Sentences with phrase «embodied energy for»

It is better than grinding up the work of a great architect and a zillion tons of embodied energy for paving.

This report describes embodied energy for cellular base stations, which is a major part of the electricity used for the cellular network.

Footnote 1 in CBC states that the networking electricity for a tablet or cell phone is 300 kWh / year, the embodied energy for a tablet is 100 kWh / year, with the implication that the embodied energy for the cellular network (i.e. that contained in the manufacturing and construction of the base stations and related equipment) is 300 kWh / year per tablet or cell phone (that makes 700 kWh / year total).

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Targeting your marketing toward the precise qualities that your best customers embody doesn't limit your delivery — it pinpoints the most effective target for your brand energy and intensifies it.

Amongst these which were caught utilizing Coinhive to illegally harvest processing energy from customers embody The Pirate Bay, a digital repository for media content material and software program.

We met over an individual promotion on the net in 2012 and made for individuals like us — more skillful, and found that our next relationship would embody energy and closeness.

It's a dark, funny, lightning - quick pivot that not only sets the tone for the film to come, but encapsulates the gamut of Farrell's abilities in a couple of minutes and embodies the very epicenter of his appeal: he can be handsome, charming and softly appealing with those big brown eyes beneath those expressive brows, but simultaneously he has a thread of volatility and nervous energy that could very well manifest in thuggish violence.

In my interview with Apkon, he said that he believes the Combatants for Peace «represent and embody an energy and a consciousness that is emerging in the world in many ways.

These daring ceramics were often described for their raw nature of clay that was still attached to a slab of earth, (like the figures wrestling free from the ceramic slab in Corrida, 1950 - 1955) and were self - described as embodying the energy of a «motionless earthquake.»

Embodying the fervent spirit of concrete music and rock and roll, Van de Moortel's process - driven work encompasses sculpture, painting and musical performance to explore the tension between the static nature of objects and their potential for energy.

In addition to this, the remaining films also question familial relationships, time and place, but they also embody the energy, capacity for change, as well as the character of this celebrated location.

They use too little energy for improved efficiency to make up for the embodied energy and environmental damage of their production and distribution.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

That's why I proposed what I called the Elrond Standard, which also accounted for embodied energy, toxicity, and location.

The difference between the two totals (125kWhp / d / p and 195kWhp / d / p) is identified on p116 — for example the lower total excludes embodied energy in imported goods.

I have done it for average person not affluent, and for consumer energy figures which exclude energy transform losses in converting to electricity, and exported energy but also exclude imported embodied energy which is important for people bleating about China's emissions.

That's the full embodied energy in all the materials and construction equipment and trucks doing deliveries for the construction of the building, paid back over the estimated 60 year life of the building, generated through self - produced solar, wind, and cooling from the sea, air or the ground via heat pump.

But anything that makes bike maintenance accessible and easy for the masses is likely to be a boon for sustainability, given the relative embodied energy in a bike, compared to a pipe cleaner.

Well - insulated new homes eventually make up for their high embodied energy costs through lower operational CO2 but it takes several decades - in most cases more than 50 years.

Over all, Obama's choices reflect his longstanding pattern of charting a pragmatic path reflecting the need for strong regulation, including of greenhouse gases (embodied in McCarthy), and the simultaneous need to advance responsible use of cleaner fossil fuels while also using policies and investments to advance non-polluting energy technologies for the long haul.

Wood is typically the best principal material available for building structures with respect to embodied energy use, carbon emissions and water usage.

If we trade - up to a bigger house then we are paying for the greater amount of embodied - energy in that bigger house; greenhouse gasses are released in the production and transport of the bricks, concrete, plastics, etc, used to build the bigger house.

it does has a larger embodied energy than cellulose for the same R - value.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Perry, who ran for president in the past two election cycles, is likely to shift the department away from renewable energy and toward fossil fuels, whose production he championed while serving as governor for 14 years... «During his time in office, Perry embodied the type of «all of the above» approach to U.S. energy production that many have advocated on both sides of the aisle,» Zelermyer said.

The result is a sturdy, weather proof wall, without the need for complicated material applications with high embodied energy.

Craig provided the data to carbon footprint the construction of the London 2012 Olympics and tailored an embodied energy and carbon database for the $ 22 billion Masdar city in Abu Dhabi, which aspires to be the first zero carbon, zero waste and car free city.

Craig is a leading expert in embodied carbon assessment and is best known as the author of the Inventory of Carbon & Energy (ICE) database from the University of Bath — an embodied energy and carbon database for building materials that has been downloaded by over 15,000 people from around the Energy (ICE) database from the University of Bath — an embodied energy and carbon database for building materials that has been downloaded by over 15,000 people from around the energy and carbon database for building materials that has been downloaded by over 15,000 people from around the world.

So while Gizmo Green makes some contributions to reducing energy required to construct buildings by calling for materials extracted and regionally, living traditions do the same, and they also prefer materials that have been processed less, embodying less energy.

The glulam timber framing system was chosen for several reasons, says architect Paul McAlister: low embodied energy, the fact that the timber came from sustainable sources, and efficient assembly.

-- that James Hansen's research strategy for verifying and validating climate change science, as set forth in his Earth's Energy Imbalance and Implications so strikingly embody the same NASA V&V principles that are associated to successful spacecraft design... particularly in emphasizing the absolute necessity for multiple, high - quality, redundant, cross-checked, climate measurements of global span!

Moreover, it is easy to make the frame for a mechanical pedal powered machine from scavenged materials, bringing the embodied energy down to almost zero, while this is an impossibility for the batteries.

If made from recycled steel, and using these figures to calculate the embodied energy of steel, this comes down to an energy cost of at least 41,625 Wh, slightly more than the battery needed for the electricity generator.

If we ignore the embodied energy of other parts than the battery (both training stand and electronics), and take a life expectancy of 4 years for the battery (rather optimistic), a pedalled powered generator would require an embodied energy of 937,500 Wh over the course of 100 years - 6.7 to 22.5 more than a mechanical unit.

I guess we would be somewhat suspicious when a research paper sponsored by the oil industry concluded that gasoline powered cars are better for the environment than electric cars... Anyways, the embodied energy of batteries definitely makes electric cars less sustainable than is generally assumed.

The source energy factor for PV including embodied energy is 0.7 according to the standards used by the Passive House Institute.

InterfaceFLOR Commits to the Challenge Concrete PCRs Set for Release Looking Back on a Great First Year Everything You Ever Wanted to Know... Last Valentine's Day, Architecture 2030 sent out a Valentine to the Planet, unveiling a new challenge focused on lowering the embodied energy and greenhouse gases of building products.

For example, the embodied energy of the energy plants which are used to power the internet is completely ignored.

The memo — sent by the American Petroleum Institute and obtained by Greenpeace, which sent it to reporters — urges oil companies to recruit their employees for events that will «put a human face on the impacts of unsound energy policy,» and will urge senators to «avoid the mistakes embodied in the House climate bill.»

Other standard are needed too — standards for embodied energy, for water consumption and for healthy materials.

Cons: the health risks are potentially very high, ALL spray foams contain toxic ingredient Isocyanate (even those that have a percentage of soy and claim to be «eco»), embodied energy is extremely high while R value is relatively low and equivalent to so many other cheaper and more eco products, soy or castor oil content is at most 10 %, the potential for off gassing and making inhabitants ill are significant, must hire a professional to install.

These factors will reduce embodied energy through improved durability and lifespan and will greatly reduce energy use for space conditioning.

Nansai, K. Kondo, Y., Kagawa, S., Suh, S., Nakajima, K., Inaba, R., Tohno, S. 2012: Estimates of Embodied Global Energy and Air - Emission Intensities of Japanese Products for Building a Japanese Input - Output Life Cycle Assessment Database with a Global System Boundary, Environmental Science & Technology, 46 (16), 9146 - 9154.

Our review, for instance, finds that the embodied energy rebound for most cost - effective efficiency improvements is likely to be less than 15 percent but more significant for efficiency improvements with long payback periods, including some building efficiency measures.

Depending upon the battery's embodied energy requirement, an increase of cycle life to 10 000 — 18 000 (2 — 20 times present values) is required for pairing with wind (assuming liberal round - trip efficiency [90 %] and liberal depth - of - discharge [80 %] values).

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The design considers its impact on the wider environment through the use of materials selected for their inherent durability for each specific component to maximise life expectancy, limit maintenance and minimise embodied energy.

Estimated payback time for the «embodied energy» of the whole wind farm is approximately five months.

Research has shown that the infrastructure needed to move and clean water for city use can actually have a higher overall embodied energy than localized water collection and reuse at the building scale.

Wood products have less embodied energy, are responsible for lower air and water pollution, and have a lighter carbon footprint than other commonly used building materials.