Sentences with phrase «use of energy sources»

High - voltage direct current transmission allows efficient use of energy sources remote from load centres.»

He said that COP21 — the acronym for the meeting — «represents an important stage in the process of developing a new energy system which depends on a minimal use of fossil fuels, aims at energy efficiency and makes use of energy sources with little or no carbon content.»

Given that the United States, China and other countries sit on vast reserves of coal, and that vast volumes of carbon dioxide will come from conventional use of this energy source, what is the best way forward?

Geothermal good in theory Turkey's potential for geothermal energy is high too, and the country ranks pretty well in its use of the energy source, but once again, production capacity remains extremely low — only 30 MW out of what CleanTechies estimates as a 31,500 MW potential.

Not exact matches

In fact, we found that the military could generate all of its electricity from distributed renewable sources by 2025 using these types of microgrids - which would provide energy reliability and decrease costs.

Using documents leaked by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden as its source, Fantástico outlined an apparent plan by Communications Security Establishment Canada, to hack into the computers of Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy.

The advantage of fossil fuels and nuclear power, that renewable sources still can't match, is the way they hold energy for use when you want it.

Now a growing number of those customers are pushing the cloud giant to be more open about what's powering its data centers and are pushing it to use more green, renewable energy sources.

Atwater — who actually wanted to use his work in the 1890s to help poor people get the most calories for their money — determined the average number of calories in four main energy sources: carbs, fats, protein, and alcohol.

The BLM website used to say that the agency was focused on «energy for today and tomorrow» and «leading the way in allowing for orderly, environmentally responsible development» of sun, wind, and geothermal energy sources.

Google's total purchase of energy from renewable sources in 2017 was greater than the electricity used by its global operations, the tech giant has said.

The soccer balls and jump ropes are off - grid energy sources, but they're also distributed with a curriculum — a five - part course that uses the products to teach STEM concepts — and a message to kids to «think out of bounds.»

This particular type of black fungus is common near distilleries because it uses ethanol as a source of energy for growth.

«Provide tax relief that encourages the use of alternative energy sources.»

Nye also made known his feelings about Alberta's oilsands as an inefficient source of energy, using the term «tar,» a label despised by the province's oil industry.

In some cases, Apple uses traditional energy sources, then buys an equal amount of renewable energy in an effort to offset its carbon footprint.

Japan and Korea are global leaders in the use of fuel cells, an alternative low - emission clean energy source.

LED light bulbs can last around 20 years, use less energy to work, and provide a purer source of light.

(If you use slave labour to build a wind turbine, is that an ethical source of energy?)

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

Until that is changed, it is the duty of all of us to cut down on electricity use, or to go for alternate sources of energy where applicable — solar power.

A study from the University of Cambridge earlier this year found that 58 percent of Bitcoin mining comes from China, describing «an arms race amongst miners to use the cheapest energy sources and the most efficient equipment to keep operators profitable.»

Having acknowledged the need to turn from the overdependence on fossil fuels to more environmentally friendly sources of energy, the government has tried to encourage the production of automobiles that use alternative sources of fuel by trying to give tax incentives to any buyers of such cars.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

They have also increased their use of natural gas as well as renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

When blockchain first appeared, especially Ethereuem's innovation of «smart contracts», a number of people posited that it could be used to trade energy between one source and another, such as power supplies or batteries.

Lower cost solar panels, improvements in geothermal and wind, and advances in building energy efficiency are giving us new alternatives to create as many or more high - quality jobs using non-emitting sources of power.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

For all their official production measurements, OPEC uses an average of estimates from six «secondary sources», namely the International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the oil consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and the industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, as an impartial adjudicator as to whether their output quotas and production cuts are being met, to resolve any potential disputes that could arise if each member reported their own figures.

These DAO's — or online creation communities as they're sometimes called — are powered by a concert of voluntary participants who contribute their energy and resources to an open - source project, either by gathering information, delivering code proposals or simply using an open - source technology.

The will to utterly waste the most important source of finite fuel on the planet; the will not to use it for the creation of renewable energy sources but instead to power our «4 mile commute to work».

With an expanding use of ICTs the energy requirements will only increase and will require planning and budgeting for electrification and such alternative energy sources as solar power.

He spent a considerable amount of energy seeing to it that this was the case, including using his enormous influence among whites to cut his critics off from sources of financial support.

It embraces mankind as the sources and uses of positve energy.

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

The new president doesn't care if such policy forecloses use of the most plentiful native energy source in the United States» coal.

Perhaps we can find new sources of energy as oil gives out, but their use is likely further to degrade the world.

Regions deficient in petroleum may lead the way in the use of solar power, a source of energy that lends itself best to local collection and use.

The matter used, of course, is found in sources containing captured solar energy which have been created by the chlorophyll function of plant life.

They also include shifting from the use of the private automobile to more environmentally sound means of public transportation, dwellings that insure sufficient privacy while fostering a greater sense of community and interconnectedness in the manner of Paolo Soleri's model city, Arcosanti, and decreased use of non-renewable sources of energy and the increased use of solar energy.

In view of the grave dangers that accompany the irresponsible use of power, the people who best understand the sources and uses of the forces they help to unlock have an obligation to work for the right employment and social control of natural energies.

Thus, it means that the total resources of the earth, our technological skills and scientific achievements, our sources of power including atomic energy, belong to God and should be used at his call for the increase of human good.

It now seems certain that we shall have to phase out the use of these sources of energy well before the reserves are gone if we are to make the transition to the ecologically sustainable society.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

By far the most important source of disruption of the environment comes from the use of fossil fuels for energy.

Without the presence of fiber, the body does not use sugar as an energy source but instead stores sugar and converts it to fat.

Coconuts are loaded with lauric acid, a medium - chain fatty acid that, once it gets into your body, is converted into monolaurin, which is easily digestible and can be used as a source of direct energy instead of being stored in the body as fat.