Sentences with phrase «less energy intensive»

Litecoin, which was designed to be less energy intensive than bitcoin, saw an astronomical rise in 2017.

Compared with industrial agriculture, organic farming is less energy intensive, helps pollinators and other beneficial insects flourish and promotes biodiversity.

The less energy intensive these ubiquitous devices can be, the better for everyone.

Researchers are regularly looking into how to make more sustainable solar cells with more abundant materials and through processes that are less energy intensive, but that hasn't extended as much to wind power.

Oil Palm produces ~ 500 gallons / acre of biodiesel, and it's a perennial — less fuel for plowing & planting, and squeezing the oil out is less energy intensive than distilling ethanol.

If renewables did not work and we did not go back to coal it would be a very different world, no global catastrophe but a much less energy intensive existence.

Another measure of success or failure is the willingness of Californians to accept a less energy intensive lifestyle once their individual carbon footprints have been greatly reduced.

A strategy incorporating green infrastructure can be more cost - effective and less energy intensive than one that exclusively relies on gray infrastructure.

The dry process avoids the use of slurry material and as a result is far less energy intensive.

in addition, economic activity continues to become less energy intensive as these economies shift from energy - intensive manufacturing to less energy - intensive manufacturing and services.

The difference between your view and what I propose some could reasonably believe is that the West is not necessarily progress, and what looks like Westernization may end up far ahead instead, including the possibility of more efficient, less energy intensive, and in other ways incommensurable.

RO is slightly less energy intensive than the predominantly used multi-stage-flash process.

The solvents can operate at much lower temperatures than those solvents considered for carbon - capture to date, making them less energy intensive and more cost effective.

«Now there are more advanced cooling strategies, such as hot aisle isolation, economizers, and liquid cooling, which all make the cooling process far less energy intensive.»

This could potentially create a sound wave 50 times longer and allow the lasers used to be 100 times less powerful — and less energy intensive — thereby delivering more data more quickly at a lower cost.

«In my opinion, the key really is to find ways of verification or mining that are less energy intensive,» he says.

Not exact matches

The experimental method uses graphene, and researchers at MIT have managed to create a super-thin graphene membrane just one atom thick, which they say will make reverse osmosis easier, less energy - intensive, and cheaper.

Generally speaking, the longer U.S. Energy has had a client, the less labor - intensive it becomes for the company to assess that client's utility bill.

It was originally a Proof - of - Work model, but since the entire project is centered around energy efficiency, the choice to switch over to a less resource - intensive consensus mechanism was obvious.

He also noted that numerous alternative digital currencies or altcoins, although currently worth a lot less than Bitcoin, could handle transactions in a less energy - intensive way.

Anaerobic benefits Anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognized by the United Nations development program as one of the most useful decentralized sources of energy supply because they are less capital - intensive than are large power plants.

As a result of their efficiency, anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognized by the United Nations Development programmer as one of the most useful decentralized sources of energy supply, as they are less capital - intensive than large power plants.

Anaerobic digestion facilities have been recognised by the United Nations Development programme as one of the most useful decentralised sources of energy supply, as they are less capital - intensive than large power plants.

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

Calculations performed by SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia, suggest that in many cases, this method is cheaper and less energy - intensive than competing capture methods, in spite of predictions that the opposite would turn out to be true.

Reducing emissions through energy efficiency With respect to its own multibillion - dollar portfolio of drilling operations, refineries and pipelines, Exxon Mobil said it «addresses the risk of climate change in several concrete and meaningful ways,» including through energy efficiency measures, deployment of less carbon - intensive technologies at its facilities and even the development of products that help consumers use energy more efficiently.

«The better the selectivity upstream, the less need for energy - and capital - intensive separation processing downstream,» says Charles Russomanno, a technology transfer manager at the U.S. Department of Eenergy - and capital - intensive separation processing downstream,» says Charles Russomanno, a technology transfer manager at the U.S. Department of EnergyEnergy.

They are working on all kinds of projects: a less energy - intensive way to make solar panels, a cheap water purification device for the developing world, and materials that mimic eye and liver tissue to substitute for live animals in toxicity testing.

Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource - intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative that also reduces reliance on fossil fuels.»

The fruit on the Pentadiplandra brazzeana plant is packed with a protein called brazzein, which mimics the taste of high - energy sugary fruits but is less resource - intensive for the plant to make.

This means there's keen interest in less energy - intensive approaches.

Anyway, so, you know, India to me is kind of paradigmatic because the imperative in terms of women not breathing smoke and people being able to have fertilizer, the imperatives of giving them what we take for granted is that they will live, A, far more energy, probably five times more energy - intensive life, which would still leave them less than a third of U.S. energy - intensive, even somewhat below European.

«We're beginning to make less energy - intensive cement,» he noted, «but maybe we can make better bricks, too.

It would use 1000 times less power than a hard - disk - based data center by requiring far less cooling and doing away with the energy - intensive task of data migration (backing up to a new disk) every two years.

The second being the Anaerobic Glycolytic System which the body relies primarily on anaerobic metabolism for the energy required to perform intensive exercise of greater than 12 - 15 seconds and less than 3 minutes duration (2).

In the 1970s, once the drive to become less energy - intensive got going, it was hard to stop.

The information I could find on US bioethanol is not encouraging — according to a recent University of Berkley study (see here Source: http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/FarrellEthanolScience012706.pdf), US bioethanol has 13 % less greenhouse gas emissions than diesel or petrol, because of the energy intensive refining process, the energy input to farming, and fertilizer production and use.

Rural India and Africa require huge amounts of development and that development has bog all to do with developed world attempts to move to less carbon - intensive energy sources.

There's the electric SUV approach, which uses as much or more energy than at present, but gets it from less CO2 - intensive sources such as the electric grid.

This is the case even when the solar panels are manufactured in countries where energy production is carbon intensive (e.g. China) and installed in countries where energy production is less carbon intensive (e.g. Germany).

Microgrid benefits encompass better resiliency, easier access to energy through a less capital - intensive, modular, scalable solution that is quicker to implement, more choice around when and how to interact with the grid and energy cost optimization.

HP is also shifting toward less GHG - intensive energy sources, including increased use of on - site and off - site renewable power.

Since the countries with low cost power are burning coal while the countries with high cost power are using less CO2 intensive energy supplies, the net result is a gobal increase in CO2.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

For example, increasingly less energy will be required to produce solar modules, due to technological progress and a shift towards less energy - intensive technology variants.

The companies are betting that this approach will be less energy - intensive and therefore less expensive than other solutions in development or on the market.

Also, support toward less carbon - intensive energy sources that could be developed domestically — such as biogas — could facilitate a less coal - intensive future.

And I'm not worried about that because I believe that in the meanwhile, we have that time to develop less carbon intensive forms of energy production, to walk away from the rising sea levels, and to build further inland, develop sea defences, etc, etc..

By raising the cost of fossil fuels, the tax is intended to provide an incentive to find less carbon - intensive energy and transportation alternatives.