Sentences with phrase «consumption levels of»

For the same consumption levels of equivalent energy, this leads to a magnified emission of CO2 due to the lower EROEI (energy return on energy invested).

As he notes: There's nothing on the horizon from a technology perspective that leads us to conclude that there would be technology to push dramatically different consumption levels of digital books, and prices are already very low.

With the fuel consumption levels of a small city car, the Auris HSD has a driving range of about 1,180 km on a single tank of fuel.

The engine also features low fuel consumption levels of less than 5.0 l / 100 km (47.0 mpg US) in the NEDC, clearly undercutting both its predecessor and comparable competitors.

While the basic Dash eating plan is 2000 calories, it does allow for calorie consumption levels of between 1,600 calories and 3,100 calories per day.

They will arrive in the poor regions, but aspire to income and consumption levels of the rest of the world.

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

Simply knowing the consumption levels of equipment puts you in the driver's seat on new purchases and when upgrading or replacing old equipment.

And they add: «Western omnivore diets are not necessarily detrimental when a certain consumption level of [plant] foods is included.»

His consumption level of the carb sugars is also much lower, with 1 - 2 Tablespoons of fruit juice as opposed to 12 ounces of soda.

The alcohol - induced increase in oestradiol levels was only evident up to a consumption level of one drink per day.

If the population is destined to swell to 9 billion, isn't it better that the consumption level of those people be closer to the Mexican standard, than the American one?

Michael Brooks, CEO of REALpac, says, «The 20 by ’15 target is only slightly better than some of the best office buildings in the benchmarking study, but is half the consumption level of the median, and a third of the consumption level of the worst - performing office buildings in Canada.

Not exact matches

«Europe has got one of the highest consumption rates of seafood globally,» says Clearwater spokeswoman Christine Penney, but she adds, «it's not a level playing field.»

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

Economists agreed almost unanimously at a recent provincial economic summit that a consumption tax would help level out the peaks and valleys of provincial revenue tied to energy prices.

Personal consumption rose 4.2 % in the second quarter of the year, the best reading since the fourth quarter of 2014 and near the best level we've seen since before the financial crisis.

But can we say the same about parents who raise children at this poverty level of consumption?

More people from rural areas of China will move to urban areas, and then we will have a higher level of consumption.

It could affect the level of Canadian part - content in cars manufactured in Canada (either for export or domestic consumption).

However, if we realize that we have 250 years of industrialization to teach us that eventually, the power - hungry machines that have only few functions are being replaced by ones that can multi-task at very low levels of energy consumption, then the psychopath might realize the moral story that lies beneath.

First, because they represented a transfer from net savers to net borrowers, they helped to exacerbate the split between the growth in household income (households are net savers) and the growth in GDP (which is generated by net borrowers), and so led directly to the extraordinary imbalance in the Chinese economy in which consumption, as a share of GDP, has declined to perhaps the lowest level ever recorded in history.

A transfer of domestic demand from investment to consumption implies, in other words, that employment growth can be maintained at much lower levels of GDP growth.

I suspect that the willingness to finance consumption through increasing levels of debt is about to come to a quick finish.

I suspect that Japanese consumption is more equal than in the US, and that the upper 50 % of Americans consume at far higher levels than in Japan, while the bottom 50 % are closer to Japanese levels.

In the case of the household sector, both Mr. Flaherty and the Governor of the Bank of Canada are warning Canadians about their high debt levels and urging them to curtail their consumption and to reduce their debt.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

The complementary currency itself has declined in importance over the period while levels of overall consumption of goods and services have increased (although it is unclear whether the recent digitisation is to change this) A detailed study

The complementary currency itself has declined in importance over the period while levels of overall consumption of goods and services have increased (although it is unclear whether the recent digitisation is to change this) A detailed study18 of the usage and circulation of the Palma found that around half of its usage was accounted for by just 6 economic actors in addition to the Banco Palmas itself: four local stores selling basic consumer items, the neighbourhood petrol station, and a party and décor shop.

In 2005, when consumption hit the then - astonishing level of 40 % of GDP, there was a widespread conviction in policy - making circles that this was an unacceptably low level and that it left Chinese growth much too dependent on the trade surplus and on increases in domestic investment.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

If they distribute it to shareholders, some of it will go to consumption and lower the level of savings.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

Maybe that knowledge helps drive home the dangers of current levels of petroleum consumption.

Mining energy consumption has increased by 29.98 % in the past month alone, and Digiconomist ranks it at the same level as the entire country of

Cele adds that, although China, the largest steel producer and iron - ore consumer, has experienced hiccups, Chinese steel consumption is still expected to grow in the current decade given the rate and levels of urbanisation and GDP per capita growth.

Mining energy consumption has increased by 29.98 % in the past month alone, and Digiconomist ranks it at the same level as the entire country of Serbia.

However, this is changing, and the increase in the level of household debt over the past decade is a major shift, with significant knock - on implications for consumption.

Some analysts have suggested that the relatively low level of savings has helped consumption, though much of the consumption gains seen over the last year seem to be financed rather than supported by cash.

In China, we expect a moderation of growth accompanied by a number of policy reforms that we believe could lead to sustainable levels of growth as the economy increasingly relies on rising consumption.

Nonetheless, the level of wealth relative to income has increased considerably in recent years, while the ratio of consumption to wealth has declined (Graph 15).

Prices of imported consumption goods at the docks increased by almost 4 per cent in the June quarter, after a very modest rise in the March quarter, and have now regained their level of nearly two years ago.

On the other hand, the consumption level in emerging markets is still low and shows lots of room for improvement.

If this isn't the case and all the oil being produced is needed for current consumption, then the price of oil for future delivery can drop to an unusually low level relative to the spot price and stay there.

Part of that will support consumption (most likely of the durable variety), but the bulk will be saved and channeled through the economy to support existing levels of gross domestic investment.

The pace of domestic demand growth has eased from the rapid rate seen in 2002, as dwelling investment has levelled off and consumption growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace (Graph 20).

As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).

According to findings of the country's National Production Council, in 1983 the daily consumption per person was twenty - three grams.6 Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutrition.

What does it mean, concretely, as applied to consumption, possessions, poverty and wealth, to live responsibly in a world that cries for justice and that probably can not sustain American levels of consumption?

In the present situation, being a Christian means such things as cutting back to a level of consumption which satisfies only basic needs, building new communities, and giving what one has to the poor.