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
«A grant from the New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority helped fund the analysis and design necessary for the building to approach net zero energy capability in such a way that it can serve as a nationwide demonstration project.&
Energy Research and Development Authority helped fund the
analysis and design necessary for the building to approach
net zero
energy capability in such a way that it can serve as a nationwide demonstration project.&
energy capability in such a way that it can serve as a nationwide demonstration project.»
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, Januar
energy return for wind power systems Ida Kubiszewski, Cutler J. Cleveland, Peter K. Endres Renewable
Energy Volume 35, Issue 1, Januar
Energy 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.