Sentences with phrase «at the energy institute»

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One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Also at 5 p.m., hundreds of New Yorkers are expected to attend a state energy hearing calling on Cuomo to institute «enforceable renewable energy targets» that include specific commitments to large - scale offshore wind power, City Hall Park, 90 Church St., Manhattan.

Chinese authorities have recorded energy consumption of polluters for years and used it to estimate emissions, but different institutes often come up with different results, due to a lack of unified methods, said Chen Hongbo, associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a key government think tank in Beijing.

«Regulations may be less strict,» explains Peter Burgherr, head of technology assessment at the energy systems analysis laboratory at the institute.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power, in cooperation with the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and the research institute Swerea IVF.

Inside the underground labyrinth that leads to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the physics institute that straddles the border of Switzerland and France, Bilge Demirköz, a 28 - year - old high - energy physicist from Istanbul, guides a tour to a painted green wall and a matching unmarked door.

«Geopolitical Dimensions of U.S. Oil Security,» co-authored by Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute, and Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the institute's Center for Energy Studies, was published online this month in the journal Energy Policy.

About Leti CEA - Leti, a technology research institute at CEA, is a global leader in miniaturization technologies enabling smart, energy - efficient and secure solutions for industry.

They discover two whales in captivity at a San Francisco Cetacean institute, but they have only a limited amount of time to figure out how to transport these whales in tons of sea water, in addition to needing to harvest enough nuclear energy to send their tapped out ship back to the future.

To be at the peak of the list and be the best scholars, students want to put in their predominant energy in their all the works provided by institutes and among all those works one which they endure from is coursework.

Following a wide - ranging discussion on partnership working and innovation, Ambassador Godec visited the clean energy exhibition at the institute which provides information on the costs associated with various clean energy technologies, their availability, the fuels they use, and the distributors who supply them.

Research institute Verso Economics reveals that for every «green job» created by taxpayer subsidy, 3.7 jobs are killed in the real economy and that, thanks to the artificial rise in energy prices caused by renewable subsidies, at least 50,000 people a year in Britain alone are driven into fuel poverty.

Concerns over academic integrity have been raised following the appointment of John Constable, a well - known anti-wind farm campaigner, as the head of a new energy institute at the University of Buckingham.

The ruling is part of the California Energy Commission's newly - instituted 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

At CDA, Dayaratna instituted the Heritage Energy Model, derived from the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long - term economic effects of energy policy propEnergy Model, derived from the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long - term economic effects of energy policy propEnergy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long - term economic effects of energy policy propEnergy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long - term economic effects of energy policy propenergy policy proposals.

Also: Some studies have been done already (by the PH institute and others) looking at the most important materials — e.g. insulation, glass, ducts for ventilation systems... The result was: It's a really good idea to invest in these components, which reduce the operational energy use significantly; these save factors, mostly in the range of 100, more energy than had been used to produce the materials.

Raj Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, is to take up a half - time position as director of a new climate and energy institute at Yale University, US, starting in the autumn.

Friday, January 24, 3:30 pm Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College Limits to Growth of Energy: Facts About Fracking in the US Dennis Meadows, University of New Hampshire, co-author of Limits to Growth Dennis Meadows was the Director of policy institutes at MIT, Dartmouth, and the University of New Hampshire between 1972 to 2004.

* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»

The message to Premier Wynne should be: the «Aging at Home» and «Long - Term Energy Plan» (increasing supplies from expensive and intermittent generation from wind, solar and biomass generation) and time - of use (TOU) rates instituted by your government are in conflict, and create energy poEnergy Plan» (increasing supplies from expensive and intermittent generation from wind, solar and biomass generation) and time - of use (TOU) rates instituted by your government are in conflict, and create energy poenergy poverty.

But we don't even have to argue semantics — it's downright misleading for Everley to term cap and trade an «energy tax» because cap and trade would not institute an added cost for all energy production across the board, as he (and the whole fleet of Republicans out there employing this language at the moment) would like you to believe.

Jürgen Schmid, the head of ISET, an alternative energy institute at the University of Kassel in Germany, and one of the lead proponents of this continental grid, estimates that it could supply at least 30 % of the power needed in Europe.

I wonder how long such an installation would take if we could institute two conditions: working at wartime speed to effect the transition (24/7, all available resources and industry drafted for the effort), and reducing energy expenditures to only the most essential in order to both reduce fossil fuel use in the interim and reduce the number of renewables facilities required (and minimize fossil fuel use for their construction).

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

Dr. Raymond Lee Orbach, the U.S. Department of Energy's first undersecretary for science, has been appointed director of The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute, a multi-disciplinary institute that combines the strengths of the university's schools and colleges to advance solutions to today's energy - related challEnergy's first undersecretary for science, has been appointed director of The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute, a multi-disciplinary institute that combines the strengths of the university's schools and colleges to advance solutions to today's energy - related challEnergy Institute, a multi-disciplinary institute that combines the strengths of the university's schools and colleges to advance solutions to today's energy - related challenergy - related challenges.

What Monbiot, May and Ward fail to mention is that Exxon committed something like $ 2.5 m pa for ten years to fund an institute at Stanford University to research energy and climate.