Sentences with phrase «energy transport costs»

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In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

In the NAB survey, increases in production costs were strongest in the transport, storage and communications sector and the mining sector, both of which are relatively energy intensive.

Bag - in - box is also up to 80 % lighter than alternative pack formats, which can equate to a saving of 20 % of energy costs during transport.

The milk for the plant is transported using lighter tanker trucks for better mileage and energy and cost efficiency.

A. Is beneficial, safe & healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle; B. Meets market criteria for performance and cost; C. Is sourced, manufactured, transported, and recycled using renewable energy; D. Optimizes the use of renewable or recycled source materials; E. Is manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices; F. Is made from materials healthy in all probable end - of - life scenarios; G. Is physically designed to optimize materials and energy; H. Is effectively recovered and utilized in biological and / or industrial closed loop cycles.

3D food printing offers revolutionary new options for convenience and customization, from controlling nutrition to managing dietary needs to saving energy and transport costs to creating new and novel food items.

The pipelines can be economically and environmentally efficient because they incur considerably lower energy costs and reduce the amount of road traffic used to transport freight.

Other cost - effective changes cited in the report include massive boosts to energy efficiency in industry and home heating, and reducing transport emissions through more efficient vehicles, more compact cities and more high - speed rail to cut air miles.

The study did not include the energy cost of transporting a solar panel to its final destination.

These two schools will have very different energy, building maintenance, transport and staffing costs.

It aims to reduce the energy used by all types of transport fleets by encouraging more efficient operations in reducing fuel costs and emissions.

ignoring the energy cost of water and latent heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity)...

A few things are unequivocal, perhaps (doubling from the present concentration of CO2 will take 140 years [give or take]; the idea that the changes in climate since 1880 have been in the aggregate beneficial; it takes more energy to vaporize a kg of water than to raise its temperature by 1K; ignoring the energy cost of water and latent heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity), but most are propositions that I think need more research, but can't be refuted on present evidence.

Gates: It is certainly eye - opening to understand the full - cycle costs of ethanol, from making the fertilizer and the transport to the energy use for distillation.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

Our extensive work on transport audits for the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) has shown that businesses can frequently save 20 % or more in transport costs.

Then similarly the largest cost ** of transport is — energy.

• nuclear power will be substantially cheaper than fossil fuel electricity generation • cheap electricity substitutes for some gas for heating and oil for land transport (as in electric vehicles and low - cost electricity producing energy carriers).

Much of it travels a long way to reach us, with the transport costs adding hugely to the «embodied energy» it contains.

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 locaTRANSPORT 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 locatransport 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 locatransport, 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.

An overall decrease in electricity costs and ultimately electricity is cheap enough that it partly displaces gas for heating (both industrial and residential) and partly displaces oil for transport (e.g. electric vehicles and energy carriers produced using low cost electricity and or high temperature reactors).

State made several flawed assumptions in its environmental review, including 1) an unrealistically low cost for transporting tar sands by rail from Alberta to Texas, 2) an inaccurate estimate of tar sands production costs and 3) an unrealistic assumption that tar sands production costs will not increase with rising labor, material and energy prices.

This, in turn, would raise the cost of all other goods and services, since all require energy to produce and transport.

By reducing the amount of energy (i.e., fuel use) associated with freight transport through a range of measures, businesses can reduce costs and become more competitive.

Low cost and reliable energy is the only way to address emissions from electricity and transport.

Geography may determine which type of biofuel technology is most readily adopted in a specific region, depending on what type of feedstock and biomass is locally available, thereby maximizing local resources and minimizing the energy and cost required to transport these resources.

This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

«For the EU and the rest of the Western world, ratification and enforcement of the Paris Treaty (and all the other associated decrees and Agendas) would herald the end of low - cost hydrocarbon transport and electricity, and the exit of their manufacturing, processing and refining industries to countries with low - cost energy.

H2 is so simple to synthesize from non-fossil fuel sources and can be made right at the point of consumption, thus saving a lot of expenses and energy in transporting the oil and gas long distance from the well, and then considerable cost in oil refining and Nat Gas purification, and then transporting the refined fossil fuels to the point of consumption.

My personal favorite option: pay the real price of the energy you use, be it in transport, home, industry or commerce, including the cost of carbon emission.

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.

The resulting benefits can include lower travel costs, improved mobility, better community health through reduced local air pollution and physical activities resulting from non ‐ motorized transport, greater energy security, improved safety, and time savings through reduction in traffic congestion.

The growing scarcity of water and the high cost of the energy invested in transporting water over long distances may itself begin to constrain the growth of some cities.

They take less energy to manufacture than paper bags, cost less to transport, and can be reused.»

«Plastic shopping bags... take less energy to manufacture than paper bags, cost less to transport, and can be reused.»

A comprehensive review of the costs of reducing energy consumption for various technology options in transport, buildings and industry was conducted for the World Energy Investment Outlookenergy consumption for various technology options in transport, buildings and industry was conducted for the World Energy Investment OutlookEnergy Investment Outlook 2014.

Fraunhofer ISI estimates that cost - effective energy saving investments could reduce emissions in the EU's transport, industry, tertiary and household sectors by about 52 % by 2030.

Large - scale use of renewable energy in the transport sector should be based on life - cycle analysis of its costs and benefits.

The cost of transporting a 300 tonnes of water with every thousand tonnes of (wet) coal the 250 km from the mine to the power station (in the case of coal mined at Leigh Creek and burned at Port Augusta) must be very high, but I would think that it would be insignificant compared to the energy loss resulting from burning wet coal.

The shipping costs to transport the ethanol by rail to the Northwest will also slightly decrease the already marginal improvement in petrloleum and fossil energy use per mile travelled on ethanol relative to gasoline.

Everything else can be done (e.g. transport fuels) once we have lower cost energy.

At the same time, protection and restoration of these ecosystems is one of the most affordable ways to reduce pollution, costing less than half the amount of energy and transport sector improvements.

Although water, wind, and other renewables may seem free, the cost comes in collecting and transporting the energy to the places where energy is needed.

IEA commends Danish energy efficiency but advises more focus on efficient transport, cost - effectiveness and market concentration 26 June 2006

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.

That results in reduced energy costs, both by eliminating most of the 18 percent to 20 percent of cost that comes from transport, and by nurturing innovation.

Hydro - Gen, based in France, have produced a low - cost low - maintenance floating marine or river - current energy - converter system, mounted under a platform supported by a catamaran, with a slide - able turbine and generator unit that can be raised out of the water for maintenance on a tower, and which can also be folded down for transport by truck.

Categories excluded are: non-CO2 emissions in buildings and transport, part of material efficiency options, heat production and cogeneration in energy supply, heavy duty vehicles, shipping and high - occupancy passenger transport, most high - cost options for buildings, wastewater treatment, emission reduction from coal mines and gas pipelines, fluorinated gases from energy supply and transport.