Measuring Fossil Fuel Emissions (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Measuring Fossil Fuel Emissions

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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laboratory instrument that will greatly reduce the cost of analyzing carbon isotopes. Among other things, this will allow scientists to measure how much of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere came from burning fossil fuels, and to estimate fossil fuel emissions in an area as small as a city or as large as a continent.

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Kelly Irvine/NIST

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