China still faces many challenges before it can leave carbon-based energy behind.
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We've simply loaded the atmosphere with carbon-based gases that physically trap heat.
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Next up is "Altered Carbon," based on a novel by Richard K. Morgan.
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Moreover, carbon-based fossil fuels have supported unmatched economic prosperity since the Industrial Revolution.
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California is at the vanguard of America's transition away from a carbon-based economy.
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The atmosphere was thicker than Earth's and contained methane and other carbon-based molecules.
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And that about 80 percent of the power we get today is carbon-based.
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The carbon-based pigment, perhaps soot, was applied to the dermis layer of the skin.
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If you put organic (carbon-based) matter in your freezer, the food will stay intact.
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For the next AIE-gen, Dr. Tang wanted something easy to make that was carbon-based.
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Everyone thought that the people of Herculaneum, and other ancient societies, wrote with carbon-based ink.
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Instead, they use carbon-based fuel until its cost exceeds the economic benefit of burning it.
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One of them, in 1853, drew 2185,2401 carbon-based life-forms and turned away another 220,000.
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It used to be that renewable-energy stocks were heavily correlated with carbon-based energy stocks.
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Organic materials - carbon-based compounds critical for fostering living organisms - play a leading role on Titan.
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The tonnage of CO2 humanity emits simply dwarfs the tonnage of carbon-based products it consumes.
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These carbon-based molecules are scattered throughout space, and they feature a distinct, yet faint, infrared signature.
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Thanks to its carbon-based material, it packs a big punch despite its unassuming weight and size.
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According to Ober, these items are apparently, "constructed of carbon-based polyurethane" and can be plugged in.
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Mercury is slathered in graphite; the same slate-colored, carbon-based material we put in our pencils.
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Imaging of its absorbed radiation reveal that Bennu looks most like carbon-based meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites.
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Its batteries are powered by organic (carbon-based) compounds and nanomaterials (substances made up of tiny particles).
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Get creative in strategizing about how to force your employer "away from carbon-based capitalism," Forman said.
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But the conference proved that even those in the green space sometimes cling to carbon-based conveniences.
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The colours of carbon-based inks were manipulated by burning twigs and mixing the soot with Arabic gum.
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Researchers have shown that crumpling the carbon-based material can actually provide it with some impressive new properties.
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But the public energy grid is simply still too dependent on carbon-based fuels to make that possible.
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Scientists say that they are discovering vast amounts of carbon-based life in the little understood subterranean zone.
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Méliès suffused his film with the expansionist spirit of Western Europe, playacting the carbon-based life-form's burden.
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NASA's Mars 2020 rover will likewise scan for carbon-based compounds from possible past or present Mars organisms.
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Now, it is vying for another distinction: to be a pioneer in weaning itself from carbon-based energy.
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By limiting the capacity for transporting carbon-based fuels, they hope to reduce the number of projects developed.
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This is often referred to as "decarbonization" because we are decoupling our economy from carbon-based fossil fuels.
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And why is it that our own carbon-based definition of life is the only kind we look for?
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Mirroring the carbon-based lifeforms on Earth, she used the crystalline form of carbon, graphite, to create the drawings.
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In addition, clean energy batteries have proved to be an environmentally safer, lower-cost alternative to carbon-based fuels.
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Most Li-ion anodes are made of a carbon-based material called graphite, the same stuff found inside pencils.
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The male and female were the only two that bear tattoos, which were applied with a carbon-based pigment.
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To test this theory, Tour's team sought to burn LIG into food, cardboard and several other everyday, carbon-based materials.
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Creating synthetic fuels (there are a number of different kinds) involves combining a carbon-based molecule, usually CO2, with hydrogen.
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The early public perception of the once-20-something C.E.O. was as an emotionless carbon-based offshoot of the Internet itself.
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Direct subsidies for solar and wind power, which are equivalent to a tax on carbon-based fuels, undoubtedly helped increase demand.
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Even Dick Cheney can see the relentless innovation in alternative energies is going to swamp carbon-based industrial in our lifetimes.
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An even better system is the combination of reverse osmosis and carbon-based filtration, which removes more contaminants from tap water.
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It also believes people cause it by burning carbon-based fuel—the kind Chevron extracts from the ground, refines, and sells.
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And we would all have an incentive to reduce our use of carbon-based fossil fuels in favor of clean energy.
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You see him in Hal, the murderous computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey," who decides his carbon-based companions are expendable.
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Google arranges to have renewable sources on those grids, so that its net consumption isn't drawing down additional carbon-based power.
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Scientists think that comets contain materials from our early solar system, such as ancient ice, rock, and even complex carbon-based molecules.
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"I know the people of Wyoming are looking to diversify its economic base and move away from carbon-based products," he says.
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The crystalline MOF powder used here has a molecular network comprised of both metals, in this case zirconium, and carbon-based compounds.
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The thing that it does is wipe out every carbon-based life form on earth that's capable of having abnormal cell division.
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The idea was that they come from a carbon-based planet, and they're here to strip-mine us of fossil fuels and resources.
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All life on our planet is carbon-based, so finding organics elsewhere could hint, but not necessarily confirm, the existence of alien life.
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Think carbon-based fuels, which can be much cheaper than alternative fuels that don't contribute as much or at all to global warming.
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In Netflix's Altered Carbon, based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan, humanity has evolved past the arbitrary expiration of the physical form.
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The FTC reference to "carbon-based sources of electricity" as an environmental justification for net metering payments is incorrect for an additional reason.
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The simplest way to think about them is as a mix of three things: a carbon-based molecule (usually CO2), hydrogen, and energy.
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Without importing carbon-based fuels from elsewhere in the solar system, fossil fuels will likely run dry before we reach a Venus tipping point.
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Previously, scientists had detected only simple organic ( carbon-based ) compounds, each less than about five carbon atoms in size, in the plumes of Enceladus .
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The discovery of similar molecules in space itself strengthens the argument that the carbon-based stuff we see in meteorites came from beyond Earth.
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Burning a carbon-based fuel from tires creates a lot more greenhouse gas emissions than renewable power sources, like wind turbines or solar panels.
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Our only hope is a swift, managed decline in the production of all carbon-based energy from the fields we've already put in production.
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That, dear carbon-based life form, is lidar, perhaps the most important piece of hardware in the race to unlock self-driving cars for everybody.
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Life as we know it is carbon-based, and now carbon has been shown to form and survive in the harsh and exposed interstellar medium.
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Reducing our dependence on carbon-based fuels will also enhance our national security by reducing our dependence on foreign oil from unstable and hostile countries.
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JWST will be able to study the thin atmospheres of cold planets that are dominated by carbon-based gases (like the planets of TRAPPIST-1).
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found that the red planet had carbon-based compounds called organic molecules — key raw materials for life as we know it.
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What business will want to hire a messy, complex carbon-based life form when a software tweak can get the job done just as well?
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New energy sources aren't getting adopted just because they might stave off climate change — they're getting adopted because they are becoming cheaper than carbon-based energy.
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What surprised me about that poll is that they also polled a tax on emissions of carbon-based fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Britain: A plan to build a new nuclear power plant in northern Wales could lift the local economy while expanding Britain's non-carbon-based fuel options.
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It also compromises America's global leadership and its own economic interests by underestimating the prospective growth offered by a non-carbon based economy and on technological innovation.
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Later, though, when things chilled out, those same kinds of collisions may have delivered the water and carbon-based molecules that have since scaffolded and nurtured life.
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Unless the carbon-based energy sources on which we have relied are replaced with solar and wind power (the movie doesn't address nuclear energy), we are ruined.
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Parts of WIPP were rendered unusable after a February 2014 explosion of a disposal drum containing a volatile mix of nuclear waste and carbon-based kitty litter.
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The challenge with renewable energy is that we still need carbon-based fuel for backing up renewable energy infrastructure and heavy-duty transportation like trains and planes.
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Nuclear energy: A plan to build a new nuclear power plant in northern Wales could lift the local economy while expanding Britain's non-carbon-based fuel options.
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Waymo just became the first company allowed to test fully self-driving cars—the kind with no carbon-based beings behind the wheel—in the state of California.
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He was used to being ignored—a colleague once accused him of being a "carbon-based chauvinist" because he had raised questions about the promise of artificial intelligence.
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At the same time, Aramco preserves the health of Saudi Arabia's aging oil fields and regularly introduces new technologies to reduce the environmental impact of carbon-based fuels.
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Carbon taxes are imposed on companies that use carbon-based products such as coal and oil to encourage those groups to wind down their use of such fuels.
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Higher prices for carbon-based fuels are needed in countries like the United States to depress demand and encourage investments in nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration.
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The term describes any carbon-based chemical that evaporates at room temperature, and it encompasses a huge variety of molecules, emitted both by plants and by human activities.
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Rather than finding substitutes for carbon-based processes, it finds a substitute for the carbon used in them — carbon from the air rather than carbon from the ground.
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Oil demand would rise less quickly if governments moved some way toward reducing the use of carbon-based fuels, putting into action already-announced plans, the IEA says.
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There should be no surprise to carbon-based life forms in the discovery that their universe is well supplied with carbon; what other sort of universe could they expect?
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Propane gas is a liquid at -24 Fahrenheit (-220 Celsius), and gasoline, actually a mixture of different carbon-based molecules, could freeze at around -1963 degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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Thanks to the cheaper material (carbon-based graphene is relatively inexpensive to produce), it could also bring down the cost of production of e-ink by orders of magnitude.
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They are starting to use AI to screen for anomalies in expense claims, flagging receipts from odd hours of the night more efficiently than a carbon-based beancounter can.
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How should a country that has become a export powerhouse thanks in part to its fast cars position itself in a world being destroyed by the carbon-based economy?
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The byproducts left behind — carbon dioxide, methane, water and biomass (expired micro-organisms, humus, and organic waste; all carbon-based) — can be potentially recaptured and used for other purposes.
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It does so through a process known as gasification, which recycles the carbon molecules inside garbage like food waste and plastics and repurposes them as other carbon-based products.
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If carbon-based materials could be substituted for steel on any real scale, it could mean billions of tons of reduced emissions, not to mention effectively permanent carbon sequestration.
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Inadvertently, this led to price hikes for consumers by discouraging investment in carbon-based energy sources (such as coal) which remain necessary to provide base-load power backup to renewables.
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Early Japanese, Chinese, and Korean artists painted on thin sheets of silk or paper, using pigments of carbon-based inks, mineral colors, and vegetable dyes particular to their geographical regions.
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The soot then goes through a number of processes that remove carcinogens to yield purified, carbon-based pigments, which then undergo another chemical process to create the final inks and paints.
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Organic molecules like PAHs represent some of the most basic components of life as we know it, and researchers think they could be key to the development of carbon-based life.
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"Bitumen balls", which look like liquorice sweets, could be refined into oil, acknowledges Mr Gates, but there could be a much bigger market for their use in other carbon-based products.
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But U.S. commitments to cut carbon emissions under that agreement cannot be achieved at the same time we are expanding the supply of carbon-based fuels from federal lands and waters.
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RuPaul's Drag Race Like most carbon-based beings of conscience this week, I have been unilaterally focused on the reunification of families riven by oppression, scapegoating and uncontrollable forces of power.
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Which raises an obvious question: How can Microsoft hope to pull more carbon out of the air than it puts in if it's actively accelerating the production of carbon-based fuels?
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While renewable energy innovations are important for reducing future emissions, energy leaders and experts have not yet figured out how to significantly reduce emissions within our existing carbon-based energy system.
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That, and Braun's dedication to her medium, which, like life on Earth, is exclusively carbon-based — graphite, charcoal, carbon-black gouache, and even bleached charcoal for works in white-on-black.
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"Coffee is a plant food that is rich in chlorogenic acid and related phenolic compounds," carbon-based molecules with ring-like structures, "that reduced blood glucose levels in animal studies," he said.
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Netflix's Altered Carbon, based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan, is about a soldier named Takeshi Kovacs, who is resurrected after 250 years, to solve the murder of a rich man.
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The central question is whether the U.S. will surrender to Chinese leadership in this key strategic area of clean energy systems while we plod along relying heavily on carbon-based, dirty fuels.
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If we can't overcome suspicion that tackling climate change just means job loss, we'll never enlist workers — or millions of others in jobs that rely on carbon-based fuels — in the solution.
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The ALMA image on the left is about 1000 times smaller than the optical image on the right in the picture above, and confirmed the presence of carbon-based molecules on the comet.
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So we're assuming that whatever form life takes elsewhere, even if its not carbon based—it could be something really beyond our imagination—we still think they will make use of electromagnetic forces.
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The main reason is that in its zeal to appease Green Party voters, the country went overboard, pushing out carbon-based fuels at the same time that it moved to eliminate nuclear power.
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Building from Dr. Goodenough's work, Dr. Yoshino, who was at the Asahi Kasei Corporation in Japan, then showed that more complicated carbon-based electrodes could house lithium-ions in between their layers too.
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It is not an essential property of consciousness that it is implemented on carbon-based biological neural networks inside a cranium: silicon-based processors in a computer could in principle do the trick too.
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"It is a race against time—we will need more than just switching away from carbon-based energy sources, we also need to sequester carbon in order to quickly slow the warming," she noted.
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The material, cellulose nanofibres, could become a viable alternative to steel in the decades ahead, they say, although it faces competition from carbon-based materials, and remains a long way from being commercially viable.
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The automaker's new Large Animal Detection system can spot and identify outsized carbon-based hazards and stop the car before colliding with moose in the Arctic Circle, kangaroo Down Under, or deer in Suburbia, USA.
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In Kurzweil's view, intractable problems like climate change, resource scarcity, sickness, and even death will be eliminated by the Singularity, not least because it will liberate humankind from the organic prison of carbon-based bodies.
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The promise and perils of silicon batteriesIn a typical lithium-ion battery, ions of the element lithium — which generate charge — are stored in a carbon-based material called graphite, the same material found inside pencils.
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The relationships I value in life—with my wife, my friends, my editor—are emergent products of interacting with other people, other living systems comprising, principally, carbon-based molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.
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The relationships I value in life —with my wife, my friends, my editor—are emergent products of interacting with other people, other living systems comprising, principally, carbon-based molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.
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Just look at Facebook's software, which can be scaled more or less interminably, and compare it to Koch Industries and their investments in fix asset in carbon-based chemical, asphalt, and pulp and paper plants.
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But if Mr. Brown couldn't leave a carbon-based nickel on the table, and if, ultimately, the same will be said for his successor, Gavin Newsom, how can we expect Donald Trump to do more?
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But if Mr. Brown couldn't leave a carbon-based nickel on the table, and if, ultimately, the same will be said for his successor, Gavin Newsom, how can we expect Donald Trump to do more?
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For close to two centuries, organic chemists have studied and manipulated the molecular world by swapping chemical groups for each other along the perimeter of carbon-based compounds, like differently shaped and colored Lego blocks.
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"BYD's mission is to fundamentally change the world by reducing our dependency on carbon-based fuels through the development and advancement of battery and electric vehicle technology," said BYD Motors's President Stella Li in a statement.
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" Separately, the climate change debate "will almost certainly take a different course when the global economy emerges from this and is faced with the prospect of having to make large-scale investments into carbon-based industries.
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""In the overall scheme of things, you're an inconsequential speck of carbon-based dust, born in a time and place not of your choosing, for a tiny amount of time, before expiring in an unfathomably large universe.
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And, sure enough, he does exactly that to Beth, after SummerBot reassures her mother that it's OK to have feelings because she's, like, totally a carbon-based human life form instead of a bunch of computer parts.
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Increasingly, that's meant focusing on making high-tech, software-driven equipment to cut composites and carbon-based fabrics for the aerospace industry and automakers, rather than the woolens and cotton Eastman's equipment was once designed to slice.
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On the other hand, the denial of climate science is centered on resistance to economic and lifestyle changes that would bring about major disruption to certain ways of life, as we switch away from carbon-based fuels.
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"Apart from the pathway's potential application to equip plants with better photosynthetic capabilities, it could be used in systems to create carbon-based feed for cattle, or even to design desirable chemical products," authors said in a statement.
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The quest for environment-friendly agriculture, industry and alternatives to nuclear and carbon-based power is an opportunity France and Europe must seize, he says; hence the pledge to spend much of his 100 billion euros stimulus on new power projects.
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Andreas Scheuer, a member of the CSU Bavarian conservatives, said he favored a system of incentives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions rather than using a tax on carbon-based fuels, like the one favored by the Social Democratic environment minister.
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Finally, it's important to bear in mind that from an energy perspective, this is at best a stop-gap solution that doesn't address the underlying problem: we need to get off carbon-based fuels if we're to prevent catastrophic climate change.
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Matt Mead (R), a booster of both the oil and coal industries, hails from the state that is America's largest net exporter of carbon-based fuels, generating some 3 percent of the world's carbon output in this one state alone.
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A prolonged period of low thermal prices may signal that the global economy is decarbonising - that is, moving away from carbon-based fuels to renewables such as solar and wind power - at a faster rate than expected, said CBA analyst Vivek Dhar.
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Carbon, based on a book series of the same name by Richard Morgan, figures out how that would even be possible, thanks to the idea of a "stack," or, a spinal implant that saves your entire consciousness in a handy little device.
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A prolonged period of low thermal prices may signal that the global economy is decarbonizing - that is, moving away from carbon-based fuels to renewables such as solar and wind power - at a faster rate than expected, said CBA analyst Vivek Dhar.
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Captured in May and October of 2015 and analyzed with Rosetta's on-board mass spectrometer, each of these wee grains contains carbon-based molecules bound together in very large structures, similar to the organic matter found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites here on Earth.
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Global temperatures have already risen more than 1 degree Celsius over pre-industrial levels, and is projected to rise close to 4 degrees above by the end of the century, assuming we continue to use carbon-based fuels as we have been.
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In a bid to diversify away from a carbon-based economy, Qatar has taken stakes in a wide variety of things, including the French soccer team Paris St. Germain and London's Heathrow Airport, along with global finance, health care, technology and auto companies.
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Even as the Trump administration has broken with almost all the world's nations by renouncing the Paris climate accord, the Vermont program offers just one example of the continuing efforts at the local level to rethink a largely carbon-based power system.
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Today, "for two-thirds of the world, renewables are cheaper than a significant amount of carbon-based energy, so it isn't just an argument of environment, it's now just pure economics," Milken told CNBC at the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore.
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What's especially good about the Facebook renewable purchases is that they're not just offset agreements — deals where a company buys renewable energy in some far-flung geography to offset the power they're buying in local markets that relies on traditional carbon-based fuel sources.
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Poland gets about eighty per cent of its electricity from coal, the most carbon-intensive of carbon-based fuels, and the Polish President, Andrzej Duda, noted in his opening remarks that the country had enough as yet unmined supplies to last another two centuries.
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Renewable energy sources are surely cleaner than carbon-based or nuclear energy, but there are a few more or less inevitable drawbacks which make them unappealing for a lot of people: solar farms scorch birds in midair, meanwhile wind turbines confuse and often strike them to death.
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However, by delaying a reasonable and orderly transition from the fossil fuel economy into one that is not carbon-based, these same deniers were increasing the odds that as climate change turned into a crisis, extreme — even authoritarian — methods would be called upon to address it.
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Bennu, a rocky mass roughly a third of a mile wide and shaped like a giant acorn, orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Earth and is thought to be rich in carbon-based organic molecules dating back to the earliest days of the solar system.
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"Not only is this the largest economic shock of our lifetimes, but carbon-based industries like oil sit in the cross-hairs as they have historically served as the cornerstone of social interactions and globalization, the prevention of which are the main defense against the virus," they added.
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The fossil fuels industry is under pressure to curb emissions, especially in light of the Paris Agreement signed in December, in which 195 governments agreed that aims to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), raising the potential for regulatory crackdowns on carbon-based businesses.
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The thought was that the mind was a kind of software program, and the body and the brain were just hardware, so there was no reason in principle that cognition couldn't be reproduced on a different kind of hardware—on a silicon-based machine, say, rather than on carbon-based flesh.
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In 1980 Goodenough and his team, working at Oxford, figured out that a cobalt oxide cathode would make for a more stable battery; later that decade Yoshino's group learned to use more complicated carbon-based materials in electrodes that'd still let lithium ions nestle inside and flow through the battery.
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As countries worldwide prepare to deliver on their respective commitments to the Paris climate deal, growing global regulations that favor advanced biofuels and programs that put a price tag on carbon-based fuels are creating a more positive environment, biofuels executives said at the "Forum Brasil Bioeconomia 2018" seminar in Sao Paulo.
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Among the highlights are a clearer picture of how Arrokoth formed in the early solar nebula, a cloud of gas and dust that surrounded the sun 4.5 billion years ago, and details of its chemistry, which seems to include both simple organic molecules and "tholins," a class of carbon-based polymers that are believed to be prevalent throughout the Kuiper Belt.
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The bacteria converts carbon-based organic waste into organic acids, according to chief executive Luna Yu. The two-step process is based on two groups of specialized bacteria used throughout the process: The first group digests food waste, producing short-chain carbons as volatile fatty acids, acting as the precursor feed stock for the second group, which eats these carbons and converts them into bioplastics.
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"The analogy takes hold because... the assumption that the $21 trillion dollars of carbon-based assets that are marked to market on the books of multinationals and sovereigns and others will all be put to their intended use and burned is an assumption even more absurd than the assumption that someone who can't make a down payment or a monthly payment is a good risk for a home mortgage," he said.
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So I think in general, with the light at the end of the tunnel on oil and gas at the moment, with the increase, step by step increase over that, that unleashes more investments and we see that already happening but in these other energy areas, we see a much stronger momentum building, and that's also good news, both for consumers with regard to more competitive pricing on the energy side, but clearly also for investment, that is-, SS: Very quickly-, GC: I just wanted to come back on that-, the windmills, and the renewable and so on, because the other part of Donald Trump's platform, as we know, has been to promote carbon based fuel sources, and talk down the Paris Accord.
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