Sentences with phrase «by nonrenewable»

Today's children can't take for granted a future powered by nonrenewable resources such as oil and natural gas.

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Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

Murray Bowen has been examining the forces in contemporary society that increase stress on families and render them highly vulnerable to dysfunction — e.g., the frantic pace of life, the loss of supportive contact with the extended family, the pressures caused by the population explosion and the depletion of nonrenewable resources.

We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.

«The caution is that these waters, by their definition, are nonrenewable,» Edmunds said.

The 2 million tonnes of adipic acid needed by industry every year are at present made from benzene, a carcinogenic chemical that comes from nonrenewable fossil fuels.

According to a report by the Swedish Energy Agency, they represent one - fifth of global electricity use, most of which comes from nonrenewable resources.

Also, if the age of oil will wind down some day (as it must, since oil is a limited, nonrenewable resource), I wouldn't be surprised by a nuclear resurgence.

That while they don't have a 100 percent Ingeo structure today, which is fully compostable, their first step, launching now, replaces 1/3 of the nonrenewable materials in the bag, and they've firmly set their sites on, and are fully committed to having a 100 percent Ingeo structure by this time in 2010.

Acidic rains is among the bad effects of nonrenewable energy sources; which is cause by nitrogen from fossils as one of the components.

In the 1969 book «Resources and Man» by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, it says in the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materials.

23 Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Fossil Fuels Advantages Relatively Cheap High energy density Used by a wide variety of engines and devices Extensive distribution network in place Disadvantages Nonrenewable - will deplete soon Combustion by - products pollute — acid rain and contain greenhouse gases Extraction can damage the environment Coal - fired power plants require large amounts of fuel

If the MRET stays at 20 % (however defined) by 2020 that cuts out nonrenewable gas and nuclear.

The 76 kW photovoltaic system supplies 40 % of the electricity used by the building; nonrenewable energy costs are reduced by 51 % and operating carbon is reduced by 76.2 tons per year.»

The GPI, by contrast, counts the depletion or degradation of wetlands, forests, farmlands and nonrenewable minerals (including oil) as current cost.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.