Sentences with phrase «fuel switching in»

(WRI, 2012) US ghg emissions reductions have been achieved in the United States due largely significant fuel switching in the electricity sector from coal to natural gas, an economic slowdown that began in 2008, and some federal and US state regulatory programs designed to reduce ghg emissions.

The most dramatic decline is registered in the A1B marker; this is related to its aggressive assumptions on the introduction of low - sulfur technologies and fuel switching in the ASIA region (see Box 5 - 3 for more details).

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

This report suggests that the option of fuel switching in the power sector deserves greater consideration to reduce emissions.»

The team looked at the impact of EU policies for renewable energy, landfill gas, nitrous oxide emissions from industry, combined heat - power generation (CHP), efficiency improvements in the built environment, common agricultural policies, F - gases, passenger cars, and efficiency improvements and fuel switch in industry and the energy sector.

Not exact matches

Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.

The agency has evidently accepted VW's contention that the switch will have no appreciable impact on fuel economy or performance — begging the question why the offending software was ever put there in the first place.

The airline replaced a fuel pump pressure switch in response to a problem a flight crew had documented two days before the repair.

In Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath share an example of a manufacturing firm, Brasilata, and how their engine of success was fueled by the creation and adoption of an identity:

Of course, rock - bottom rates and a strong Canadian dollar, he added, are the opposite of what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investment.

Switch console sales will likely hit 15 million units in the year to March and climb to 20 million next year, Nintendo said, fueling hopes of a repeat of the success of the first Wii that debuted in late 2006 and sold more than 100 million units.

That will only fuel speculation that the winger is in line for a switch to Real Madrid in the not too distant future.

Only if it is safe, in the event of a fire, turn the boiler switch or gas valve off to help cut off fuel to a fire.

Second, reducing the usage of gas - switching [part of] large users such as city heating towards other fuels, and investing in the types of powerplants that can consume a variety of fuels; using gas while it's cheap and available, but being able to burn other fuels if needed.

Cuomo should invest in our future through community programs to train people in the solar, wind, geo - thermal heating and cooling industries as well as helping farmers raise food and bio fuels such as switch grass based bio fuels and algae based bio fuels.

In recent years, historically low natural gas prices have driven down wholesale electricity costs as plant owners switched to that fuel, making nuclear power less competitive financially.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.

THOMPSON: Another argument against switching to renewable energy is that there are fewer good jobs in clean energy than in fossil fuels.

When they switched the lasers on, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists found that more energy came out of the fuel than went in.

In comments to EPA, a number of utilities and regional grid operators have expressed concern about the plan's forecasts for renewables, fuel switching and energy efficiency gains.

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

But in November and December 2005, wind power in Colorado cost less than electricity from fossil fuel, and the average household that switched to wind saved $ 4 a month on its electric bill.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a decrease in energy consumption and fuel switching from coal to natural gas.

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

Or put another way, as I have said, just switching the use of already existing carbon from food to fuel does not result in any direct net gain.

In this scenario, that capacity to switch fuels gives rise to an exaptation.

And even if drivers switch to more fuel - efficient cars and trucks, the nation's fuel needs are expected to increase by a fifth over the next 20 years, thanks to dramatic increases in car and airplane use.

«If we go up four or five times in size and switch to a fuel with a mix of deuterium and tritium,» another type of heavy hydrogen, «we should have break - even plasma conditions — if things work out.»

«We suspected the answer lay in the fact that certain cancer cells — which we call metabolically flexible — are able to switch their fuel source.

Iran has said it will downsize the calandria — the vessel in which a core resides — making it harder to later reconfigure the reactor to switch back to natural uranium fuel and produce more plutonium.

Even if easy - to - access oil begins to run out in a few years, as some geologists predict, Broecker says nations will simply switch to other relatively cheap fossil fuels.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

During two episodes of high sugar prices in 2010 and again in 2011, the price of ethanol increased, causing consumers to switch their fuel usage to gasoline.

Dr Staffell said: «Fuel switching is no silver bullet, but any opportunity to reduce emissions in years rather than decades deserves attention.»

Though the study is complete for the Upper Midwest, many farmers may still be hesistant to switch to switchgrass because they are accustomed to growing maize for food and for fuel, says economist Gregory Parkhurst of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

As I show in Fat for Fuel, switching to burning fat as your primary fuel is a very powerful strategy for improving the health of your mitochondria, and in turn, your overall heaFuel, switching to burning fat as your primary fuel is a very powerful strategy for improving the health of your mitochondria, and in turn, your overall heafuel is a very powerful strategy for improving the health of your mitochondria, and in turn, your overall health.

If we take a step back evolutionarily, if you had to eat every three hours in order to survive you just wouldn't have made it, thus we evolved the ability to utilize multiple fuel sources and the ability to switch between them based on availability.

While in ketosis our bodies switch from burning carbs for fuel to burning fat for the energy we need!

Fat adaptation involves sharp carbohydrate restriction in conjunction with a complementing increase in fat consumption (with many of those fats being saturated fats) to induce the physiological shift necessary for the body to «switch» to burning «fat as fuel» at much higher rates.

By switching your body from using carbs as its primary fuel to burning fats instead, or becoming «fat adapted,» you virtually eliminate such drops in energy levels.

Ketones are an potent source of fuel for your brain neurons, and when you're ketogenic, you have higher levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor and an enormous upregulation in brain neuron regeneration, focus and mental acuity (once you get over the «hump» of those first 10 - 14 days of making the fuel switch to using strictly fatty acids as your primary energy sources).

These are used to see if you're in ketosis or if your body has made the switch from burning carbohydrates to burning fat for fuel.