Natural gas contains only one carbon and four hydrogen atoms per molecule, making it the cleanest of fossil fuels.
The carbon combines with the hydrogen in water to make carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas--the old "town gas"--but then the catalyst prompts a rejiggering of the atoms into methane (one carbon atom attached to four hydrogen atoms).
One thing Carbon Beach does not have, however, is celebrities.
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The manufacturer gets around this by laying down the carbon in just one direction rather than weaving carbon strands into cloth.
Each allowance corresponds to one unit of emissions (e.g. one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent).
In a year, each kilowatt of solar power saves one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions.
This was the discovery of graphene, a form of carbon one atom thick.
The European Union argues that one credit must equal one tonne of carbon dioxide for its Emissions Trading Scheme, the largest emissions market, to be effective.
Through afforestation, reforestation and cutting down agricultural emissions, by one estimate, carbon dioxide equivalent to 40 parts per million could be extracted from the atmosphere by 2050.
There are many different isotopes of carbon and one that we have probably heard of is in the form of carbon-14, known for radio-carbon dating, but where does this radioactive isotope come from?
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By tuning the laser very precisely to the frequency of one particular sort of bond (such as that with a heavy carbon atom at one end), a molecule containing that bond can be shaken up.
He says that translates to 10% of the national total of carbon dioxide released annually, or one quarter of the industry's carbon dioxide output.
Each credit is the right to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases.
We are trying to maximise human utility: the one thing that the carbon tax actually does do better than anything else.
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The nanotech buzz grew louder in the early 1990s as scientists discovered "carbon nanotubes, " soda straws of carbon just one or two nanometers wide.
The building and construction industry accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, and it is estimated that buildings consume 30% to 40% of global energy.
Faced with these competitive pressures, BASF may make the best of a bad situation by buying and selling the right to emit carbon from one of several new European markets.
Second, American power companies are fearful that they will soon have to pay for one particular pollutant, carbon dioxide, as is starting to happen in other parts of the rich world.
At the same time fisheries and vital marine ecosystems like coral are being decimated, the oceans continue to provide vital services, absorbing up to one third of human carbon dioxide emissions while producing 50% of all the oxygen we breathe.
One is to restrict the carbon-dioxide emissions of the 11, 000 companies trading on it to an agreed cap.
If everyone lived the way they do, he estimates the United States could reduce its carbon emissions by one-third.
One unanswered question: Does carbon dioxide stay underground or leak out over time?
Regardless of who wins the presidential election this fall, new legislation targeting carbon emissions in one way or another seems practically inevitable.
And the earth would be spared a huge amount of emitted carbon: by one calculation, as much as 75m tonnes over the next 30 years.
In case you skipped or had trouble with the video, one possible scenario for a carbon tax would be a revenue neutral fee and rebate program.
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Meanwhile, safety checks carried out by the fire service in more than 22, 000 homes across Merseyside in England found that fewer than one in 10 had a carbon monoxide alarm.
In road testing a hydraulic hybrid truck in suburban Detroit, Michigan, the EPA found the vehicle used 40 to 50 percent less fuel than conventional diesel trucks while reducing carbon emissions by one third.
And Britain is in fact unlikely to withdraw from the ETS, so the relationship between the ETS price for carbon and the one set by the British taxman (in our test, higher) needs some thought.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates the stuff that comes out of the tailpipes of cars and trucks, it doesn't have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, one of the main components of tailpipe exhaust.
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