A survey conducted recently by COMPAS Inc. found a majority of Canadian CEOs polled subscribe to peak - oil theory — the idea that the planet is running out of easily accessible and economical oil — but believe it is difficult to predict
when peak production will occur.
Not exact matches
By 2023,
when Hewson expects to hit to
peak production, Lockheed aims to hand over 160 strike fighters per year.
When the oil - demand
peak came, Shell believed, petroleum prices might begin a slow slide, dipping too low to cover the costs of oil - sands
production.
Generally, what you've seen historically,
when you get to a point where the auto
production and auto sales are at their
peak — that's the point at least from my experience where you start to get concerned about lending.
It is likely these projects will be built, and with them there will be a 13 per cent surplus of export pipeline capacity, without the Trans Mountain project,
when western Canadian oil
production peaks in the 2025 timeframe.
It seems like great news to me in an anxious age,
when we live in fear of economic collapse or terrorist attack, and are just waiting for the housing bubble to pop or for oil
production to
peak.
Also the milk price received by many dairy farmers is not as high as winter
when peak milk prices are often paid to drive winter
production.
Lazkano says that fossil fuel plants, particularly coal - fired plants, must pay a significant cost
when ramping up
production to meet
peak demands.
The team of Ueli Schibler, professor emeritus at the Department of Molecular Biology of the UNIGE Faculty of Science, discovered some years ago that temperature cycles drive the rhythmic
production of a protein called CIRBP, whose quantity
peaks in the morning
when the body temperature is at its lowest.
The same goes for exercise — that is the second
peak time of natural
production of GH;
when the measure of growth hormone is where it should be, the body has an increased capacity for exercise and physical exertion, which increases more naturally grown growth hormone.
But many have been used by Olympic Athletes to improve performance and energy
production when peak performance is a must.
The
Peak Fitness method can also engage the fast and super-fast twitch muscle fibers that have many beneficial effects on your body's metabolic systems, especially
when it comes to promoting the
production of the human growth hormone (HGH) and potentially improving your longevity.
luteal phase: the latter half of the menstrual cycle
when progesterone
production is at its
peak.
Knaggs» career reached a
peak in the mid -»40s,
when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures
productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.
That figure doesn't include the graphics and sound teams; if you include all the development staff, Koinuma estimates that around 1,000 people are involved in Omega Force games
when the studio is in
peak production.
There are many factors to consider
when trading oil, including theories on
peak production, where available oil reaches a
peak level, flattens out, then begins a decline.
Originating in Yorkshire, a region in Northern England, the Yorkie was employed for killing the many rats populating the mines and cotton mills in the mid 1800's
when England was at it's
peak production during the Industrial Revolution.
Now we're in a time
when experts debate whether the
peak of
production has been reached, or whether ever - higher prices will simply drive exploration ever more to the fringes for new sources — be they tar sands or under the Arctic Ocean seabed.
Incidentally, with the current fossil fuel reserves estimated to last for at least another 150 years, we certainly are not even close to reaching the same level of greenhouse gases any time soon, that existed
when the
production of biomass was at its
peak.
Though economists and other eternal optimists have not yet figured that the supply of crude oil is a limited resource, a growing number of petroleum geologists speak about
peak oil, a time
when world oil
production peaks, then starts downward, perhaps after sitting around a plateau for some unknown time period.
Ask an average American
when U.S. oil
production might reach a
peak, then check out the surprised look
when you tell him / her that it
peaked in 1970.
When will world oil
production peak?
And hot weather can make water supplies too warm for cooling, forcing power plants to reduce their electricity
production when it's needed most (hot days are also
peak electricity usage days).
They are intended to maximise the energy output from the Hywind turbines by mitigating
peaks and troughs in
production, storing surpluses at times
when the grid is at or near full capacity and unable to accept further injections of electricity.
Tony's arguements and Ed's figures are very persuasive, and the «
peak oil / running out of stuff» scare doesn't really wash in the short to medium term
when market forces drive discovery and
production to meet demand.
The theory was confirmed empirically
when Hubbert correctly predicted that U.S. oil
production would
peak in 1970, and decline each year thereafter.
Modeling has also shown that it's relatively inexpensive to increase the reliability of the total wind output to a level equivalent to a coal - fired power station by adding a few low - cost
peak - load gas turbines that are opearated infrequently, to fill in the gaps
when the wind farm
production is low (Diesendorf 2010).
But
when the worldwide
peaks in both oil and gas
production are recognised, who is to say whether deep - mined UK coal
production will become again «economical ``.
Or you could simply provide a graph of total oil
production by year and show us
when «
Peak Oil» occurred.
«This is almost a mirror image of wind
production patterns: wind is highest in the spring and fall,
when electricity needs are lowest, and lowest in summer
when electricity demand
peaks,» the report notes.
According to the study, the first
peak corresponds closely to
when the
production of the various pollutants
peaked, either in Switzerland or in continental Europe.
When progesteron reached the
peak, it will give a negative feedback to the
production of FSH, so that the
production of estrogen.
Oil
production peaked around 4 - 5 days, which is normally
when I wash my hair, and then did not increase beyond that.
and «
when and at what level will world oil
production peak?»
SB 338 attempts to address the infamous solar «duck curve,» a graph of power
production that reveals the gap between
peak demand times and the times
when solar electricity is being produced.
But
when it became clear that there was money involved — cooling primarily during hours of
peak wind
production will be cheaper than just drawing electricity at all hours — the proposal became a lot more appealing.
For the 2020 Medium scenario the countries studied showed an average annual wind capacity factor of 23 — 25 %, rising to 30 — 40 %,
when considering power
production during the 100 highest
peak load situations — in almost all the cases studied, it was found that wind generation produces more than average during
peak load hours.
The intermittent nature of solar and wind will only start to become a problem
when they represent a significant portion of our energy
production, essentially
when peak wind and solar
production exceeds current demand.
These new TOU rates will be less favorable to solar customers than SDG&E's current TOU rates due to
peak pricing periods later in the day — 3 pm to 9 pm —
when solar energy
production is lower.
First, according to Stern,
production of these aerosols worldwide (right) did not
peak until 1990, at level almost 20 % higher than they were in the late 1970's
when the global cooling phenomena ended.
On the rare spring and summer days
when bright sunshine comes with strong winds, pushing renewable power
production to a
peak, Germany can almost cover its entire electricity demand with green power, at least for a few hours at a time.