Sentences with phrase «about energy research»

We hear a lot about energy research and development.

Not exact matches

Tom Mulcair's recent article for the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) raises perhaps more questions than it answers about the NDP's positions on the economics of energy and the environment.

«Industry protagonists are much more cautious about the slope and length of runway for the industry recovery going forward, so you've seen a series of combinations which have sought scale,» said William Herbert, head of global energy research at Simmons & Co International, a unit of Piper Jaffray.

Deepa Venkateswaran, senior research analyst for European utilities at Bernstein, speaks about an asset swap between some of Europe's biggest energy companies.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

So it's entirely appropriate — and encouraging — to mention clean energy when you talk about job creation, trade, university research, or Northern Canada.

About 5 months ago I began researching and experimenting with solar energy.

However, the Canadian Energy Research Institute has indicated that oil production in Canada is likely to scale up by about 600,000 barrels per day in 2017 and by another 200,000 next year, as a number of projects that were being developed prior to the oil - price slump are nearing completion.

Recent research has found that lots of people care about renewable energy, but most don't have a very good understanding of what it means, says Good Energy CEO Juliet Davenergy, but most don't have a very good understanding of what it means, says Good Energy CEO Juliet DavEnergy CEO Juliet Davenport

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.

According to research, Brits should consume no more than 5 % of energy from added sugar which equates to about 30g or seven sugar cubes.

According to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report, «between 1995 and 2008, the United States provided North Korea with over $ 1.3 billion in assistance: slightly more than 50 percent for food aid and about 40 percent for energy assistance.»

As director of SU's sustainability education, May «works with professors and students from all disciplines, as well as with staff in energy management, food services, parking and transportation, buildings and grounds, and waste management to promote understanding and research about the university as a whole system of resources and best practices,» according to a university webpage.

Scientists already knew that photons can lose or gain energy via vibrations, but the similarity with Cooper pairs is a new and interesting way of thinking about the effect, says physicist Ian Walmsley of Oxford University, who was not involved with the research.

Democratic senators expressed alarm about reports that the incoming administration intends to propose deep spending cuts at DOE that would curtail research in nuclear physics, advanced scientific computing, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those challenges in the future.

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

Presenting findings from research conducted through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Herrmann Abell and DeBoer point in their chapter to steady but modest improvement in students» understanding of energy from middle to high school, but they also note that «even after years of instruction, many students have a very limited and unsophisticated understanding of the formal conventions for thinking and talking about energy.»

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

Most of the funding for a carbon sequestration research program, about $ 8 million, would be eliminated, with the rest, about $ 1.5 million, being redirected to the energy and minerals program.

Each finalist team had about six weeks to complete their systems and get them to the US National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility (OHMSETT) in Leonardo, New Jersey, for controlled trials in July and August this year.

About 70 percent of all the energy generated in the world is wasted as heat, said Dimitris Niarchos of the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens, Greece.

Although EPRI's technology judgments are based on its extensive research capabilities, its assumptions about the future for energy conservation and wind power are more restricted than advocates of conservation and renewable power say are possible.

«About 20 years ago, you might have been considered strange to install a solar system on your roof,» says Niklas Martin, executive director of the Berlin - based Renewable Energy Research Association, an organisation that links some of Germany's top renewable energy instiEnergy Research Association, an organisation that links some of Germany's top renewable energy instienergy institutes.

In response to a question about the likelihood of Congressional support for proposed budget increases for DOE science initiatives, Moniz offered remarks that were both pragmatic and optimistic: While noting that current spending caps might make a 20 % increase in clean - energy R&D unlikely, he said that there have been encouraging signs of greater bipartisan support for such research, and an appreciation for the DOE's strategy to work with private investors as well as international collaborators.

With the new investments comes expanded funding for research, and scientists are vigorously going about solving the problems that keep alternative energy sources, well, alternative.

Amazon to get 18 new dams To sustain a growth rate of about 5 percent a year, Brazil needs to add 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity every year, according to Mauricio Tolmasquim, president of Brazil's Energy Research Co., the agency in charge of mapping the future of the energy sEnergy Research Co., the agency in charge of mapping the future of the energy senergy sector.

About six minutes of President Obama's State of the Union address dealt with research, technology and energy

Some physical science boosters have complained in the past about the Senate's role in funding energy research.

The $ 150 million Clean Energy Research Center that the two superpowers agreed to fund this week represents no less than a revolution in the way the two countries think about joint rResearch Center that the two superpowers agreed to fund this week represents no less than a revolution in the way the two countries think about joint researchresearch.

Secretary Chu could be forgiven for possibly feeling conflicted about his role: He had been called in to save an industry, while working as hard as he could to render it obsolete via programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy.

Dr Shanon Casperson, lead author of the study from USDA - Agricultural Research Service Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, USA said: «We found that about a third of the additional calories provided by the sugar - sweetened drinks were not expended, fat metabolism was reduced, and it took less energy to metabolize the meals.

Here he talks about the moments leading up to a 1987 meeting between Alvin Trivelpiece, then director of the Office of Energy Research, and President Ronald Reagan about the development of a machine to find the Higgs.

«There are a lot of people in those programs worried about climate and energy research.

Read about the research in more detail in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

Chu also talked about modeling energy research laboratories on Bell Labs.

What they found was an office beset by problems and violating much of the wisdom about how to effectively run an applied energy research program.

In continued research the scientists want to find out more about this mechanism to recover stored energy, to see if more practical uses could be made of it — better adhesives, for instance, or robots that can use some of these principles for improved performance or use in extreme environments.

A large of proportion of energy research aims to establish and optimize renewable sources such as photovoltaics, hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, and wind power, but energy research can also be about improving old technologies.

«Along with other research released recently from Western Australia showing increased harms on nights when people consumed energy drinks, it is becoming more apparent about how associations between energy drink consumption and greater levels of intoxication and harm can be explained, and that the concerns of researchers regarding social order and public health appear to be warranted, despite industry lobbying to the contrary.»

«What was really cool about this research was we've known for a long time that a lot of different transcription factors were involved, but it was hard to understand how all the pieces fit together,» said Jenny Mortimer, director of plant systems biology at the Joint BioEnergy Division, a part of the Department of Energy.

But the US Department of Energy — whose research facilities sustained an estimated $ 1 million of damage in the earthquake — concluded that it actually enhanced the site's suitability, because seismologists were able to verify computer models about the seismological stability of the mountain and its environs they had generated from historical data.

Given the high projected cost of creating a burning physics experiment and given that the U.S. now funds only about one sixth of the world research effort, a strategy based on international collaboration on fusion energy research and development can be highly cost effective.

That group noted that the U.S. government spent about $ 5 billion on energy research in 2010, compared with about $ 30 billion for medical research and over $ 80 billion for defense R&D.

Nisbet's prior research examining public opinion about climate change and energy insecurity also revealed for science communicators that understanding the public in more precise ways than partisanship or ideology allowed for improved outreach.

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research provides activists, policymakers, and the public with understandable and accurate information about energy and environmental issues: www.ieEnergy and Environmental Research provides activists, policymakers, and the public with understandable and accurate information about energy and environmental issues: www.ieenergy and environmental issues: www.ieer.org

«A strong foundation of knowledge about energy is essential,» said Cari F. Herrmann Abell, senior research associate for Project 2061, the long - term AAAS initiative to improve the science literacy of all Americans.

«We found that children obtained over half of their daily energy from carbohydrates and about one - third of their energy from fats, half of which was saturated fat,» says lead author Dr Melissa Whitrow from the University of Adelaide's School of Public Health and the Robinson Research Institute.

Future research will also deal with «informative path planning» — planning paths that initially gather information about the environment and disturbances that the algorithm can use later to plan more energy - efficient routes.