Sentences with phrase «conventional production»

The value of production minus total economic costs was also negative for most size groups in conventional production.

Cotton is not so easy to grow organically, but every year more acres are being converted from conventional production.

This comes just as organic dairy producers are proving that they can be competitive with conventional production and are finding ways to further reduce their operating costs.

The alternative proposal is to increase conventional production much more slowly, while emphasizing more benign sources of energy.

The economic performance of organic cotton production is much higher than that of conventional production thanks to the premium prices received.

Hybrid and all - electric cars are slowly integrating among conventional production vehicles, but automakers still have some challenges to overcome.

Conventional production of oil has been on a plateau since 2005, said James Murray, a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, who chaired the panel.

Here, the CFRP layers are wrapped around a recycled - paper honeycomb, with a carbon layer made using conventional production technology added to visible areas.

By employing the same physical - chemical process that transports water in trees, the researchers say they have solved a problem conventional production methods encounter: getting enough electrolyte into the huge number of micrometer - sized pores in battery electrodes.

The largest size group for conventional production — 1,000 cows or more — represented 2 % of conventional dairy farms and had 32 % of total milk production in 2005 (Table 1).

North American unconventional and OPEC conventional production increased almost 4 mmbpd in 2014 alone (Figure 3).

Few research sites exist globally that have both organic and conventional production practices set up side - by - side in the same soils with a rich data history needed to make this type of scientific comparison possible.

They could be significant in Europe, given Europe's declining conventional production, but major unconventional resources appear to be lacking in that region.

In terms of inroads into conventional production, the most significant crops are spelt (37 percent of the conventional area), buckwheat (30 percent), herbs (37 percent) and mixed vegetables on plots of less than 2 ha (37 percent).

This paved the way for organic cotton production alongside conventional production in certain districts of Uganda, including the low - potential eastern and north - eastern areas of the country.

Whereas in conventional production techniques QDs currently cost $ 1,000 - $ 10,000 per gram, the biomanufacturing technique cuts that cost to about $ 1 - $ 10 per gram.

Conventional production consumes a lot of energy, the infrastructure is still dwarfed by that for petroleum, and engines would need to be modified to run on pure ammonia (like Belgium's buses, most experimental vehicles need some conventional fuel mixed in with the ammonia).

We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.

However, OPEC conventional production faces little risk due to its low cost.

I also stick with my Dot Earth proposal that foie gras should be the first profitable example of cultivated meat given the super-proliferative nature of liver tissue and the ethical questions related to conventional production of this delicacy.

It's your guarantee that what you're consuming will be free of the harmful synthetic chemicals that are widely used in conventional production: endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, asthma triggers, skin irritants and more.

And the immediacy of television, with close - ups capable of bringing us in tight on the performers» faces, gave Jesus and Mary Magdalene a complexity that often is missing from conventional productions.

We used publicly available data from the United States Department of Agriculture to estimate yield differences between organic and conventional production methods for the 2014 production year.

Unconventional oil and natural gas production: An umbrella term for oil and natural gas that is produced by means that do not meet the criteria for conventional production.

Few research sites exist globally that have both organic and conventional production practices set up side - by - side in the same soils with a rich data history needed to make this type of scientific comparison possible.

But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of fossil fuels, shale extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.

It was driven by growing Chinese and other Far East demand and by dwindling oil supplies following the peak of conventional production in 2005.

«Now it's time for the government to unapologetically promote Alberta's emissions reduction successes to date and clearly articulate support for the long - term growth of Alberta's energy industry, including the oil sands, conventional production, natural gas power, cogeneration and renewable energy.»

Rembiałkowska, Ewa; Hallmann, Ewelina and Rusaczonek, Anna (2007) Influence of Processing on Bioactive Substances Content and Antioxidant Properties of Apple Purée from Organic and Conventional Production in Poland.

«Palm oil is one of the most commonly used ingredients in US food products, and as awareness of the devastating impact its conventional production has on our planet continues to grow, we feel it's important to lead by example.

Overall, the cost to society of producing food organically is significantly lower than the cost of conventional production.

This is the result of higher energy input for mechanical measures like weed control in organic production and of lower mineral N - fertilization use in conventional production.

For organic potatoes and apples, however, energy consumption per output unit is higher relative to conventional production.

Since the conventional production of food involves a string of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and other icky things that are released into the ground, water, and air, buying organic takes a bit of the pressure off Mother Nature.

(Even organic cotton production, though cleaner than conventional production, still uses up a great deal of resources)

In a second experiment, participants sampled two pieces of chocolate, declared as coming from either Fair Trade or conventional production.

The researchers also found that — among their hundreds of production scenarios — organic ones were more energy - intensive on average, producing more carbon dioxide than conventional production.

Dr Bügel says: «No systematic differences between cultivation systems representing organic and conventional production methods were found across the five crops so the study does not support the belief that organically grown foodstuffs generally contain more major and trace elements than conventionally grown foodstuffs.»

They weigh only 18 kilograms (39.68 lb) each — a weight advantage of roughly 40 percent versus a conventional production seat.

The AGM batteries already used in all conventional production cars with Brake Energy Regeneration offer the advantage of being able to handle frequent and irregular charge and discharge cycles without any loss of power.

@historysquared Have not seen anything definitive on that, but production from fracking decays faster than conventional production.

(I also stick with my Dot Earth proposal that foie gras should be the first profitable example of cultivated meat given the super-proliferative nature of liver tissue and the ethical questions related to conventional production of this delicacy.)

Canadian oil sands & conventional production.

Conventional production is seen dropping slightly from 2010's 0.9 million barrels per day to 0.7 mbpd in 2010.

Each year, the plant supplies about 33,000 GWh of clean electricity, at up to half the cost of electricity from conventional production.

However, several crops had no significant difference in yields between organic and conventional production, and organic yields surpassed conventional yields for some hay crops.