Sentences with phrase «power of environmental factors»

Indeed, his experiments on captive primates have established the power of environmental factors.

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Noble Environmental officials also cited development and construction costs in Western New York and the «nature of the market for long - term power purchase agreements» as additional factors that affected the viability of the Noble Allegany project.....

«The risk calculator does not take into account treatment or other potentially supportive environmental factors that may reduce risk; this is a direction for future research,» Seidman said, adding that the power of the calculator lies in putting symptoms in perspective for patients and their families.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

With ever greater power and speed, computers should be able to sort through bewildering mazes of data about genetic and environmental factors to help determine how their effects in one organ influence other physiological systems.

A number of environmental factors — such as pollution, cigarette smoke and radiation — can turn the oxygen molecules found in mitochondria, the power plants of cells, into free radicals.

At a high level, a number of factors should support a regional renewables drive, including low electrification levels, a growing appreciation of the environmental impact of fossil fuel independent power producers (IPPs) and the increasing difficulties a number of banks face in financing them, and a growing recognition of the depth and breadth of renewable resources in the region.

Power - sector CO2 emissions are influenced by a number of factors not directly affected by environmental policies, such as macroeconomic growth levels and relative fuel prices.

Each regional model sector will encompass power generation, transmission, and sale; the financing, construction, and maintenance of power infrastructure (generators and transmission lines); and also key societal and environmental factors such as population, quality of life, and pollution.

This combination of wind and hydro power would produce seamless power, regardless of environmental factors.

Coal Blooded analyzes sulfur dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions in conjunction with demographic factors — race, income, and population density — to rank the environmental justice performance of the nation's 378 coal fired power plants.

A key factor in those retirements is a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation on emissions of toxins from coal - fired power plants.

So premise of such study would be the fact that that government would waving these environmental laws and also be looking a way to streamline governmental approval, so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to building nuclear power plants.

Unfortunately, most of the environmental groups such as EDF, NRDC, Sierra Club, UCS and many scientists such as those often cited here can not see any other factor beyond vehicle and power plant emissions.

The operation of hydroelectric units reflects factors outside of power demand, for example, compliance with environmental regulations such as controlling water flow to maintain fish populations.

Energy Source Another Large Factor Part of the other issue with train travel that the report points out is similar to an ongoing issue with switching over to all - electric cars: They may be more efficient than other forms of transit, but unless the electricity that powers them is from non-carbon emitting sources then much of the environmental benefit is lost.

«Whereas if it relies on multiple environmental conditions — like sunlight intensity, wind speed, precipitation — all of these factors could create a more stable power source with a higher power output.»

Consider this reality: ONE (1) 450 MW gas - fired Combined Cycle Generating Unit located at New York City (where the power is needed in NYS)-- operating at 60 % Capacity Factor, would provide more power than all of NYS's 16 installed wind factories combined, at 1/4 of the capital costs — and would have significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more jobs than all those wind farms — without all the added costs (economic, environmental, and civil), and of all the transmission lines that must be added across the state to NYC.

One of the benefits of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) is that it does not require a particular power station to be the sole cause of climate change, which is caused by many contributing factors.

«A benefit to studying child characteristics is that they are perhaps the most easily influenced component of resilience while educators have little influence over a child's family in larger environmental factors it can be said that they have the power to influence certain child characteristics, such as self - concept» (Nesheiwat, & Brandwein, 2011).