Sentences with phrase «scale technology options»

Both distributed forms of renewable energy and central large - scale technology options are possible.

Not exact matches

He said his biggest concerns for alternatives to what exists today include regulation and central bank reactions to options that rely on distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies, in addition to having a network robust enough to operate at scale.

The United States has many promising options for obtaining new supplies of electricity and changing its supply mix during the next two to three decades, especially if carbon capture and storage and evolutionary nuclear technologies can be deployed at required scales.

The technologies required for most sectors are available and extrapolation of available studies suggests that the economy could benefit, but the main technical and institutional options have not all been explored and the scale of the transition, especially for the energy sector, is immense.

All of our options for keeping warming below 2C above pre-industrial temperatures now involve capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground — a technology that doesn't yet exist on a large scale, according to new research.

Other policy options could also be suggested, including: strengthening education level of farmers, facilitating cheap technologies, spurring irrigation investment through public - private partner, and supporting the land reform such as farmers» cooperation in large - scale production.

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.

«we consider only options that have been demonstrated in at least pilot projects and that can be scaled up as part of a global energy system without further major technology development.

Wood pellet furnaces, using the most advanced technologies for conserving and recovering energy, have become an attractive technology option, especially for home or small - scale use.

Wehner and his co-authors of Chapter 2 of the NCA, which looked at the physical basis for our understanding of climate change, considered seven different future scenarios (including four new ones), ranging from the «do nothing» option to a geoengineering option, which would require an as - yet uninvented technology to take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a global scale, to achieve net negative emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

But now, after a few years of investigation, it appears that this technology is not a viable option for larger scale power generation.

That context of course makes it easier to sustain the «lifestyle must change radically» view, since, with some exceptions, small scale technology is, arguably, the most constrained / constraining green option - it is hard to get major national - level savings that way.

This option assumes a massive scale - up of negative emissions technologies, which remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it on land, underground or in the oceans.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

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Replacing these dirty technologies with advanced, cheaper solar panels will be an attractive option on both a small and large scale.

With Ethereum protocol soon hitting its capacity, research into new scaling options to help the distributed technology scale is needed soon.

The move to develop the technology finds Purse pitching its implementation - one that is today an alternative to versions by Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited - as a third option in the scaling debate that would bring about a block size increase and malleability fix via soft fork, or a change that doesn't risk splitting the bitcoin blockchain.

He has a long track record of partnering with business teams to develop new product requirements, suggest innovative options, and deliver large - scale solutions for both internal and external customers utilizing leading edge technologies.