Sentences with phrase «biggest energy problems»

Ali Malkawi says «We want to demonstrate what's possible, show how this can be replicated almost anywhere, and solve one of the world's biggest energy problems — inefficient existing buildings.»
«We want to demonstrate what's possible, show how this can be replicated almost anywhere, and solve one of the world's biggest energy problems — inefficient existing buildings.»
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is tackling some of the world's biggest energy problems head on.

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The big problem with adopting solar or wind energy at a mass scale is the fact that there's no affordable way to store that energy for the grid when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.
This allows me to use my time more effectively, but also saves my mental energy for the big problems we're trying to solve.»
As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.
So back to the original conversation around the mega-trends: They told us that we were building data centers at an alarming rate and the biggest problem that people have in creating data centers is that they can't get energy to the data center.
Low energy is a clear sign that something isn't quite right, and it's often a precursor to bigger problems like depression or anxiety.
We seek companies that are innovating solutions to make our communities and organizations more resilient while tackling some of the world's biggest energy and climate problems.
An amazing discussion that kicked off with big deal of the week, Walmart snapping up Jet.com for $ 3b, that crackled on to Google, the government, anti-trust, the entire U.S. debt problem, the Chinese Market, the very future of energy (featuring, naturally, Elon), and the latest in startup CEOs behaving badly.
These computers consume incredible amounts of energy which is a big environmental problem in and of itself.
One of the biggest problems we must remedy today is that governments are subsidizing highly health - destructive energy, food and drug use through our increasingly stressed tax system.
Food is not fixed in time, yet we have been poor managers of our resources over the years as human civilization has progressed and today stand at a situation where sustaining our biggest source of energy has transformed into our biggest problem coupled with environmental degradation.
We have bigger problems to tackle than our basicness Davida @ The Healthy Maven recently posted... 12 Healthy Energy Ball Recipes
Original Gangster tricks from dubious sources; a sin - avoidance plan from Calipari; a corps of giants swatting shots on one possession and flummoxing guards on another; a 10 - man platoon with rout - fueling energy rather than chemistry problems: Almost everything is working in this, the season of the Big Blue Nuisance.
Now our problems are much bigger because we have entered a super negative energy period after only 2 or 3 games.
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
Similarly to Lacazette, Lukaku is another striker who has a significant amount of energy and would easily solve the biggest problem that Giroud creates as Arsenal's first choice striker.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne's Eastleigh constituency is set to be split into two and although the Eastleigh seat will remain, a big change in its demographic make - up could cause problems for him.
«It wasn't an impressive delivery because we were not given detailed briefing about the supplementary budget; he didn't talk about fiscal policy except to mention putting less pressure on the interest rate and also said Ghana Stock Exchange is to support the energy sector; but being the acting Power Minister, he didn't stress on the energy crisis and that's a very big problem.
The biggest hurdle to getting more electricity from renewable energy sources is the intermittency of the sun and wind — a problem that better batteries with less expensive materials could solve by storing large amounts of energy until needed.
Even if we could locate or create negative energy or matter, there is still a big problem: getting and manipulating enough of the stuff.
Vaporising household waste to create clean energy could solve two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once.
«It's a big problem because not only do you waste energy, but you produce CO2,» says Su Ha, a Washington State University associate professor of chemical engineering and director of the O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Research.
More than 1000 experts (including Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered in Dubai to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.
«That's a big problem for the theoretical models of dark energy which predicted a considerably higher amount of energy for the early universe,» adds Dr. Matteo Martinelli, postdoc at the ITP.
If I could do just one thing to solve our energy problems, I would allow energy to compete fairly at honest prices regardless of which kind it is, what technology it uses, how big it is, or who owns it.
Late last week, Congress summarily slapped down the Department of Energy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research «hubs» aimed at solving the nation's energy proEnergy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research «hubs» aimed at solving the nation's energy proenergy problems.
I'd been looking at how to solve big problems in alternative energy.
For all of vanadium's promise, it still faces skeptics — including, surprisingly, some in the wind - power business who think the energy storage problem is not such a big deal.
However, modified naturalness can not fix an even bigger naturalness problem that exists in physics: The fact that the cosmos wasn't instantly annihilated by its own energy the moment after the Big Bang.
More than 1,000 experts (including Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina) have gathered to discuss big world problems such as climate change, poverty, water shortages, energy and innovation.
The biggest problem is that all modern organisms use phosphates to store energy, not phosphites, says William Martin of Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Research suffers from bad press nowadays, and some of it is justified (data doctoring, nonreproducible published data), so our mission is to remind people that science is still as relevant, fascinating, and useful an endeavor as it has always been and that our society needs science to help tackle the big problems that we are facing, ranging from the transition toward nonfossil - based energies to food security.
«Everyone, ourselves included, seemed to be missing this big problem - that metals don't start crystallizing instantly unless something is there that lowers the energy barrier a lot,» Hauck said.
The biggest problem for high - energy physics researchers is the continuing lack of power — and the safety of its collaborators at research institutions around the country.
The hope is that this fusion of biology and electricity can solve one of chemistry's biggest problems: how to take the freely available power of sunlight and convert it into a cheap, green energy source for everyone.
One of the biggest problems facing mankind today is the need for clean energy.
Tightly controlled blood sugar keeps your brain and blood vessels healthy, your energy levels and mood even, and doesn't cause undue stress on either the cortisol or insulin system — which when taxed over time will lead to bigger health problems.
Also meant to mention: I had very low - energy, but couldn't add yogurt because milk was a big problem for me.
I did something big for myself that I've been wanting to do for a long time — I finally made an appointment with a functional medicine doctor to get to the root of some of the problems I keep dealing with like fatigue, low energy, digestive issues and breakouts.
I enjoyed the energy of the film, and the cast is pretty solid throughout, but there's a big problem that is inherent to the idea that we have to make these films bigger and bigger to outdo things that have come before.
The biggest problem for me (an introvert) working with an extrovert is their energy level.
The biggest problem is that short sales are frequently sold quickly, and when the seller is in distress — they likely don't have the time, money or energy towards home repairs, so often short sale properties are in a less than ideal condition.
This will be a big problem if the habit is combined with unreleased energy from lack of activities.
We admire the runners fighting for the high - energy dogs, the nurturers fighting for the bottle babies, the suckers for cute who help socialize puppies and kittens, those who see the wisdom and beauty in the eyes of an older dog, the angels who take in hospice cases, the skilled caretakers who make medical rehabilitation possible, the big hearted fosters consistently serving as the bridge to a new life, the visionaries attacking the problem at its source through spay / neuter services and community outreach, the writers, photographers, videographers, and forces of marketing who make the animals shine, the adoption counselors and matchmakers who help animals and humans find each other, and the every day dog walkers, kennel cleaners, bowl fillers, and paperwork filers who provide the very foundation upon which the rest of us stand.
An important new analysis of energy research spending shows a glaring problem, and opportunity, related to filling a big gap.
One could quibble with the use of the high - energy UV (which never penetrates to the lower troposphere), and the high concentrations of SO2 and O3, but by far the biggest problems lie in the study's relevance to the real world atmospheric conditions.
Both China and India is the biggest population countries and now both of them are developing in high speed then make people in the world realize the cricuial problem of energy.
The biggest problem with the energy ministers» gathering is the walling off of one path on the world's journey toward a low - carbon energy menu — nuclear power.
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