Sentences with phrase «net energy analysis»

Net energy analysis makes it clear that no combination of renewable energy sources will be able to replace our prodigious fossil fuel consumption.

Not exact matches

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I got out of the business after doing a systems analysis of total net energy gain, that is how much more energy did the country (and the world) gain after taking into account the energy needed to extract and refine the raw materials, construct the equipment (panels, pipes, etc.), ship the components, and build on - site?
As an aside: Two good examples of why our approach is important are 1) analyses that describe how transportation can eliminate emissions and 2) zero - net energy buildings.
4) Life cycle analysis of emissions has repeatedly shown that solar PV does result in net reduction of emissions compared with the conventional energy displaced.
[8] A Think Progress analysis of the data found that 32 companies in the fossil - fuel industry — such as AEP, Peabody Energy, ConEd, and PG&E — transformed a tax responsibility of $ 17.3 billion on $ 49.4 billion in pretax profits into a tax benefit of $ 6.5 billion, for a net gain of $ 24 billion.
At least relative to my questions above, what struck me was the possibility of starting with your reduction and analysis of the snow cover / fall anomaly data to come up with a research project based on some quite complicated but fascinating calculations on net TOA energy balance as a result of your conclusion about the relation of Arctic sea ice loss to NH snow cover / amount anomaly.
Among the key findings were analyses which showed that doubling the state's Energy Efficiency Resource Standard for utilities from 1 % annual savings to 2 % would produce net savings of an additional $ 900 million compared to a compliance plan with the current 1 % standard.
ACEEE's macroeconomic analysis demonstrated that the bill could have delivered net energy bill savings of $ 350 billion by 2030, while also generating more than 424,000 additional jobs by 2030.
In a ground - breaking new paper (Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018) published in the journal Energy and Environment, an analysis of land surface instrumental records from across the globe's ocean air sheltered (OAS) regions reveals that, like the proxy evidence presented above, most of the modern era warming occurred prior to the 1940s, and the there has effectively been no net warming since then.
A new post of about a week ago may have some useful analogies: «Net subsidiy analysis is a better way to compare government energy policy» http://www.masterresource.org/2013/11/net-subsidy-analysis-a-better-way-to-compare-government-energy-policy/
Like a full life - cycle analysis for judging the impact on net emissions of a switch in energy - generation technologies, a full Earth - system analysis should become the new standard in judging climate - policy proposals.
14, 1990, p. 323; 210.2 in Changing by Degrees, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, February 1991, p. 333; 205.6 for bituminous coal in Greenhouse Gases, Abatement and Control, IEA Coal Research, June 1991, p. 24; and 183.4 in Limiting Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States (Executive Summary), U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Analysis, September 1991, p. 37.
Meta - analysis of net energy return for wind power systems Ida Kubiszewski, Cutler J. Cleveland, Peter K. Endres Renewable Energy Volume 35, Issue 1, Januarenergy return for wind power systems Ida Kubiszewski, Cutler J. Cleveland, Peter K. Endres Renewable Energy Volume 35, Issue 1, JanuarEnergy Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2010
This analysis reviews and synthesizes the literature on the net energy return for electric power generation by wind turbines.
The result of the Finnish position is spelled out in the impact analysis of the Finnish energy strategy, published by the Prime Ministers» office, which shows that because its forest sink will be halved, Finland's net emissions will stay at current levels until 2030.
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