Sentences with phrase «future energy supply»

We produced four scenarios of future energy supply, E, that bracket pessimistic to optimistic possibilities.

Our model shows how variation in future energy supplies may affect the size of the future global population, given the empirical relationship shown in Figure 1.

Developing clean energy technologies will provide economic opportunities and ensure future energy supplies.

Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.

DOE to fund 14 research projects on deepwater and Arctic methane hydrates; potential future energy supply

Artificial photosynthesis is considered a promising element of a sustainable future energy supply.

Among Germany's efforts to secure a reliable and affordable future energy supply is the adoption of a new research program, which has ear - marked funding of roughly $ 3.5 billion through 2014 — 75 % more than from 2006 to 2009 — to support development of sustainable energy technologies.

Bloomberg points out that the Obama Administration is «facing mounting calls from conservationists to thwart new fossil fuel development as part of the «keep it in the ground» movement» — which Murkowski says is a «misguided» effort that «will harm local economies and threaten future energy supplies.»

Therefore, the «realistic», «linear», and «optimistic» scenarios project larger future energy supplies than those predicted by [11].

Since 1973, the federal government has spent $ 40 billion (in 2012 dollars) on coal R&D, including President Bush's $ 2 billion Coal Research Initiative designed to «improve coal's competitiveness in future energy supply markets.»

ExxonMobil, the largest US energy group, has published its Outlook for Energy, which provides the company's view of future energy supply and demand.

However, there is also much uncertainty in future energy supplies, and this energy is essential to fueling the economic development that results empirically in the demographic transition.

When it comes to collecting data about our energy past, analyzing trends and projecting future energy supply and demand, no one does it better than EIA.

Conservative environment spokesman Peter Ainsworth said: «The question of our future energy supply is crucial and we can't have these decisions made on the basis of hidden links to the nuclear industry or lobbying activities.

In few places is this idea more powerful than among those planning our future energy supply.

Moreover, because a fusion power plant would have ecologically favorable properties, fusion could make an enduring contribution to our future energy supply.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

A special Low Nuclear Case examines what would happen if the anticipated contribution of nuclear to future energy supply were to be halved.

Specifically, our model suggests that future energy supplies will be insufficient to generate population leveling by mid-century (Figure 2A, B).

«If coal is to continue as a primary component of the nation's future energy supply in a carbon - constrained world, large - scale demonstrations of carbon management technologies — especially carbon capture and sequestration — are needed to prove the commercial readiness of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal - based power plants and other energy conversion processes,» says the report.

While all regions will play a role in future energy supply and demand, the enormous consumption increases projected in Asia make the region of key interest in future energy development.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 14 new research projects that will be a part of an expanding portfolio of projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates» potential as a future energy supply.

Put into simpler terms, the Reference Case should not be seen as a forecast of future energy supply and demand; instead it should be seen as a starting point for assessing the impact of other possibilities.

Maybe they're starting to get a little worried about AGW and / or future energy supply, but maybe they think unplugging mobile phone chargers and putting a small windmill on their rooftop is going to suffice.

In this way I've benefited from courses on global climate change, climatology, future energy supply and demand, the physics of the greenhouse effect and planetary radiation balance, and climate politics and policy options.

The future energy supply of this country must be a diverse mix of technologies.

Energy generation is taken into account here according to clearly - defined criteria; the suitability of the building systems for a future energy supply based purely on renewable energy is also considered.

This decision resulted in the adoption of a suite of new policy measures and determined renewable energy as the cornerstone of future energy supply, a set of policy instruments commonly known as the Energiewende.

Renewable primary energy (PER) PHI has developed a new primary energy evaluation system which anticipates a future energy supply solely through renewable sources.