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And if you put shipping emissions on a list of the countries' carbon emissions, it would come in about sixth, somewhere near Germany.
Its little carbon molecules that it stored up as it was growing are naturally released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but this is a net situation.
In landfill, those same carbon molecules degrade in a different way, because a landfill is anaerobic.
Those same molecules, they become methane, and methane is a 25 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Now these initiatives create a more mobile workplace, and they reduce our real estate footprint, and they yield savings of 23 million dollars in operating costs annually, and avoid the emissions of a 100,000 metric tons of carbon.
And you end up with the single largest source of carbon emissions, which are coal-fired gas plants.
And they used the chemical energy produced to draw CO2, carbon dioxide, out of the atmosphere and use it to build sugars and proteins and amino acids, all the things that life is made of.
While that was going on, some of those ancient photosynthesizers died and were compressed and buried, and became fossil fuel with sunlight buried in their carbon bonds.
Basically, we're all made out of sunlight and carbon dioxide.
Every year, they fix 50 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide into their bodies that feeds the ocean ecosystem.
They can take solar energy, CO2 and turn it into chemical energy in the form of organic carbon, locking that sunlight in those carbon bonds.
Carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere.
And nearing the limit of our most powerful microscopes, single carbon atoms.
For every 400 molecules of carbon dioxide, we have another million molecules of oxygen and nitrogen.
The scale of carbon capture is so enormous that the capture process must be sustainable, and you can't use a material just once.
One thing I'll absolutely say is positive about the carbon markets is that they allow for new capture plants to be built, and with every capture plant built, we learn more.
We really need regulation, we need subsidies, taxes on carbon.
Yet when I talk to them about my work on carbon capture, I find that they're equally amazed, and that's because combatting climate change by capturing carbon isn't just about saving a polar bear or a glacier.
And if you ask the models why did that happen, and you say, okay, well, yes, basically it's because of the carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere.
We can do some work to mitigate the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The ball would smash right into and through them, and the collisions with these air molecules would knock away the nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen from the ball, fragmenting it off into tiny particles, and also triggering waves of thermonuclear fusion in the air around it.
I know Bill Joy was talking to you about the wonders of carbon nanotubes, so I'm going to talk to you about the wonders of carbon macro-tubes, which is charcoal.
It also has a very low carbon footprint.
It has a little bit of a carbon footprint because we do have to get out and catch the fish.
It takes a little bit of fuel, but as you know, agriculture can have a carbon footprint, and fish has a much smaller one, so it's less polluting.
We know that we can produce healthy meals for hundreds of millions of people that don't use the land, that don't use much water, have a low carbon footprint, and are cost-effective.
You might have seen a child running on carbon fiber prosthetic legs.
It then fills the alveoli, tiny air sacs that enable the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and blood.
A toxic gas called carbon monoxide crosses that membrane into the blood, binding to hemoglobin and displacing the oxygen it would usually have transported around the body.
After 12 hours, carbon monoxide levels stabilize, increasing the blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity.
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