Sentences with phrase «current human energy»

It doesn't take much thought to realize that the amount of energy involved in a lightbulb is a drop of water in the ocean of current human energy use, its emissions a tiny gust in a globe - spanning hurricane.

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«Modern waste to energy recovery facilities that are designed and operated in accordance with current stringent regulations do not adversely impact human health or the environment,» asserted Sarah Foster a founding member of Maryland based scientific research and consulting firm, CPF Associates.

However, the Conservative»» coalition partners remain fiercely opposed to any changes to the current law and Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, said: «If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in coalition.»

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

In the current study, for example, they utilized genomic information from hundreds of microbial species commonly found in humans to create computer models of nutrient and energy metabolism.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

He scoffed at how unambitious we humans were, pointing out that we could meet all our current global energy needs by harvesting the sunlight striking an area smaller than 0.5 percent of the Sahara desert.

But current methods of mobilizing civilization's energy are more disruptive of local, regional and global environmental conditions and processes than anything else that humans do.

An important question is whether these data on the role of feeding rhythms on energy balance and metabolism will be applicable to humans and useful as potential treatment strategies themselves or as supplements to current approaches.

While it is still unclear as to the energy yield of fibers in humans, current data indicate that the yield is in the range of 1.5 to 2.5 kcal / g (Livesey, 1990; Smith et al., 1998).

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

Although without any current pets, he grew with two family cats in NYC, and is still in loving memory of a rather feisty Pomeranian, who enjoyed barking and herding humans as much as expending her ample energy hiking up gorges in upstate New York.

But the current «free» market notion of making «living» humans subject to restraints on energy usage so some not yet born or not yet immigrated market place humans can move in and take over is far worse than Stalin.

[4:52 p.m. Updated And in the meantime, there's no uncertainty at all about the gross insufficiency of humanity's current energy menu, given trends in human populations and resource demands.]

Expanding renewable energy resources, in my opinion, is far more sustainable in complex human and natural systems over both the current life cycles and the future potential.

One reality is that current trajectories for human population and resource appetites, when gauged against the current suite of energy choices, do not add up to prosperous societies in a predictable climate later in this century.

The fact that certain analytical conclusions about observed climate change, attribution to human causes, in particular the energy system and deforestation, projected greater climate change in the future, observed impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, and projected very disruptive consequences in the future given our current trajectory, is not due to «group think» but rather to a generally shared analysis based on evidence.

Given that humans are currently pulling 17 tW from the earth, as fossil fuels, and using another 30 tW for energy from food, our current needs are already a big proportion of the total «free energy» available.

A look at the possible future of human civilization based upon current scientific projections about climate, politics, economics, energy, and society.

The primary current problem is that the climate alarmists are creating enormous problems in the generation and use of reliable energy necessary for the development and even the continuation of modern civilization, with adverse effects on the economy, human welfare, and even the environment, all for no significant benefits to anyone except vendors of renewable energy facilities.

Montes argues that the current prevailing paradigm, is a «geopolitical» one, premised on «limited energy» from the environment, consumed by the human species in a competitive zero - sum game.

Clearly we need to maintain cheap and abundant energy in order to sustain our current economies and provide opportunities for humans to thrive across the world.

These include claiming that addressing climate change will keep the poor in «energy poverty»; citing the global warming «hiatus» or «pause» to dismiss concerns about climate change; pointing to changes in the climate hundreds or thousands of years ago to deny that the current warming is caused by humans; alleging that unmitigated climate change will be a good thing; disputing that climate change is accelerating sea level rise; and denying that climate change is making weather disasters more costly.

Current Demographics Suggest Future Energy Supplies Will Be Inadequate to Slow Human Population Growth.

In this context the World Energy Council's Future Energy Leaders (FEL) Human Capital taskforce has carried out work presented in their FEL - 100 Human Capital: Equity and Skilled personnel for current and future trends report to understand current critical issues impacting the attraction, development and retention of talent in the energy sEnergy Council's Future Energy Leaders (FEL) Human Capital taskforce has carried out work presented in their FEL - 100 Human Capital: Equity and Skilled personnel for current and future trends report to understand current critical issues impacting the attraction, development and retention of talent in the energy sEnergy Leaders (FEL) Human Capital taskforce has carried out work presented in their FEL - 100 Human Capital: Equity and Skilled personnel for current and future trends report to understand current critical issues impacting the attraction, development and retention of talent in the energy senergy sector.

Strategic human capital management is crucial to ensure skilled personnel for current and future energy developments.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Malthus and these environmentalists apparently did / do not understand the transformational role played by technological advances and particularly widespread energy use by humans in making possible current standards of living in the developed world and their sustainability for the indefinite future.

There is now much exuberance in the United States about «100 years of energy independence» as we become «the Saudi Arabia of the next century» — perhaps the final century of human civilization if current policies persist.

If human civilization survives even the next few decades at the the current rate of scientific and mathematical advancement and progress, the concept of energy conversion in the next century will bear little resemblance to the «discussion» on Tom Murphy's blog.

That pathway — which is our current one — can only lead to a hellishly hot future, probably with massive structural inequalities (as the powerful control the increasingly limited environmental resources such as water and sources of energy) and not much human happiness.

«75... the Tribunals did not have before them expert evidence which seriously called into question the principle underpinning the EPA's renewable energy project regulatory regime — i.e. that wind turbines which are set back 550m from a dwelling house and which do not generate noise levels in excess of 40 dBA at the lowest specified wind speed do not cause serious harm to human health based upon the current state of scientific knowledge.»

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