Citation: Jourdin L, Raes SMT, Buisman CJN and Strik DPBTB (2018) Critical Biofilm Growth throughout Unmodified Carbon Felts Allows Continuous Bioelectrochemical Chain Elongation from CO2 up to Caproate at High Current Density. Front. Energy Res. 6:7. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00007 critical Biofilm growth throughout Unmodified carbon Felts allows continuous Bioelectrochemical chain elongation fr...

Proper characterizations of background soil CO2 respiration rates are critical for interpreting CO2 leakage monitoring results at geologic sequestration sites. In this paper a method is developed for determining temperature-dependent critical values of soil CO2 flux for preliminary leak detection inference. The method is illustrated using surface CO2 flux measurements obtained from the AmeriFlu...

Previous work has shown that a convective cloud feedback can greatly increase high-latitude surface temperature upon the removal of sea ice and can keep sea ice from forming throughout polar night. This feedback activates at increased greenhouse gas concentrations. It may help to explain the warm ‘‘equable climates’’ of the late Cretaceous and early Paleogene eras (;100 to ;35 million years ago...

Ionic liquids have been objects of extensive research for physical sorption of CO2 and a number of myths have been perpetuated in the literature, for lack of a critical analysis, concerning their potential for CO2 capture. This study carries a critical analysis of a number of widely accepted ideas and others not so well accepted that have been repeatedly expressed in the literature concerning t...

Predictions concerning the consequences of the oceanic uptake of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) have been primarily occupied with the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms, particularly those critical to the formation of habitats (e.g. coral reefs) or their maintenance (e.g. grazing echinoderms). This focus overlooks direct and indirect effects of CO2 on non-calcar...

The fundamental aspects of chemical reaction kinetics at near-critical conditions are discussed within the framework of transition state theory and the thermodynamics of critical phenomena for multicomponent systems. This discussion emphasizes the geometric analysis of Griffiths and Wheeler which describes the manner in which various thermodynamic properties behave on approaching mixture critic...