Sentences with phrase «changing fuel sources»

Other countries are facing the problem of trying to meet energy demands while changing their fuel source.

Basal metabolism stays high, and instead we change fuel sources from food, to stored food (or body fat).

We keep basal metabolism high, and instead change fuel sources from food, to stored food (or body fat).

This means that your body can't get used to a certain amount of calorie intake every day or week so it needs to change its fuel source to your fat stores instead of your blood sugar.

Not exact matches

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

Howard Crystal, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said: «If Trump really wants to put America first, he should reduce our reliance on polluting energy sources that fuel climate change.

The driving sources of energy are changing as we move from a hydrocarbon fuel focus toward renewables.

«As a developed, industrialised country the UK has to lead the way by ending our dependence on fossil fuels, and investing in clean, renewable sources of energy which we are fortunate enough to be blessed with in the UK,» Christian Aid's senior climate change adviser Alison Doig said.

Carbon pollution coming from traditional fuel sources such as coal and gas directly contributes to climate change and is associated with asthma and other lung conditions.

On her campaign website, Deacon said scientists have reached a consensus on climate change so she wants to transition away from fossil fuel energy sources, invest in clean energy technology and support federal acts to protect natural resources.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

Alongside burning fossil fuels, land - use change is a major source of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere.

If scientists conclude that the burning of fossil fuels is inducing unacceptable global climate change, then we have a limited number of alternatives to turn to: solar - based sources (photovoltaics, ocean, wind, etc.), nuclear fission and fusion.

Lead UK researcher Prof Dabo Guan, of UEA's School of International Development, said the key contributor to the new estimates was fuel quality, which for the first time was taken into consideration in establishing emission inventories — something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most international data sources had not.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

Mining free hydrogen gas as a primary fuel source could change that, but first scientists need to understand where the gas goes after it's produced.

Burning fossil fuels is the globe's biggest source of human - caused greenhouse gases and the primary cause of climate change.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Yet the report also argued against a rapid shift to non-fossil fuel energy sources, noting that «making significant changes in energy consumption... amid all the scientific uncertainties would be premature in view of the severe impact such moves could have on the world's economies and societies.»

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater than B1).

See how a diet high in healthy fats can help improve insulin resistance by changing the bodies preferred fuel source from glucose to ketones.

SUP3R - SHRED is our natural PPAR - Delta agonist, meaning SUP3R - SHRED will change your body's preferred fuel source from glucose to lipids to help shred body fat and increase endurance.

Your body's preferred fuel sources and how they can change Why leaner people need to be careful with caloric deficits Two supplements that appear to spare muscle tissue when dieting How to alter your macros and protein intake when calories go down

If you are already following a ketogenic diet, you might not recognize much change during this phase, which is intended to flip the metabolic switch towards burning fat as the primary fuel source.

When stores of glucose are all used up, the body will change to alternate fuel sources.

For most, our weight loss will start to increase significantly after 2 - 3 weeks as our bodies get used to fasting because our we are gradually changing our body's fuel source from burning sugar / glucose to burning fat.

(Data for recent months are occasionally updated in the underlying EPA data source, possibly resulting in small changes to recent fuel economy values.)

The consolidation of dog food manufacturers, changes in how ingredients are sourced, and the impact rising manufacturing costs have on quality standards and distributors» fuel costs all affect retailers.

Footnote * It's worth noting that Peter Raven was one of dozens of signatories to a 2014 «open letter to environmentalists on nuclear energy» endorsing this statement: «the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.»

Human emissions are the majority source of warming in this current climate change and that continued use of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic change too quickly for us to adapt to.

An even shorter version is: It is getting warmer; CO2 is a greenhouse gas and so an increase in it will drive warming (logarithmically without feedbacks); we are taking many gigatons of C out of the earth and dumping it into the biosphere as CO2; the increase in CO2 and the change of isotopes in the C are consistent with the source being the fossil fuels we are burning.

Then comes a passage that speaks potently of how access to fossil fuels has been an incredible boon, and the source of the prosperity that has allowed us to build the capacity to observe and comprehend planet - scale changes, but also helped accelerate and intensify our impacts on the planet's biological and climate systems:

Were that the case then the true difference of temperature change between the natural level of say 240 ppm and the 330ppm of the 1950's would likely have to of been sourced somewhere other then fossil fuel emissions.

Burning fossil fuels is the globe's biggest source of human - caused greenhouse gases and the primary cause of climate change.

Production of cement and deforestation also have made contributions, and the later extends farther back in time (And then there's CH4 from agriculture), though it is true that the changes were small before fossil fuels became a significant source.

I'm all for finding a new source of energy rather than fossil fuels (unfortunately our enemies have most of it, and what we have the environmental lobby blocks from being accessed) for security and economic reasons, but until the market proves that $ 100 + per barrel of oil is not efficient enough to switch, I'm not for the government putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to change.

Brook and Bradshaw argue that the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

Although technology makes it possible for us to have comfortable lives using electricity from non-fossil fuel sources, we are also learning to adapt to the new seasons and live with our changing climate.

There are two ways to change that equation — raising the price of carbon - rich fuels globally or lowering the cost of non-polluting energy sources.

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

As PV costs drop, as concerns about climate change grow, and as countries look to replace finite fossil fuels with energy sources that can never run out, the growth in solar power should continue.

By far the best way to deal with climate change would be to follow Fuhr and Hallstrom's recommendation «to reduce emissions fast, while developing alternative energy sources that allow us to leave fossil fuels in the ground.»

Read: New Research Suggests CO2 Can Be Scrubbed From the Atmosphere to Avoid Climate Change Crisis Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels Remained Relatively Flat for 3 Consecutive Years Climate Change Effect: Soils to Become a Net Source of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in the Future

If the full cost of burning fossil fuels, including health effects and the costs of climate change, were incorporated into the price of electricity, PV would quickly be revealed as one of the least expensive sources of power.

to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

These commitments were made in recognition that inefficient fossil - fuel subsidies distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.

With many renewable sources of power, like wind, now cheaper than fossil fuels, it has become clear that preventing global climate change is green in all definitions of the word.

A plethora of studies from diverse sources indicates a consensus that climate changes will result from man's combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use