Sentences with phrase «use efficiency»

Increase water - and nutrient - use efficiency in rice - based farming systems by at least 5 % by 2022, rising to 11 % by 2030.

The prettiest factor relating to this place is it has got the charm of the suburbs using the efficiency of the city.

Corn is among the most intensive uses of fertilizer and represents a significant opportunity for nitrogen use efficiencies that could reduce GHG emissions while maintaining or improving yields.

The output energy, however, was similar in the two systems, indicating much lower ratio of output energy to input energy in the organic system, suggesting greater energy use efficiency.

But the good news is that we've seen improvements in agricultural water - use efficiency over the past 40 years.

What clients have sought out law firms using efficiency as a metric?

The similarity to livestock when using these efficiency measures is the opposite of the expected result based on weight - based feed conversion ratios.

Higher water - use efficiency just means losing less water while taking in the CO2.

We believe that the self - driving technology helps improve road safety and road use efficiency.

And, it turns out, their water use efficiency rises right in step with CO2 levels.

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy.

Without further legislation we still will not fully use efficiency to meet national goals, but these agency actions are strengthening the economy, the environment, and national security.

The middle line of charts show water use efficiency increasing as well.

The project aims to identify practices to optimize nitrogen use efficiency.

So our next real push where water is concerned is to improve the water - use efficiency of agricultural practices.

Welcoming the availability of proven climate ‐ smart technologies and tools to address climate change impacts, enhance resilience and boost water and fertilizer use efficiency in rice ‐ based cropping systems, including low ‐ cost technologies and farm management practices to eliminate stubble burning and reduce post ‐ harvest losses;

We've heard that a director at the Department of Agriculture advised her team that carbon - sequestration and greenhouse - gas reduction should instead be described as «building soil organic matter» and «increasing nutrient use efficiency.»

As the target ETR was decreased during the last 7 hours, conversion of light into heat decreased greatly in lettuce and pothos, with only a small increase in light use efficiency.

«Harvesting the sun for power and produce: Agrophotovoltaics increases the land use efficiency by over 60 percent.»

In contrast, increased thaw depth and increased water - use efficiency under elevated CO2 will tend to increase available soil moisture, decreasing fire frequency and increasing woody biomass.

In a separate phone call, Don Rennie reported to me that he believed that N2O emissions from banded fertilizer in zero till would be low, in line with the higher N use efficiency of such placement.

** Water - use efficiency benchmarking for our beverage operations will be informed by the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) tools.

«From the perspective of agricultural science, agrophotovoltaics is a promising solution for increasing both the land use efficiency and the share of renewable energy provided by the agricultural sector,» stresses Prof. Iris Lewandowski, Head of the Department of Biobased Products and Energy Crops, University of Hohenheim.

But potential exists to increase water - use efficiency with new technology that more accurately detects when plants need to be watered.

Studies suggest that use of bioethanol produced from maize represents only a slight improvement in fossil fuel use efficiency over direct use of petroleum, while bioethanol produced from wood can improve energy efficiency by up to four times (NRDC, 2006).

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model - data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites.

And with the report that T. Boone Pickens is investing in a HUGE wind farm in Texas, and the liklihood that Congress and the president will ignore the please for tax holidays for motorists, maybe the idea has finally set in that energy, used efficiency doesn't need to be cheap, and that if it is not, all kinds of alternatives and innovations will be in the cars.

If so, your eDiscovery and litigation support workflows could use an efficiency boost.

The dairy component of the nitrogen - use efficiency project will involve research partners who will contribute an additional A$ 500,000 ($ 364,000).

Potential yield and water - use efficiency benefits in sorghum from limited maximum transpiration rate.

In the Wisconsin case Whitford v. Gill, federal judges used the efficiency gap to rule that the state's voting districts represented an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

In addition, conversion of light energy into heat (a common way for plants to deal with excess light) was upregulated, while the light use efficiency decreased.

«I believe these sensors could improve water - use efficiency considerably,» Duiker added.

These technologies include: Yield Protection Technology (YPT ™), Heat & Drought Tolerance Technology («HDT»), Water Use Efficiency Enhancement Technology («WET ™»), and Yield Enhancement Technology («YET ™»).

However, there is an extensive literature showing that deep banding of N fertilizer improves fertilizer use efficiency compared to surface incorporation.

There is an extensive literature on the improvement in N fertilizer use efficiency achieved by deep banding in zero tillage systems, but no studies on N2O emissions.

Hall, who wasn't involved in Hughes» study, thinks the EROI for oil sands would fall closer to 1:1 if the tar sands» full life cycle — including transportation, refinement into higher quality products, end use efficiency and environmental costs — was taken into account.

I'm against corn - based ethanol on land - use efficiency grounds but deternmining how much «fossil fuel» goes into raising corn is not a given.