Sentences with phrase «how use of renewable»

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«We can do more looking at sustainability; we can do more with plastics moving them to renewables; we can look at how we impact the environment; we can make consumer convenience; we can use innovation; we can be sustainable, and that's the great beauty of packaging,» said Mars Global Petcare Packaging Sustainability Director Colin Yates.

Which is why Mandy Len Catron's Modern Love essay this week was so gratifying — the University of British Columbia professor and author of the just - released book How to Fall in Love With Anyone, used our renewable marriage contract when moving in with her romantic partner.

I am a huge fan of time - limited, renewable marital contracts, which actually have a long, sometimes successful, history, and devote a chapter to it in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (in fact, our contract was used by Mandy Len Catron to draft a relationship contract with her partner, which she wrote about in a Modern Love essay and her new book, How to Fall in Love With Anyone).

Which is why Mandy Len Catron's most recent Modern Love essay was so gratifying — the University of British Columbia professor and author of the just - released book How to Fall in Love With Anyone, used our renewable marriage contract when moving in with her romantic partner.

How the UK can reduce its carbon emissions by increasing the use of renewable energy sources is set to be outlined today by the government.

We're now looking at the world of biology and asking how to use our tools to make a more sustainable world with a focus on biofuels and renewable materials, for example.»

Under the supervision of Ling Liang, a process engineer, she worked on figuring out how effective lignin - derived ionic liquids, solvents used in a variety of renewable energy applications, would be for biomass pretreatment.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

As part of a group exhibition for the CONTACT Photography Festival, «Light and Shadow» also shows how the use of solar power and renewable energy sources are helping to make a difference to the recovering nation.

There's no mention of nuclear power and a pretty simplified summary of how to end fossil fuel use with today's renewable - energy technologies.

«Everybody agreed that if we were going to get more than half of our electricity in our country from renewables by 2050 we were going to have to do things that we simply don't know how to do today at all and fundamentally change the way we use, generate and consume energy [relevant section here].

In addition, sub-groups are studying how the postal sector could better utilize renewable energies and how to promote the use of alternative vehicles for mail delivery.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

However, using your very persuasive logic, if I could invest # 500 elsewhere (instead of micro PV) and achieve 15 X more renewable capacity in the world — How would I do that?

Instead of just reducing our energy consumption and using renewable energy, we need to rethink how we produce and distribute energy.

The report, titled «California's Energy Future — The View to 2050,» draws a series of energy system «portraits» showing how California can meet its ambitious emissions targets using a combination of measures and energy sources that may include electrification, enhanced efficiency, nuclear energy, renewable energy sources, grid modernization, and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).

This Google presentation was specifically titled «How Technology Companies Use Energy to Power Data Centers» and covered Google's (and other IT companies») renewable energy goals and business plans, not the subject of climate change.

In the study, published in the Journal of Power Sources, the UC Irvine team examined how the intelligence of plug - in electric vehicle (PEV) integration impacted the required capacity of energy storage systems to meet renewable utilization targets for a large - scale energy system, using California as an example for meeting a 50 % and 80 % renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in 2030 and 2050.

In the first quarter of this year, one fifth of all electricity used in Britain was generated from renewable sources: that's an indicator of how far we've come and how big the opportunity is.

«Using state - of - the - art smart metering technology, Mojo will be able to analyse customer usage data with a view to optimising energy use and demonstrating how households could benefit from renewable energy technologies,» said the head of Arena, Ivor Frischknecht.

Dr. Neni Moerniaeni, Sp.OG, Mayor of Bontang City, Indonesia presented how the city is using waste to create energy in addition to using more renewable energy.

The point about the renewables targets, surely, is how to improve UK energy security through the increasing use of renewable energy sources — which in turn reduces the impact of our energy use on the local and global environment... Transferring new technology to developing countries is another great idea — but that helps them meet their energy needs and renewables targets, not ours... E

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The report then showed how renewable energy could be used to meet that new level of demand, reducing and ultimately eliminating the need for imports.

This feat, according to the calculator, would require a series of massive changes to how we use energy, such as a shift from fossil fuels towards nuclear and renewables, and much wider use of electric heat and transport.

Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York State Richard Kauffman said, «New, clean energy technologies like power pedestals are a key component of Governor Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the use of renewable resources, and show how homegrown clean energy technology is helping us solve climate change and clean our air close to home.

CFACT energy policy advisor Marita Noon reveals how Hillary Clinton has positioned herself on both sides of the fracking issue — but her campaign for President emphasizes an end to all uses of fossil fuels and a total reliance on so - called «renewable» energy.

Making credible renewable electricity usage claims is a technical deep - dive into corporate transparency and credibility, and shows companies how to accurately describe their use of renewable electricity.

When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use the green electricity to power a local school.

Here's how this could happen: Without Renewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) wRenewable Alternatives, Liquid Coal Could Win the Day As world oil reserves begin critically depleting and the necessary investments aren't made to electrify the world's transportation fleet and a larger switch to renewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) wrenewable energy made, then it is likely that use of coal - to - liquids fuels (which have 40 % higher emissions than oil) will rise.

Once everybody is using the same connectors, what will matter most for electric car and plug - in hybrid owners will be how «smart» the chargers & cars will be; for example, you could set it to charge only certain times of the day or night, or to communicate with a smart meter to only charge when electricity is at a certain rate, or only when there's a surplus of renewable energy on the grid, or to charge in a way that extends the life of your battery pack as much as possible, etc..

I wonder how long such an installation would take if we could institute two conditions: working at wartime speed to effect the transition (24/7, all available resources and industry drafted for the effort), and reducing energy expenditures to only the most essential in order to both reduce fossil fuel use in the interim and reduce the number of renewables facilities required (and minimize fossil fuel use for their construction).

A team led by Stanford civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson has projected the growth in energy demands through 2050, and then calculated exactly how those needs can be supplied using only renewables, based on which renewable sources of energy are most feasible in the various States.

Paolo Frankl, Head of IEA's Renewable Energy Division, commented: «Given that global energy demand for heat represents almost half of the world's final energy use - more than the combined global demand for electricity and transport - solar heat can make a significant contribution in both tackling climate change and strengthening energy security, The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap outlines how best to advance the global uptake of solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies, which, it notes, involve very low levels of greenhouse - gas emissions.

We also used DTE's own modeling tools to show how a combination of clean energy alternatives — renewables, efficiency, and demand response — could meet DTE's power needs at lower cost while providing a more diverse, cleaner, and lower - risk portfolio of energy resources.

One of the difficulties with renewable energy, like solar cells and wind turbines, is the problem of how to store that energy for use when the sun goes down or the wind stops blowing.

With a growing expectation that EVs will someday represent a significant share of the car market, the government and utilities are using this study and others to learn how to manage growing electricity loads through maximizing the growing amount of renewable energy on the grid.

The policy question: how do Member States achieve their national targets under the Renewables Directive if they must allow undertakings to use imports of green electricity as part of their local obligations?

Here's a thought: instead of focussing on burying millions of tons of emitted carbon, how about retiring old coal fired plants and replacing them with renewable energy, and using the billions of R&D dollars for CCS to support clean and green renewable energy projects across the country?

How it will impact you: In recent years, cork, a renewable material harvested from the bark of cork oak trees, has resurfaced as a favorite for myriad uses, and for good reason.