Sentences with phrase «produce less energy»

Over time, even the best solar panels produce less energy due to product degradation.

Even though global energy demand is the same in either case, effectively we will need to produce less energy because less is wasted through inefficient fossil fuel burning.

When your cells are starved of thyroid hormone, they produce less energy and therefore less heat.

Whereas solar or wind farms have few negative environmental side effects, they require more space and produce less energy than environmentally unfriendly coal plants.

Because the reactors produce less energy, they are well suited to isolated applications such as powering a small city or for some large industrial usage.

He suspects that the mitochondria in people predisposed to developing type 2 diabetes produce less energy, causing cells to demand less fuel, which triggers insulin resistance.

Shulman more recently tested young, healthy, lean 20 - year - olds whose parents have diabetes and discovered that they, too, have mitochondria that produce less energy and are somewhat insulin resistant — strong indicators they will get diabetes when they're older.

The Department also points out that, due to the higher energy requirements of extracting the oil, shale oil produces less energy than conventional oil, coal or wood.

Ditching a car for a bike only produces less energy if you originally had a car.

In other words, there is no scenario where mankind produces less energy; it is certain we will continue to produce more.

Not exact matches

Moreover, it should take even less fuel than a fission reactor does to produce a lot of energy.

This active ingredient is used in conjunction with energy rings to produce a long - lasting battery that has less impact on the planet.

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

Other companies have tried and failed to produce less intrusive forms of solar energy.

They use less energy, produce more light, and last longer than ordinary incandescent bulbs.

Energy research group IHS CERA calculates that fully one - half the U.S. shale resource — a 30 - year supply at today's rate of consumption — could be produced at today's prices or less, meaning the market can accommodate a jump in demand without a corresponding price increase.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

The company's eco-friendly production strategy has minimized its environmental footprint by decreasing waste by 40 percent, using 30 percent less energy and producing 20 percent fewer emissions.

«We are constantly looking to produce equipment that uses less energy.

Namely, the company is working to use less energy and produce less waste.

Recycling packaging materials also makes good business sense as containers produced with recycled material use 95 percent less energy compared with bottles made from raw materials, says Eric Louis - Seize, market analyst at Hawkesbury, Ontario - based Montebello Packaging.

The Instant Pot speeds up cooking by 2 ~ 6 times using up to 70 % less energy and, above all, produces nutritious healthy food in a convenient and consistent fashion.

Seventh Generation aims to produce a diaper that works at its best while using less water, less energy and less trees hence they came up with this free and clear unbleached diaper.

An independent Life Cycle analysis revealed that the pouches take less energy and fewer materials to make and produce less air pollution than glass, tetra pak or PET plastic bottles.

By comparison, cloth diapers use 20 times less raw materials, 2 times less water and 3 times less energy to produce than disposable diapers.

Environmental activists argue tap water uses 300 times less energy to create and distribute than bottled water and produces much less waste.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

No oxygen is needed for this conversion, but the downside is that it produces much less energy.

By adopting lighting technologies that use less energy the nations of the world will cut down on the fossil fuels, often coal, burned to produce that light.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

The company also reports that its dyeing method is less polluting and requires less energy to produce than other flooring options, and that all of its carpets have been tested and meet indoor air quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«However, ocean warming cancelled this benefit of elevated carbon dioxide by causing stress to the animals, making them less efficient feeders and preventing the extra energy produced by the plants from travelling through the food web to the fish.

The thing is, as people in their hundreds of millions start producing their own energy and physical goods, they need less income.

To stabilize and reverse the loss of biodiversity, we have to reduce our ecological footprint; we have to produce more wisely and consume more wisely, using less energy and less land and less water.»

«What we've learned is that we can now use adapted psychrophilic bacteria to produce a level of methane comparable to those more common forms, while using less energy.»

They produce 75 % less heat (i.e. energy) than regular light bulbs and can last up to 10 times longer.

As it stands, geothermal produces «less than one percent of global energy,» notes a recent perspective in Science.

The benefit of enhanced binding is that the new catalyst requires lower pressure and less energy to produce the same amount of methanol.

In new research at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotech Team, the ~ nanometer - sized dots are being doctored, or «doped,» with additional electrons, a treatment that nudges the dots ever closer to producing the desired laser light with less stimulation and energy loss.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

The big advantage is that it is expected to use less energy and thus produce less heat.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Their advantages make them interesting as an alternative to glass and carbon fiber reinforced plastics (GRP or CFRP): they are renewable, biodegradable and robust, use less energy in being produced, are lighter and have better acoustic properties.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

And then I also thought about the fact that over the history of the life of the universe, neutrinos are not just produced by the sun, but when stars explode in a supernova, the most brilliant fireworks in the universe, as brilliant as those fireworks are, less than 1 percent of the energy of the star is coming out in light; 99 percent is coming out as neutrinos and so neutrinos are being, [and] every time [a star explodes there's] an incredible burst of neutrinos.

Although mitochondria, the tiny capsules that produce energy for the cell, are known to play some role in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, the contribution of mitochondrial dynamics (mitochondrial trafficking, the regulated fusion and fission, and destruction of mitochondria) has been less clear.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.

They found that pigment isolated from red hair requires less energy to undergo the chemical reaction that produces the unstable, DNA - damaging free radicals linked to cancer.