Carbon

In his article, A Carbon Tax Beats a Vacuum Ban, Slavov suggests an alternative to the problematic uncontrolled and hazardous release of carbon emissions that pollute the atmosphere, a tax on carbon emissions. He exclusively focuses on the contention around vacuum cleaners and the possible ban of vacuum cleaners using more than 1,600 watts of power, “with the limit slated to be lowered to 900 watts by 2017”. Though seemingly a reasonable ban, Slavov uses logical reasoning, convincing evidence,…

Activated carbon is a form of carbon that has treated in order to give it small pores, with lower volume, this increases the surface area accessible for adsorption. Adsorption is a procedure where solids are used for taking a soluble contaminate out of water. In this procedure active carbon is the solid that has been mentioned. The reason activated carbon is such a good filter is because of the huge surface area (between 300-2000m2/g), this is because surface area is proportional to adsorption…

Investor interest in the emerging global carbon credit market has created apt conditions for risk management products, ranging from insurance to derivatives. There is a growing recognition of carbon as a commodity that can be traded in spot market, and in the form of other complex financial products, such as derivatives and exchange-traded funds. Currently the carbon credit trade in Asia is dominated by China and India with carbon emissions trading showing the potential to become the world’s…

Market Trends Major price drivers The fluctuated global carbon price has been driven by a wide range of factors, including political wills, regional and global economy, fossil fuel prices, trading appetite of large corporations, and so on. Even a colder-than-expected winter can be a bullish signal to the carbon market. Historically, two significant price drops occurred as a result of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, and a series of political events at the national and…

Part One: Conductive behaviour of graphene/carbon nanotube and graphene oxide/ carbon nanotube hybrid materials Experimental Introduction Although many CNTs and graphene based electrodes have been developed with outstanding properties, drawbacks are still noticeable using some methods. For instance, EPD method commonly produces unsatisfied CNTs film strength and on the other hand, CVD technique is costly. Moreover, graphene based electrodes needs lots of labour works which is time consuming…

greater catastrophic consequences, a threat that humankind has chosen to ignore: carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide levels are increasing rapidly due to human activities, and the climate change caused by these increased levels will have harmful effects on the environment and to society. Background Information Carbon dioxide, chemical formula CO2, is a natural compound composed of two oxygen atoms connected to a single carbon atom. It is constantly being exchanged in nature, between the atmosphere,…

Introduction Carbon dioxide plays a huge rule on plant growth. This reports points out some positive affects as well as negative aspects of carbon dioxide concentration illustrated through a graph from the three trails. Some positive affect is that if a plant is receiving an average amount of CO2 and water and sunlight, it’ll have a positive affect depending on the type of the plant. The negative affect is if there is an imbalance of one element or if the plant if receiving too much or too…

What is carbon dioxide? Where does it come from? What are the side effects of carbon dioxide being in our everyday lives? These are the types of question that may be floating around in people’s minds all the time. Well, carbon dioxide is a very important greenhouse gas that makes life possible on earth. While it makes living possible, carbon dioxide also has is negative side effects. Carbon dioxide is the byproduct of human and animal respiration but most of all, it biggest emitter is the…

Deforestation increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because when trees are burned carbon dioxide is released, carbon dioxide is also, released when trees are decomposed by microorganisms. Cutting down trees also, reduces the amount of carbon dioxides taken up by the photosynthesis and trapped in the wood and carbon dioxide is greenhouse gas therefore, Trees play a huge role in the carbon cycle. They convert the CO2 in the air to oxygen, through the process of photosynthesis.…

Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. All things are made of Carbon. It is a part of the ocean, air and even rocks. This carbon flows between each reservoir in an exchange called the Carbon Cycle. This cycle will be investigated to show an understanding of its functions and how human activity can severely impact this cycle. (insert hypothesis here). Human activity, with out proper regulation can lead to imbalance throughout the carbon cycle meaning the interference of a Global system much…