1 Forecast of natural gas production worldwide from 2012 to 2040 (in trillion cubic feet)Global natural gas production forecast 2012-2040. 2  Projected natural gas consumption worldwide from 1990 to 2035 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)World natural gas consumption. Natural gas prices in the United States and Europe from 1980 to 2030 (in U.S. dollars per million British thermal units)*U.S. and European natural gas price 1980-2030.
Phototrophic organisms convert light energy into chemical energy in the form of ATP. Photosynthetic organisms (photoautotrophs) also use light energy to make both ATP and reduced electron carriers (NADH or NADPH), which are both required to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbohydrate (CH2O).
An autotroph is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions. Autotrophs are the producers in a food chain.Plants and other organisms which carry out photosynthesis are photoautotrophs (or phototrophs). Bacteria which derive energy from oxidizing inorganic compounds (such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonium and ferrous iron) are chemoautotrophs, and include the lithotrophs.hey take energy from the environment (in the form of sunlight or inorganic chemicals) and use it to create carbon-based organic molecules. Other organisms, called heterotrophs, take in autotrophs as food to carry out such functions.