Literature Review on households / individual carbon footprints Households’ carbon footprints have fluctuated on a regular basis for many years. Why is this the case? Surely our carbon footprint should be reducing with ever increasing pressures from Governments and NGOs to consider the consequences of our lifestyles on the future of our planet. This is not the result though‚ “our needs and desires are expressed in the consumer demand for commodities‚ and it is this demand for goods and services which
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Investigating pH Aim: To demonstrate dissolved carbon dioxide changing the ph level of substances. Materials: * 2 beakers * 2 straws * Stop watch * Distilled water * Lime water * Litmus Paper Method: 1. Pour 100ml of Distilled water into the first beaker‚ and label said beaker. 2. Pour 100ml of Lime water into the second‚ also Label beaker. 3. Test the two liquids with litmus paper and note the ph level‚ before any carbon dioxide has been introduced. 4. Place a straw
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activities at night. Although the process of photosynthesis is quite fast‚ it isn’t fast or high enough to keep up with the rate of energy required during activities for human. Adding to that‚ an important component in photosynthesis is carbon dioxide‚ without carbon dioxide‚ photosynthesis can’t occur. If we were to perform photosynthesis‚ from where are going to get
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CARBON CREDIT - A NEW MONETARY HARVEST Prologue: Carbon credit is the brain child of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to bring about a clean environment in the already polluted world. The increasing awareness about the environmental degradation gave rise to the concept called Carbon Credit. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has observed that: Policies that provide a real or implicit price of carbon could create incentives for producers and
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making it unfit for survival of aquatic life and drinking purposes. The material used for idols like Plaster of Paris (POP) is mainly the compound of gypsum‚ sulphur‚ phosphorus and magnesium. Chemical paints comprise of mercury‚ cadmium‚ lead and carbon. Immersion of idols with such poisonous and toxic elements raises the level of acidity‚ solid matter‚ organic matter and heavy metals in water bodies. These materials don’t dissolve readily and lowers the oxygen level in water adversely affecting
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Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Green Solvent Gregory Absillis June 2009 The majority of chemical processes in chemical synthesis are carried out in solution and organic solvents usually are the first choice. To satisfy this demand‚ 15 billion kilograms of organic are produced worldwide each year. [1] These solvents often bear considerable risk due to their toxicity‚ flammability or environmental hazards. Furthermore‚ they have to be separated from the products and recycled or disposed at
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Practical 3 Title: Effect of dissolved Carbon Dioxide on the pH of Water Aim: To investigate the effect of dissolved carbon dioxide on the pH of water. Hypothesis: The dissolved carbon dioxide will cause the water to turn acid‚ lowering the pH when carbon dioxide dissolves in water in which it forms carbonic acid (H2CO3). Materials: Straws‚ distilled water‚ safety glasses‚ pH probe‚ computer‚ universal indicator‚ gloves‚ lab coats‚ measuring cylinder‚ data logger‚ printer
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In Let Them Eat Carbon‚ Sinclair repeatedly stresses that the attempts politicians and governments are making to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are very expensive and generally ineffective. Ordinary families pay a heavy price for the attempts governments make to control emissions‚ as they increase electricity bills‚ raise the price of gasoline‚ and put manufacturing jobs at risk. This issue hits certain people particularly hard: industrial worker‚ as they are already struggling to compete with
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temperatures of the oceans. Emissions are coming from places like cement production (which is a leading cause) deforestation‚ and fossil fuels like coal‚ natural gas and oil‚ which increase carbon emissions‚ which in turn‚ increase ocean temperatures. Without a human element on earth‚ the normal rate of carbon emissions would be drastically lower than what is it today and ocean temperatures wouldn’t be increasing at its current rate.
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4/28/2008 Spatial filtering fundamentals by Gleb V. Tcheslavski: gleb@ee.lamar.edu http://ee.lamar.edu/gleb/dip/index.htm Spring 2008 ELEN 4304/5365 DIP 1 Mechanics of spatial filtering Considering frequency domain filtering‚ the effect of LPF applied to an image is to blur (smooth) it. Similar smoothing effect can be achieved by using spatial filters (spatial masks‚ kernels‚ templates‚ or windows). We discussed that a spatial filter consists of a neighborhood and a pre-defined operation
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