Sentences with phrase «wasteful use of energy»

«Today $ 409 billion equivalent of fossil fuel subsidies are in place which encourage developing countries — where the bulk of the energy demand and CO2 emissions come from --[towards a] wasteful use of energy»

Both indoor and outdoor air pollution tend to go hand - in - hand with the inefficient and wasteful use of energy.

Just one of those excesses is the wasteful use of energy, which if repeated would leave the country under a pall of filthy brown - coal smoke and make a mockery of any idea of restricting the world's output of carbon dioxide.

Without such leadership and comprehensive economic policies, conservation of energy by individuals merely reduces demands for fuel, thus lowering prices and ultimately promoting the wasteful use of energy.»

Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

In order to get these efficient technologies and measures deployed, we need policies and programs that help overcome entrenched, inefficient practices and empower businesses and consumers to make wise decisions and eliminate wasteful uses of energy.

Not exact matches

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

The curriculum outline encourages the adoption of sustainable practices such as reducing wasteful energy use, behaviors that Project 2061 envisions that students can bring home.

Previously it has been shown that the chirality can be manipulated by applying magnetic fields to complicated nanowire geometries, but the use of magnetic fields is wasteful of energy and limits the ability to address individual domain walls selectively.

Why would cancer cells switch from a mechanism that produces maximum energy to such a wasteful use of glucose?

Doing a load of laundry with fewer than that can be wasteful in terms of water and energy used.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

The FoS released a report titled «Due Diligence on Renewable Demands by David Suzuki Foundation,» asserting that a renewable energy campaign by the Suzuki Foundation was «based on partisan demands that are not supported by evidence» and that would be «a wasteful use of public funds and detrimental for the nation at large.»

One of the biggest users of energy is heating (which is currently mostly done by burning fossil fuels on site, as using electricity for resistive heating is very wasteful as involves needlessly paying Carnot).

Ethanol production, windmill and solar ter replace fossil fuel energy are HUGELY wasteful of land use.

And of course there can be good reasons for using less energy, including being less economically wasteful and curbing the environmental impacts of energy sources such as oil and coal.

Population density also lowers energy and water use in all categories, constrains family size, limits the consumption of all kinds of goods, reduces ownership of wasteful appliances, decreases the generation of solid waste, and forces most residents to live in some of the world's most inherently energy - efficient residential structures: apartment buildings.

However, if Masdar City remains an isolated experiment in sustainable living, disconnected from the rest of Abu Dhabi (where rampant construction, wasteful energy use and the dominance of the fossil fuel economy remain the norm), its impact at home will be limited, and it will be seen by many as a green smokescreen, a gimmick whose real purpose is to draw attention away from some of the emirate's less sustainable endeavors.

Relying on excessive levels of insulation, airtightness, and window performance rather than considering the use of environmentally sound and more economical supplies of energy is also wasteful of resources and uneconomical (although until recently this has rarely been a problem).