Sentences with phrase «growing use of these fuels»

Since around 1750, humanity's heavy and growing use of these fuels has spewed massive amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and soot into the air.

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Given that the use of messaging apps is growing in popularity, chatbot uses for enterprise have also grown, which has fueled major industry players to integrate more chatbots into their systems for both individual and enterprise use.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

With shade grown coffee and a limited reliance on fossil fuels Dukale's farm (they use methane gas harvested from the livestock manure to power their homes) provides an example of what farming can be like.

Although consumption of nonfossil fuels is expected to grow faster than fossil fuels, fossil fuels still account for 77 % of energy use in 2040.

Today the share of fossil fuels account for 87 % of all energy use and despite growing investments in renewable energy, this figure has been constant the last twenty years.

Earlier this year, bosses named the roll out of Universal Credit as a key factor fuelling the growing demand for foodbank use - a claim the Government challenged, saying it was unfair to attribute the trend to a single issue.

The major response to the growing awareness that production of oil will soon cease to increase has been to use farmland to produce substitute fuel.

The impact of food waste also includes the energy, fuel and water used to grow food that may not be used.

The family had stopped using herbicides on the farm in the mid-1970s, and in the early 1980s, Albert replaced tilling fields, used to grow silage, with a no - till method of planting, to prevent soil erosion and reduce fuel consumption.

We can be a beacon, a light to show the rest of the country how we can literally make our home grown energy, bio-fuel, using switch grass and algae based bio fuels.

Subsidies for using farmland to grow fuels, instead of food.

«Robert Halfon's debate on fuel prices highlights a growing problem in the Chamber Main John Baron MP says Bundesbank should use its # 130 billion of gold reserves if Germany wants to save $ uro»

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

While the combination therapies block off the principal pathway that cancer cells use to fuel their growth, the cells come to bypass this blockade and, like vehicles on a detour route, make use of additional pathways to continue growing and spreading.

But interest is growing in new production processes that use renewable energy (see «Grab ammonia out of thin air for fuel of the future «-RRB-.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

With the growing use of mastectomy, fueled by celebrity disclosures and growing patient interest, further research is necessary to monitor whether the short - term employment consequences seen in this study will translate into longer term impacts on these women's employment and well - being, say the study authors.

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

Environmentalists have also become critical of using corn, sugarcane and other agricultural crops because they typically need lots of fresh water, fossil fuel — rich fertilizer and land to grow.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

This report advocated for a «spent fuel standard» whereby the plutonium should be converted «to a form from which the plutonium would be as difficult to recover for weapons use as the larger and growing quantity of plutonium in commercial spent fuel.»

Although consumption of nonfossil fuels is expected to grow faster than fossil fuels, fossil fuels still account for 77 % of energy use in 2040.

-- Where carbon dioxide (or another greenhouse gas) generated by a covered entity is used as an input in the production of algae - based fuels, the Administrator shall ensure that emission allowances are required to be held either for the carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity that is used to grow the algae or for the portion of the carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of the fuel produced from such algae that is attributable to carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity, but not for both.

With hundreds of nuclear reactors operating worldwide, disposing of nuclear waste and used fuel is a growing issue.

The volume will only get larger, too: oil and gas producers use at least 7.5 million liters of water per well to fracture subterranean formations and release entrapped hydrocarbon fuels, a practice that has grown in the U.S. by at least 48 percent per year in the last five years, according to the Energy Information Administration.

For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

Despite their growing numbers, all Minis remain based on the original Hardtop's architecture and use a fuel - efficient 1.6 - liter 4 - cylinder engine that comes in a variety of power outputs.

The company makes belts that are incorporated into CVTs used in vehicles made by Toyota Motor, and the expansion is in response to growing inquiries from Toyota as the automaker increases production of vehicles equipped with CVT, which offer greater fuel efficiency than conventional automatic transmissions, according to the report.

Roelant de Waard, vice president, Marketing, Sales and Service, Ford of Europe said «Helping customers effortlessly deal with stop - start traffic using our most advanced driver assistance technologies to - date, and cruise in comfort supported by our refined and fuel - efficient new 2.0 - litre EcoBlue diesel engine and eight - speed automatic gearbox, the new Ford Edge is our most compelling offering yet for the ever - growing numbers of European customers migrating towards SUVs.»

Fuel efficiency can be displayed in one of two ways, as chosen by the driver: as a traditional chart or using an innovative display that shows growing leaves and vines on the instrument panel, creating a visual reward for the driver's efforts.

«Helping customers effortlessly deal with stop - start traffic using our most advanced driver assistance technologies to - date, and cruise in comfort supported by our refined and fuel - efficient new 2.0 - litre EcoBlue diesel engine and eight - speed automatic gearbox, the new Ford Edge is our most compelling offering yet for the ever - growing numbers of European customers migrating towards SUVs,» says Ford Europe VP of Marketing, Sales and Service Roelant de Waard.

Long - term fuel efficiency can be displayed in two ways — either as a traditional chart or using an innovative display that shows a growing leafy vine on the right side of the cluster.

If, as, and when, the United States should embark on a large - scale program for the use of alcohol in a motor fuel, estimates indicate that thousands of acres would be required to grow the raw material for fermentation, a large number of alcohol distilleries would be required, and many hundreds of men would find new employment.

The rapidly growing infrastructure to support the use of LNG as a fuel has been Chart's key driver.

They joined this rapidly growing company at its beginning, and is using their ten years of experience in business operations and tech development in fueling their passion for innovation and quality game development.

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

All forms of conservation are very important, as is making maximal practical use of solar, wind, geothermal, falling water, and tide differentials as sources of energy, but all these factors taken together will not allow us to fully transition away from fossil fuels for our growing energy needs.

The answer to the question of why plants are not taking up all the fossil fuel emissions is missing, something like: «plants in principal only take up as much CO2 as they use for growing.

The extent of land used to grow fuel, food, or fiber will determine the costs of those necessities and also the fate of the world's last untrammeled ecosystems.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: I'm pretty sure they've changed over to using all ethanol fuel, which is a step in the right direction ONLY if the fuel is from crops grown and harvested without using a lot of conventional fossil fuel.]

Most of these perturbations, tied either directly or indirectly to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity, are projected to grow in coming decades, resulting in increasing negative impacts on ocean biota and marine resources.

While I support initiatives to reduce use of carbon fuels, we only need go back in history to the times of Leif Ericsson, to recall that Greenland was green, and grapes grew in the Canadian Maritimes.

Is the climate challenge — which would require moving away from conventional use of fossil fuels even as the world's energy appetite grows threefold or more in the next few decades — fundamentally a bad fit for Washington?

Biomass - to - energy is a sustainable solution that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, assuming that secondary and tertiary biomass is used (rather than crops grown primarily for biomass fuel) to substitute the use of fossil fuels.

In Indonesia, 60 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions come from land - use change, in part, fuelled by the growing demand for palm oil and agricultural crops.