Sentences with phrase «used as an energy resource»

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The reason efficiency is declining is due to decline in oil reservoir quality the world over as the best reserves of this finite resource were produced first and more recent production is more energy - intensive using enhanced oil recovery techniques.

You may not think much about this, but a tremendous amount of global resources — such as energy, minerals, chemicals and water — are used to make a single item of clothing, electronic gadget, or household item.

Over the past decade, Marin Katusa, President of Katusa Research, has emerged as a world leader in analyzing resource sectors in both mining and energy and in using his research to manage strongly performing resource funds.

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.

Such a shift would also reduce the use of energy as well as other resources.

The megachurch will make all kinds of demands on time, energy, resources and, as someone said here, using extra-biblical rules to keep itself growing or afloat.

APV branded process components are designed for easy and effective cleaning / CIP, while minimising the use of valuable resources such as energy.

Their estimates suggest a population of over 9 billion people and a change in dietary habits, such as increased meat consumption, using more resources such as water, energy and land.

Designed for efficiency, sustainability and conservation of resources in small - to - medium applications, the energy - efficient KDS separator consumes as little as 0.06 kW hr of electricity and uses no washwaster, says CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Mike Bambridge.

What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from old technology that has passed its use - by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

Designed for efficiency, sustainability and conservation of resources in small - to - medium applications, the energy - efficient KDS separator consumes as little as 0.06 kW hr of electricity and uses no wash water, says Mr Bambridge.

With over 200 non-union hotels planning to open their doors in our city in the next few years we must use the resources the membership provided in the dues referendum and continue to focus all of our energy on making our union one that represents as many workers in the hotel industry as possible.

As energy use is reduced in buildings, fewer renewable energy resources will be needed to reach the 50 percent goal.

U.S. homes have about 63 million video game consoles, and together they use about as much energy as San Diego does in a year, according to a 2008 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council

Using excess energy from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind to split water into oxygen and hydrogen — a process called electrolysis — could be the best solution for creating large supplies of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

The research group is actively working to apply this method to the development of viable renewable energy resources, such as a photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis using sunlight.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

Science literacy enables individuals to use science to make more well - informed decisions in areas related to science and technology that are relevant in their daily lives, such as in personal health and the use of energy resources.

The use of solar energy, an emissions - free and inexhaustible resource, is expanding as new policies encourage the adoption of renewable energy sources.

Encouraging the uptake and use of biodegradable bags and materials is advantageous as this moves society away from a linear economic model based on «take, make, dispose», which relies on there being an infinite supply of resources and energy, to one that enables us to maximise the limited natural resources available.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

At the same time, catalysts convert excess electrical energy produced via renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind, into chemical energy, making it easy to store the energy for future use.

is the Los Alamos preprint server (see ), which has become a valuable and widely used resource for dissemination of research in astronomy as well as in high - energy, nuclear, and gravitational physics.

«The Knapps have applied their remarkable energy and resources — including hard work — to finding better ways to learn about complex diseases such as lupus and to use that knowledge to help others,» said James Madara, MD, dean of the biological sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs.

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

They can use the clickable picture on the E-Patrol Energy Savers Web page as their resource.

Starter activities for the entire topic of P2 GCSE Physics (AQA) Topics included Energy transfer by conduction Specific Heat Capacity Heating and Insulating Buildings Resources produced to use the starter as a recap from the previous lesson.

We use real estate as a subclass within the natural resources category because at times it has a low correlation with energy and other commodity movements.

Through Tune Hotels.com's «Less Waste, More Earth» pay - as - you - use system of add - ons for air - conditioning, laundered towels and other energy - consuming facilities and amenities, Tune Hotels.com aims to help guests conserve both their funds as well as the earth's resources.

Both deal with humanity expanding into space not onto different planets, but rather in O'Neill cylinders floating freely in space that use rotation to generate an approximate feeling of gravity, and both have these colonies eventually being used as weapons, by taking advantage of the plentiful solar energy resources of outer space.

I would like to see an energy analysis of every new product, both from manufacture and in use, as well as resource consumption data.

Just as a heavy smoker at the risk of lung cancer needs to stop smoking, the best solution for the current climate crisis is to stop using the atmosphere as an open sewer for carbon gases... resorting instead to the abundant clean energy resources technology now masters — solar voltaic, solar thermal, solar (space) reflectors, geothermal energy.hot rocks, wind, tides, hydrogen — the list goes on.

But, as yet, there's no set of such goals for those who are already living lives that many analysts say are consuming resources at a pace well beyond the planet's carrying capacity, particularly if the habits that attend affluence — from greatly increased meat consumption to unthinking energy use and greenhouse - gas emissions — are adopted by another few billion people.

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It minimises the need to use our natural resources such as oil using recycled materials significantly reduces energy use and carbon emissions during the manufacturing process.

Alternatively, we could describe climate change as one aspect of a system of human growth (in population, energy use, resource use, economic activity, etc) and the many ways in which that growth is constrained on a finite planet.

The Archetypes study by Natural Resources Canada demonstrated this a decade ago; here is an example from Calgary, where the people living in the leaky old buildings in Mission use a fraction of energy inputs as the people living in suburban Lake Bonavista - they live in smaller apartments and don't have to drive everywhere.

While the use of wind energy is certainly not new, projects such as this promote a novel pooling of resources among geographically dispersed communities.

Be sure to use ENERGY STAR Lighting Options for Restaurants and Commercial Kitchens as a resource.

We have more tools available to make solar and other variable renewable technologies more reliable than ever, such as larger and more integrated grids, better resource forecasting, and more use of energy storage technologies.

I used Energy Sage as one of the final resources to get me ready to deal with the so confusing world of sales people in the rooftop solar universe.

But the region has a lot of resources that could be used to create clean energy, such as the ocean currents.

Residential energy used by end use was distributed as follows: space heating 61.1 %, water heating 20.8 %, appliances 13.5 %, lighting 4.1 %, and space cooling 0.5 % (Natural Resources Canada, 1997).

The general consensus from the summit was that the use of natural resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas — which provide 80 percent of the world's energy needs — should be avoided.

The majority of people consider energy from biomass as unclean since they are wastes; and this means that advanced energy conversion technologies must be improvised to enable the use of biomass as a clean energy resource.

«Currently, many developed nations are further along in embracing and expanding their use of energy recovery technologies as a vital part of their sustainable resource management systems.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

It also aims to help local governments to use climate finance mechanisms as an opportunity to increase the energy performance of their district whilst creating additional revenue, improve resource efficiency and support their wider climate strategies.

Use these resources as planning guides for implementing cost - effective energy improvement projects for your business.