Sentences with phrase «of the additional energy due»

A very rough back of the envelope calculation suggest that energy required to melt that ice is equivalent to 1 - 2 % of the additional energy due to greenhouse warming over the same period.

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Thermal Effect of Activity, also known as Activity Level, determines additional energy expenditure due to moving around and exercising.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

A change in clouds may reflect it or if the optical density of the atmosphere due to water + CO2 (+ everything else) is already saturated at those wavelengths then no additional energy will get added.

Doctor Tobis, just as the UN and the IPCC are able to create statistical projections of increased mortality due to climate change, it is easy to project the increased mortality due to additional increases in energy costs and the subsequent placement of more people in fuel poverty.

Note that an hour of extra cloud - free tropical noon sunshine per day is an additional 20 W / m2 on a 24/7 basis... just saying, it doesn't take much change in cloud onset time to adjust for a 2 W / m2 reduction in incoming energy due to an eruption.

These effects combined with an estimated decrease in electricity demand by 2 % due to warmer temperatures, could provide an additional 11 TWh of annual energy.

Their study added the hidden costs of wind which included the cost of fossil fuel power as back - up when the wind is dormant, the additional cost of transmission that frequently occurs with wind farms due to the inaccessibility of the best wind resources, the cost of wind's favorable tax benefits in «accelerated depreciation,» and a shorter estimated life of a wind turbine of 20 years to the per - kilowatt - hour cost of generating electricity from wind power that includes capital costs and operating costs, as determined by EIA and the Department of Energy.