Sentences with phrase «encourage use of heat»

Energy efficiency program administrators should consider programs to encourage use of heat pumps in warm states, starting with further localized analysis and proceeding to pilot programs.

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The beautifully warm summer temperatures are encouraging us to use our BBQ instead of heating up our kitchen using the oven.

Traditionally used to help ease breastfeeding discomfort, heat can help encourage milk flow, avoid clogged ducts, promote let - down and comfort the symptoms of infection, and cold is used to help reduce the swelling and tenderness of engorgement and weaning.

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have discovered that tiny below - ground organisms play a role in this phenomenon — and could be used to encourage tree migration in order to preserve heat - sensitive species.

Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project...» We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools — among many others.

The IEA strongly urges the government to adopt more ambitious policies and measures to encourage the use of sustainable dry wood and alternative heating technologies.

This can include optimising the use of concrete in construction by maximising design life of buildings and infrastructures, encouraging reuse and recycling, reducing waste and benefiting from concrete's properties to minimise energy needs for heating and cooling of buildings.

Putting a limit on heat - trapping emissions and encouraging the use of healthier, cleaner energy technologies, such as solar and wind power, would help us to avoid the worst potential consequences of global warming.

Under the previous president, Barack Obama, the U.S. used environmental rules to encourage the closing or costly upgrade of coal plants because burning the fuel emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and 28 percent more pollutants than heating oil.

Electricity generation on buildings encourages use of carbon intensive electrical heating and hot water generation — ie can increase emissions 3.

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.