Sentences with phrase «lived energy infrastructure»

Dr. Stanton's testimony, mentioned in a July 13 article by AP reporter Dave Gram about the region's love - hate relationship with natural gas, has helped to shift the dialogue about greenhouse gas emissions to include the full, lifecycle impacts of long - lived energy infrastructure.

The study gives rise to additional questions and uncertainties, for example what effects sustained low prices could have on long - lived energy infrastructure.

Ultimately, the belief that prices alone will solve the climate problem is rooted in the fiction that investors in large - scale and long - lived energy infrastructures sit on a fence waiting for higher carbon prices to tip their decisions.

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George Bilicic, Lazard's Global Head of Power, Energy Infrastructure, touted Suozzi's «years as a government reformer» and his experience in the office he lost in a upset last fall to Republican Edward Mangano, saying it provided him with a unique understand of public - private partnerships and «real - life insight into the workings of government.»

People with legitimate concerns about their standard of living, a standard of living that many of them will have invested a lifetime of hard work into, should not be dismissed as ignorant and selfish by those of us who will benefit from rail infrastructure improvements or renewable energy investments or whatever.

These are problems of inclusive economic growth to address unemployment, decline in the agriculture sector, rising cost of living, collapsing businesses, the energy crisis («dumsor») unsustainable debt, poor infrastructure, rising interest rates exchange rate depreciation, rising fiscal and balance of payments deficits, and corruption.»

With the nation's water infrastructure nearing the end of its design life, Stanford engineer Richard Luthy says now is the time to build a more energy - efficient system.

Owing to such quantum beams with large current, we can make a big step forward not only for creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures to contribute to our future life of longevity, safety, and security, but also for realization of laser fusion energy triggered by fast ignition.

Since 2008, according to the United Nations, a majority of the world's population now lives in cities, many of which lack even rudimentary energy generation and waste management infrastructures.

They include, Obama said, the accelerated thawing of the frozen permafrost that sits beneath «the earth on which 100,000 Alaskans live, threatening homes [and] damaging transportation and energy infrastructure.»

One reason is that energy infrastructure, like carbon dioxide, is long - lived.

This company provides the necessary infrastructure for moving energy commodities that are necessary for everyday life.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

However, our ability ultimately to achieve a long - term global goal will also depend on affordable, new, more advanced, and innovative technologies, infrastructure, and practices that transform the way we live, produce and use energy, and manage land.

We don't need to think that being ecologically responsible necessarily means reducing our energy use, or that our energy future means reductions in our quality of life, or that the huge amounts of new infrastructure that we need is going to be expensive on a personal level.

If the energy used for building and maintaining the extra infrastructure is accounted for in a life cycle analysis of a renewable power grid, it would be just as CO2 - intensive as the present - day power grid.

Life could be prettier, healthier, and more harmonious because of an improved energy infrastructure, but this infrastructure needs to evolve via inspiration, NOT fear.

This can include optimising the use of concrete in construction by maximising design life of buildings and infrastructures, encouraging reuse and recycling, reducing waste and benefiting from concrete's properties to minimise energy needs for heating and cooling of buildings.

To repeat, this is the purpose of a carbon tax: to make the existing energy infrastructure more expensive, forcing Americans to change how they live and work.

The Netherlands offers inspiration for designers looking to create environments that harvest water, energy and nutrients by William McDonough Published April 23, 2014 in the Guardian Urban farms are transforming inner city spaces — rooftops, infrastructure, streetscapes, building skin — into generative ecologies that support the lives of people, and pollinators too.

From this, it should be sufficiently clear that, when viewed in absolute energy terms, the viable margin between life and death in the Earth's biosphere is remarkably narrow — so much so that a seemingly insignificant 1 % to 2 % change in the total energy of the global environment will invariably result in serious disruption of the established infrastructure of life in the biosphere.

«These people,» says Rucker, «need cheap, reliable, abundant energy and the infrastructure it can support, in order to climb out of abject poverty, lengthen life spans grossly shortened by disease and malnutrition, and terminate the tyranny of neo-colonialists who, in the name of «preventing climate change,» continue to rule over them with iron fists.»

He will address key aspects of sustainable city infrastructure, focusing on building's the structures that define our daily lives and the energy and resources they consume.

He has made the statement about the «short and brutal» life in places that have no access to an energy infrastructure, based on his own personal experience living in Africa, so it's pretty clear what he meant to say.

The Living Building Challenge envisions a safe, reliable and decentralized power grid, powered entirely by renewable energy, supplied to incredibly efficient buildings and infrastructure without the negative externalities associated with combustion or fission.

Hochberg claims that this interest in the energy sector stems from the need to provide affordable energy access to improve healthcare and living standards, but large fossil fuel infrastructure and centralized power projects that Ex-Im often finances will do little to improve energy access.

I'm not sure if you are convinced than carbon - o - geddon is really looming or if you have other financial interests or whatever, but enough people know that we face no real threat and we're not going to let you bamboozle the public into disastrous changes to the world's energy infrastructure or let you impose draconian «carbon reduction» schemes that would cripple the world's industrial economies, reduce our standard of living and condemn the people in developing countries to perpetual low energy poverty.

For example, an analysis of the risks of sea level rise for the State of California evaluated the economic value of property at risk of flooding, as well as the size, economic status, and demographic backgrounds of the population living in areas vulnerable to flooding, area of wetland likely to be lost, and other metrics related to threatened transportation, energy, and water infrastructure (Heberger et al 2011).

This is especially true in the context of smart cities where there is a focus on building and improving long life infrastructure such as housing, roads, flyovers, water and energy transmission infrastructure etc. which need to be able to withstand future stressors.

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America's game - changing production increases would not have the same positive impact on consumers» daily lives without infrastructure to deliver affordable, reliable energy to homes and businesses.

Cleaner coal and cleaner natural gas until a more alternate energy friendly infrastructure can be adopted, is just a fact of life.

This water infrastructure is just as fundamental as energy, and is considered the framework or foundation of our lives.

The first motive is LIFE STYLE: if the first world (annex 1) countries expect to continue as we presently are in our life styles then transforming our energy systems to a renewable infrastructure will be difficLIFE STYLE: if the first world (annex 1) countries expect to continue as we presently are in our life styles then transforming our energy systems to a renewable infrastructure will be difficlife styles then transforming our energy systems to a renewable infrastructure will be difficult.

Because of the imbedded infrastructure we have created for ourselves, where we are distanced from our jobs, our resource sources, and our waste sites, we have huge imbedded / sunk energy requirements to survive, which will be very problematical in any rapid transition to quasi-sustainable living.

Despite mounting evidence that poor countries will develop and lead high - energy lives, some advocates have focused almost exclusively on low - energy rural electrification as opposed to top - down investments in grid extension, industrialization, and infrastructure.

A 2010 study asked: what if the current energy infrastructure were simply allowed to live out its useful life, without being replaced?

Gowlings» legal services are delivered via industry sector groups, including: climate change, energy, financial services, infrastructure, life sciences, manufacturing and distribution, mining and technology.

Recognized for excellence in business, advocacy and intellectual property law, Gowlings provides dedicated industry expertise in a number of sectors including energy, infrastructure, life sciences, financial services, technology and manufacturing.

We know the sectors in which our clients operate — our lawyers are highly skilled legal practitioners with extensive knowledge across a host of key industries including ffinancial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

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We are particularly strong in the mid-market and handle all types of ECM transactions, from niche AIM listings in the UK to migrations from AIM to the Main Market and global equity offerings for large multi-nationals across our key industry sectors: financial institutions: energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

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The firm's key industries — financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare — are set to maintain their importance, though with Fulbright historically a Texas - based litigation shop, «we'll be looking to grow our New York and DC offices, and add more US - based transactional work within our key industries.»

Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare.

King & Spalding LLP advises on M&A, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations, and has been notably active in the energy and infrastructure, life sciences and automotive sectors.

With the merger, it's touting its key industry strengths in the areas of financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining, and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and health care.