Sentences with phrase «for global energy use»

Meanwhile, all available science and data suggests the current medium term trajectory for Global Energy Use in the next 25 years remains Business As Usual.

Until something else changes significantly, this is the real trajectory for global energy use.

Not exact matches

Musk's long - term vision for Tesla Energy is bold — he expects global sales and to «fundamentally change the way the world uses energy.&Energy is bold — he expects global sales and to «fundamentally change the way the world uses energy.&energy.»

The bankers, however, did offer an idea for how energy companies could use cryptocurrency to juice their own stock prices: «Perhaps global utilities should start accepting Bitcoins for payments,» the analysts concluded.

That has profound implications for its global adoption and the way we use energy.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

With a global value chain that includes more than 460 crop procurement locations, 300 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 40 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, chemical and energy uses.

With a global value chain that includes 428 crop procurement locations, 280 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 39 innovation centers, and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

The prime minister said energy was a concern to the entire global community and the important thing was for everyone to «use the power they have responsibly».

To meet the demands of growing consumption, a larger share of the global surface is being used for agriculture, livestock, forestry, energy plantations and infrastructure.

The World Bank estimates that over the next 15 years, the global economy will require $ 89 trillion in infrastructure investments across cities, energy and land - use systems, and $ 4.1 trillion in incremental investment for the low - carbon transition to keep within the internationally agreed limit of a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature rise.

Resort owners like John Cumming of Park City, Utah, are becoming advocates for reducing energy use, hoping to slow carbon emissions and hopefully global warming.

But global energy use is set to fall in 2009 for the first time since 1981 as a result of the global economic crisis, reducing the need for emission reductions by a full two billion metric tons, according to the IEA.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

«For example, in the future methane levels could increase as a result of increased natural gas and energy use, climate change feedbacks and / or a decrease in the global abundance of the hydroxyl radical, which chemically removes methane from the atmosphere.»

Gaming computers represent only 2.5 percent of the global installed personal computer (PC) base but account for 20 percent of the energy use.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

«Using coal to make natural gas may be good for China's energy security, but it's an environmental disaster in the making,» said Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Sciences and director of the Duke Center on Global Change.

«Our study suggests that if we had looked at whether or not Zika would be a problem using previous epidemiological evidence, we would not have wasted energy or effort worrying about tourists getting Zika,» said Robert Snyder, the study's lead author and program manager for the Center for Global Public Health.

Forestry, agriculture and land - use changes account for nearly 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the energy sector.

Increased use of natural gas is the best bet for cleaner energy in the near term, agreed fellow panelist John Reilly, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and co-director of the school's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The energy sector already accounts for approximately 15 % of global water use.

Chinese growth will push demand for fuels, contributing 36 % to predicted growth in global energy use.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

«(VII) standards for practices and materials to achieve cool roofs in residential buildings, taking into consideration reduced air conditioning energy use as a function of cool roofs, the potential reduction in global warming from increased solar reflectance from buildings, and cool roofs criteria in State and local building codes and in national and local voluntary programs, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards; and

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].

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

Astonishingly, forestry, agriculture and land - use changes account for nearly 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emission - that's second only to the energy sector.

Reducing the energy consumed by greenhouses has become a priority as the global use of greenhouses for food production has increased six-fold over the past 20 years to more than 9 million acres today — roughly twice the size of New Jersey, according to Loik.

«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.

Find out how researchers are using data from U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and global climate models.

They'll use a simple traffic - light approach to explore key areas of energy, water, waste and travel, thinking about how they affect the local and global environment and spotting ideas for improvement.

That, for me, affords an opening, given that any «solution» to the global warming problem implicitly involves using energy more carefully and finding abundant non-polluting sources that can compete with coal and oil.

One way for Google to start to help reduce unnecessary energy use and global warming would be to get rid of the company's 757 corporate jet which company honchos Brin and Page used last week to ferry guests from San Francisco to Montana for the wedding of their friend Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco.

1) The global energy infrastructure and investment is such that it will be impossible to switch fast enough away from fossil if we are going to meet 550ppm CO2 stabilisation (I actually think we should go for 450ppm but most policy uses double pre-industrial as the desired stabilisation) in time.

Given the state of the climate all here [well, except for 1 or 2] are concerned with, what is the likelihood those reserves will grow rather than dwindle, considering the fact that the global population continues to increase and we're using our food to produce energy?

If we'd have a global price for CO2, we wouldn't have to protect industry from raising costs of renewable energy and the income produced by selling CO2 certificates could be used to support poor households.

There are substantial costs that China incurs for its use of dirty energy that have nothing to do with global embarrassment or their contribution to global warming.

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

A standardized unit of measure, the global warming index (GWI) namely the grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule of fuel delivered to the vehicle (gCO2e / MJ) is to be reported, adjusted, of course, for differences in the in - use energy efficiency of different fuels (e.g., gasoline versus diesel, versus natural gas or hydrogen).

If we accept that energy use has to double or triple (just to offer comfortable life for developing nations) then all the calculation before (e.g. Socolow and Pacala's wedges) fall apart that assumed a reduction of the current 15TW global energy use by improved energy efficiency.

Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear need for a global energy quest have used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed basics of science pointing to a rising human influence on climate.

But Mark Lynas, a climate change writer in favour of using nuclear and renewables to combat global warming, said: «It is stretching credibility for the IPCC to suggest that a richer world with two billion more people will use less energy in 2050.

Krewitt et al, 2009: «A 10 - region global energy system model implemented in the MESAP - PlaNet environment (MESAP, 2008) is used for simulating global energy supply strategies.»

If the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn.

Using a well - accepted metric called the Accumulated Cyclone Energy index or ACE for short (Bell and Chelliah 2006), which has been used by Klotzbach (2006) and Emanuel (2005)(PDI is analogous to ACE), and most recently by myself in Maue (2009), simple analysis shows that 24 - month running sums of global ACE or hurricane energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 Energy index or ACE for short (Bell and Chelliah 2006), which has been used by Klotzbach (2006) and Emanuel (2005)(PDI is analogous to ACE), and most recently by myself in Maue (2009), simple analysis shows that 24 - month running sums of global ACE or hurricane energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 energy have plummeted to levels not seen in 30 years.

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As for his question, if you use the forcings from AR5 AII Table 1.2 (which are a little higher than CO2 forcing alone), & the global numbers@359 (but assuming 0.86 W / m2 imbalance) you get an ECS = 2.8 ºC but most folk consider energy balance methods do underestimate ECS.

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