Sentences with phrase «energy at any significant rate»

Right now most of the billions of people in the underdeveloped world are not consuming energy at any significant rate, yet they certainly will as time goes on.

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While I don't expect a significant deterioration in credit markets next year, conditions are turning less favorable: corporate leverage is higher, default rates are rising and with oil hovering near $ 40, energy issuers are at risk.

These include lowering expense projections for retirement and health insurance expense to reflect lower projected usage and rates not available at the time the budget request was prepared; lowering utility cost estimates to reflect the significant decline in energy demand and prices resulting from reduced economic activity and lowering other operating cost estimates to reflect lower anticipated price changes.

Combining the rate at which the magnetic field drained away with details of the flare's energy from RHESSI provides a «significant» new constraint for models of how flares are triggered, Kosovichev says.

The researchers found that young oysters and mussels build their shells within 48 hours to successfully begin feeding at a rate fast enough to survive, and that the rate of shell - building required significant energy expenditures.

Working out after work or late in the evening can about lack of energy and exhaustion, while training in the morning can pose a significant risk to your central nervous system and spine when they are not functioning at their optimal rate.

Although whole - body protein turnover measurements suggested that consuming dietary protein at RDA levels was adequate, nitrogen balance and resting metabolic rate were lower in response to energy deficiency, which corresponded to a significant decrease in FFM.

If there is one lesson, it is that in times of rapid growth or recession, different parts of the economy change at different rates, and that differential alone can cause significant changes in the ratio of energy to G.D.P..

The inability of a significant portion of the wealthy to end the funding of fossil fuels (at the rate that would pay for the switch to sustainable non carbon energy) is a real and current threat to civilisation for the next 10,000 years as a minimium.

Reducing emissions by any means at a rate greater than the EU (without putting a pinch on energy supply at the same time) without significant subsidies and incentives would be a really neat trick.

Feeding wind energy into the grid also appears to be a significant problem for China, with rates of curtailment running at around 15 % during 2015, compared to less than 2 % in the US.

(At 7 percent of electricity from solar, 15 percent from wind, and a significant amount of hydro - electric generation access, Vermont has one of the highest penetration rates for renewable energy.

«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.

Energy storage projects in the UK are increasing at a significant rate as costs continue to fall and grid operators explore new ways to meet peak demand and integrate renewable sources into the nation's power mix.