CO2

What is CO2? The long answer is a "No" with an "If." The short answer is "Yes" with a "However." But the real answer is: A CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) molecule is two oxygen atoms bonded to a single carbon atom. That is CO2.

Plants use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis to create sugars, which may be consumed in respiration or used as the raw material to produce other organic compounds needed for plant growth and development. On the reverse side, CO2 is produced during respiration by plants and animals.


CO2 is a gas, but in its solid state it is dry ice. There is no liquid state of CO2. CO2 emissions can be reduced by burning wood pellets instead of cordwood, using renewable energy, and replacing your low-efficiency light bulbs.

Bloggers speaking about CO2 can be found at sites such as carbonoffsetsdaily and climatechangefraud.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “CO2”

• Global Energy Use to Soar if No CO2 Deal

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  PARIS/LONDON,–World energy use will rise rapidly over the next 20 years, increasing costs and greenhouse gases unless a deal is reached to curb carbon dioxide emissions, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
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• Veterans Call For Clean Energy And Climate Legislation (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  A few months ago I wrote about Operation Free , a growing group of U.S. veterans advocating for a clean energy future and climate legislation, so in honor of Veteran’s Day I wanted to share with you a video of some of the organization’s members touring the country by bus to raise awareness of the threat that ...
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• New System Using Microbes to Convert CO2 to Biofuels in a Single-Step Process

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  These microbes feed on solar power and synthesize both the alkane and olefin molecules. Although the hydrocarbon fuels have only been produced in lab quantities, the company plans a pilot demonstration for 2011.
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• Wind Power: The Economic Impact of Intermittency

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 484
  http://web.uvic.ca/~kooten/REPA/WorkingPaper2009-04.pdf Abstract: Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy source for generating electricity, but economic research lags behind. In this study, therefore, we examine the economics of integrating large-scale wind energy into an existing electrical grid. Using a ...
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• Dude, Where’s My Shoreline!?

  
  Green Living — Authority: 118
  Recently a G-20 economic summit was hosted by the United States of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss, among other things, the global economy, a growing global credit crisis, and ideas to stimulate the global economy to turn itself around.  The G-20 is a group of 19 industrialized nations plus the ...
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• Siemens Increases Revenue from Clean Technology Products to €23 billion

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 144
   Customers’ CO2 savings rise to 210 million tons in fiscal 2009Siemens increases revenue from Environmental Portfolio products to €23 billionIn fiscal 2009, Siemens generated revenue of €23 billion with products and solutions from its Environmental Portfolio. The green portfolio has grown by 11 percent by ...
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• Cost of Wind Energy Compared to Other Technologies

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 144
  In this post, the cost of conventionally-generated power is compared with the cost of wind-generated power. To obtain a comparable picture, calculations for conventional technologies are prepared utilising the Recabs-model, which was developed by the IEA in its Implementing Agreement on Renewable Energy Technology ...
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• US Envoy Says CO2 Cuts Proposed by Congress ‘More Aggressive’ Than EU’s

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From Solveclimate.com | As nations ratcheted up pressure on the United States to deliver a concrete mid-term CO2 reduction target in Copenhagen, the U.S. climate envoy said Friday that hard figures are already in play in Congress — and they beat those of Europe. “We recognize that others are seeking ...
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• Japan’s Vice Minister Discusses CO2 Reduction, Smart Grid

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From Techon.nikkeibp.co.jp | Tetsurou Fukuyama, Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and upper house member of Japan’s Democratic Party, discussed the environmental policies of the Hatoyama administration Nov 5, 2009, at Smart Energy Symposium 2009. The following is the summary of his speech. ...
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• Van makers hit out at CO2 plans

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From Fleetnews.co.uk | A row has broken out between the European Commission and van manufacturers over tough new proposals to cut CO2 emissions from light commercial vehicles. The EU wants to see an average CO2 figure of 175g/km and an average miles per gallon figure of 42.8 from 2014 – but the plan ...
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• Pilkington EnergiKare™ Tackles CO2 Emissions Head On

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From Glassonweb.com | With climate change a hot topic at the recent political party conferences, Pilkington has released figures showing an amazing 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 will be saved in the UK over the next 20 years thanks to installations of energy efficient glazing Pilkington energiKare™. ...
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• ChargePoint To Establish Street-level EV Charging Network In Australia

  
  The Motor Report: Auto News And Reviews — Authority: 513
  AMERICAN FIRM Coulomb Technologies has signed up local company ChargePoint to distribute its electric vehicle charging systems in Australia. The roll-out of street-level charging stations is planned for 2010.ChargePoint is currently in negotiations with government and private bodies in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. ...
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• Environment Agency wants individual carbon rationing

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 566
  Carbon emissions and carbon footprints have been in the news a lot over the past few years. But while politicians and celebrities have taken up the cause of reducing these, it hasn’t really [...]
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• Japan Plans Giant Solar Power Station In Space

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The plan is to create a miles-wide array of photovoltaic panels, like the solar panels used on Earth, and place it in a geostationary orbit. - Solar rays are at least five times as powerful in space as they are at ground level, allowing the huge panels to gather vast quantities of energy. -- A report by ...
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• Climate Change Threatens China’s Yangtze River Basin

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  paulmannixs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change threatens to unleash severe storms, droughts, floods across China’s Yangtze River Basin in the coming decades, unless proper mitigation measures are taken to protect the region from catastrophe, according to a new study from the WWF. While we should ...
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• CO2 or a pump? — It never ends

  
  Bike Noob — Authority: 119
  I was chatting with a friend the other day who’s just getting into biking. He was telling me of his experience with his first flat. No pump, no CO2. He had a patch kit in his seatbag, but realized it was worthless unless he could fill his tire with air, so he wound up walking the bike home — three miles. Do ...
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• how do i determine concentrations of premixed solutions?

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 140
  I just need some math for this one. If I have a liquid hydroponic trace solution that I want to use up that has a Fe concentration of .2% how do I determine how much to add to get a concentration of .4ppm iron in a 250L tank. Thanks
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• Pressure on yeast

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 140
  Hi all, Sorry if this has been addressed previously, if it has been I couldnt find it. Ive been looking for information about the effects that built up pressure has on yeast. I have your typical diy yeast based setup with a newly made diffuser based on Toms design (thanks Tom). But my issue is that my powerhead is a ...
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• EcoBoost: Ford’s Near-term Answer to Lowering Emissions Without Forfeiting Performance

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 593
  Editor’s Note: Corey Weaver is a Ford Technical Expert and EcoBoost’s project leader. One of the great challenges for automakers today is determining which technology or group of technologies will be the most effective in increasing fuel-efficiency and lowering greenhouse emissions - while still meeting the ...
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• What Are the Consequences of Copenhagen?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  If you’re like some of us over here at TakePart, you can’t get enough coverage of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. We even cover a lot of the news ourselves here. And that’s why it’s so exciting that over at The Daily Climate (TDC), today they are starting a four-part special report ...
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