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Single-celled life that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into edible gold.
If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.
They have a lot of biodiversity, a lot of carbon, things we want to protect.
And switching from the old fire to the new fire means changing two big stories about oil and electricity, each of which puts two-fifths of the fossil carbon in the air.
But today, ultralight, ultrastrong materials, like carbon fiber composites, can make dramatic weight savings snowball and can make cars simpler and cheaper to build.
Last year, Volkswagen announced that by next year they'll be producing this carbon fiber plugin hybrid getting 230 miles a gallon.
Also last year, BMW announced this carbon fiber electric car, they said that its carbon fiber is paid for by needing fewer batteries.
Seven years ago, an even faster and cheaper American manufacturing technology was used to make this little carbon fiber test part, which doubles as a carbon cap.
Now combine the electricity and oil revolutions, both driven by modern efficiency, and you get the really big story: reinventing fire, where business enabled and sped by smart policies in mindful markets can lead the United States completely off oil and coal by 2050, saving 5 trillion dollars, growing the economy 2.6-fold, strengthening out national security, oh, and by the way, by getting rid of the oil and coal, reducing the fossil carbon emissions by 82 to 86 percent.
The animals feed near the surface, they bring carbon in their food into the deep waters, where some of that carbon can stay behind and remain isolated from the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years.
In this way, the migration may help keep carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere and limit the effects of global warming on our climate.
We don't know which species are migrating, what they're finding to eat, who is trying to eat them or how much carbon they are able to transport.
We need to know where and when and why and whether this kind of carbon sink has a big impact on earth's climate.
The world was so focused on carbon dioxide that we overlooked another important gas.
Pound for pound, its immediate impact is far greater than carbon dioxide.
It turns out that natural gas is displacing our dependence on coal, which emits far more carbon dioxide.
When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil.
This carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the "Great" in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
And when her carbon copied questionnaire started to come back, one thing and one thing only jumped out with the statistical clarity of a kind that most scientists can only dream of.
They're going to be tapping into carbon credits.
Unless you look at the system as a way to treat waste water, sequester carbon, and potentially for photovoltaic panels or wave energy or even wind energy, and if you start thinking in terms of integrating all of these different activities, you could also include in such a facility aquaculture.
If we did that, and fed it to pigs, we would save that amount of carbon.
If we feed our food waste which is the current government favorite way of getting rid of food waste, to anaerobic digestion, which turns food waste into gas to produce electricity, you save a paltry 448 kilograms of carbon dioxide per ton of food waste.
If you ask about child tax credits, the future of the penguins in the south Antarctic, asked to hold forth on whether or not the developments in Chongqing contribute to sustainable development in carbon capture, and we will have an answer for you.
We know it is made of four different types of atoms, hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen.
And there are four atoms in particular that stand apart from the rest as the main building blocks of life, and they are the same ones that are found in epinephrine: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
Hydrogen makes one bond, oxygen always makes two, nitrogen makes three and carbon makes four.
The backbone of epinephrine is made mostly of carbon atoms, and that's common.
Carbon is life's favorite structural building material, because it makes a good number of handshakes with just the right grip strength.
That's why we define organic chemistry as the study of carbon molecules.
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