Sentences with phrase «global energy system»

The past decade has seen a number of major shifts in global energy systems.

Trying to capture the entire global energy system in a model and project its evolution over several decades is... well, let's just say it, impossible.

Or we can transition to a cleaner global energy system, at a speed that is unprecedented, across all of history.

This analytical document demonstrates that the current global energy system raises a wide array of concerns ranging from resource depletion and technological development to environmental impacts.

Instead, as discussed below, there would need to be a Presidential directive to pursue a path (s) with the potential to contribute to decarbonization of global energy systems as rapidly as practical.

Impacts of increased adoption of landfill methane from 2020 - 2050 were generated based on three growth scenarios derived from the evaluation of several global energy system modeling scenarios.

Finally, on the policy side, if there's evidence that existing technology is inadequate to affordably decarbonize a growing global energy system on a scale that would matter to the climate, and it's clear that we've utterly disinvested in energy research for decades, it's my job to write that, as I did in 2006, and repeat it on the blog as much as necessary.

Energy transitions: future without fossil energies is desirable, and it is eventually inevitable, but the road from today's overwhelmingly fossil - fueled civilization to a new global energy system based on efficient conversions of renewable flows will be neither fast nor cheap.

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.»

Fossil fuels are directly applicable to all sectors of the economy and, if wind / solar will dominate the future global energy system, they will have to be applied to all sectors of the economy as well.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

A straightforward comparison of the adoption and emissions results with other sources is not possible, due to the specificities of the feedstock considered herein, since all other global energy system models consider aggregate numbers for biomass and waste.

This will outline the steps we believe that the industry and individual companies will need to take to adapt their business practices and models to move down a trajectory consistent with an energy transition that delivers a climate secure global energy system.

Digitalization set to transform global energy system with profound implications for all energy actors New IEA report provides first comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges raised by the digital transformation of energy systems 6 November 2017

The way we produce and use energy will become increasingly clean not by limiting its consumption, but by using expanded access to energy to unleash human ingenuity in support of innovating toward an equitable, low - carbon global energy system.

Kjell Aleklett and his Uppsala Global Energy Systems Group (UGES) have done an incredible job putting together data and analysis of the global fossil fuel situation and some consequences.

The world is on a development and energy path that will bring with it a surge in carbon - dioxide emissions — a surge that can only end with a transformation of global energy systems.

He teaches the course «Innovative Technologies and Organizations in Global Energy Systems» at University of Toronto's Centre for Global Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

The incident illustrates the importance of sweating the details if your goal is to build societal support for the grand challenge of getting out of our fossil - fueled comfort zone and de-carbonizing the fast - growing global energy system.

Impacts of increased adoption of micro wind from 2020 - 2050 were generated based on three growth scenarios derived from the evaluation of scenarios from four global energy systems models.

«Studies such as these are needed to identify the lowest cost and most efficient pathways to deep decarbonization of the global energy system,» added study co-author Sally Benson, a professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford and director of GCEP.

One main issue discussed in the correspondence is how to view the needed «transformation» of the global energy system: Does transformation mean we can make a major dent in emissions by just scaling up existing technologies, or do we need some profound breakthroughs?

«We didn't really know how our first experiment would turn out, but we were surprised how little difference abundant gas made to total greenhouse gas emissions even though it was dramatically changing the global energy system,» said James «Jae» Edmonds, PNNL's chief scientist at JGCRI.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Photo: Reuters I last raised the issue of a carbon price in «What Unconventional Fuels Tell Us About the Global Energy System», which added several data points to Charles C.

The study is based on three models: one for projecting transformations in the global energy system, an air pollution model and a climate model.

«What we find is that sustained low or high oil prices could have a major impact on the global energy system over the next several decades; and depending on how the fuel substitution dynamics play out, the carbon dioxide consequences could be significant.»

«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.

This suggests that storing carbon in forests, agricultural areas, and other ecosystems is an important and cost - effective part of a bigger carbon dioxide emissions control strategy that includes dramatic changes to the global energy system.

It will investigate the historical relationship between energy use and economic welfare and possible scenarios for the coupled development of the global energy system and Earth's climate over the coming centuries.

This seminar, intended for students from all academic majors, will examine the evolution of energy supply, energy demand and the global energy system as a whole, from the rise of photosynthesis to the development of agriculture, the Industrial revolution, and the modern, carbon - constrained world.

The implications of considering Arctic sea - ice - free conditions for the transformation of the global energy system are severe.

In a plenary talk, Ottmar Edenhofer, a leader of the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on ways to limit global warming, described how, even with no greenhouse - gas emissions growth last year, the global energy system was «recarbonizing,» in part due to a rush by less - developed countries to exploit low - priced coal.

Each year we delay acting, the more vulnerable our economies become to potentially catastrophic climate change impacts and the more costly it becomes to transform our global energy system.

The resulting complexity doesn't bode well for those seeking urgent action to get the carbon out of the growing global energy system.

What are the traits required of those working on a cathedral, whether one built of stone or of a thousand variegated actions aimed at a long - term environmental and social goal (for instance taking the carbon out of the global energy system)?

To a large extent, clear answers will only come in hindsight, largely because much of what is being attempted has never been tried before, at least on the scale of the global energy system and climate.

I wish I could share the optimism of those who think that transforming the global energy system will be cheap (or even possible) without a dramatic change in the context of the debate.

He helpfully reminds readers that decarbonization of a vast and growing global energy system is a marathon, not a sprint, and one for which the course and rules are still being worked out:

This is especially enhanced by the model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the center of the global energy system.

Four large - scale shifts in the global energy system set the scene for the World Energy Outlook 2017: the rapid deployment and falling costs of clean energy technologies, the growing electrification of energy, the shift to a more services - oriented economy and a cleaner energy mix in China, and the resilience of shale gas and tight oil in the United States.

He called for more vigorous action to «steer the global energy system onto a more sustainable path».

Reaching the needed levels «will require large - scale changes of the global energy system as well as cuts in GHG emissions over the coming decades.»