Sentences with phrase «other measures of energy»

Not exact matches

In other words, headline measures are being distorted lower by declining energy and food prices, declines that aren't reflective of any economic shortfall.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

A good idea, but please build one and carefully measure the power output, the reliability, the cost, the safety and the effects on the environment and when you have the numbers compare them with similar numbers obtained for other sources of energy.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Right or wrong, packaging is frequently scrutinized and used as the measure of a company's overall sustainability, even though it may contribute only a small percentage to the total eco impact compared to other things, such as transportation, and water and energy use.

Australian Government intervention to directly affect retail price outcomes is largely confined to the impact of the carbon price as well as other renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory County Executive Marc Poloncarz unveiled.

Many MPs have also suggested he announce a further postponement of fuel duty rises, and others want measures to cut energy bills, including the abolition of green levies.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory Poloncarz unveiled Thursday.

You have to use other measures such as how much distress there is, how much energy is this [depressed feeling] taking up, what's the severity of what they are dealing with internally, because usually it is hidden from their functional world.»

This week, the full House approved its first spending legislation of the year — a so - called «minibus» that packaged together four individual spending measures covering defense, energy, and other areas — while Senate appropriators unveiled and approved two bills funding NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Departments of Commerce and Transportation.

The scope's light - collecting capacity — made possible with almost 800 mirror segments just 50 millimeters thick — will allowastronomers to detect Earth - like planets around other stars, measure the properties of the universe's first stars and galaxies, and probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

While weather stations typically measure air temperatures just above the surface, satellites record the thermal energy emitted by soil, rock, pavement, grass, trees and other features of the landscape.

Unfortunately, that energy density is much bigger than the value for dark energy we measure using observations of galaxies moving away from each other.

The Morgan facility's green roof and other new energy - saving measures there, such as replaced windows, have saved the Postal Service more than $ 1 million in energy expenses so far, Tom Samra, Postal Service vice president of facilities, said in a prepared statement.

It includes a nationwide cap - and - trade system to cut greenhouse gas emissions, along with a renewable power mandate and a suite of other energy measures.

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Formulated in 1927 by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, the uncertainty principle puts strict limits on how accurately one can measure the position, velocity, energy, and other properties of a particle.

Relative to other rechargeable battery technologies, they offer a good combination of cost and energy density, a measure of how much electricity can be stored in the battery per pound.

«If you could measure the frequency of this radio signal, you could measure the energy potentially much more accurately than you can with any other method,» Furse says.

European particle physicists will draw up plans for a pair of circular particle colliders, to be built one after the other, that would measure 80 to 100 kilometers in circumference and smash particles at unprecedented energies, officials at the European particle physics laboratory CERN announced today.

If, for instance, the energy of an electron inside an atom is measured, it is always found in special energy states — other energy values are just not allowed.

Cassini measured the composition of these jets, detecting raw materials for life including salt, water, carbon dioxide, methane, other organic molecules and, most recently, hydrogen, an ideal energy source for life.

The survey measured the consumption of sodas, fruit - flavored drinks, sweetened fruit juices, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened teas and coffees and other sugar - sweetened drinks.

Other energy - saving measures are in place, including rainwater reclamation and reuse of server heat to regulate office temperature.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

But there are other things that we've done, you know, for example, in the U.S. one of the things we built is one of the sub-detectors in ATLAS called the calorimeter that measures the energy of these particles.

That will not be obtained by buying a Prius or other low - to - medium cost measures in factories (many energy intensive factories have learned to be economical in the seventies — as a matter of survival).

The team employed molecular beam epitaxy and other resources in the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL, to measure the slope of the hill under different circumstances.

Hi Paul, I love your blog, about carbohydrates, I have to say about myself after several months of following a low carb diet without fruits and other starches, the result: was weight gain, constipation, low energy, now I do not measure the amounts of carbohydrates and eat large quantities of fruit and starches such as sweet potatoes, bananas, yuca... result?

Simple measures such as managing room temperatures, the length of time heating is used for and other simple changes in energy culture could save # 10,000 - # 15,000 on an annual energy bill of # 100,000.

And other measures, such as the Auto Start - Stop function, Brake Energy Regeneration, Optimum Shift Indicator and on - demand operation of ancillary components join the campaign to ensure the powerful BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo boasts impressively low fuel consumption and emissions.

Other BlueEFFICIENCY measures include newly developed tyres with up to 17 percent lower rolling resistance, energy - saving control of the generator, fuel pump, air conditioning compressor and power steering, and the ECO start / stop functionwhich switches the engine of the new E 200 CGIoff when idling.

In addition to the ultra-frugal petrol and diesel engines, the intelligent lightweight construction concept, optimised aerodynamics and other measures including the Auto Start - Stop function, Brake Energy Regeneration, Optimum Shift Indicator and on - demand operation of ancillary components, ensure that the powerful BMW 3 Series Touring also boasts impressively low fuel consumption and emissions.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

The other preferred measure for core inflation, HICP less energy and unprocessed food, came in 1.1 % year - on - year, which is also still in - line with the ECB's 2017 forecast of 1.1 %.

To accelerate these and other efforts, we are committed to increasing investment in both basic and applied environmental and clean energy technology research and development (R&D), and the promotion of commercialization including through direct government funding and fiscal measures to encourage private sector investment.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

This energy can then be transferred to any other gas molecule in the atmosphere causing it to heat up (that's what heat is — the measure of molecular vibrational energy).

The Times» series on China shows that we are not the only ones who need to rethink pell - mell development; on the other side of the coin, the oil shock of the l970's showed how a crisis could lead to fuel conservation measures and alternative energy investments that helped slow CO2 emissions in this country for quite a few years.

That will not be obtained by buying a Prius or other low - to - medium cost measures in factories (many energy intensive factories have learned to be economical in the seventies — as a matter of survival).

BTUs, on the other hand, are a solid, standard, measurement of the true currency of the economy — energy (or choose your favorite measure of energy).

The disclosures reveal that 14 % percent of CDP's corporate respondents practice «offset - inclusive carbon management,» meaning that they are investing in hundreds of unique emissions reduction projects — from forestry in Belize to wind energy in India to clean cookstoves in Zambia — in addition to directly reducing their climate impact through energy efficiency, improved product design and other measures.

But as JFK said in his famous 1962 speech, «we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.»

Further, local risk assessments and adaptation measures, along with other community initiatives related to e.g. energy diversification / independence, have been underway for years in many parts of the world.

Measuring the atmospheric temperature without standardising the pressure gives little information that would help to assess global energy of the atmosphere As far as I can make out, one Bar of pressure equates to 3 degrees C roughly, So the range of variation in either would significantly relate to the other.

The report is comprised of contributions from industry leaders and experts on how to transition to a clean energy economy, navigating the transition during global economic recovery and the possibilities of market - based measures in mitigating greenhouse gases, amongst other topics.