Sentences with phrase «because peak production»

Solar is nice for this purpose because peak production matches peak demand.

Not exact matches

High oil prices in 2007 and 2008 were due to a large and persistent production supply deficit because of high demand from China and the Far East, and dwindling supplies following the peak of conventional oil production in 2005 (Figures 15 and 17).

However, Clayton said the price slump is to a large extent particular to New Zealand because the country is moving into the peak production period.

The timing of the 1998 peak suggests that curbs on industrial production were responsible, at least in part, for the decline, but the magnitude of the drop has baffled scientists because the best models had predicted a smaller decline.

Exactly 50 years later, crude oil production peaked at 70 mb / d, and because it then made up the bulk of oil supply, this caused the temporary plateau of global oil production that helped pitch the global economy into recession.

Diabetes is a condition where the blood glucose levels are at a constant peak as the body's cells can't absorb it because of lowered or non-existent insulin production or because insulin is unable to help with the absorption of glucose.

By then, the peak had passed, in part because profit - hungry publishers took to streamlining production and seeking simple, flair - free, copied prints instead.

Because U.S. coal production peaked in 2002 (in terms of energy provided by coal), the U.S. will experience significantly higher coal and electric prices in future years.

There is a raging battle today about the size of fossil fuel reserves and resources, with «peakists» claiming that we are already at or near peak production of both oil and coal because the amounts of economically recoverable fuels in the ground are more limited than the fossil fuel industry has admitted.

Because the carbon that stimulates methane production is primarily dissolved organic carbon carried downward through the peat by rainwater rather than the solid - phase carbon that forms peat, this change in transport depth doubled the peak production zones for methane.

To a growing number of oil industry commentators this is because we have reached, or are just about to reach, peak oil — the point at which oil production hits an all time high then goes into terminal decline.

«We're really excited about [this project] because it's effectively, as far as we know, the first utility - scale solar - plus - storage project done on a purely commercial basis that is affecting the shift of the vast portion of PV production to the nighttime peak,» Bob Rudd, SolarCity's director of energy storage project development, told the audience at a recent storage conference.

Most important, harvesting plants just at the peak of their growth would add greatly to biomass production because mature plants generally show little net growth and harvest of CO2.

Because world economies are so linked to energy, nations will have little choice but to develop renewable energy once peak production has been reached.

Because fossil fuel production peaks and subsequently declines, production per capita will also decline.

Because the growth rate in production is expected to vary (generally ranging from 2 to 4 %), African gas production is projected to peak at roughly the same time (2035 — 2045) in all three cases before declining slowly thereafter.

Because we peaked on oil production.