Sentences with phrase «meet human energy»

Capturing just a tiny fraction of the incoming solar energy is enough to meet human energy needs (and wind energy is a product of the incoming solar energy as well).

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.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Culture is not a mere superstructure, but no healthy culture can survive unless basic human needs are met with some surplus of energy remaining to the people.

At the internal Lib Dem meeting which agreed the Coalition in May, both the Energy Secretary Chris Huhne and the Justice Minister Lord Tom McNally are reported to have threatened to agree to resign if the Human Rights Act is scrapped.

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For most of human history, the biggest challenge in life was getting our hands on enough calories to meet our daily energy requirements.

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

Although nuclear fission, photovoltaics, wind, and water now meet a small portion of the world population's energy needs, humans today get most of our energy the same way the cave people did: directly from the sun or from fire.

He scoffed at how unambitious we humans were, pointing out that we could meet all our current global energy needs by harvesting the sunlight striking an area smaller than 0.5 percent of the Sahara desert.

The ENCODE project that tries to make sense of the flood of human genetic information and the CERN high - energy physics lab are examples, he told the meeting, «and the global burden of disease is in that category.

Today, meeting the energy, transport and other needs of the human population releases nearly 6 billion tonnes of carbon a year into the atmosphere.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

A holistic understanding of the role of Earth's microbial community and its genome — its microbiome — in the biosphere and in human health is key to meeting many of the challenges that face humanity in the twenty - first century, from energy to infection to agriculture.

However, while humans and dogs can adapt to diets that have a relatively low protein content (eg, plant - based diets), cats have a much higher protein requirement in their diet that would typically only be met by feeding a meat - based diet, because they have come to rely on protein as an energy source.

Essentially, all they said is that they acknowledge that global warming is due to unspecified human activities, that it will have ecological consequences (no mention of economic consequences, other than the insinuation that taking action of global warming might threaten economic growth), and that coordinated global action is required, but that economic growth and energy security must be taken into account, and that they'll meet to talk about it again.

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Two readers with different backgrounds who both accept that humans could disrupt the climate shared strong feelings of discouragement after the Obama administration's «evidence - based revival meeting,» as Cathy Zoi, the head of the Energy Department office on efficiency and renewable energy, described Wednesday's White House forum on energy and clEnergy Department office on efficiency and renewable energy, described Wednesday's White House forum on energy and clenergy, described Wednesday's White House forum on energy and clenergy and climate.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

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.

Updated A daylong Vatican meeting on climate, energy, ecology and equity has produced a declaration that offers a promising vision for religious and secular leaders eager to foster a sustainable human journey.

The goal, to my mind, can be to build the foundations of an energy system sufficient to meet human needs, with limited environmental costs, as the world heads toward and beyond a mid-century crest of some 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

Conscious of our leadership role in meeting such challenges, we, the leaders of the world's major economies, both developed and developing, commit to combat climate change in accordance with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and confront the interlinked challenges of sustainable development, including energy and food security, and 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.

However, their potential to meet a sizeable share of human energy needs is modest.

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.

Living in energy poverty means struggling to meet the basic human energetic needs like lighting and heating.

However, meeting long ‐ term climate goals will require large ‐ scale transformations in human societies, from the way that we produce and consume energy to how we use the land surface, that are inconsistent with both longterm and short ‐ term trends.

Humans are not treated differently: health and other adverse effects on local residents are also being overridden to meet Sacramento's green energy targets.

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.

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

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.

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.

In a summary report for renewable technologies (from may 2011), the IPCC reiterated that the demand for energy and associated services to meet social and economic development and improve human welfare and health is increasing and that overwhelmingly, this energy demand is met by fossil fuels.

Also they must respect human rights and the rights of nature, protect the planetary systems on which continued human existence depends, put control over energy, food and water in the hand of accountable local stewards, fairly address overconsumption to meet basic needs for all, not just the greed of a wealthy few.

The UN's flagship energy access program, for example, claims that «basic human needs» can be met with enough electricity to power a fan, a couple of light bulbs, and a radio for five hours a day.

And most of them I have met are delusional anyway, believing that «climate change» is something new (but totally under human control); that «renewable energy» is some kind of magic not dependent on fossil fuels, and that slowing down (CO2 emissions) is somehow equal to going backwards.

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