Sentences with phrase «energy revolutions as»

Over the past several years, the United States and other countries have undergone an energy revolution as new drilling techniques and a process called hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to recover vast amounts of natural gas.

I recently explored whether it was sufficient to pursue an energy revolution as a means for smoothing the path toward a stable, prospering population.

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Join AmCham as he explores the key drivers behind the nickel market, the impact the green energy revolution will have on forecast nickel demand, and how Poseidon Nickel is strategically positioned to take advantage of one of Australia's largest nickel sulphide resource base to emerge as a class 1 nickel producer.

As the nickel price continues its upward trajectory driven by the clean energy revolution for power storage and the rise of the electric vehicles, Poseidon remains poised to become a producer with its existing class 1 high grade nickel sulphide mine.

But the «revolution» Steenberg and other investors see as shaping energy sources over the next 25 years doesn't take the form you might think.

It's called Tracking the Energy Revolution, and its 18 pages of maps, charts, and graphics tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest, and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, and Energy Revolution, and its 18 pages of maps, charts, and graphics tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest, and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, and energy sources such as wind, sun, and water.

In a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakota.

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism illustrates the extent to which the conservative revolution percolated up from the bottom: «without grassroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful of writers.

The scientific revolution of the twentieth century has totally revamped the notion of the matter which constitutes nature — matter is now viewed as internally dynamic, suffused with energy, this being the relation between matter and energy so vividly apparent when an atom bomb goes off.

What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from old technology that has passed its use - by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.

Teachout is one of a handful of area politicians who are hoping that the energy of Sanders «political revolution» will reverberate over time and down the ballot as grass roots groups that formed to support the Vermont senator's unexpectedly strong primary run turn their attention to local political contests — and the machinery of the Democratic Party itself.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

Energy writer and analyst Craig Morris says many activists see the Big Four as interlopers trying to hijack a revolution they first ignored and then opposed.

As oil prices continue into the stratosphere, the race is on to find the new fuel source or sources that will fulfill the long - anticipated revolution in energy.

This new revolution, powered by the ability of the Internet to allow us to communicate, share and monitor things, will result in what he calls the «zero marginal cost society,» where the cost to create consumables such as energy and information — the marginal cost — is nearly free after the initial capital investment is made in equipment such as computers, smart phones and solar cells.

THE introduction of coffee into Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries has been proposed as an important contributory factor to the rush of creativity and energy that spawned the scientific and industrial revolutions.

As zero emission vehicles, FCEVs are leading the revolution in clean energy personal transportation.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Moreover, since used wood is already in short supply today, it seems only sensible to fully exploit any remaining usable potential and, as a contribution to the energy revolution, enable the generation of higher value added in Switzerland by making use of used wood.

Solar and wind power is often seen as the main locomotive of the energy revolution.

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Humans did not begin using fossil fuels as a primary energy source until the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.

But coal is no sooty remnant of the Industrial Revolution — it generates half of the electricity in the United States and will likely continue to do so as long as it's cheap and plentiful [source: Energy Information Administration].

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

This seminar, intended for students from all academic majors, will examine the evolution of energy supply, energy demand and the global energy system as a whole, from the rise of photosynthesis to the development of agriculture, the Industrial revolution, and the modern, carbon - constrained world.

As your student creates these 4 interactive foldables, he will learn about asteroids, including the following: • Sun Basic Facts (Eclipse, Composition, Nuclear Fusion, Photosynthesis, Energy) • Sun Numbers (size, distance from Earth, temperature, etc) • Rotation and Revolution • Interesting Facts About the Sun This product is a downloadable ebook in PDF format.

When Tesla announced the Powerwall last year, it was touted as a revolution in battery - based energy storage.

Exploring the libidinal energy of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) events as a form of potential revolution.

And recording energy history using crude oil as a printing medium, to examine post industrial revolution developments, both cultural and technological, which define our world today.

The current state of solar technology has enabled a whole new energy revolution, as system costs drop while grid prices rise.

And Mr. Obama's broader call for an energy revolution also could require him to overcome what he called America's «shock and trance» cycle as oil prices spike and collapse.

And without significant federal investment, we will not get as far as we need to on the carbon - free energy revolution.

[UPDATE, 6/6/08: The International Energy Agency has echoed the call from many climate and energy experts for big increases in energy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.&rEnergy Agency has echoed the call from many climate and energy experts for big increases in energy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.&renergy experts for big increases in energy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.&renergy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.&renergy revolution.»]

The loss of energy to space, measured by Wielicki e.a. in the past 15 years, is of near the same magnitude as what the theoretical increase in greenhouse effect is from the extra greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Soon, in the next few decades, a revolution in the production of energy is going to emerge as we pursue research in non-radioactive fusion energy technology.

As industrilizal revolution, people built cites and community independent with nature, for example fully depending on air conditioning glass high buildings, never think how to save energy.

As the Clean Air Task Force and Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes concluded in their recent report, «Four Principles for Energy Innovation and Climate Change: A Synthesis,» «direct government procurement is one of the most powerful ways that the Federal government has stimulated demand for innovation in past technological revolutions.

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution began, we have an opportunity to invest in alternative sources of energy that can last as long as the Earth itself.

«We take our position as the pioneers of the new U.S offshore wind industry very seriously, and we're confident the Block Island Wind Farm is just the start of an East Coast energy revolution that will transform how we power our communities.»

And average U.S. disposable household income was $ 1,337 higher in 2015 given lower home energy costs as well as other savings that have resulted from the US energy revolution.

First, let's focus on the United States» current energy reality and the once - in - a-generation opportunity the U.S. energy revolution is providing for security and prosperity, which API President and CEO Jack Gerard described as the context for industry's platform report during a briefing and discussion event in Washington.

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While politicians and the mainstream media trumpet fracking as a great American energy revolution, it has in fact been a financial disaster, writes Justin Mikulka of DeSmog blog.

In this next election, we need to decide whether we are going to build on the successes of the Obama administration — which has used a combination of bold executive actions and international diplomacy to achieve action on climate change even in the presence of intransigence, denial and outright hostility from congressional republicans — or whether we are going to retreat back into the energy - equivalent of the stone age, continuing to degrade our planet through the profligate burning of increasingly dangerous fossil carbon even as the rest of the world moves forward, embracing the renewable energy revolution destined to be the hallmark of the 21st century.

As yet more evidence of a revolution in our midst, last week the City Council of Glendale, California voted 4 - 1 to explore whether renewable energy plus storage could meet the city's future energy needs better than the municipal utility's proposed repair and upgrade of a nearby 80 year old gas plant.

As America reels from the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history, renewable energy advocate Tom Weis is taking action by pedaling a hybrid electric bicycle 3,000 miles from Colorado to our nation's capitol demanding a U.S. - led green industrial revolution.

Even better, he demands that we use international institutions to accelerate energy innovation, arguing (as my colleagues and I did in our 2014 report, High - Energy Innovation) that we should emulate the successful agricultural innovations achieved by the organizations at the heart of the Green Revolenergy innovation, arguing (as my colleagues and I did in our 2014 report, High - Energy Innovation) that we should emulate the successful agricultural innovations achieved by the organizations at the heart of the Green RevolEnergy Innovation) that we should emulate the successful agricultural innovations achieved by the organizations at the heart of the Green Revolution.

Affordable, efficient storage would enable volatile renewable energies to be better integrated into electricity systems, it would greatly improve the economics of home solar systems, even allowing people to go off - grid, and it could help catalyse a revolution in electric cars as well as helping to solve the problems of the grid going down or grid overload.

As our Bright Future project demonstrates, and our December 2015 report The Urban Clean Energy Revolution describes, nowhere is the momentum for this transition more evident than in our cities.