Sentences with phrase «human energy needs»

However, their potential to meet a sizeable share of human energy needs is modest.

In the end, the main value of the climate calculations spurred by Trump's election could be in refocusing attention on the true scope of the challenge, which some researchers have described as «super wicked» given how hard it has been, using conventional political, legal or diplomatic tools, to balance human energy needs and the climate system's limits.

Capturing just a tiny fraction of the incoming solar energy is enough to meet human energy needs (and wind energy is a product of the incoming solar energy as well).

This is particularly true given the «super wicked» nature of this issue, which is complicated by competing societal concerns, embedded special interests, huge gaps between human energy needs and clean - energy menus and other impediments to swift change.

A great moment, reflecting the inevitability of diverse responses to climate risk on a variegated planet, came during a plenary panel focused on ways to satisfy fast - growing human energy needs while moving away from burning fossil fuels, which remain the world's dominant energy source.

Rosie helped me find the super human energy I needed but had lost.

Not exact matches

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

To sum up, we need today a daring generation of young intellectuals determined to bend their energies to raise Bharat to its high status justified by the human and material resources it possesses.

It needs to be stated first that human beings are highly complex psycho - physical organisms with literally thousands of energy events interacting with each other and with and under the dominance of an «organizing center of experience» (the brain), also present in animals with central nervous systems.

Even humanistic studies in a core curriculum fail to kindle the energies needed for a more vital human mode of being.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

In Man evolution is interiorized and made purposeful; and at the same time, in the degree in which the strivings of human inventiveness need to be controlled in their operation and sustained in their energies, it imposes upon itself a moral order and «mysticizes» itself.

Until human beings develop room - temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and matter to energy / energy to matter technologies, there will NEVER be enough resources to support the needs of earth's EVER - growing human population.

Culture is not a mere superstructure, but no healthy culture can survive unless basic human needs are met with some surplus of energy remaining to the people.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Amory Lovins has argued in detail that an environmentally desirable energy policy will also employ more persons in more desirable ways and produce as much usable power as we need.35 If we redefine the goal of efficiency as the enhancement of human experience, we are likely to find that most of the oppositions identified by Okun between equality and efficiency will disappear.

The UK government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.

The UK Government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.

Because my energy needs don't mysteriously go down with two kids under 5 just because I'm incubating another human to drain the life outta me.

Between 12 and 24 months, it can supply one third of your child's energy needs.6 Human milk is a nourishing food for as long as your child drinks it.

Per Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (Riordan, 2004, p. 438), «The amount of energy needed by lactating mothers continues to be debated.

Evidence of early humans» use of fire could be used to mark how they overcame their energy needs, said primatologist and biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham of Harvard University.

By the same token, evidence of coastal adaptation can also mark human activity and a strategy for meeting the brain's growing energy needs.

In some future scenarios, BECCS would remove up to a trillion tons of CO2 from the air by the end of the century — about half of what humans have emitted since the start of the Industrial Revolution — and it would supply a third of the globe's energy needs.

Because near - UV light is invisible to the human eye, the researchers set out to harness it for the electrical energy needed to activate the tinting technology.

The human body works best when the supply of fuel equals the exact energy needs of its cells.

Many extol the virtues of synthetic biology as providing potential solutions to human health problems, food security, and energy needs.

«The NIST synapse has lower energy needs than the human synapse, and we don't know of any other artificial synapse that uses less energy,» NIST physicist Mike Schneider said.

Although nuclear fission, photovoltaics, wind, and water now meet a small portion of the world population's energy needs, humans today get most of our energy the same way the cave people did: directly from the sun or from fire.

The plane's frame needed to be strong enough to carry a human pilot, several days» worth of resources and four heavy batteries, but light enough to fly on the solar energy absorbed by the 17,000 solar cells — each as thin as a human hair — mounted on its wing, fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.

Demonstrating how these early humans acquired the extra energy they needed to sustain these shifts has been the subject of much debate among researchers.

They feed a computer program, the Matrix, into every brain to simulate an external real world and then harvest the imprisoned humans» biochemical electricity for their own energy needs.

If humans were to one day live under the yellow haze of the moon's skies, exploring its rolling dunes and ragged peaks or settling by the side of gently stirring hydrocarbon lakes, they would need energy to power their lives.

He scoffed at how unambitious we humans were, pointing out that we could meet all our current global energy needs by harvesting the sunlight striking an area smaller than 0.5 percent of the Sahara desert.

We do need to feed and clothe the growing population of the world, and to that end we must manage water, land, energy, and human resources.

«The burgeoning human population needs energy and food — unfortunately, nitrogen pollution is an unintended consequence and not even the open ocean is immune from our daily industrial activities,» said Karl.

«Mutations in this gene and others needed for mobilization of energy in cells may account for some cases of IBD in humans,» said Dr. Beutler, also Professor of Immunology.

Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.

His amendment states not only that scientists agree that climate change is real and human - caused, but that society needs to shift from fossil fuels toward cleaner energy.

Today, meeting the energy, transport and other needs of the human population releases nearly 6 billion tonnes of carbon a year into the atmosphere.

Holt and others in Budapest also emphasized that researchers in the «hard» sciences need to collaborate with researchers in the social sciences to contribute to dialogue around problems facing human beings, where individual decisions regarding issues such as energy use can have a significant effect on outcomes.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

It is only recently that men have begun to consider how they can reconcile human needs for energy with the finiteness of the earth.

The School of Engineering's mission is to educate engineers committed to the innovative and ethical application of science and technology in addressing the most pressing societal needs, to develop and nurture twenty - first century leadership qualities in its students, faculty, and alumni, and to create and disseminate transformational new knowledge and technologies that further the well - being and sustainability of society in such cross-cutting areas as human health, environmental sustainability, alternative energy, and the human - technology interface.

To link the work of human and robotic exploration more closely with the response to the pressing needs of planet Earth, particularly those issues related to climate and energy;

If we're going to get serious about boldly going where no man has gone before, and send humans beyond the solar system, we're gonna need a cheap and plentiful energy source to help us get there.

If humanity is to cope with this extra heat, Stokes says, people need to understand energy - use patterns and the human behaviors that shape them.

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