Sentences with phrase «peak of consumption»

Despite science telling us that we need to take action now, coal has had its highest peak of consumption in 40 years in 2014.

Despite science telling us that we need to take action now, coal has had its highest peak of consumption in 40 years in 2014.

Not exact matches

Economists agreed almost unanimously at a recent provincial economic summit that a consumption tax would help level out the peaks and valleys of provincial revenue tied to energy prices.

According to JPMorgan Chase, spending in this country peaks at 45, then declines in every category of consumption except health care.

While it is not directly related to replacement rates per se, the authors use pairs of cross sectional data from the GSS and from Statistics Canada's 1992 Family Expenditure Surveys and the 1998 Survey of Household Spending to illustrate that both real family income and real family consumption adjusted for household size tend to be hump - shaped with respect to age and peak in the 50s, while general satisfaction with life tends to stay relatively constant through different ages.

This would be an astonishing consumption share even for the United States at its peak share of global GDP (around 33 % in the late 1940s?)

Over the four quarters to December, consumption increased by a little under 4 per cent, down from a peak growth rate of more than 6 per cent seen earlier that year.

It's guaranteed that our level of consumption is going to result in some nasty surprises down the road (climate change, peak oil, water / food shortages).

It works with local law enforcement to run PSA's during peak consumption times of their alcoholic beverage portfolio and provide programs like Street Smart for local schools to educate students on alcohol / drug abuse, texting while driving and all - around appropriate behavior.

«The shippers have significantly increased our sales and helped retailers maintain inventories of key items during peak consumption periods,» he states.

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

Obviously, Mexico was certainly the time of peak avocado consumption on my holiday, but the inspiration for this roasted broccoli and guacamole salad actually comes from a little place I visited in NYC a few times; a chain of salad bars called sweetgreen.

The amount of alcohol that makes it into the breastmilk will peak about 30 to 60 minutes after consumption, or up to 90 minutes if taken with food.

At peak hour, consumption comes to about 2,200 megawatts that is during the warm season in March when people turn on all their air conditioners and all of that.

The IET agrees and emphasises the role that households will in future be able to play by voluntarily shifting a part of their consumption away from peak times, facilitated by the smart metering system.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

The result is that you can use large amounts of energy at night to heat up the thermal mass of the building, after which you can turn off the heating altogether in the morning peak and during the daytime, when the total power consumption and energy price are at their highest.

«Given that the maxima in the fuel - consumption rates occurred several years prior to the onset of the current economic downturn, these maxima have a good chance of being permanent peaks,» said Michael Sivak, a research professor at UMTRI and author of the report.

Anders Birke, the lead IT architect at DONG Energy, says the peak consumption of these three sites totals up to 10 percent of the peak energy consumption on the islands.

Consumption of almonds has jumped 200 % since 2005 and almond prices rose from about a dollar per pound in 2000 to a peak of around $ 5 per pound in 2014 according to the study's author.

Some of the peaks may be due to drug production rather than consumption, however, Thomas cautions.

The EU assessment report confirms that consumption of alpha - cyclodextrin can reduce blood sugar peaks following a high - starch meal.

THE PEAK OF OXYGEN CONSUMPTION AT THE TIME OF SPERM PENETRATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASE IN REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCTION IN BOVINE ZYGOTES.

The level of caffeine reaches its peak after about an hour of consumption, which is the approximate time when people start feeling the initial stimulating effects.

Caffeine is absorbed into the blood and body tissues, reaching peak levels of concentration between 15 - 120 minutes after consumption.

Sugar consumption in North America seems to have peaked in 2000 under the influence of the Atkins Onslaught.

VO2 max (also referred to as maximal oxygen consumption, peak oxygen uptake) is the maximum rate of oxygen consumption as measured during incremental exercise, usually on a treadmill or cycle ergometer.

Caffeine may appear in the blood within 5 minutes [27] and reach its peak blood level within 15 - 120 minutes of consumption [25,27].

Additionally, pre-exercise consumption of a CHO + PRO supplement may result in peak levels of protein synthesis.

Obviously, Mexico was certainly the time of peak avocado consumption on my holiday, but the inspiration for this roasted broccoli and guacamole salad actually comes from a little place I visited in NYC a few times; a chain of salad bars called sweetgreen.

This process of calcium loss due to dairy consumption is not reserved for those over 35 who have reached peak bone mass and are experiencing age - related bone loss.

Caffeine ingested by a mother will be present in her breastmilk, detectable within 15 minutes of consumption, and peaking at about 1 - hour post consumption.4 Infants younger than 5 months old still have immature detoxification pathways and metabolize caffeine more slowly.

Effects of strength or aerobic training on body composition, resting metabolic rate, and peak oxygen consumption in obese dieting subjects.

«Consumption of a meal high in amylose starch (70 %) decreases peak insulin and glucose levels and area under the curve (AUC).

Phase one consists of a simple ECU remap, which BBR claims not only boosts peak outputs to 290bhp and 330lb - ft (gains of 34bhp and 50lb - ft) but also improves throttle response and the response of the turbo boost map, whilst reducing fuel consumption at cruising speeds.

Driving home from the launch saw the car's consumption drop from 10.8 to 8.7 L / 100 km — helped by over 100 km of freeway driving, but also offset by about 30 km of peak - hour Melbourne traffic, including roughly 5 km of bumper - to - bumper morass.

The same goes for the CO2 - minimising BMW 320d EfficientDynamics Edition, whose peak output of 120 kW / 163 hp contrasts with average fuel consumption in the EU driving cycle of 4.1 l / 100 km (68.9 mpg imp) and CO2 emissions of 109 g / km.

The transmission delivers 360 Nm of peak torque and supports fuel consumption of only 7.5 litres / 100 km.

Currently, the CR - Z engine is matched with a 10kW / 121Nm electric motor to produce peak power of 91kW and 174Nm of torque, while claiming official fuel consumption of 5.0 L / 100 km and CO2 emissions of 118g / km.

The Measurements section below has details of all of the lab measurements and tests with lots of additional background information and explanations including the display's Maximum Brightness and Peak Luminance, Black Brightness, Contrast Ratio, Screen Reflectance, Bright Ambient Light Contrast Rating, Dynamic Color and Contrast, Color Temperature and White Chromaticity, Color Gamut, Intensity Scale and Gamma, the variation of Brightness, Contrast Ratio and Color Shift with Viewing Angle, Backlight Power Consumption, and Light Spectrum of the display.

In something which appears to sort - of echo Bloodborne, Revenants apparently rely on blood to survive and will transform into monster creatures named «Lost», should they fail to keep their blood consumption at peak levels.

Taking into consideration the revolution of rising expectations in India and China resulting in massive industrialization the consumption of fossil fuels may push the peak closer than the estimates.

I know we are at or near peak oil production, but if we can put it in these terms (max 20 years of oil at current consumption rates).

This presumes humans will not all soon shift to a purely vegetarian lifestyle, even though there are signs of what you might call «peak meat» (consumption, that is) in prosperous societies (Mark Bittman wrote a nice piece on this).

The Element Plus bulbs are rated at 9.8 W peak consumption, and offer 800 lumens of brightness (said to be the equivalent of a 60W incandescent bulb), with a color temperature range of 2700K to 6500K (essentially adjustable from warm yellow to cool white), and are said to last for up to 25,000 hours.

In the face of manifest climate change, the imminence of peak oil and peak natural gas, the increasing extinction of species, the pollution of the oceans and their consequent dead zones, and the population of the world continuing to grow, to see our pattern of consumption beyond our basic needs continuing... well it's quite disheartening.

In the long run none of this matters if the goal is true sustainability because if you do sustainability and populaton peaks this century, the population emergency is averted and per capita consumption can rise on a curve fitted to the population decline.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.