or something but invasion of privacy when it comes to illegally dumping chemicals into a river/creek
Magic Hat in Vermont teamed up with a company called Purposeenergy to build a biodigester that turns grain into natural gas.
We're pumping Billions of tons of carbon into our atmosphere on an annual basis. This doesn't matter to the deniers.
while being a greenhouse gas...is a minor player in the mix of things that go into effecting global climate.
interglacials solar activity and climate greenhouse gases...and google them individually...as related to climate change..
Plants would supply offpeak synfuel desalination EV charging and hot water ice making HVAC systems. By replacing expensive deadly and sickening destructive fossil fuels plant the rate of return on the investment to the nation as a whole in a kind of a FDR New deal would pay back at 40%per annum.
Add the carbon cost to it and the payback is in the first few months.
and generating 40%rates of return on investments to the nation as a whole for a carbon to nuclear conversion.
GTL plants like Shell's new Qatar plant using natural gas to make diesel at $35 a barrel
We've taken carbon that's been buried in the Earth and have been burning it to the tune of Billions of tons a year and put that in the atmosphere.
This carbon took millions of years to bury and we've been introducing it to the atmosphere in less than 200 years.
Do you not understand the nature of CO2 as a greenhouse gas? How about the acidification of the oceans because of the absorption of CO2?
In addition CO2 is just the catalyst the explosive power of change when methane is release upon the climate with is changes!
CO2 is a beneficial atmospheric gas that increases plant production. Contrary to James Hansen's hysterical claims that CO2 increases warming feedbacks studies show that the correlation between CO2
That's reducing the Earth's ability to take in all of the carbon we're putting into the atmosphere.
and are equally obtuse on chemistry is that you subscribe to what feels right instead of what's correct based on empirical evidence and observation.
instead in the amount of radioactive carbon trapped in the annual growth rings of some of the world's oldest trees.
Carbon's key radioactive isotope carbon-14 forms when energetic particles enter Earth's atmosphere
and collide with nitrogen atoms. Since trees take in both carbon-14 and its stable relative carbon-12 the relative levels of carbon-14 in their growth rings give scientists a way of measuring the amount of high-energy particles entering Earth's atmosphere in a given year.
When analyzing two ancient Japanese cedars last year the scientists found that the amount of carbon-14 present in their 775 AD growth rings was shockingly large.
It's normal for levels of carbon-14 to fluctuate--they rise and fall on an 11-year cycle with the waxing and waning of solar flares.
But for the entire 3000-year record there are no other spikes as steep as the one in 775.
So what could have caused the massive burst of radiation and the high influx of energetic particles that led to the elevated levels of carbon-14 in the atmosphere?
At first two possibilities seemed the most likely: The radiation either came from an especially intense solar flare or the explosion of a nearby star.
Those rays would have created high-energy particles in our atmosphere which could then go on to form the carbon-14 present in such abundance in the Japanese cedars.
But in order to send out enough gamma rays to do the trick the supernova would have had to be bigger and brighter than other historical bright spots that were documented in fact.
When they found that neither solar flares nor supernovae could explain the carbon-14 anomaly they had found the researchers published their discovery
So the formation of radioactive isotopes isn't a steady process? This could cause us to change our assumptions about dating methods.
tree ring studies and sedimentary cores can often be used to identify variations in the atmospheric concentrations of whichever isotope is being used
if media reported scientific findings along with the limitations of the test/report/study/researchi for one was largely unaware of the limitations of carbon 14 dating until recently.
The carbon in mollusk shells is dissolved from calcium carbonate in water. Thus the measurement was an average of
when the carbon formed not the age of the animal. For this reason radiocarbon dating only works for organisms that obtain their carbon from air via carbon dioxide.
Even organisms that eat aquatic organisms should be calibrated to account for this (for example a seal that was dated to be 1400 years old.
because for this study the researchers had to be able to see how carbon-14 levels changed from one year to the next
Over the past 3000 years there have been 3 sharp spikes in carbon-14 levels over a short period of time.
and it turned out that the carbon-14 spikes occurred over a few years and could be explained by solar activity.
Yes they were measuring the carbon-14 in tree-rings but they weren't using the carbon-14 to tell them how long ago the event happened.
They were measuring the relative change in the isotope from one year to the next. As a side note that may interest@Bagpipes100:
the reason scientists amassed this giant carbon record from trees in the first place is so that they could find out how carbon-14 inputs changed over time
and then build a calibration curve to make radiocarbon dating more accurate. Before 12000 years that record consists of data from marine sediments.
This method not only allows scientists to get more accurate ages but also to say exactly how certain they can be.
All carbon-14 dates are given with a plus or minus x years. Emilyelert THANK YOU for the information!!!
Probably not even the moon Titan though because of ethane and methane instead of h2o and hydrocarbon molecules floating around instead of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
#DNA Test Finds Horse Meat In UK Hamburgersthe Irish version of the FDA called the FSAI has found distinctly non-beef animal protein in ground meat labeled beef in some supermarkets.
and butchered in Ireland the factory that made the burgers added protein to them which is common enough.
This protein almost certainly came from elsewhere in Europe and contains non-beef proteins. Meat in Ireland is tracked from farm to plate the regulations are very tight.
Nothing wrong with eating horse meat though as long as you know what your eating and you aren't squeamish about it.
me that one would add protein to beef which is rich in protein but perhaps that is so.
However the article states that there was foreign DNA in the meat! There's no DNA in protein.
Looks like the FSAI needs some better funding. u guys r dumb. so you're sayin that you would eat something as hideous looking as a cow
It was processed protein cake that included protein from dead human bodies. In the great ordering of taste and texture I put European horse ABOVE European beef.
We would have to launch water CO2 soil chemical fertilizers the materials to construct the greenhouses
(which is a protein) isn't causing the weight gain. The carbohydrates that usually accompany gluten are the problem.
A brewer with at least a passing interest in chemistry will be able to recognize flavor/aromas such as isoamyl acetate (that's the banana ester so very prevalent in say German hefeweizens.
It uses clear verbiage instead of chemical names although I am curious to know how many non-trained drinkers are going to think aha!
since the complete human genome was published molecular biologists have been hard at work unraveling the genomic codes of multitudes of life forms.
Razing and burning forests accounts for about 10 percent of present global carbon emissions or 3. 6 billion tons of CO2 a year.
In the U s. alone tailpipe emissions account for one-fifth of the nation's annual 5. 833 billion tons of greenhouse gas pollution according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
and natural gas the symbolic splash is huge: Heirs to a major oil fortune are pulling their money out of the industry.
-or no-carbon economic development projects such as expanding their energy generation capacity with renewables like sun and wind instead of fossil fuels.
Yet farmers and ranchers don't often want to plunk down the money to kill them off with chemical herbicides.
#Live-Blogging The United nations Climate Summit In December 2015 world leaders are scheduled to negotiate the final touches in a new international treaty to cut greenhouse gas pollution save forests
The only way to stop it from getting worse is to cut greenhouse gas emissions he says.
¢Under my administration the U s. is increasing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas pollution (i e. I'm doing what
But no we're not going to mention putting a global price on carbon pollution or agreeing to legally-binding promises on greenhouse gas cuts.
That would be political suicide. 1: 16 p m.:The denoument: If we act now if we can look beyond the swarm of current events
which are now major greenhouse gas polluters alongside the United states. 1: 10 p m.:President Obama says that 120 nations are receiving aid from the U s. to leapfrog over fossil energy to renewable energy development of their economies. 1: 07 p m.:
and peatland destruction ecosystems that would otherwise be storing much more carbon than the palm plantations that replace them.
since 2007 and since 2010 has been working to preserve forest and peatlands that store a lot of carbon.
if this joint call for a price on carbon is just bluewashing by participating companies that want to hide
Lund adds It's a lot more important to see that the evolution of a big polluter is the appropriate one than trying to keep such companies out of the global carbon price coalition. 10:44 a m.:
Last week just ahead of a big private sector climate forum held alongside today's political summit a group of powerful institutional investors issued a public call for a global price on carbon.
This is the first time there is a global movement starting for a global carbon pricing adds George Kell executive director of UN Global Compact. 10:38 a m.:
Inaction is not an option says a representative Helge Lund of Statoil best known as a European natural gas supplier.
We need an international carbon price. 10:32 a m.:Next up a press conference on the economic case for putting a global price on carbon.
Lately some in the business community are getting more vocal that this measure--derided by opponents in the United states as a carbon taxis essential to cutting their financial exposure to risks of climate change like increasing drought storm damage strained fresh water supplies and such.
If it cost money for businesses to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the reasoning goes they'd start to cut down on that pollution. 10:25 a m
. I have found the press conference taking place in a room that's about a quarter-mile walk from the media center through two lobbies and down an escalator.
The president of Korea just pledged $100 million to the Green Climate Fund or GCF to help developing nations undertake low-carbon economic growth. 8: 44 a m.:
but the influence of the agriculture-industrial complex that reaps massive profits from chemicals that Bioensure could render unnecessary d
More than 28 years ago a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant in Soviet-run Ukraine releasing radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
but various weather conditions helped the radioactive particles spread far into Western europe contaminating much of the ground soil.
meanwhile the same antibodies from people without the meat allergy did not glom onto the tick proteins.
and does not come from an animal into living baker's yeast cells temporarily turning the yeast into a so-called protein factory that produces milk protein.
The biohackers then extract that protein from the yeast and combine it with water vegetable butter and vegan sugar (instead of lactose) to make a milk substitute.
and could also curb dairy farming's impacts on the environment such as emissions of methane a greenhouse gas from cow farts and decomposing manure.
because cheese-making is more complex at the molecular level than Real Vegan Cheese either knows
This molecular structure is intrinsic to forming curds a cheese precursor which won't appear simply
It can sometimes be tricky to express proteins at high yield in yeast she wrote in email
The genes produce crystalline chemicals that kill insect larvae when they eat it. A larva that chows down on a Bt-crystal-producing GM plant soon stops eating.
The clear message here is that detection of airborne MERS molecules which were 100 percent identical with the viral genomic sequence detected from a camel actively shedding the virus in the same barn on the same day warrants further investigations
A new study suggests that the microbes in their gut break down the toxic chemicals in the plants
In one test they found that packrats (as the animals are known also) fed creosote had much higher levels of bacteria thought to be involved in breaking down the plant's secondary chemicals
since breeding in the lab can cause the animals to lose microbes necessary for digesting certain toxic plant compounds found in the wild.
Earlier this month a federal court indicted a Chinese national for trying to steal GMO corn technology from Dupont Monsanto and Agreliant Genetics.
And from Chemical & Engineering News: What's at stake here aren't the genetically modified seeds that farmers buy and plant.
Science Chemical & Engineering News. See also these court documents from December 2013 posted by NPR p
One frequently cited study published in 2012 by researchers from the University of Caen in France claimed that one of Monsanto's corn GMOS caused tumors in lab rats.
whereas those that say boost Vitamin a content might remain at low levels or fizzle out entirely.
*No modified proteins remain in the final product. Today's most common GMO technology RECOMBINANT DNA inserts genes into a plant's cells via bacteria or specialized delivery tools but it involves some trial and error.
The only way to gain immunity to the deadly miasma is by consuming spirulina called the Viridis a blue-green algae loaded with protein and nutrients.
Would Cannibalism Make You Fat? Taken as a whole a cooked cadaver would yield about 81500 calories worth of food says James Cole a lecturer on human origins at the University of Brighton in England.
Consuming so much fat might pose problems of its own. I m not a nutritionist says Cole
Now they re harbingers of things to Come in Carlsbad California construction is underway on a billion-dollar desalination plant
I can honestly say I love eating chemicals.##howmatters Cheers@kzrt I thought that@chobani notoriously got to 100 calories by reducing serving size from 6 oz. to 5. 3 oz.?#
#New Air pollution Rules Tie Public health To Major Carbon Cutspower plants nationwide must cut their carbon dioxide pollution by up to 30 percent in less than two decades under the clean power plan released today by the Obama administration.
The new carbon rule doesn't require specific reductions at individual power plants or add them up via metric tons of CO2.
Rather it sets state-by-state requirements for reducing the power sector's rate of carbon intensity:
the amount of carbon pollution created per megawatt hour of generated electricity. Each state has an interim goal for reducing carbon intensity between 2020-2029 based on its mix of power sources in 2012 (the most recent year for
which full data are available) and a final goal for 2030 and afterwards. It is not clear
Under the Kyoto climate agreement which the U s. never ratified greenhouse gas emissions cuts were benchmarked at 1990 levels.
In the rule EPA identifies four building blocks for carbon-reduction strategies that are already being used by many states
and utilities to reduce carbon emissions including: But Mccarthy stressed today that the states will be in charge of tailoring their plans to their own particular conditions and needs.
Connecticut Delaware Maine Maryland Massachusetts New hampshire New york Rhode island and Vermont are ahead of the game with their joint Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative formed in 2005 to create a market for carbon emission allowances also called
States not already in an emissions market can also look to California's carbon cap -and-trade program established in 2012 to help the state reach its goal of cutting greenhouse gas pollution to 1990 levels by 2020 and then another 80 percent beyond that by 2050.
Carbon pollution from power plants comes packaged with other dangerous pollutants like particulate matter nitrogen oxides
Taking aim at critics of regulating carbon emissions Mccarthy dismissed charges that the plan's mandated cuts will cause power prices to skyrocket
Mccarthy's sharp tone was of a piece with the Obama administration's recent pugnacity in affirming the scientific evidence that carbon pollution created by human activities has destabilized the climate
In 2007 the Supreme court upheld the EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants--a leading cause of human-propelled global warming s long as the agency could affirm that the greenhouse gas
since then to tighten up auto fuel economy standards as well as carbon regulations on new power plants and industrial facilities.
and chemistry between actors that might otherwise be lost. With more data at their disposal animators can imbue the entire supporting cast of 3-D odeled primates with the same uncanny flicker of intelligence that made Caesar an instant CG star.
It s one thing to flip a single protein as he did to create transgenic goats that produce spider-silk protein in their milk.
With targeted chemical mutagens geneticists have pulled off feats both impressive such as increasing the circumference of macaque monkeys thigh muscles by 15 percent and flat out disturbing like making legs sprout from the heads
Movie characters didn t just win the mutation lottery once gaining a single incredible ability without chemicals
If you cook with bottled gas you aren't allowed in a tunnel. You have to find a bridge.
Now however a new study examining the chemistry of wines from France's Burgundy region has found there are differences in otherwise similar wines grown in different terroirs.
This isn't the first study to examine the effect of terroir on wine chemistry.
The chemists analyzed their samples separating the chemicals in the wines and measuring the masses of the molecules they gathered.
Which wine chemicals are affected by terroir? That's a question for another study the wine-analyzing team members write in a paper they published about their work in the journal PLOS ONE.
Their techniques gave them guesses about which chemicals matter but they'll need to do more analyses to name the chemicals for sure.
Why identify a wine's terroir with chemistry? The team doesn't answer that but we've seen a few useful alcohol analyses here and there including an analysis of some beer found in an early-1800s shipwreck.
However it seems experts identified the wines found in the same shipwreck not by their chemistry but by the appearance of their bottles and corks
#What Does It Take to Make Meat From Stem Cells? Made with some breadcrumbs egg and 20000 lab-grown cow muscle cells the world's first lab-grown burger made its debut last year.
and water and creates greenhouse gas emissions. Engineers working on in vitro meat hope their creations will be less harmful on the environment.
and chemicals it is probable that four-fifths of the world's wealth is there. More important in the near future the plankton the basic reservoir of the world's food live in the sea.
We have not even learned to make this boundless bank of protein food available for our bellies.
and took most of my protein food from it and lived very well indeed. I have studied the endless variety of ocean animal life undreds of thousands more species than are to be found on land.
And we must mine the minerals refine the chemicals to our use. Surely the rewards are beyond anything we can now conceive
That hydrogen gas can leaven dough just as yeast-generated carbon dioxide does. The result is something known as salt-rising bread.
or on dialysis who cannot handle vegetables with high levels of potassium. Whereas most lettuce contains about 500 mg of the mineral per 100 grams this lettuce has five times less according to the Japan Times.
The vine might be sensing airborne chemicals released by the trees to help it choose what disguise to adopt.
Its name derives from the layers of fat on oilbird chicks which have historically been rendered for use as torches.
when trying to figure out how to allocate resources to saving endangered bird species. The team has created also a compound metric that sets a bird's evolutionary uniqueness against how widely it can be found in the world.
Methane is often an underappreciated greenhouse gas but it's been back in the news lately.
Just weeks beforehand fatal gas-leak-triggered building collapses in New york city reminded the nation that American cities may have thousands such leaks which contribute to global warming.
Ninety-seven per cent of all the methane gas is released by the front end through burps not from the back end Juan Tricarico of the Innovation Center for U s. Dairy a nonprofit research organization told Financial times. Tricarico
Theoretically such gas could be a power source. But collecting cow methane on a large scale is totally improbable Jorge Antonio Hilbert a researcher with Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology told Financial times. The backpacks are mainly for measuring cow emissions as Popular
#Missiles And Rockets Might Soon Smell Like Pine Treesin an effort to launch things skyward in a more sustainable way researchers have coaxed bacteria to produce a highly combustible compound called pinene.
That's when the Navy discovered chemicals that link together or dimerize two molecules of pinene into a fuel with properties similar to JP-10.
The group genetically engineered E coli bacteria to produce conifer-derived proteins that assemble pinene. Stephen Sarria and Pamela Peralta-Yahya two Georgia Tech researchers who collaborated on the new work published in ACS Synthetic biology broke down the process for Popular Science in four steps:
and geranyl diphosphate synthases--to produce molecules of pinene. Second they inserted genes that code for the enzymes into the DNA of E coli (chosen
With the brewing of pinene complete they used the Navy-discovered chemicals to dimerize pinene molecules into rocket-ready fuel.*
A slim lithium-ion battery usually rechargeable provides the power. An average e-cigarette has about 300 puffs per charge.
The dryness-stressed barley had longer-chain starch grains and more protein than normally grown barley.
and a molecular textbook) and estimating which ingredients might combine for a dish pleasing to a human palate Watson has been creating unlikely culinary works.
I am hungering for grease.)After that I selected a region opting for something English with influences from another country.
#8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milkglobally deforestation driven by clearing land for cattle alone accounts for close to one-fifth of global greenhouse gas pollution.
Livestock account for 14.5%of human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions exceeding that from transportation notes the report.
and high-quality microbial protein before sending it on to the main stomach for digestion. We need to be able to use ruminants in the way that they evolved.
A chemical engineer he had spent years making plastics for all kinds of products but in 1992 he reversed course
The material will be scrubbed clean ithout chemicals nd granulators will break it down further to something approximating confetti.
and learned that chemical engineers earn the highest salaries. The University of Louisville charged only $265 a semester and had a good engineering program so he decided to go there.
He then moved to the Bay Area to work for Dow chemical on plastic composites including ones for the new stealth bomber.
Color Particle Sorter Plastic bits pour past a photoelectric detector which identifies those of a particular color say blue.
The detector signals an air gun which blasts any non-blue particles with air knocking them out of the waste stream.
and it s a carbon sink sequestering the carbon dioxide it absorbed during growth even after it s been turned into lumber.
Waugh Thistleton estimates that the wood in Stadthaus stores 186 tons of carbon while the steel and concrete for a similar conventionally built tower would have generated 137 tons of carbon dioxide during production.
When CLT is used to build high-rise towers the carbon savings can be enormous. The 186 tons of carbon locked into Stadthaus are enough to offset 20 years of its daily operations meaning that for the first two decades of its life the building isn t carbon neutral t is actually carbon negative.
Rather than producing greenhouse gases Stadthaus is fighting them. While firms like Waugh Thistleton have focused on the lower end of the high-rise scale others are designing radically taller buildings up to 40 or more stories.
The most recent proposal comes from Skidmore Owings & Merrill the firm behind some of the world s tallest skyscrapers including 1 World trade center and the Burj Khalifa.
If that unassuming building on a street corner in Shoreditch is actually a trap for hundreds of tons of carbon imagine an entire city of Stadthauses.
Structures that were once a major source of greenhouse gases could instead scrub them from the atmosphere.
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