Sentences with phrase «for energy studies»

Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute are co-hosting the first Global Energy Transitions Summit on Thursday, September 28.

Oxford, Osford Institute for Energy Studies.

The Polish government's strong commitment to coal goes against EU policy direction and against market conditions, write Anna Mikulska of the Baker Institute's Center for Energy Studies and Eryk Kosinski of Adam Mickiewicz University.

To protect Europe from Russian gas coercion, the U.S. should take the unorthodox step of investing in European gas infrastructure, write Gabriel Collins and Anna Mikulska of the Baker Institute's Center for Energy Studies.

They turned to Clemson University's South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies for assistance in defining and implementing the project, using a grant administered by the S.C. Energy Office and funded by the S.C. Department of Agriculture.

A DeSmog UK investigation into the oil giant's European activities reveals much of this was spent lobbying on energy and environment issues in addition to donations to organisations such as the United Nations Environment Programme and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

«Geopolitical Dimensions of U.S. Oil Security,» co-authored by Jim Krane, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute, and Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the institute's Center for Energy Studies, was published online this month in the journal Energy Policy.

«The current price levels are unsustainable,» says Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies in the UK.

This analysis chimes with a new report on OPEC policy from Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

The agreement «opened the door for Russia to enter into Asia's gas market,» said Keun - Wook Paik, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

«OPEC's current strategy hinges heavily on the prospects of future demand growth,» Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies wrote in a new paper on OPEC's policy and choices.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Energy has begged for new authority to defend against weaknesses in the grid in a nearly 500 - page comprehensive study issued in January 2017 warning that it's only a matter of time before the grid fails, due to disaster or attack.

Another reason why fears of dispute may be unfounded is the fact that China lacks any semblance of geographical claim in the Arctic, unlike in the South China Sea, said Andrew Holland, director of studies and senior fellow for energy and climate at non-partisan research organization American Security Project.

A newly released study from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research did detailed surveys with more than 1,100 drivers.

At Battelle, Koper is studying the use of nanomaterials in membranes for water desalination and treatment; supercapacitors (energy - storage devices that provide higher power densities than batteries); and bio-based (rather than petroleum - based) additives used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to retrieve natural gas.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

Luna Analytics makes bioanalysis instruments for studying proteins, Luna Technologies develops fiber - optic - measurement devices for the telecom industry, and Luna Energy manufactures advanced oil - well - monitoring equipment.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).

«There is tremendous energy and excitement within Amarin currently as we approach the results of the REDUCE - IT study and prepare for targeted future growth,» stated John F. Thero, president and chief executive officer.

In a recently released study, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, the IMF calculates what it considers to be the appropriate level of fuel taxes (a carbon tax by any other name) for 156 different countries.

«The volatility can actually slow investment behaviour, and when you do that, you begin to slow the pace at which the economy can potentially grow,» says Kenneth Medlock, a fellow in energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

He also led major initiatives including the development of a number of centres with key community leaders, including The Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business, The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, The Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies, The Energy ande Environment initiative, and The Creative Destruction Lab — Rockies.

In a study undertaken for the Clean Energy Association of B.C., MNP Consulting found that private - sector clean energy companies have invested $ 8.6 billion in capital, creating 20,500 direct constructionEnergy Association of B.C., MNP Consulting found that private - sector clean energy companies have invested $ 8.6 billion in capital, creating 20,500 direct constructionenergy companies have invested $ 8.6 billion in capital, creating 20,500 direct construction jobs.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

A platform for studying the Rayleigh - Taylor and Richtmyer - Meshkov instabilities in a planar geometry at high energy density at the National Ignition Facility

Martin Pelletier: Investors might be wise to study what has transpired in our once strong and robust energy sector for potential warning signs

Mandated by Section 20 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Environmental Studies Program is an indispensable requirement informing BOEM's decisions on offshore oil and gas, offshore renewable energy, and the marine minerals program for coastal restoration.

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

J David Hughes has studied the energy resources of Canada and the US for four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager, where he headed unconventional gas and coal research.

Fracking may have induced a rare strong earthquake last year in South Korea, a study said Friday, a potential «game changer» for the contentious practice of pumping water into the ground to extract energy.

Moulton pointed to a study released by the Ministry of Energy that states large commercial suppliers in Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa were paying 8.35 per kWh for electricity as of May 2015, the most recent month for which the province has statistics.

You have a limited amount of energy for personal encounters, so you spend most of your day in your study and schedule your days to allow for study and sermon preparation.

Even humanistic studies in a core curriculum fail to kindle the energies needed for a more vital human mode of being.

The equation E = mcc was an offchute of the greater theory of relativity... the equation itself only defines energy for easier study, to define it so we have a starting place.

Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development published a final report last month on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, after five years of experiments and studies.

After classes, studies, fieldwork, family and community responsibilities, students have little time or energy for caring for themselves.

The NCC's concern for energy issues dates back to fall 1974 when the Division of Church and Society (DCS) asked Margaret Mead and René Dubos to chair a study of the implications of using plutonium as fuel in the nuclear cycle.

In March 1976 the DCS adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on the commercial use of plutonium and mandated a broad study on the ethical dimensions of energy issues.

After spending all day studying and working as a graphic designer, Brad Ulrich, a senior at Oklahoma State, admits he has little energy for outreach and service projects.

The emotion was partly frustration at the sight of young men caught up in futile studies: «Part of my cross, indeed its heaviest portion, is that I have to see friars born with the highest gifts for fine studies spending their lives and wasting their energies in such play - acting... All my files are filled with material against these books which I consider absolutely useless.

But Luther's troubles were not such as to strike his superiors as markedly different from those of other dedicated young religious with their scruples, their enthusiasm for study, and their surfeit of energy.

Faribault is participating in statewide and international energy efficiency studies that will use the company's plant operations as a model for future sustainable manufacturing facilities, King says.

The $ 10.8 million system was financed by Gills Onions along with $ 2.7 million from the self - generation incentive program of Southern California Gas Co.; $ 3.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; and a $ 499,000 grant from the California Energy Commission for the study of sulfur removal from the biogas.

Studies have also proven that the energy required for manufacturing flexible packaging is just about 10 % of the total energy required in producing the food and getting it from the farm to table.

For example, in a study of overweight and obese men fed isoenergetic diets, animal protein (pork) increased energy expenditure compared with a vegetable (soy) protein (21).

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.