Sentences with phrase «in overall energy use»

Despite these tips for cooking greener, Bluejay reiterates that most of us will hardly put a dent in our overall energy use just by choosing one appliance over another.

Not exact matches

But fossil fuels still account for the majority of both electricity use and primary energy use overall, and at no time in the near future will that change.

Research shows that there are numerous benefits to using coworking spaces, including an increase in productivity, a boost in worker morale and the maximisation of overall energy.

Whereas modern science and technology offer immense new potentialities in relation to nature such as use of solar energy, and improvements in medical science, yet overall nature is being badly exploited by the present pattern of development.

The document gives wineries of all sizes the tools for self - assessment to make improvements in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy use.

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA), in collaboration with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and regional wine associations, is hosting a new workshop series to give wineries of all sizes the tools for self - assessment to make improvements in environmental performance and to lower overall production costs for water and energy use.

In certain sorting and ejection systems for large piece sorting applications (e.g. whole vegetables and whole fruit), the choice to use a sorter that is fitted with finger ejection (such as the TOMRA 5A), as opposed to air ejection, significantly reduces the use of compressed air, which improves the overall energy efficiency of a food processing line.

Frustrated with the resulting decline in our collective energy levels, ability to focus, immunity, and overall health, Jennifer has dedicated the balance of her career to helping people use the same tools marketers use to drive bad choices, to instead make healthy choices easily and effortlessly.

Americans used less energy overall in 2015 than the previous year, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.&raquIn fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.&raquin energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

But overall, Hutchinson stressed, the city is contracting for more than 100 percent of the energy the city will use in the form of renewable power.

One of the nation's most ambitious and symbolic energy - efficiency programs is in New York City: a $ 20 - million effort to cut the skyscraper's overall energy use by 38 percent

That support hit a roadblock a year ago when new conservative prime minister Tony Abbott ordered a review of the country's target for clean energy use by 2020, which ultimately recommended slashing it by a third, in line with falling overall energy demand.

Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.

The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to «match» different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity, researchers say in a new report.

Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laborenergy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National LaborEnergy's Argonne National Laboratory.

«For decades, the overall energy intensity (energy use per unit of GDP) of economies in the developed world has been decreasing, driven by the reality that energy comes at a cost, and so firms and households have incentives to economize on energy use,» Stavins said.

I've seen them make a world of difference for overall energy and many have also been used rather successfully in mitochondrial - dysfunction - based fatiguing illness and muscle disorders (myopathies).

First of all, you can not use any exercise to lose fat locally — you need to perform exercises that stimulate a greater energy expenditure and restrict your calorie intake in order to lower your overall percentage of body fat, and this will eventually help you reveal your abs, depending on your genetics.

The formula uses ingredients such as ginko biloba, St John's wort, L - Carnitine and glutamine in order to provide better blood circulation to the brain, better energy levels to the mind and to offer an overall boost * in mental performance.

Signs you're not getting enough carbs: If you're deficient in this macronutrient, your body will start using protein for energy, especially if you're deficient in overall calories and fats.

Using this integrated approach to hormone replacement therapy, you can expect to quickly experience increased energy, and an overall improvement in your wellbeing.

How can we use ketones, which are produced all the time in small quantities, in larger amounts to greatly improve energy and overall health and fitness?

When the program started, students and teachers were encouraged to turn off lights when rooms were not in use, shut down computer monitors, and be mindful of overall energy usage.

For example, assessments can be used to establish overall levels of student achievement in a subject such as Physics; mastery of particular topics such as energy and mechanics; or the ability to apply Newton's First Law to explain the relationship between force and motion in practical situations.

Kia saidthat Coasting Guide will coach the driver on when to coast and when to brake, while Predictive Energy Control will use the navigation system and cruise control to anticipate topographical changes on the road ahead and manage energy flow, determining when it's best to charge the battery and when it's best to spend that stored energy in the name of overall efficEnergy Control will use the navigation system and cruise control to anticipate topographical changes on the road ahead and manage energy flow, determining when it's best to charge the battery and when it's best to spend that stored energy in the name of overall efficenergy flow, determining when it's best to charge the battery and when it's best to spend that stored energy in the name of overall efficenergy in the name of overall efficiency.

And already, we know that the recent drop in overall U.S. emissions is due in part to steps that promote greater efficiency and greater use of renewable energy.

I ask because my limited understanding is that temperature is related to kinetic energy, but would not register an overall increase in potential energy, in which case energy from the sun could be partitioned in heat energy emitted from the planet and work used to increase potential energy, possibly allowing an energy balance that does not require a radiation balance, and also does not require a warming effect.

The National Energy Technology Laboratory «EOR Primer» states that «somewhere around 85 billion barrels of oil are recoverable using CO2 EOR, which currently is responsible for about 4 percent of U.S. oil production, displaying a long - term growth trend that stands in stark contrast to the long - term decline trend for U.S. oil production overall.

In return, these policies benefit not only clean energy businesses, but all North Carolina electricity consumers — even those who do not use renewable energy or energy efficiency — through lower overall energy bills, healthier communities, higher local tax bases, and jobs.

Since many tiny housers are thinking to live off - grid (or might want that option in the future) or are just more conscious of their overall energy use, I believe a propane tankless heater is the way to go.

Even a small increase in air temperature pushes up overall energy demand, and about 25 % of our energy bills are for only 40 hours per year when the grid is most heavily used.

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

An overall decrease in electricity costs and ultimately electricity is cheap enough that it partly displaces gas for heating (both industrial and residential) and partly displaces oil for transport (e.g. electric vehicles and energy carriers produced using low cost electricity and or high temperature reactors).

The overall product has to drop; that means the focus has to be on factors 3 and 4: reducing primary energy intensity (conservation and economic shifts), and reducing carbon intensity (reduction in fossil fuel use).

Hydro and solid biofuels remain the most used form of renewable energy, and grew in line with overall TPES of 2.5 % and 1.5 % per year respectively.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat pumps.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

In reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, energy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources by 203In reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, energy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources byenergy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources byEnergy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources by 203in the state come from renewable sources by 2030.

As housing for the elderly internal gains used in PHPP is 4.2 W / m2 as opposed to 2.1 W / m2 - benefitted heat demand but not overall primary energy.

In Brussels, the European Union's Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has announced the opening of the first tranche of # 3.4 billion worth of green energy funding, to be made available with the aim of helping the bloc as a whole make use of the technology to help realise the goal of cutting overall carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.

While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 2008, the United States is the world's largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 26 % of the world's total.

If you make an electricity generating device (I built a rowing machine) from scrap materials -LRB-- I got a usable battery from the scrapyard also) then the energy that has been put into making those parts is history you can't change that but by using those parts to make electricity at least you are recouping some of it and balancing things in a positive direction overall

The overall correlation is a result of the fact that climate policy induces systemic changes in the energy system, away from technologies with high greenhouse gas emission levels, which also have high emissions of air pollutants (e.g. coal use without CCS has high emission levels of CO2, but also of SO2).

Yes, those of us in rich countries have a lot of opportunity to reduce our energy use, but I actually think rising per capita energy use, at least in the short term, is a good thing overall because so many people live on so little energy now.

«Publix has cut its electric use by 7 % overall and about 23 % in new stores since launching its «Get Into a Green Routine» program in 2002... the installation of LED lighting in its frozen and refrigerated cases cut energy use there by 50 - 80 %.»

Against an overall increase in Chinese energy use of 2.2 per cent, coal was the only major energy source to see falling demand during 2014, with a 2.9 per cent drop.

Between 1) and 2) the implication is for an overall reduction in world energy use despite a growing population and advancing industrial development in China, India and South America.