Sentences with phrase «energy use in this country»

In my edition, Miller does write that «over 50 percent of the energy use in this country is wasted», and he presents a diagram showing a figure of 53 percent for 1973; but at least he then spends four pages explaining what he means by waste and conveying some sense of how a number in this range results from the definition he is using.

«Energy security» is not «energy independence» in the sense that all of the energy used in a country must comes from within its own borders without international trade.

Now do you think that what we should do is actually have no regulations about energy use in this country — we should be able to be free to use whatever energy they want.

Not exact matches

Husky Energy in Superior is one of about 50 refineries in the country that still uses hydrogen fluoride to process high - octane gasoline, according to a 2013 report from the United Steelworkers Union.

That's on par with the energy use of the entire country of Serbia, more than 19 European countries, and roughly 0.8 percent of total energy demand in the United States, equal to 2.9 million US households.

O'Reilly: It used to be, it's the largest energy infrastructure company in the country, actually North America.

If the US went insane like this anytime Christianity, Catholicism or any of the major US religions was insulted, our country would never get anything accomplished and still be in the dark ages... so maybe these nations that apparently haven't evolved to the point of being able to tolerate an insult like the rest of us have had to should take a lesson and use their energy to better their own country instead of using any insult as an excuse to violence... grow up already and get over yourselves, everyone else has had to.

In the less developed countries, approximately 400 pounds of grain per year is available to the average person, nearly all of which must be consumed directly merely to meet minimal food energy needs... Contrast this example to the average North American who uses nearly a ton of grain per year.

All of the time, money, and energy spent on these signs could have been used to feed hungry people in our country or to provide materials to our schools.

Leaving aside indirect agricultural energy consumption, OECD statistics indicate that agriculture contributes only 2 percent to total direct energy used in OECD countries.

In 1997, Stonyfield became the first company in the country to offset 100 percent of its CO2 emissions from its facility energy use, and has been carbon neutral sincIn 1997, Stonyfield became the first company in the country to offset 100 percent of its CO2 emissions from its facility energy use, and has been carbon neutral sincin the country to offset 100 percent of its CO2 emissions from its facility energy use, and has been carbon neutral since.

Besides cookie - targeted banner and video ads, groups should also look at Facebook Ads, which I'm using extensively on a client project to recruit wind - energy supporters, including in highly red areas of the country.

He warned that the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactors) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and»... no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.»

The Council called on all states to sign up to the NPT and to set «realistic goals» to strengthen, at the 2010 Review Conference, all three of the Treaty's pillars - disarmament of countries currently possessing nuclear weapons, non-proliferation to countries not yet in possession, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all.

Business News of Friday, 18 May 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh Ms Rachel Kyte (right) the UN Special Representative and CEO of the SEforALL programme Ghana has been urged to use its extraordinary offshore resources to effectively develop and maintain affordable liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to help reduce energy poverty in the country.

«We have such incredibly important wind energy and solar energy and tidal energy sources that could be used very effectively, not just in New York but across the country,» Gillibrand explained.

The summit will be hosting 25 Heads of State and Government, and will provide a platform for co-operation amongst solar resource - rich countries, with the purpose of realising «the common goals of increasing the use of solar energy in meeting the energy needs of ISA member countries in a safe, convenient, affordable, equitable and sustainable manner»

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said ministers should change their mind and use the cash specifically for projects such as improving energy efficiency of homes, investing in low - carbon technologies and helping poorer countries cope with climate change.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774In 2008, they drew on data covering 1980 to 2006 to argue that there had been «declining intensities of impact, from energy use and carbon emission to food consumption and fertiliser use, globally and in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774in countries ranging from the US and France to China, India, Brazil and Indonesia» (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 105, p 12774).

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

We are trying to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and we are trying to do what we can to ultimately ensure that we have clean green energy in this country.

Even the energy - hungry US could in theory supply all of its electricity use, according to one study, using solar PV on an area equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the country — just a fraction of the existing developed and urban space.

In this country, and in the world, actually, water use for purposes of energy generation is approaching or surpassing water use for agriculturIn this country, and in the world, actually, water use for purposes of energy generation is approaching or surpassing water use for agriculturin the world, actually, water use for purposes of energy generation is approaching or surpassing water use for agriculture.

That support hit a roadblock a year ago when new conservative prime minister Tony Abbott ordered a review of the country's target for clean energy use by 2020, which ultimately recommended slashing it by a third, in line with falling overall energy demand.

Patterson observes that «Some senior [Romanian energy authority] staff believe that efforts to increase the efficiency of energy use would lead to a continuing fall in sales, and would therefore be contrary to the interests of the company — a view also frequently found in utilities in OECD countries.»

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Much of China's industry uses energy - guzzling equipment from the 1970s, and the NRDC estimates that by using existing technology and enforcing simple building codes, the country could cut its energy demands by half or more in the next decade.

4 Global Warming Makes the Arctic Hot Property Countries from Russia to Canada are eyeing Arctic territory that are expected to thaw in the future, freeing up its methane riches, which could be used as an alternative energy source.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

Per capita commercial energy use has been growing so rapidly in both countries (or at least it was through 2007 on the eve of the economic meltdown) that if the trends continue unabated the typical Chinese will outconsume the typical American before 2040, with Indians surpassing Americans by 2080.

In China, coal provides nearly 70 percent of all the energy the nation uses as the workshop of the world and a developing country.

In particular, Tabarelli believes it is «almost impossible» that Italy will reach its target, set in 2009, of using renewables to supply 17 % of the country's total energy needs by 202In particular, Tabarelli believes it is «almost impossible» that Italy will reach its target, set in 2009, of using renewables to supply 17 % of the country's total energy needs by 202in 2009, of using renewables to supply 17 % of the country's total energy needs by 2020.

When you consider that world population will grow by another 50 percent between now and its ostensible peak around midcentury and that you have massive economic growth in today's poor countries, energy use is going to rise significantly.

During discussions earlier in the week at the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, China's National Energy Administration said the country will try to keep its total coal use up to 4.2 billion tons by 2020.

«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»

SALT's 15 institutional partners in seven countries plan to use the observatory to study everything from asteroids to dark energy.

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.

However, even after years of growth to 2035, China will still use less energy per person than countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), suggests the agency.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

The House markup is «a strong bill» that «smartly utilizes and improves the way we use the energy sources we have now and that works to develop new technologies that will make energy production in this country safer and more efficient,» said Representative Harold Rogers (R — KY), chair of the full committee.

Buildings account for about two - fifths of the energy we use and are responsible for about two - fifths of the carbon emitted in this country.

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.

In this program, now involving 23 countries, particle physicist mentors show the students how to use data gathered by the large particle collider experiments at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, to unravel hidden secrets of high energy physics.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

Future global demand for metals is expected to increase further as a result of urbanization and new infrastructure construction in developing countries, widespread use of electronics, and transitions in energy technologies [3].

As energy - efficient technologies continue to attract funding from government and private research agencies, Miller said he hopes that by 2016, solar cell technology will reach cost parity with other fuels and be used in many homes across the country.

Maca is another important ingredient here, used thousands of years ago in various South American countries as a powerful source of energy and vitality.

Quassinoids are the biologically active component that is commonly used in these countries as food and drink additives, specifically for coffee and energy drinks.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.