Sentences with phrase «human energy consumption»

Human energy consumption is a known environmental disaster.

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Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.

The news of the increase in U.S. human - caused GHG emissions comes at a critical moment in the global battle against climate change, particularly after the International Energy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing ecEnergy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing ecenergy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing economy.

Parrots can outlive elephants; hummingbirds have been known to survive to 14 — the equivalent, in terms of energy consumption per pound, of a human living to 500.

«Our study highlights the usefulness of dense sensor networks for urban weather and climate research with practical implications for human health, energy consumption, and environmental quality.»

We know it takes more energy to raise cattle for food than directly using that grain for human consumption.

Solar power is considered to be a particularly attractive source as on average the Earth receives around 10,000 times more energy from the sun in a given time than is required by human consumption.

Capsaicin consumption increases energy expenditure through the activation of brown adipose tissue in humans.

A survey in the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine found that people who reduced or eliminated their consumption of GMO foods experienced an improvement in digestion, food sensitivities, and energy levels.

Consumption of the slow - digesting waxy maize starch leads to blunted plasma glucose and insulin response but does not influence energy expenditure or appetite in humans.

In humans, data collected from 38 different trials of food consumption that used widely varying intakes of protein, from 8 to 54 % of energy, showed: «Percent dietary protein was negatively associated with total energy intake (F = 6.9, P < 0.0001) irrespective of whether carbohydrate (F = 0, P = 0.7) or fat (F = 0, P = 0.5) were the diluents of protein.

In humans, high rates of insulin release from the pancreas, (through the consumption of sugar - rich, processed foods and drinks), which ultimately cause weight gain.2 Because this food is already processed, it means that there isn't any fiber to slow down the absorption of these energy - dense nutrients into the system.

A G Dulloo, C A Geissler, T Horton, A Collins, D S Miller; Normal caffeine consumption: influence on thermogenesis and daily energy expenditure in lean and postobese human volunteers, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 49, Issue 1, 1 January 1989, Pages 44 — 50, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/49.1.44

Normal caffeine consumption: influence on thermogenesis and daily energy expenditure in lean and postobese human volunteers.

Projects address the Anthropocene — climate change; industrialization and urbanization; bio-diversity; water; the use of natural and human resources; human migration; global capital, commerce and consumption; energy production; and waste.

How we use land, general human consumption, energy choices, eating habits, our lifestyles, and wastes all add to the condition to the environment.

Our energy consumption, while large on a human scale, is tiny compared to the greenhouse effect or its anthropogenic enhancement.

With «roughly twenty - five times more energy required to produce one calorie of beef than to produce one calorie of corn for human consumption» there is reason to consider at least a partially vegetarian diet.

Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress.

The World's Huge Appetite for Energy Energy consumption is at the core of human existence.

Obviously, rates of consumption of fossil energy and forests per person matter more than the rise in human numbers.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

Changing lightbulbs, decreasing energy consumption, reducing auto dependence, reducing wasteful consumption, reducing human population, scaling down industrial society, greatly reducing meat consuption, improving building codes, reducing per capita consumption, eliminating corporate personhood, fix campaign financing, scale down airline travel.

They could paralyze modern society, which has become so dependent on abundant water supplies for agriculture, energy generation, human consumption and other uses.

Users have access to a wide range of numerical and qualitative data, ranging from companies» emissions and energy consumption to their human rights policies and the size of their boards of directors.

Either at some point energy consumption is drastically reduced or halted, leading human and social evolution to stop or regress in order for the environment to recover;

SITES - certified landscapes additionally help reduce water demand, filter and reduce stormwater runoff, provide wildlife habitat, reduce energy consumption, improve air quality, improve human health and increase outdoor recreation opportunities.

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

I would agree that humans can produce sufficient energy, but what about the long term consumption of other items.

Richart Tol (2013), Figure 3 shows that GHG emissiosn were net beneficial during last century and projects that will continue for most of this century (all of the century if you exclude hypothesised increasing energy consumption assumed caused by human's GHG emissions).

But if every country moved up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to fossil fuels and from fossil fuels to uranium — all humans could achieve, or even surpass, Western levels of energy consumption while reducing global environmental damage below today's levels.

[SEPP Comment: Measured temperature increases are closely related to local energy consumption, an indicator of increased human activity.]

New Paper «An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Human Activity On Long - Term Temperature Change In China: A Perspective From Energy Consumption» By Li And Zhao 2012

The document, which proposes to impose draconian controls on all human activity and all energy production and consumption, has ballooned from the 38 - page document that was negotiated last November - December at the UN climate circus in Lima, Peru, to 98 pages.

Rising energy consumption has long been synonymous with the destruction of nature, but according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at Breakthrough Institute, a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve human wellbeing and, at the same time, leave more land for habitats and wildlife.

The way we produce and use energy will become increasingly clean not by limiting its consumption, but by using expanded access to energy to unleash human ingenuity in support of innovating toward an equitable, low - carbon global energy system.

For evidence of this see «GapMinder», and graph the key UN «Human Development Indexes» (HDI) against income per capita and energy consumption per capita, and run play each time to see changes through time.

While human population grew 5.4 times since 1850, per capita energy consumption exploded at a rate of 8.5 times.

this is a quote from Wikipedia: «The amount of energy trapped by photosynthesis is immense, approximately 100 terawatts: [3] which is about six times larger than the power consumption of human civilization.

Review of the urban goal in the Sustainable Development Agenda: In July 2018, nations will convene at a High Level Political Forum to review progress on a subset of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG11 on cities and human settlements, as well as related goals on energy, production and consumption and biodiversity.

Future human - related emissions of GHGs will depend on many factors, especially: the human population, the extent and use of technologies that result in energy consumption, the types of technology used to produce energy, and the efficiency with which technologies use energy.

A very tiny percentage of human beings have «enjoyed» that profligately wasteful, inefficient and downright stupid level of energy consumption for a tiny fraction of human history.

In place of the suburb, it wants Soviet - style high density housing; changes in zoning laws that increasingly make it impossible to maintain single family residences (let alone build new ones); mandated use of public transportation (thus positioning the high density housing near railroad or bus depots and excluding from those «human residential zones» most roadways and parking installations); and severe limitations on private food, water, and energy consumption, in return for enormously high taxes that will fund «cradle to grave» care by the nanny government.

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Cutting edge data centers of the future will require less of a physical human presence, and are likely to: â $ cents Rely on a VIL to optimize equipment management and provide for virtual remote control capable of instant changes, switches and adds â $ cents Achieve LEED certification for the physical building â $ cents Rely on more efficient water cooling that potentially takes advantage of an on - site tower to chill water for cooling the system (thus reducing energy consumption by using nature's natural cooling power to chill water) â $ cents Use fluid dynamics models to precisely design the interior of the building to maximize the efficiency of the HV / AC system for air - cooled computing systems â $ cents Tap into a mixed energy grid that relies on green energy sources such as solar, wind or hydroelectric (depending on geographic feasibility), along with a reliable city grid thus avoiding the need for the standard back - up Uninterruptible Power Supply (which will reduce equipment costs, minimize floor space used, and increase energy efficiency because systems that employ a UPS convert AC to DC and back, incurring substantial energy losses).

The human footprint (sensu Sanderson et al. 2002) is a cumulative spatial index of population, land use, access, and energy consumption.

Using the Arc performance platform, LEED for Cities projects can measure and manage their city's water consumption, energy use, waste, transportation and human experience.