Sentences with phrase «much energy generation»

The researchers estimated how much energy generation the drone deliveries would require, based on consumption for 10 different hypothetical products.

Not exact matches

Broader green bond indices, usually an assortment of companies and sectors often unrelated to renewable energy generation, have seen lacklustre returns, much lower than those of appropriately - defined indices.

Some people are really creative, while others may not appear to be quite as creative or have as much passion or energy for idea generation.

So, you admit that each generation could change them and therefore you DO N'T know what the earliest one said, much less beginnin with the creation of matter, energy and time.

@ Live4Him: «So, you admit that each generation could change them and therefore you DO N'T know what the earliest one said, much less beginnin with the creation of matter, energy and time.»

Environmental initiatives such as green energy generation from wastewater treatment do not always get as much attention as the more traditional renewables, such as solar and wind.

Amid surging energy prices and the need for measures to counter global warming, green energy generation from wastewater treatment does not always get as much attention as more traditional renewables such as solar and wind.

We are not on track to have secure energy supplies, low - carbon energy generation or affordable energy, and those three requirements matter very much to this House and to the country outside.

Dutch blogger Lars Boelen, using data from the Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center and the International Energy Agency, made a chart showing just how much of the «carbon pie» each generation has consumed.

Although much is used for animal bedding, mushroom compost and energy generation, there still exists a vast surplus.

The frequency response tool could serve as a reliable test of how much renewable energy generation the grid could handle, McClelland said.

According to the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, only China exceeded Japan over the last 12 months in adding new solar capacity, with much of the new generation coming from rooftop solar systems.

Low - frequency mechanical energy harvesting could provide as much as 40 percent of the power requirements for next generation smartphones and tablets.

In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incenenergy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incenEnergy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

Pretty much every step of energy production requires water, from mining to refining, processing to generation.

Generation of ROS, a byproduct of the energy production and use, is normal as well, but, as with fission, too much is bad for the cell.

When the UK government announced its new energy plans last week, newspaper headlines raged about how much household bills would rise to pay for cleaner power generation.

In order to meet the EU's mandatory GHG emission - reduction targets and the renewable energy commitments discussed below, much of this new generation must qualify as low - carbon and renewable.

Air conditioning will push more use National Mining Association President Hal Quinn told the U.S. Energy Association's annual State of the Energy Industry Forum recently that India's coal - fired portfolio alone will grow from 65 percent of total generation to as much as 80 percent by 2025.

Significant progress is being made in the development of the next generation of low cost life detection instrumentation with much smaller size, mass and energy requirements.

It's been great to judge the Generation Green Energy Performance, using new technology like a dance floor that turns movement into electricity makes energy easier to understand, and much more exciting to learn about.&Energy Performance, using new technology like a dance floor that turns movement into electricity makes energy easier to understand, and much more exciting to learn about.&energy easier to understand, and much more exciting to learn about.»

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

But as Chairman of Generation Investment Management (/ / www.generationim.com) he is also doing about as much as a private individual can to steer private investment dollars toward clean energy solutions.

I have often imposed on the moderators» patience by noting the rapid growth of solar and wind energy for electricity generation, which for me gives rise to optimism that we can eliminate GHG emissions from that sector much more quickly than many people believe.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

I think I would also like figures for how much of that energy is acturally capturable at practical cost (say not more that 2X the equivalent nuclear generation).

There really ought to be a collegial rule against discussing energy consumption trends without mentioning capacity factor, which explain why 68 % of capacity added in 2013 was renewable but a much smaller minority of added generation was renewable.

The number of ERCs each NGCC can produce is based on a complex combination of factors, including how much better the NGCC unit's emission rate is compared to the national fossil steam emission performance rate, the distribution of the total possible incremental generation across all NGCC units, and the total net energy output from the NGCC unit in the year for which ERCs are being calculated.

Northern Ireland's Queens University Belfast (QUB) has found that battery - based energy storage can provide inertial response for system reliability much more efficiently, at a lower cost and with substantially reduced emissions than thermal generation.

Electricity generation shows 66 % of energy lost — mostly in heat from coal and natural gas, and including up to 10 % in transmission lines (refuting common assumptions that «wheeling losses» are much higher).

If we proceed with a «business as usual» approach to energy generation and use, we would have much less time to transform our energy system, and much steeper emission cuts would be needed.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target (RET).

TEP's planned energy mix in 2023 — six years from now — isn't much better, with coal at 50 % of total generation, and natural gas leaping from its current 11 % to 28 %, so that TEP's overall coal - plus - natural - gas mix remains at 78 %.

«Onshore wind and solar are both now much more competitive against the established generation technologies than would have seemed possible only five or 10 years ago,» said Luke Mills, an energy economics analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Fienergy economics analyst for Bloomberg New Energy FiEnergy Finance.

Since the lead time for construction of wind power plants is much shorter than that of transmission lines and conventional power plants, it becomes critical that grid augmentations are planned with significant foresight into political and industry intentions for the development of renewable energy based generation.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

They write that they make it «possible for a much larger volume of variable renewable generation to be absorbed», but their approach doesn't lower the energy demand in times of short supply.

The whole campus will contain 2.1 M sq ft of building space and is designed to be net - zero, which means that between its energy efficiency systems and renewable power generation, the campus will produce as much or more energy than it uses.

The fact that the United States has a much dirtier electricity grid that relies more heavily on fossil fuels for electricity generation means that short - term opportunities for new wind energy development will be larger in the U.S..

South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Program (REIPPPP) was much cited as a model to incentivize solar power generation at night.

David Roberts, now writing on climate and energy at Vox, wrote a much - cited column for Grist a few years ago dissecting economic calculations used to determine how much it is worth today to limit climate - related harms generations in the future.

The money spent on the Flannery ads would have been far better spent on ads dispelling some of the misinformation concerning the safety of nuclear energy, which if adopted in place of fossil - fuel power generation will make a much bigger impact on global warming.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

As an example I gave the case of Denmark where although having the highest wind energy proportion of electricity generation in the world, the consumption within Denmark is much less than is generated; Denmark has the highest cost electricity in Europe and near the highest CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Europe.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Solar and wind now provide less than 5 % of Canada's electricity generation, and much less of total delivered energy.

Renewable energy generation is still on the rise in Germany, though at a much lower pace than in the years around 2010, writes Marius Buchmann of Jacobs University in a detailed overview of the German electricity market in 2017.

Much the same is true for distributed generation and grid - scale energy storage.

Determining exactly how much local renewable generation can reach Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota hinges in part on how many of these projects the existing grid can accommodate.

America needs to go much further toward energy diversity and efficiency by investing dramatically in renewable technology like a new generation of bio-fuels and embrace the industries of the future like American made advanced pluggable hybrid cars.