Sentences with phrase «average global energy consumption»

The average global energy consumption of transportation fuels is currently several terawatts (1 terawatt = 1012 Joule per second).

The average global energy consumption of transportation fuels is currently several terawatts (1 terawatt = 1012 Joule) per second.

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The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

Their goal: to reduce the energy consumption of people in developed nations, from over 5000 watts to the global average of 2000.

Global energy consumption grows 53 % between 2008 and 2035, representing an average annual growth rate of 1.6 %.

In the IEO2017 Reference case, delivered energy consumption for residential and commercial buildings in India is expected to increase by an average of 2.7 % per year between 2015 and 2040, more than twice the global average increase.

According to this http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html nuclear energy avoids about 60 fatalities (global average) per TWh from electricity consumption, 90 in China, and 15 in USA.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Although the energy consumption of developing countries in other regions is expected to grow at a slower pace than in Asia, rates are still expected to exceed the global average (Table 1).

For instance, modern bioenergy in final global energy consumption should increase four-fold by 2060 in the IEA's 2 °C scenario (2DS), which seeks to limit global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C by 2100 to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change.

Two scenarios of energy demand are explored, one holding per capita consumption at current levels, the second raising the global average in the year 2100 to the current U.S. level.

North American property firms did better than the global average, cutting down their energy consumption by 2.5 %.