Sentences with phrase «as a source of energy while»

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., think tank.

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a Washington, D.C. think tank.

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The idea is to help families who live in «energy poverty,» relying on smoky open fires as their main cooking source while also spending a disproportionate amount of their income to access lighting or electricity.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Nuts: While reducing the amount of seeds I eat, I've been using more nuts lately as they're an easy source of some added energy and good fats.

Sourcing fresh fish from the sustainable local waters identified (nautically) as Area 31, with local produce from Florida's rich farmlands, Executive Chef E. Michael Reidt infuses the menu with passion and energy while preserving the integrity of the ingredients.

Increase the state's portfolio of renewable energy while maintaining a healthy mix of home - grown renewable sources such as solar and offshore wind.

The former EPA administrator also commented on Governor Cuomo's energy plan, to get 50 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2030 as a «step in the right direction,» but she disagrees with an $ 8 billion plan to finance upstate nuclear power plants, while Cuomo is at the same time pushing to close the downstate Indian Point nuclear power plant.

The poll comes after a frenetic first five weeks of campaigning, as Ms. Nixon has attacked the governor in sharp and personal terms while rolling out some flashy progressive policy proposals, including calling for the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York, and for the state to use 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.

As Co-Chair of the bipartisan House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceEnergy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceEnergy Efficiency Caucus, my focus has been on pursuing policies that make meaningfully more efficient use of the energy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceenergy we currently have while accelerating deployment of cleaner, renewable energy sources for the 21st ceenergy sources for the 21st century.

«While there is likely insufficient waste biomass to sustain a global hydrogen economy, this form of renewable energy production may help offset the substantial costs of wastewater treatment as well as provide a contribution to nations able to harness hydrogen as an energy source,» Logan says.

In the same vein, the authors note that while the light - emitting diode is in fact the most energy - efficient, longest - lasting, and greenest source of artificial lighting, studies show that as the cost of lighting has decreased, total consumption has increased dramatically.

When the x-ray source sent out pulses as short as 80 millions of billionths of a second, the researchers could see the first short period of the crystal melting, which occurred in an unexpected way: The atoms diverged from their initial energy equilibrium while the average crystalline structure remained — a rarely studied behavior that could not have been seen as clearly with other techniques.

Plants «provide the backbone» of human and animal nutrition, they said, while serving as a sustainable energy source.

In other words, eating more calories than you need and having chronically high levels of insulin in the bloodstream will keep the body in «fat storage mode», while feeding your body with less calories than it normally burns will make it turn to its stored fat as an energy source.

There are numerous health benefits that rice can offer such as providing fast and instant energy, improving bowel movements, stabilizing blood sugar levels, slowing down the aging process, while it is also a rich source of vitamin B1 for the human body.

A ketogenic diet will keep glucose levels in the blood as low as possible, thus depriving cancer cells of their energy source, while properly feeding all other normal healthy cells in the body with ketones.

Without this diet pill as part of your weight loss plan, it is very possible for your body to derive the energy it needs from proteins, carbohydrates from food and other sources, while leaving fat totally untouched.

This ingredient is comprised of the fatty bits of the cocoa pod and it contains lots of healthy saturated fats, such as stearic and palmitic acids, to help nourish our skin, brain, and body while providing us with a clean and healthy source of energy.

While glucose is used as the main source of energy, insulin secretion is produced to down regulate your glucose levels in the blood stream.

Nuts: While reducing the amount of seeds I eat, I've been using more nuts lately as they're an easy source of some added energy and good fats.

As shown in the chart below, people with a larger BMI typically have higher levels of insulin because, as the stored energy in your system continues to increase (regardless of the macronutrient source), our insulin levels have to increase to hold back the flood of stored energy while the excess energy in our system is used uAs shown in the chart below, people with a larger BMI typically have higher levels of insulin because, as the stored energy in your system continues to increase (regardless of the macronutrient source), our insulin levels have to increase to hold back the flood of stored energy while the excess energy in our system is used uas the stored energy in your system continues to increase (regardless of the macronutrient source), our insulin levels have to increase to hold back the flood of stored energy while the excess energy in our system is used up.

While these candies have almost no carbs, they have similar effects as carbohydrate - based snacks: coconut oil, which is the main ingredient, provides a quick source of energy!

Smathers pointed out that, while all carbohydrates function as relatively quick energy sources, simple carbs cause bursts of energy much more quickly than complex carbs because of the quicker rate at which they are digested and absorbed.

It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.

While the batteries of the S 400 HYBRID and S 300 BlueTEC HYBRID as autonomous hybrids are charged during braking or coasting or by the combustion engine, the new high - voltage lithium - ion battery of the S 500 PLUG - IN HYBRID has ten times the energy content and offers the option of being recharged from an external source with a charging socket located on the right side of the rear bumper.

It is important to note that protein should be used as a source of tissue support, rather than energy, while carbohydrates and fats provide the majority of fuel for the muscles.

While protein is their preferred source of energy, cats can utilize carbohydrates as an energy source.

While meat content of the product serves as a sustained source of energy, balanced fat and proteins helps in weight management greatly.

While fats are the main source of energy in a dog food, they also supply essential fatty acids, prevent dehydration and serve as carriers for fat soluble vitamins.

Wellness offers its CORE grain - free formula with a blend of top proteins, botanicals, and nutritional supplements while including herring as a natural source of DHA for energy and healthy bone development.

This recipe is crafted with other high - quality protein sources, including real venison, to help maintain lean muscles, while tasty sweet potato serves as a grain free source of carbohydrate for energy to fuel a dog's big life.

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

While it is all fine and dandy to promote alternative energy sources such as windfarms and biofuels, I think it's safe to say that those types of technologies are not able to support American's huge demand for energy.

While it is believed that archaea use ammonia, many of the bacteria the scientists sampled contained genes suggesting they could use sulfur compounds as an energy source.

Pursuing solar and wind power as the cornerstones of India's energy security strategy has the potential to promote India as a regional supplier while prices decrease, all Gulf States openly consider plans for a post-oil future, and countries shift toward renewable sources in the region.

[16] While the meridional overturning circulation (also referred to as the thermohaline circulation) redistributes about 2 PW of heat from the tropics to polar regions, the energy source for this flow is the interior mixing which is comparatively much smaller - about 2 TW.

Having conducted interviews with Solomon and a dozen of his former colleagues, I've come away with a better understanding of how the Energy Probe Research Foundation was created in his image while utilizing his gift for rhetoric, a talent for securing funding — albeit from questionable sources, such as the oil industry — and a never - waning vision of free markets and property rights as an all - encompassing panacea.

But while poor countries should get priority when it comes to selling fossil fuels, when it comes to using them, they should be viewed as an energy source of last resort, after alternatives have been seriously explored.

One of the report's major findings is that the state will need a very different electricity system that is better able to balance supply and demand while integrating more renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, which are intermittent.

And while the acceleration in the transformation of our energy system that we desperately need is a dead letter for at least four years, the idea that coal will be an energy source for 1,000 years, as Trump has said — and that those coal jobs are coming back — is a pipe dream.

In the same vein, the authors note that while the light - emitting diode (LED) is in fact the most energy - efficient, longest - lasting, and greenest source of artificial lighting, studies show that as the cost of lighting has decreased, total consumption has increased dramatically.

But while a growing number of Democrats have come to see the importance of fair and equal treatment of clean energy sources to solve climate change, a handful of elected officials remain ideologically opposed to nuclear power — even as they advocate subsidies for wind and solar.

While fossil fuels will account for most of the increased energy supply, renewable sources of energy will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

While fossil fuels will remain an important source of energy, renewable energies will also gain importance, as a result of concerns over high fossil fuel prices, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and energy import dependence.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for oil and gas producers to implement projects to inject carbon dioxide to enhance recovery of oil or natural gas while increasing carbon dioxide sequestration; and (2) assess and report to Congress on the economic implications of the dependence of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of eEnergy to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for oil and gas producers to implement projects to inject carbon dioxide to enhance recovery of oil or natural gas while increasing carbon dioxide sequestration; and (2) assess and report to Congress on the economic implications of the dependence of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of energyenergy.

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I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

But when you compare French and German electricity, France gets 93 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources, mostly hydro and nuclear while Germany gets just 46 percent, or about half as much clean energy.

Finally, while high - visibility technologies like solar and wind and electric cars dominate the headlines, we're seeing a continued explosion of the cheapest and cleanest source of electricity — using energy more efficiently, such as by replacing traditional lighting with LED bulbs.