Sentences with phrase «energy use scenarios»

Uncertainties are related to model differences and to differences in energy use scenarios.

Not exact matches

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.

I recently calculated hypothetical future temperatures by plugging different ECS values into a so - called energy balance model, which scientists use to investigate possible climate scenarios.

While some transportation researchers have suggested autonomous cars could cut emissions by boosting driver efficiency, others, including Fulton and his colleagues, project that energy use and carbon emissions would increase over a business - as - usual scenario because more people will travel farther.

In their newly published study, the U-M researchers examined cost, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for different types of 60 - watt - equivalent bulbs and created a computer model to generate multiple replacement scenarios, which were then analyzed.

The GHG reduction scenario emphasizes energy efficiency and shifts energy production and use away from highly polluting forms toward cleaner sources with less air pollution.

Tyner and Jung evaluated how the economics of using solar energy in homes and businesses would change in a scenario in which policies gave solar and coal power the same treatment.

Structured expert judgment has been used for decades in fields where scenarios have high degrees of uncertainty, most notably nuclear - energy generation, Oppenheimer explained.

The WEC scenarios use an explorative approach to assess what is actually happening in the world now, to help gauge what will happen in the future and the real impact of today's choices on tomorrow's energy landscape.

On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in making judgments on this point if the IPCC had modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which made more moderate assumptions about growth in output and energy use.

The book includes chapters on the economic assumptions used, energy supply and storage technologies, demand and technology assumptions, a reference scenario, variations on that scenario, federal and state policies needed, a «roadmap,» and a final chapter of the main findings and recommendations.

Using a stock - flow model based on data from Norway, a researcher at the country's Institute of Transport Economics (TØI) has calculated the energy transition time lag for motor vehicles under a number of scenarios.

«It's pretty convincing stuff: observations and the physical law of energy conversation have been used to show greenhouse gases are responsible for global warming and that alternative scenarios violate this law of nature.

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater than B1).

However, the model had been used to trace the energy impact of a deep recession — giving credibility to the recession - and - recovery scenarios that were created and presented to Shell's executive committee within days of the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.

Second, scenarios with 2 °C or more warming necessarily imply expansion of fossil fuels into sources that are harder to get at, requiring greater energy using extraction techniques that are increasingly invasive, destructive and polluting.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

The Bright Ideas Challenge is a new national, curriculum linked schools competition, which will challenge young people age 11 - 14 to assume the role of future scenarios planners and to use their STEM learning to imagine creative solutions to the types of energy challenges that cities in 2050 will face (by 2050 it's estimated that 3 out of four of us will live in cities).

The company explained the iBooster and ESP - hev technology balance the use of the CT6 electric motors to act as generators to slow the vehicle and capture as much kinetic energy as possible during low - demand scenarios, while blending the traditional hydraulic brakes with the motors in high - demand scenarios.

Using Honda's new Advanced Compatibility Engineering II body structure, the 2013 Accord's front frame is designed to disperse more energy away from the driver and passengers during a wider range of car crash scenarios than previous models.

On the limited information available to me, they seem quite promising — but it certainly would have been helpful in making judgments on this point if the IPCC had modelled a low - medium population projection (as in the A1 and B1 scenarios) which made more moderate assumptions about growth in output and energy use.

As the third story in our series will discuss, there are certainly times when wood energy can be beneficial — but those scenarios tend to play out at much more local scales, in which true waste wood is used for heat and power.

But, there seems to be a kind of futility to projecting out these possible futures, I can't see any good scenario here, especially given inevitable realistic future energy use trends in the US.

They assume that no action will be taken before the global warming signal will be significant in the late 1990s, so the different energy - use scenarios only start diverging after that.

The other vital component of the assessment process has been the use of scenarios to depict how certain societal behaviors, particularly energy use, might affect the pace and extent of climate shifts over the course of the century.

Thus, climate scientists and energy - economic modelers have developed hundreds of plausible scenarios of future emissions and used them to identify emissions pathways that might achieve climate policy goals.

Solid biomass use in developing countries begins to decline slowly in the New Policies Scenario at about 0.6 % annually between 2016 and 2030, and its share of residential energy drops from 54 % in 2016 to 43 % in 2030.

Statewide Time - of - Use Scenario Modeling for 2015 California Energy Commission Integrated Energy Policy Report.

GCAM reference scenario results showing a global GDP and population drivers, b global primary energy consumption by fuel source, c global electricity production by technology, and d global allocation of land among major land cover and land use categories

We will then proceed to describe the underlying socioeconomic assumptions that shape RCP4.5 and its associated reference scenario and discuss the characteristics of RCP4.5, highlighting the global energy, economic, land use, and land cover systems, as well as the mechanisms employed to limit radiative forcing to 4.5 W m − 2 and contrast RCP4.5 to its reference scenario.

Using long - term solar and wind energy power production data series, the authors of this journal article present a modelling approach to investigate the influence of storage size and efficiency on the pathway towards a 100 % renewable energy sources scenario.

• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Energy Sector Methane Recovery and Use Initiative (2007) • IEA Energy Technology Essentials: Biofuel Production, Biomass Power for Power Generation and CHP, CO2 Capture and Storage, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production and Distribution, Nuclear Power (2007 & 2006) • International CHP / DHC Collaborative (2007) • International Energy Technology Co-operation — Frequently Asked Questions (Chinese, Russian)(2006/7) • Renewables in Global Energy Supply (2007) • Energy Technology Perspectives Fact Sheets: Buildings and Appliances; Electricity Generation; Industry; Road Transport Technologies and Fuels; and Scenario Analysis (2006)

In this scenario, renewable energy would ideally be used only when it's available.

Since it is impossible to know which elements, if any, of these models are correct, we used an average of all 13 scenarios to approximate growth rates for the various energy types as a means to estimate trends to 2040 indicative of hypothetical 2oC pathways.

It said the only way to avoid the pessimistic scenarios will be radical transformations in the ways the global economy currently functions, rapid uptake of renewable energy, sharp falls in fossil fuel use or massive deployment of CCS, removal of industrial emissions and halting deforestation.

The model is a large - scale simulation model designed to replicate how energy markets function and is the principal tool used to generate detailed sector - by - sector and region - by region projections for the WEO scenarios.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

Compared with a «business - as - usual» scenario, it shows how a green investment scenario would allow the sector to continue to expand steadily over the coming decades while ensuring significant environmental benefits such as reductions in water consumption, energy use and CO2 emissions.

Even in the simplest scenarios, where solar power is used for the energy for outdoor lighting or for other small things, can reduce your energy costs over the long haul.

To develop the Baseline Scenario, Acadia Center used the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2016 Annual Energy Outlook as well as forecasts from the New York and New England Independent System Operators, with changes to reflect recent policy actions by states.

The selective use of scenarios which fit business as usual for the fossil fuel industry we believe is misleading for investors trying to understand the energy transition.

New York / London, April 23 — The Carbon Tracker Initiative and Energy Transition Advisors today jointly publish a «blueprint» showing the benefit of fossil fuel companies stress testing their businesses using a set of low carbon, low price scenarios.

One last note, the energy budget framework can also be used to understand the consequences of geo - engineering scenarios that block incoming solar radiation to compensate the warming by CO2:

Modeling the Greek energy system: Scenarios of clean energy use and their implications.

As scenario analysis is mooted as a useful tool to understand the risks of the energy transition, it is clear that using a scenario with no changes in technology and policy (the CPS) or the new policy scenario (NPS)(AKA the «no new policies scenario»), which includes what is already known about and set to come into force does not help companies or their shareholders understand risk and opportunity.

Successful 1.9 W m − 2 scenarios are characterized by a rapid shift away from traditional fossil - fuel use towards large - scale low - carbon energy supplies, reduced energy use, and carbon - dioxide removal.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

The optimistic energy scenario is a continuation of the accelerating rate of energy use that has occurred over the last few decades, and exceeds the projected energy supply of any published account, yet even this amount of energy fails to bring global growth rates to zero.

For the «pessimistic» scenario we used an estimate of the future total primary energy supply from [11], which predicts continued growth of primary energy supplies followed by declines beginning after mid-century, and is consistent with other estimates [31].

As a general rule, in the SRES scenarios an increasing affluence causes energy use per capita to rise and leads to the substitution of solid fuels, such as coal and fuelwood, with energy forms of higher quality.