Sentences with phrase «times the energy embodied»

On the contrary, the upper six miles of the earth's crust holds 50,000 times the energy embodied in the world's oil and gas reserves.

Not exact matches

So we know that some long period of time from now, we'll be on a sustainable, low - embodied energy, crustally abundant advanced materials, advanced distributable, renewable energy; somewhere between here and there, a lot of capital equipment is going to become obsolete, because the marginal cost of production of it is so much more than the new way of doing it that the new way will put it out of business.

Dating is a time to let go of what's happening at the office and embody your feminine, receptive energy.

In addition to this, the remaining films also question familial relationships, time and place, but they also embody the energy, capacity for change, as well as the character of this celebrated location.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

Perhaps I have been taking the wrong approach all this time, promoting natural materials with low embodied energy.

Perry, who ran for president in the past two election cycles, is likely to shift the department away from renewable energy and toward fossil fuels, whose production he championed while serving as governor for 14 years... «During his time in office, Perry embodied the type of «all of the above» approach to U.S. energy production that many have advocated on both sides of the aisle,» Zelermyer said.

It seems to me that Piccard's point about CO2 balance is really about the embodied energy that it took to create the two Solar Impulse aircraft (HB - SIA and HB - SIB), in the first place: their fuselages, massive wings the span of an Airbus 340, the 12,000 solar cells that line the upper surface of those wings and stabilizer, the motors, batteries, communications and navigation equipment that keeps the plane on track and lets the world watch the flight in real time; not to mention the support team in Switzerland, and in Morocco where it safely flew yesterday, June 21st, from Rabat to the desert town of Ouarzazate.

If freshly made steel is used, the embodied energy is at least 138,750 Wh (3.7 times the embodied energy of a single battery).

Most energy sources» embodied energy is diminished by the time it is delivered to and consumed in your home.

Depending upon the battery's embodied energy requirement, an increase of cycle life to 10 000 — 18 000 (2 — 20 times present values) is required for pairing with wind (assuming liberal round - trip efficiency [90 %] and liberal depth - of - discharge [80 %] values).

Estimated payback time for the «embodied energy» of the whole wind farm is approximately five months.

Kris De Decker of Low Tech Magazine looked at the embodied energy of electronics and had a hard time of it; there isn't much data and technology moves so quickly.

Of all the green conferences I've attended, it's the first time that I've seen embodied energy labels in bathrooms.

«In terms of sustainability, straw bale walls: have low embodied energy in terms of fabrication and transportation, provide good thermal and acoustic insulation, are light and can be constructed quickly and easily, require less trades people in their construction (which can facilitate savings in time, cost and energy).»