Sentences with phrase «human need for energy»

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

is much more likely to cause large reductions in quality of life, given basic human needs for energy

First published in 1975, Worldwatch Reports (formerly Worldwatch Papers) use the best available science to focus on the challenges that climate change, resource degradation, and population growth pose for meeting human needs for energy, food, and livelihoods.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

«Human bodies are very efficient at storing energy by repressing energy expenditure to conserve it for later when you need it,» explains Alan Saltiel, from the UCSD research team.

Increase of Earth's energy imbalance from reduction of particulate air pollution, which is needed for the sake of human health, can be minimized via an emphasis on reducing absorbing black soot [75], but the potential to constrain the net increase of climate forcing by focusing on black soot is limited [76].

(500 milliliters) in energy drinks per day and still feel good, although the sugars are high and so these things need to be weighed out in terms of what is actually healthy for the human body.

You'll have been told at a young age that the human body needs carbohydrates for energy, but it also needs insulin to extract that energy and allow it be used.

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

But the energy needed to either ignite the human body or to dehydrate it first for later ignition seems to be a net loss.

Everybody knows that they are working dogs (mostly used for sledding and for carrying supplies and humans), which translates to high energy levels, innate intelligence and the constant need to be active.

Just like humans, Pit bulls need carbs for energy or else they could lose their muscle mass.

In Lost Planet, human snow pirates navigate VS (Vital Suits) through hostile ice - covered environments, fighting against the indigenous Akrid creatures for the precious thermal energy they need to survive.

«Growth can only be new, for awareness is the ever - changing adjustment of the human psyche to chaos,» Noguchi said in his artist statement for the 1946 MoMA exhibition «Fourteen Americans,» continuing, «If I say that growth is the constant transfusion of human meaning into the encroaching void, then how great is our need today when our knowledge of the universe has filled space with energy, driving us toward a greater chaos and new equilibriums.

It's going to require energy for the billions of people who don't have basic human needs to acquire them.

It's been quite a week for those seeking to revive the country's focus on the importance of science and engineering to human progress, the need for new energy choices in a world heading toward 9 billion people, and attention to the degrading biosphere.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

Many of those promoting stasis in the face of a clear need for a global energy quest have used this saga as a kind of «blackwash» that will long linger like a cloud, tainting public appreciation of even the undisputed basics of science pointing to a rising human influence on climate.

But that is only the first baby step given the need for far more energy to supply human needs, even with spreading efficiency (recall that 2 billion people are cooking on firewood or dried dung at the moment).

What is needed, more than ever before, is administrative leadership that goes to instruct societies of humans to depend much less on fossil - fuels, and make way for renewable energy alternatives.

There's huge potential for the United States to take a leading role in driving the energy quest that would be needed to slow and eventually cut CO2 output even as human numbers and appetites crest.

Since this recycling process was so successful for all life on earth, why not focus on a similar energy solution for the human's external need for energy.

Making fire undoubtedly was a major reason we as humans are still here, but since we now are burning up all organic matter sequestered over millions of years, shouldn't we change directions and find other ways to satisfy our need for energy and isn't it time we start using all our knowledge we as humans have acquired over all these years?

Increasing human population and greater need for energy as countries develop will also all impact on emission levels and costs.

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of Earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy, and ecosystem services.

«uncertainty» equals no consensus but consensus is not proof this is just one classic example of just more humans trying to justify their existence and no the IPCC Judith Curry and everyone else involved continue dancing on the head of a pin whilst Mr Ordinary gets his wealth sequestrated in order to pay for these guys to indulge in their pet hobby when the person who is making their life possible derives no benefit whatsoever except higher and higher energy bills, more restrictions on their ability to travel whilst again the lauded few get to travel across the planet 1st class to tout their jaded theories of how what and where and all I hope and pray is that we get another five years of flat temperatures then you are all toast and in a great need of having to work for a living or get another hobby.

Given that humans are currently pulling 17 tW from the earth, as fossil fuels, and using another 30 tW for energy from food, our current needs are already a big proportion of the total «free energy» available.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

This has always been the only serious risk and what must be avoided if the US and the developed world is to have a prosperous future that will allow humans to have access to the fossil fuel - generated energy needed for continued economic progress and improved human welfare and if plants are to not to lose partial access to one of their basic nutrients (assumming CO2 emissions reductions have any real effects on atmospheric CO2 levels).

The reason people use fossil fuels is that for most uses they are the most efficient way to supply the energy humans need to supplement their own energy use that will improve their health and welfare.

So when you discuss and when you plan for the resources and the energy needed for the future, for human beings on this planet, you have to plan for 10 billion.

Clearly we need to maintain cheap and abundant energy in order to sustain our current economies and provide opportunities for humans to thrive across the world.

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

Yet fossil fuels, especially coal, will remain a significant source of energy to meet human needs for the foreseeable future.

It is all those bad humans need for fossil fuel energy that is going to exterminate them.

Recognising that water is fundamental for food security, human health, energy production, industrial productivity, biodiversity, and basic human needs, it ended up with a call to governments to pay more attention to water to provide solutions that will help implement the Paris Agreement.

Increase of Earth's energy imbalance from reduction of particulate air pollution, which is needed for the sake of human health, can be minimized via an emphasis on reducing absorbing black soot [75], but the potential to constrain the net increase of climate forcing by focusing on black soot is limited [76].

Democratic governments do not have the influence needed to force consumers to pay for much higher priced wind and solar energy against this competition any more than they could prohibit alcohol production and use by humans.

With enough energy in one hour's worth of global sunlight to meet all human needs for a year, solar technologies are an ideal solution.

In those two videos, Lomborg starts with reasonable arguments: the world's poor need access to energy in order to lift themselves out of poverty and that indoor cooking fires are terrible for human health.

His research focuses on the causes, consequences, and conservation of earth's biodiversity, and on how managed and natural ecosystems can sustainably meet human needs for food, energy and ecosystem services.