Sentences with phrase «need for energy research»

The need for energy research is obvious, but agricultural research is a mixed bag.

Not exact matches

«The Scottish government is showing that we have what it takes to become the pre-eminent location for clean energy research, development and delivery in Europe, but the UK government needs to stop dragging its heels,» he said.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

While the entire system of grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

You need to bring your energy, passion, vision, and enthusiasm for the complex and challenging tasks we encounter in scientific research, especially the groundbreaking, novel approaches encountered in accelerating the translation from discovery to improved clinical practice.

This dramatically reduces the energy and processing needs for the cameras and during the research project the team will look at how high - quality footage could be sourced efficiently from the dynamic visual sensors and then shared between machines or uploaded to a server in the cloud.

In alternative energy, Huber sees a need for more research in chemical engineering.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

The global need for clean energy seems likely to yield plenty of research jobs.

According to John Turner, a research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., who was not involved in the research, the discovery could reduce the need for platinum in a conventional electrolyzer.

But it says the U.S. Department of Energy's research program on nuclear energy, budgeted in 2011 for $ 737 million, needs to grow to at least $ 1 billion per year to explore more advanced conceptions of nuclear Energy's research program on nuclear energy, budgeted in 2011 for $ 737 million, needs to grow to at least $ 1 billion per year to explore more advanced conceptions of nuclear energy, budgeted in 2011 for $ 737 million, needs to grow to at least $ 1 billion per year to explore more advanced conceptions of nuclear power.

In health care and energy, for example, the private sector holds the key technologies but the public sector is needed to finance research and development, to regulate sustainable practices (for example, for emissions reduction and primary health standards), and to ensure access for the poor.

Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.

«Additional research is needed to examine impacts on academic achievement across different demographics and for longer periods and on outcomes in other domains, such as energy balance.

A critique of seminal research on the feasibility of a 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy system finds serious shortcomings, underscoring the need for continued research and a balanced decarbonization portfolio

«On the sun, these large scale energy releases are driven by small scale physical processes,» said Clarence Korendyke, principal investigator for VERIS at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «So we need to look at and understand the tiny details of those processes.»

He then discusses his research, highlighting important catalytic processes essential for producing industrial quantities of cleaner fuels to help meet the world's energy needs.

«Success of the energy transition needs innovations generated by research extending from fundamentals to applications,» says Professor Thomas Hirth, KIT Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs.

The Laboratory advances the coupled fields of fusion energy and plasma physics research, and, with collaborators, is developing the scientific understanding and key innovations needed to realize fusion as an energy source for the world.

Developing stronger research partnerships with our educational institutions is a priority for developing environmentally responsible, reliable, and safe nuclear power to serve the United States» future energy needs.»

«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Instenergy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Instenergy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy InstEnergy Institute.

But more research will be needed, he says, adding, «It is still unclear if it could be used for efficient energy generation.

«Human bodies are very efficient at storing energy by repressing energy expenditure to conserve it for later when you need it,» explains Alan Saltiel, from the UCSD research team.

Rasch addressed the Subcommittees on Energy and Environment about the need for a research program to study geoengineering and how such a program might be designed.

The study can't prove that the energy burn from fidgeting was directly responsible for the benefit, and «further research is needed,» said study co-lead author Janet Cade, a professor in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds.

«Research from the University of Oxford states the energy needed to sustain exercise for a long period of time needs to come from two fuels carbohydrates and fats,» Ross explained.

«While more research is needed, accumulating evidence exists to suggest that energy drink consumption is linked to adverse cardiovascular events, sleep disturbances, and other substance use among adolescents,» says Amelia Arria, director of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Young Adult Health and Development and co-author of the recent energy drink and alcohol study.

Research shows that energy needs are different for each trimester; An increase of 5 %, 10 % and 25 % of pre-pregnancy Basal Metabolic Rate is the agreed figure [3].

In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by an array of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us.

It's important to research the behavior, habits, energy and enrichment needs for any animal to determine the best match for a person's lifestyle and financial means.

Any light breed research on chow chows will agree they are perfect for apartments, low energy indoors, needing a long walk a day.

You will need a diet that can provide all of the energy that an active Yorkshire Terrierrequires to keep it's coat gleaming and in good health - do your own research on what diet is best for your dog.

The same body of research on climate attitudes, for example, shows far less disagreement on the need for advancing the world's limited menu of affordable energy choices.

To all of you please note — If we can send a space craft to Mars that cost a billion dollars between research and hard ware then its about time we can invest in to America on our needs for energy and dig for oil in the United States and the arctic region.

Mindful of the important role of a range of alternative energy technologies, we recognize, in particular, the need for research, development, and large - scale demonstration of and cooperation on carbon capture and storage.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu described the need for an energy revolution, driven by basic research, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long IEnergy Secretary Steven Chu described the need for an energy revolution, driven by basic research, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Ienergy revolution, driven by basic research, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.

One disappointment for me was the lack of any mention — particularly from a science guy — of the decades of bipartisan disinvestment in basic research and development in energy sciences in the United States and other industrialized countries — a gap that many studies have found would need to be filled to have any chance of achieving steep drops in greenhouse - gas emissions.

Original post As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably.

-- We need to achieve (which has now happened with the stimulus) and sustain (not yet done) a 5 to 10-fold increase in energy research (see Nemet and Kammen, 2007, for an analysis and derivation) from roughly the 2000 energy research levels.

But whatever happens with population policy (or climate and energy policy or Middle East policy), it's clear the world would do well to end its protracted slumber party on agricultural research and development, which bears far too much resemblance to the longstanding bipartisan inattention to the need for intensified energy inquiry.

All the more reason for a shift toward «soft climate diplomacy» and research and technology partnerships that could lead to energy advances where they're needed most — in China and other fast - growing industrializing countries.

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.

Although the tax credit doesn't directly reduce the cost of solar energy, it does help create the economy of scale needed for solar panels to be cost effective and helps create stability in the market for companies wanting to invest in research, infrastructure and other investments with a longer return.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

Ultimately, the U.S. needs a long - term clean energy policy that create a long - term market for renewable energy, encourages and supports the integration of renewable energy, puts a price on carbon emissions, and increases funding for research and development.

He has organized workshops in renewable energy for DOE, including serving as a co-organizer of the 2008 DOE Workshop on Research Needs for Wind Resource Characterization.

Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Environmental and Energy Research, Amory Lovins, co-founder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Rifkin have all demonstrated how a nuclear «renaissance» — to replace the 400 old reactors now rattling apart worldwide and get to the total of 1,600 that Rifkin says are needed for a minimum impact on climate disruption — would require that we build three new reactors every 30 days for 40 years.

Dr. George Carlo who helped set the ground - work for TASSC and remained on its «Advisory Board», was simultaneously working for Dow Chemicals (dioxins and breast implants); the Cellular Telephone Industry Association (opposing the need for research into the GSM / D - AMPS pulsed EMF power); and the energy companies (global warming).

This research therefore destroys the concept of AGW and the need for a carbon tax, a CPRS or the huge cost of alternative energy programs.