Chemistry enables compact fluorescent bulbs to «fluoresce» and to use 70 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs — and LED lighting could
cut global energy demand by a whopping 30 percent.
Not exact matches
The trend away from
energy scarcity and toward
energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for
global demand if the winners» boost in consumption offsets the losers»
cut in consumption and capital spending.
The
global oil stocks surplus is close to evaporating, OPEC said on Thursday, citing healthy
energy demand and its own supply
cuts while revising up its forecast for production from Continue Reading
Indeed,
global oil
demand forecasts are being
cut by nearly everyone in the business, whether it's the International
Energy Agency, the U.S.
Energy Information Agency, or even OPEC.
The cartel, which controls roughly 40 percent of
global oil production, has
cut output by about 8.5 percent over the same period last year, while
global demand is down by a little over 2 percent, according to the U.S.
Energy Information Administration.
He stated flatly at a recent meeting on climate science and policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that the primacy of
energy demands in developing countries will prevent a carbon price from working to
cut the carbon from
global energy menus any time soon.
Similar discussions were also held at the event Boosting
Energy Efficiency Through Smart Lighting Systems, where Eric Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting, highlighted how the scale up of a single technology could halve global energy demand for lighting and cut global greenhouse gas emissions b
Energy Efficiency Through Smart Lighting Systems, where Eric Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting, highlighted how the scale up of a single technology could halve
global energy demand for lighting and cut global greenhouse gas emissions b
energy demand for lighting and
cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 %.
note 76, p. 106;
cut in
energy use calculated from International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI), «Crude Steel Production by Process,» World Steel in Figures 2007, at www.worldsteel.org, viewed 16 October 2007; McKinsey Global Institute, Curbing Global Energy Demand Growth: The Energy Productivity Opportunity (Washington, DC: May
energy use calculated from International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI), «Crude Steel Production by Process,» World Steel in Figures 2007, at www.worldsteel.org, viewed 16 October 2007; McKinsey
Global Institute, Curbing
Global Energy Demand Growth: The Energy Productivity Opportunity (Washington, DC: May
Energy Demand Growth: The
Energy Productivity Opportunity (Washington, DC: May
Energy Productivity Opportunity (Washington, DC: May 2007).
WWF's report, produced with researchers at Dutch organizations Ecofys and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, says the share of oil, coal, gas and nuclear in the
global energy mix could be
cut down to 5 % by 2050, and
energy saving measures can
cut total
demand by 15 % from 2005 levels, starting from an assumed baseline of 520EJ / a.
The best way to
cut down on the
global lighting
demand is to
cut down on the
demand for
global lighting first, and secondly use
energy efficient bulbs that are properly disposed of at end - of - life.
Of course that
cutting the CO2 emissions and
demanding for transition to renewable sources of
energy is absolutely necessary, but it only scratches the surface of the
global crisis that we are experiencing.