Sentences with phrase «relying on biomass»

However, strong population growth in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has meant that the number of people relying on biomass for cooking has grown by 400 million people, despite growing awareness of the associated health risks and decades of programmes targeting access to modern cooking.

In developing Asia, 1.65 billion people (43 % of the population) rely on biomass for cooking.

Al «Bear» Ketzler, City Manager of Tanana, Alaska, a remote and mainly Native Alaskan village, located at the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana Rivers, that increasingly relies on biomass and solar power.

«For developing countries, the Paris Treaty would deny them the benefits of reliable low - cost hydrocarbon energy, compelling them to rely on biomass heating and costly weather - dependent and unreliable power supplies, thus prolonging and increasing their dependency on international handouts.

Not exact matches

According to the IEA, about 2.7 billion people — about 40 percent of the global population — still rely on the traditional use of biomass for cooking.

«Their silent but vast and ongoing war underpins everything from how global nutrient cycles — which rely on bacteria to produce half of Earth's biomass — operate, to how human pathogens evolve,» he says.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

This process stands in stark contrast to how industry accomplishes the same thing, by relying on free - floating enzyme mixtures to break down biomass.

Cool Planet's process relies on three core elements: novel biomass fractionation, advanced catalysis, and a char - to - soil enhancer.

It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.

A third of the world's population — 2.5 billion people — rely on the traditional use of solid biomass to cook their meals.

This analytical report draws attention to the global energy access situation and highlights that three billion people still rely on traditional biomass and coal; with a striking two million deaths per year associated with indoor burning of solid fuels in unventilated kitchens.

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

For example, while estimates concerning central tendencies of distributions of simulation outcomes are usually fairly robust because they are conditioned on ample data, estimates concerning the tails of distributions (such as the probability of falling below a critical biomass) are usually conditional on few data and thus often rely on assumptions that have no strong knowledge base.

Delaying action to curtail greenhouse gases through 2030 would reduce options to stabilize the gases, require much more rapid scale - up of low - carbon technologies and rely more on techniques that take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, such as combining burning biomass with carbon capture and storage, the researchers wrote.

Critics of biomass energy generation have generally either misunderstood the science or relied on distortion to demonize it and downplay its benefits.

The company relies on preexisting, industrial, demonstration - scale fermentation infrastructure to test and optimize its process, and has been able to achieve conversion of 70 — 80 % of biomass into oil - based fuel including jet fuel and biodiesel, which has been road - tested for more than a year in an unblended form in unmodified engines.

Noting that in the developing countries some 1.6 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 2.4 billion continue to rely on traditional biomass like fuelwood for cooking and heating, Annan calls for intensified efforts to promote renewable energy sources for the poor.

Almost two out of every five rely on wood or other biomass for cooking or heating.

Interestingly the Jacobson Plan for weaning the US from fossil fuels relies on wind, water, and solar and leaves biomass completely out of the mix because the climate and health costs of particulates were found to be a net negative.

Various technologies exist to convert biomass into the gaseous or liquid fuels on which our economy relies.

From an exergy efficiency perspective, building technologies which rely on solar, wind and biomass energy sources, coupled to thermally efficient envelopes, appropriate fenestration strategies [where we put what kind and size of windows] and natural ventilation / cooling are truly more elegant than «cutting butter with a chainsaw.»

By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power.

This is not about money its about reducing carbon emissions and eventually not relying on hydrocarbons for energy because we will run out of them and wind power is not being seen as the only solution, the solution is everything from solar, wave, biomass, etc..

Yesterday we heard that India announced a new program that aims to bring more efficient biomass cookstoves into homes of some 800 + million people who rely on them, bringing big health benefits.

A staggering 3 billion people still rely on traditional biomass such as wood and charcoal for their heating and cooking needs.

Under the 2016 World Energy Outlook's New Policy Scenario, around 2.3 billion people across Africa and Asia are projected to continue to rely on traditional uses of biomass for cooking in 2030.