Sentences with phrase «industrial uses of energy»

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Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, they made it possible to move heavy goods, like coal, from mines to factories, using a fraction of the energy required by road transport.

Europe is leading the industrial hemp comeback, making major strides in using the crop as a carbon - sequestering, energy - efficient building material in the form of hempcrete and as hemp insulation.

He had felt it, for example, in the darkness of the paleolithic age when for the first time he ventured to put fire to his own use, or accidentally discovered how to produce it; in neolithic times when he found that by cultivating thin ears of grass he could turn them into rice and millet and corn; and much later, at the dawn of our industrial era, when he found that he could tame and harness not only animals but the tireless energies of steam and electricity.

It was technological change, above all the discovery of how to use the energy concentrated in coal and oil, that led to the Industrial Revolution and subsequent boom.

We are at the beginning of revolutionary industrial changes among which the recent achievements in synthetic chemistry and the potentialities in the peaceful use of atomic energy are mere portents.

A. Is beneficial, safe & healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle; B. Meets market criteria for performance and cost; C. Is sourced, manufactured, transported, and recycled using renewable energy; D. Optimizes the use of renewable or recycled source materials; E. Is manufactured using clean production technologies and best practices; F. Is made from materials healthy in all probable end - of - life scenarios; G. Is physically designed to optimize materials and energy; H. Is effectively recovered and utilized in biological and / or industrial closed loop cycles.

Comment: This is another variant of the use of public expenditure to drive specific industrial outcomes, in this case by providing a shot in the arm to the local renewables energy industry.

In addition to criminalizing personal drug use, cannabis prohibition deprives society of the industrial benefits of hemp at a time when we must make use of every ecologically responsible resource to provide materials and energy in the face of looming environmental crises,» said Hawkins, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for Governor.

Halfmoon, NY — A series of parcels in the northeast corner of the Town of Halfmoon have been identified as ripe for development — with potential uses ranging from manufacturing and light industrial to renewable energy and commercial — according to a feasibility study commissioned by the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership and The Chamber of Southern Saratoga County.

The majority of energy use in 2015 was used for electricity generation (38 quads, down slightly from 2014), followed by transportation, industrial, residential and commercial.

The world's current trajectory of energy use, deforestation and industrial growth could easily take us to twice that range by the end of the century.

At present, industrial hydrogen is produced from natural gas using a process that consumes a great deal of energy while also releasing carbon into the atmosphere, thus contributing to global carbon emissions.

Ha and McEwen, a WSU assistant professor of chemical engineering, say they have a solution: a small reactor that inexpensively breaks water and methane into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used for energy and industrial products.

The conventional industrial solution is to convert this undesirable acetylene into ethylene as well, but this step requires the use of palladium, an expensive and rare metal, as a catalyst and consumes a significant amount of energy.

Companies that want to make the transition to this Third Industrial Revolution will need to find a way to make money to help people manage and optimize their use of this information, because once an initial investment is made in a product, the information or energy it produces will be nearly free, and the Internet will enable us to share in an optimal way.

Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the use of rejected «waste» heat from other industrial or power plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.

And that doesn't take into account the supply chain of natural gas production, energy - related emissions in the production process, fertilizer application (and misapplication) or industrial use of urea and other ammonia products.

The Board also recommends specific investment areas, including «novel alternative energy solutions, water filters that remove pathogens at the point - of - use, new robust building materials from locally available materials, nanotechnology for health and agriculture, and biological approaches to industrial production, environmental remediation and management.»

In addition to traditional asphalt concrete and cement concrete, the researchers also assessed several other material alternatives, such as reflective coatings and the use of industrial waste products like slag and fly ash, to replace some of the energy - intensive cement in cement concrete.

Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

In forty years, Japan has left behind its reputation as one of the dirtiest industrial powers and gone on to set world standards with its technology to control pollution and use energy efficiently.

Platinum is one of the costly metals used as catalysts in new technologies employed for industrial chemical processes, renewable energy sources, pollution control and many other purposes.

Making chemicals for industrial processes often requires scientists to use a catalyst — a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, reducing the amount of energy it takes to make different products.

Summary: Gibbsite (α - Al (OH) 3) is an important natural and industrial material that is used in a wide variety of energy applications, and is a significant component of some of the high - level nuclear waste stored in large quantities at the Hanford Site, Washington, U.S.A., and at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, U.S.A. Industrial - scale processing of these materials requires an understanding of their behavior in highly alkaline solutions (often called Bayer liquors); processing of slurries and precipitates from these liquors is facilitated by controlling the nanoparticulate gibbsite mindustrial material that is used in a wide variety of energy applications, and is a significant component of some of the high - level nuclear waste stored in large quantities at the Hanford Site, Washington, U.S.A., and at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, U.S.A. Industrial - scale processing of these materials requires an understanding of their behavior in highly alkaline solutions (often called Bayer liquors); processing of slurries and precipitates from these liquors is facilitated by controlling the nanoparticulate gibbsite mIndustrial - scale processing of these materials requires an understanding of their behavior in highly alkaline solutions (often called Bayer liquors); processing of slurries and precipitates from these liquors is facilitated by controlling the nanoparticulate gibbsite morphology.

Since its founding 40 years ago, Continuum has developed a full line of standard and custom high energy solid state lasers that are now used in scientific, industrial and commercial applications.

The whole industrial area was powered by the Great Falls of the Passaic with a system that converted the kinetic strength of water to energy used to power the whole city.

Silver also serves a more than useful industrial purpose and is used extensively in a growing number of manufacturing processes, including solar energy panels for example.

Often working with industrial materials — painted wood, paving slabs, plastic cord, metal fencing and corrugated iron — her installations have a seemingly improvised and temporary attitude, but are rigorously considered, combining an almost classical formalism with a kinetic energy generated by poised, provisional and precarious compositions and her attuned use of materials.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

What is the basis of your hope that modern industrial civilization will suddenly change its stripe and use all energy supplied to it to do only things that don't endanger ecosystems?

All the while research on energy uses and efficiency continued and efficiency of industrial processes, home heating, water heating, appliances, lighting, etc., improved, prodded in the case of household uses by thoughtful efficiency standards.

Is there any indication that humans (and modern industrial capitalist society in particular) will use any vast new sources of energy any more wisely that we have used the ff and nuclear we have already expended?

Since the fabric is made out of the industrial waste from flax fibre, it doesn't use any extra natural resources and requires little energy to produce.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

Thermal energy storage, EASE argues in its position paper, has the versatility to scale up — perhaps making use of Europe's 7,000 or so District Heating Networks (DHN), or large industrial facilities - or could be used at small, even household scale.

The industrial sector also has the largest potential for energy savings of all major energy - using sectors of the U.S. economy.

The cement sector is the third - largest industrial energy consumer in the world, responsible for 7 % of industrial energy use, and the second industrial CO2 emitter, with about 7 % of global CO2 emissions.

Historically, only facility managers of commercial and industrial facilities, and a handful of individuals that were exceptionally excited about energy use or its environmental impact purchased energy management tools.

Demand side management, where industries with high energy demand can give the energy supplier the option to switch off their non time - critical machinery when little power is available, is already in use today (in Germany for industrial power use of > 50MW).

It said the only way to avoid the pessimistic scenarios will be radical transformations in the ways the global economy currently functions, rapid uptake of renewable energy, sharp falls in fossil fuel use or massive deployment of CCS, removal of industrial emissions and halting deforestation.

Actual world electricity consumption is about 1/3 of that again, or 13,000 TWh per year, right now (the remaining energy consumption is primarily transportation and home and industrial direct use of fossil fuels).

(Sec. 275) Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement and report to Congress on a national education and awareness program to inform building, facility, and industrial plan owners and managers and decision makers, governmental leaders, and industry leaders about the large energy - saving potential of greater use of mechanical insulation and other benefits; and (2) report to Congress on the effectiveness of the program by July 1, 2013.

Industrial engineers determine the most effective ways to use the basic factors of production — people, machines, materials, information, and energy — to make a product or provide a service.

This study also demonstrates the value of benchmarking as a basis from which to estimate improvement potentials and to provide valuable information on industrial energy use.

The industrial sector is the largest energy user, accounting for 39 percent of total secondary energy use in 1999.

On the other hand, an industrial property whose electricity costs are mainly related to time - of - use would see the fastest return by investing in enough energy storage to achieve peak time self - sufficiency.

Good point on the cost thing, although the Hyperion site makes it abundantly clear that it's not targeted at commercial / residential uses (even though everyone converts the electricity output to «houses powered», including me)-- they're targeting high energy - use industrial customers, and such customers might find paying $ 30 million for a 20 MW transportable, pre-fab power plant that doesn't need hundreds of miles of power lines or a year to build a bargain.

These findings are based on Carbon Brief analysis of Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) energy use fiEnergy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) energy use fienergy use figures.

Service - based economies tend to use less electricity than economies with high levels of industrial activity, as commercial services are generally less energy - intensive compared with manufacturing.