a unique and proprietary tooling process.
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Without photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy, the trees effectively starve.
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The process, which converts a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to liquid fuels, and was discovered by German scientists.
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In time, the five gyres will kick debris onto their shores, at low cost or no cost, low carbon footprint, and no death to marine life in the process.
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