Sentences with phrase «global energy consumption»

Renewable energy accounted for 2.4 % of global energy consumption in 2012, and a record 4.7 % of global power generation.

Therefore, the results presented here are inconsistent with the hypothesis of large reductions in global energy consumption for outdoor lighting because of the introduction of solid - state lighting.

«The energy in sunlight striking the earth for 40 minutes is equivalent to global energy consumption for a year,» the authors wrote.

In the scenario, the share of renewables in global energy consumption remains largely unchanged while the share of traditional biomass falls.

The overall impact of these changes on global energy consumption will be relatively small although the impact on deforestation and food security may be considerable.

Renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector, although these are not being matched in transportation and heating — which together account for 80 % of global energy consumption.

However, alternative energy has not even made a dent in global energy consumption.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

According to the IEA, implementing cost - effective energy efficiency measures in small and mid-sized entreprises could reduce global energy consumption by 30 % — an amount equal to the total combined annual energy use of Japan and Korea.

As of 2015, renewable energy provided 19.3 percent of final global energy consumption.

The average global energy consumption of transportation fuels is currently several terawatts (1 terawatt = 1012 Joule) per second.

There's a parallel between what Mr. Silver has done with U.S. politics and what I am trying to do with global energy consumption.

Projections of total global energy consumption show that between 2004 and 2030, fossil fuels will provide the bulk of the increase, with nuclear and other sources providing relatively minor contributions in absolute terms (Figure 3 and Table 1).

«It's a substantial cut to global energy consumption just by having a way to integrate lasers and photonic circuits with silicon.»

Yi Cui and colleagues note that nearly half of global energy consumption goes toward heating buildings and homes.

Global energy consumption grows 53 % between 2008 and 2035, representing an average annual growth rate of 1.6 %.

In the IRENA case, electricity rises from 21 percent of total global energy consumption today to 40 percent by 2050.

Without nuclear, the scientists believe global energy consumption will overtake the planet's ability to reverse the buildup of carbon dioxide pollution from burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels.

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Colbert Report, «Tonight's guest: Michael Shellenberger explores global energy consumption, nuclear power and lessons from Frankenstein,» January 28, 2013

Most of this CO2 increase has taken place since 1970, about the time when global energy consumption accelerated.

The share of nuclear power, the other non-fossil energy source, remained constant at about 6 %, for many years, with nuclear capacity increasing in line with increasing global energy consumption.

I would note that Alex Trembath's useful intervention to this discussion provides insight into why we can expect global energy consumption will continue to grow, and tangentially why so much of that energy will be supplied by fossil fuels without an major breakthroughs in energy technology.

For instance, modern bioenergy in final global energy consumption should increase four-fold by 2060 in the IEA's 2 °C scenario (2DS), which seeks to limit global average temperatures from rising more than 2 °C by 2100 to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change.

The average global energy consumption of transportation fuels is currently several terawatts (1 terawatt = 1012 Joule per second).

BP projects that global carbon dioxide emissions will rise by 29 percent by 2035 as part of a 41 percent overall increase in global energy consumption — virtually all of it from developing economies.

The U.S. Department of Energy projects that global energy consumption will increase by 53 % between 2008 and 2035, with most of that growth coming from the long - term economic expansion in Asian countries.

«If you look at this in a broad sense, about 5 percent of our total global energy consumption is spent on electronics,» said co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.

If these types of technologies were widely available on the market, global energy consumption could be cut in half, said Piccard, speaking last week at the International Transport Forum summit in Leipzig, Germany, taking place concurrently with the Berlin Air Show.

On its current course, global energy consumption would be 40 percent higher in 2030 than it is today.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration agency, global energy consumption should rise nearly 60 % over the next 30 years.