Sentences with phrase «energy crisis using»

Tesla chief Elon Musk says his company can solve Puerto Rico's energy crisis using solar panels and batteries.

Not exact matches

We could solve a good bit of the energy crisis by using them like wood so that the fires light the night - time sky.

As the global population increases and ages, and the amount of energy used per person increases, the world is facing an energy crisis.

In addition to criminalizing personal drug use, cannabis prohibition deprives society of the industrial benefits of hemp at a time when we must make use of every ecologically responsible resource to provide materials and energy in the face of looming environmental crises,» said Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor.

During the 1979 oil crisis, a team at BASF's R&D centre in Ludwigshafen began looking for thermal insulators that would cut energy use.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

TOKYO — As Japan's nuclear power plant crisis entered its seventh day, Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it would be «unrealistic to think this accident will not impact decisions by governments» on the use of nuclear power.

By Aamir Saeed ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Amid a worsening energy crisis, Pakistan has approved the use of grid - connected solar energy, rooftop solar installations and mortgage financing for home solar panels to boost uptake of clean energy in the country.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

Also named was «Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,» which uses tape recordings to document that the California energy «crisis,» among other things, was deliberately caused by Enron to generate desperately needed profits.

Good for discussing sustainable resource use, fuel - wood crisis, energy and health - 2 million die prematurely every year from smoke from cooking fires!

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

Given the world problems that we're facing — like energy, pollution, and climate change — we can not overcome these crises using the same homogenous mindset and tools that got us here.

«The facts are clear: Our patterns of energy use — both where we get our energy supplies and how we consume them — are contributing to a grave and growing crisis.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

«A major component of the Democrats» energy legislation is, and the Democrats» answer to the energy crisis is, hold on, wait one minute, I'm not making this up, it is «promoting the use of the bicycle!

Just as a heavy smoker at the risk of lung cancer needs to stop smoking, the best solution for the current climate crisis is to stop using the atmosphere as an open sewer for carbon gases... resorting instead to the abundant clean energy resources technology now masters — solar voltaic, solar thermal, solar (space) reflectors, geothermal energy.hot rocks, wind, tides, hydrogen — the list goes on.

But for a lot of energy - dependent industries, there is little way to reduce energy use, as most measures were taken a long time ago (after the first oil crisis), and alternatives (still) are too expensive...

The energy crisis is simply an «excuse» for government to mandate one more aspect of how we live our lives, tax us in the process, eliminate money from the economy we can use to feed our families, and laugh all the way to the bank.

This climate crisis threatens our energy use, economy, jobs, living standards, health and welfare.

Providing programs to electric utility customers to reduce their energy use through improved energy efficiency is an innovation with roots in the energy crises of the 1970s.

This would be worse than the «oil crisis» of the 1970s because the reduction would be greater, would be permanent, and energy use has increased since then.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

Preventing carbon dioxide levels from rising to potentially dangerous levels could cost less far less than originally projected — less 1 percent of gross world product as of 2050 — but a major shift in the way energy is found, transformed, transported and used will be necessary to prevent a severe energy crisis within the next century, say researchers from the The Earth Institute.

Cutting energy use 80 % right now to deal with just one possible crisis out of many, and thereby cripple any response we might make to all the others, is not a robust strategy.

In fact one of the marvels of the modern world is our ability to identify and problem and use energy to mitigate the crisis.

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In cities around the world, forward - thinking governments, spurred often as not by more immediate crises and exercising their intrinsic subsidiarity, have found their way to sustainable solutions to problems of energy use, transportation, air quality, resilience and waste.

However, if we use energy efficient design strategies, incorporate including on - site power generation from renewable sources, and have access to off - site renewables if necessary, then the building sector can become the solution to the climate change crisis.

And with having already soot and energy overloads being the major contributors to the climate crisis, we should be looking to getting renewable energy while removing soot and CO2 from the biosphere and recycling some the biosphere's extra energy using windmills.

This course explores issues related to the current energy crises, and actions we can take as individuals and communities to enact sustainable use of energy.

And some countries more than others should be allowed to increase energy use to emerge from grinding poverty especially since they have done almost nothing to cause the existing crisis.