Sentences with phrase «on modern energy»

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

In the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday before Trump's announcement, Lighthizer outlined the Chinese products that will be subject to the new tariffs, including aeronautics, modern rail, new - energy vehicles and high - tech products.

Singapore - headquartered GLP, a leading global provider of modern logistics and industrial facilities and technology - led solutions, and Toronto - headquartered Brookfield Asset Management Inc. have formed a 50:50 joint venture dedicated to building a leading platform for distributed solar energy on logistics and commercial rooftops in China.

Many modern people are detaching themselves, consciously or unconsciously, from their primal roots, from the origins of their existence: the earth and its natural resources, self - renewing sources of food, raw materials, energy, and so on.

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

I dare to believe that what I take to be the more fundamental analyses of the modern will prevail, and that the energies of the twenty - first century will go into reconstruction on new lines, rather than pressing toward the nihilism that is the final outcome of the modern.

He devoted a great deal of energy to preparing materials on the Bible that would help modern people discover its relevance to the social situation of today.

Now, we may not be fighting battles on a daily basis in modern times... but I sure could use some extra energy most days!

Let us concentrate and spend our energies on working together to achieve that goal of a happy and prosperous Ghana, and reject the hypocrisy of the naysayers who led our country into bankruptcy and the worse economic record of modern Ghanaian history.

The developing world, on the other hand, is in the process of building out its own energy infrastructure and thus has an opportunity to adopt the best practices and most modern technologies from developed countries.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

A study of the Internet's long development since 1946, arguably when modern computing began, offers valuable lessons that can help keep energy innovations on course for a comparable 62 years:

The meteorite, found in 1979, has long been known to contain small amounts of the chemicals nitrate and perchlorate, which could be good or bad for life: To some modern life forms on Earth, perchlorate is toxic, but to others in oxygen - free conditions, and to those in the early days of Earth, it was a source of energy for microbes.

Mills has analyzed everything from the impact of climate change on the insurance industry to energy use in African villages, modern buildings, and data centers.

Given the central place of oil - based energy in the modern world, it is critically important that governments should base their policies on realistic depletion profiles, despite ambiguous definitions and lax reporting practices.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

«Modern sugarcane mills in Brazil shared with us all of their information on energy inputs, costs, and machinery.

How the energy from such sources is channeled is investigated in a community of modern Eskimos on Baffin Island

Studies focusing on the processes of biological energy conversion, membrane biophysics and neurobiology using modern physical, 0chemical and biological methods.

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

Though modern American shamans use many methods to do this — and draw on a variety of indigenous traditions from Tibet, Korea, North America, South America, or Africa, among others — most of them spend some time talking about and working with energy and soul.

I'm on board with chamomile, which has been shown in a number of studies to help reduce stress, which would balance cortisol levels, counteracting the frenetic energy that makes up much of the modern woman's life.

Cate's results - focused methods rely on merging Ayurvedic Medicine theory with modern behavioral science for increased energy, deeper rest, and a healthier diet in quick time.

This blend is a modern take on energy clearing rites of old.

Classical Feng Shui — In addition to applying Modern Feng Shui, I'll share your best sleeping directions, best working directions, and best colors, and direct you on where to place natural, energy enhancing Feng Shui remedies.

Director / star Jiang Wen has crafted a modern take on the wild Hong Kong action films of the eighties heyday, with all the energy, dotty humor, broad performances, and mad plot twists, and drops himself in the center as the eye of calm at the center of the chaos.

Similarly, modern heat exchange technology is having a huge impact on energy use, for example in warewashing and ventilation.

Moorgate Primary Academy in Staffordshire benefitted from # 3.6 million worth of funding, which has seen a two - storey building with bright new classrooms and modern features, including an energy - efficient automatic ventilation system, be built on the school grounds.

So because jobs are so important in the modern world, and teaching, I think is so much a job that depends on people's passion and energy means the wellbeing link is really closely there in the autonomy sense.

On modern passenger locomotives equipped with AC inverters pulling trains with sufficient head - end power (HEP) loads, braking energy can be used to power the train's on board systems via regenerative braking if the electrification system is not receptive or even if the track is not electrified to begin witOn modern passenger locomotives equipped with AC inverters pulling trains with sufficient head - end power (HEP) loads, braking energy can be used to power the train's on board systems via regenerative braking if the electrification system is not receptive or even if the track is not electrified to begin witon board systems via regenerative braking if the electrification system is not receptive or even if the track is not electrified to begin with.

In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that only a formulation of quantum theory would be satisfactory which expresses the relation between the value of [the fine structure constant] and charge conservation in the same complementary was as that between the space - time description and energy - momentum conservation.

It's packing a Core 2 Duo processor, an 11.6 - inch display, weighs about 4 lbs, and best of all, runs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at over 30 fps on the highest settings thanks to a dual - GPU configuration that lets you switch between a low - energy integrated graphics chip for regular use and a high - performance GeForce 335M with 1 GB of memory for gaming.

For instance, modern portfolio theory argues against investing in equities that are dependent on each other — say, energy stocks and the automobile industry — instead, it preaches investment in things that are not correlated, like oil and the technology sector.

Kuta Town House Apartments is a modern and luxury apartments and accommodation in Kuta, Bali nestled in a perfect place between the vibrant, and energy - packed Poppies 1 and Poppies 2 in downtown Kuta Bali, just on the doorstep of what the essence of Kuta really is.

You may not have realised it, but Milestone's upcoming supercross game, Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame due to land on consoles and PC next month, has a feature that's rarely seen in modern racing games: a powerful track editor.

Giorgio Griffa's Segni orizzontali, 1975, is currently on view in the permanent collection of Tate Modern as part of «Energy and Process: Beyond Painting».

Photographs focused on the energy and vitality of the modern city, a source of poetic and visual inspiration for photographers across generations and continents.

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NORFOLK, Va. — The Chrysler Museum of Art captures the energy and vitality of the modern city with its Cities of Light: Photographs from the Chrysler Collection exhibition that is on view until December 30.

Documentary and portrait photography from the collection The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo The End of an Age Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 2016 West Concourse Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Nude: Art from the Tate collection Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Intra-Action: Women Artists from the Harn Collection Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville Underway SKMU Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand First Light: Rineke Dijkstra / Nan Goldin ICA, Boston Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present The Brooklyn Museum, New York Invisible Adversaries, Marieluise Hessel Collection Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York ENERGY FLASH: The Rave Movement MUHKA — Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Antwerp Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto Art Alive Festival Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Idiosyncrasy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum Centro de Artes Visuales - Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres Portrait De L'artiste En Alter FRAC Haute - Normandie, Sotteville - lès - Rouen Private Exposure me Collectors Room, Berlin On Paper: Picturing Painting The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers Barbican Art Gallery, London Botticelli Re-imagined The V&A London Queensize Museum Arnhem, Arnhem A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand Fire under snow Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk 20on - Hudson, New York ENERGY FLASH: The Rave Movement MUHKA — Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Antwerp Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto Art Alive Festival Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Idiosyncrasy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum Centro de Artes Visuales - Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres Portrait De L'artiste En Alter FRAC Haute - Normandie, Sotteville - lès - Rouen Private Exposure me Collectors Room, Berlin On Paper: Picturing Painting The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers Barbican Art Gallery, London Botticelli Re-imagined The V&A London Queensize Museum Arnhem, Arnhem A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand Fire under snow Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk 20On Paper: Picturing Painting The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers Barbican Art Gallery, London Botticelli Re-imagined The V&A London Queensize Museum Arnhem, Arnhem A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand Fire under snow Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk 2015

The carbonized patterns appearing throughout the gallery trace histories of energy expenditure and modulate the register of the legibility of the heating element from the practical and material to the grammatically and symbolically charged; networks of modern electrical consumption are juxtaposed by the spiral - as - trace to cyclical, sun - gazing longevities operating on scales removed by orders of magnitude from those of commodity time.

Eighteen artists from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America were invited to «collaborate» on 16 short films, available online, about life, light, energy, and Little Sun, Eliasson writes in a blog post for Tate Modern, where a Little Sun exhibition was held last year.

We did not have a population of 7 billion people back then, a population that is highly dependent on modern technology and «cheap» energy.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

It reduce the emissions from transport by a factor of ten or more compared with electric cars on renewable energy and a factor of at least forty compared with modern cars traditional and hybrid ICE cars.

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

Read below for Yergin's «Your Dot» contribution, which includes a link to an excerpt on Mitchell and fracking from his superb book, «The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.»

The important comparisons are based on the energy consumption of a present - day moderately affluent Briton (not a hypothetical future electric car driving energy efficient Briton) across every aspect of modern living - transport, heating, food and the rest.

Michael Levi, who analyzes energy, security and climate issues for the Council on Foreign Relations, is among the first of my contacts on fossil fuel trends to plow through all 804 pages of «The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.&energy, security and climate issues for the Council on Foreign Relations, is among the first of my contacts on fossil fuel trends to plow through all 804 pages of «The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.&Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.»