Sentences with phrase «first oil crisis»

However, the passive house standard which we know today was initially informed by these early solar houses, depended more on the developments after the first oil crisis.

«Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.»

Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have led to national policy positions that have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.

But for a lot of energy - dependent industries, there is little way to reduce energy use, as most measures were taken a long time ago (after the first oil crisis), and alternatives (still) are too expensive...

Thankfully they never listened and although they struggled in the early years their breakthrough came in the form of the first oil crisis in 1973.

«There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s,» said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.

Already, the CEC (set up in 1975 in the wake of the nation's first oil crisis) balances new energy demands — such as screening new power plants on the basis of at least 23 different impacts, ranging from economics to air quality — with efficiency efforts.

Not exact matches

Yup, you heard it here first (or second, maybe even third), last week was the week that it all happened, the week that we can finally call the oil price crisis officially over.

Take this example, illustrated by First Trust Advisors: Between January 2009 and September 2015, stocks stumbled numerous times for various reasons, including natural disasters like the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Sandy, and man - made crises like government shutdowns and collapsing oil prices.

Energy was at the centre of the 2006 G8 when the Russian - Ukrainian gas crisis hit Europe and oil prices reached $ 50 per barrel for the first time (a threshold now long forgotten, in 2012 the average price is stood at about $ 112 per barrel).

Academic scientists quoted in stories late last week by NPR and The New York Times suggested that the amount of oil spewing out from the broken pipe on the gulf floor may be much more than 5000 barrels (794,936 gallons) per day — the official estimate of both BP and the government for the first 3 weeks of the crisis, before BP made any progress in stanching the flow.

But it wasn't until 1989, 16 years after that first line of GT - Rs was killed off by the 1973 oil crisis, that the hi - tech ethos synonymous with the badge today would first be established.

As the first recognition of car enthusiasm in mainstream culture since the oil crisis of 1973, the article created a sensation, and Barry was commissioned to write the first draft of a screenplay that eventually became a bad movie, King of the Mountain.

First introduced at the back end of the oil crisis in 1974, Zuffenhausen's iconic coupe began life with a 260 - hp turbocharged 3.0 - liter version of Porsche's classic, horizontally opposed six - cylinder engine and rear - wheel drive.

From the pint - size hatchback that first showed up amid a historic oil crisis to a lineup full of sedans, coupes and hybrids, the new Civic has always covered the bases: excellent fuel economy, alert handling and solid value.

Yes the switch away from oil and increased production after the first OPEC oil crisis did drive prices back down to < $ 10 / bbl.

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

The first response to peak oil of every industrialized nation is going to be to shovel as much coal at the crisis as possible, as quickly as possible.

The 1973 - 1974 oil crisis made a lot of people start to pay attention to fuel economy for the first time.

In an op - ed for the BBC, Andrew Simms explains that the plan that he and his colleagues have outlined will provide the first comprehensive approach to tackling the «triple crisis of credit collapse, oil prices and climate change»:

From United Airlines to Equifax to Target to Sony, even going back to the BP oil spill, in each case, the first days or weeks of the crisis were characterized by fumbled responses, statements that corrected prior statements, and falling back on legalisms and obfuscation.