Sentences with phrase «energy use of wood»

Although there is sufficient interest in the energy use of wood which has already been used in Switzerland, in 2014 roughly one - third of the used wood was exported.

Not exact matches

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

That sunlight was transformed into chemical energy in the leaves of trees and used to form wood.

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

There are a host of other factors surrounding wood - fuel energy use in sub-Saharan Africa that remain poorly understood, Mendum said.

Intensification of forestry in Russia will result in increasing availability of wood for material and energy uses.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

Amid all this talk of energy demand, the IEA also emphasises another of its estimates: 1.4 billion people across the world lack any access to electricity and 2.7 billion still use wood or other biomass to cook.

He was one of more than 100 scientists that signed a 2014 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy urging the agency to consider the carbon benefits of using wood for energy.

Yet if more used wood in Switzerland was re-used to produce heat or power, this would eliminate the need for numerous shipments of timber abroad, which would save energy, lower costs and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

In a just published report2, the authors explain how much potential there is to gain energy from used wood and how the utilisation of this raw material could develop in the future.

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

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.

«Switzerland could generate more energy out of used wood.»

Use of wood - based material will lower energy consumption at the production stage, as well as reducing the products» carbon footprint.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

Secondly, rather than using pure cotton, which is one of the world's thirstiest and most pesticide - sprayed crops, they've created an innovative and soft fabric blend that includes a bit of cotton, yes, but also Tencel, a processed wood fibre made from eucalyptus trees which takes far less energy, is 100 % renewable and uses 85 % less water than cotton to grow.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

«An example of one of the many experiments designed includes tapping two pieces of wood together to teach students friction and the transfer of kinetic energy — the principle behind the famous hotspot system used in cricket.»

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

We chosed this kind of construction because wood suits the local weather conditions and keeps the air cool even on the warmest days, avoiding the big waste of energy from air conditioned rooms and using local materials at the same time.

Keeping with its aim of promoting a new generation of Asian artists, Galerie Paris - Beijing celebrates the creative energy of the Land of the Calm Morning with works that combine the use of traditional materials such as wood, metal or charcoal, and the exploration of highly innovative techniques.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

While conducting this research, he communicates the subjects» movement and energy on a variety of surfaces — from found wood to city walls — using various mediums and techniques without judgment.

Often working with industrial materials — painted wood, paving slabs, plastic cord, metal fencing and corrugated iron — her installations have a seemingly improvised and temporary attitude, but are rigorously considered, combining an almost classical formalism with a kinetic energy generated by poised, provisional and precarious compositions and her attuned use of materials.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

The house is designed for low energy consumption; the family only used 2 cubic meters of wood for heating over the course of an entire year.

The use of solid wood CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) limits energy consumption and provides an excellent carbon footprint.

Local materials, such as glass and wood, were used to further lower the carbon footprint of the building and on - site photovoltaics and a large - scale biodiesel generator produce more energy than the building consumes.

(c) Prohibit the use of conventional / traditional biomass in inefficient wood stoves in developing countries and instead move to highly - efficient biomass woodstoves and biogas digesters, and other renewable energy sources.

Today, geothermal, hydro - and nuclear power, together with the historic biofuels of wood and straw, account for about 15 % of our energy use.

But the reverse may be true: wind energy and the use of wood as fuel are in fact much older, and were largely abandoned by today's politician's wiser predecessors.

Around 95 % of Ugandan households use wood fuel as a primary energy source for cooking.

Wood pellets are small particles used for energy generation made of dried, ground and pressed wood.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

The amount a home spends on energy depends on the type of fuels used (from electricity, to oil, to propane, to wood in a fireplace) and the rate price at which it sells for in your area.

The central message of this study is that the carbon accounting for using wood harvested from Massachusetts forests for energy is more complex than most people previously thought.

Billions of people use traditional renewable energy (wood, charcoal and dung) to cook in and heat their homes.

I hope you will agree that, with respect to understanding the greenhouse gas implications of using wood for energy, the team has made a valuable contribution to our scientific knowledge.

I hope the study will help prompt a more thorough discussion of using wood for energy in our society.

With respect to energy policy, I hope you'll agree that we all benefit from having a more in - depth understanding of the greenhouse gas implications of using wood for energy.

It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned.

Manomet's interest, as study leader, is to advance society's understanding of using wood biomass energy, and not to promote or discourage forest biomass energy.

In June of 2010, Manomet and its partners released the results of a six - month study to better understand the implications of using wood for energy in Massachusetts, titled «Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study.»

A recent study found that a CHP power plant operating on wood chips released 7 times less CO2 by unit of energy produced than a similar plant using natural gas.

While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 2008, the United States is the world's largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 26 % of the world's total.

-- Extensive use of recycled building materials and reclaimed wood flooring It's also worth noting that, although construction costs on the $ 20 million structure were slightly higher thanks to all the added technology, NASA should recover the difference within 10 years — at which point the facility will be a major cost - saver as well as energy - saver.

But when economics 101 was created in the 18th Century, there were one billion humans on the planet, mostly living on farms, using animals, wood, and dung for energy — about 20 exajoules of it a year.

Building codes and other government policies that, where appropriate, can promote substitution of use of sustainably harvested forest products wood for more energy - intensive construction materials may have substantial potential to reduce net emissions (Murphy, 2004).

One group proposed using a wood burning stove in lieu of electricity to conserve energy.