Sentences with phrase «without improvements in energy efficiency»

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Improvements in efficiency play a huge role in taking the strain off the supply side: without them, the projected rise in final energy use would more than double.

They both have tried to design scenarios that satisfy all future demand for energy solely through industrial production, technological improvements, efficiency, and markets, without any strict regulatory limits on the total quantity of energy consumed in production and consumption.

As a result, without effective mitigation, total energy - related carbon dioxide emissions (including transformations, own use and losses) will rise from 26.1 GtCO2 (7.2 GtC) in 2004 to around 37 — 40 GtCO2 (11.1 GtC) in 2030 (IEA, 2006b; Price and de la Rue du Can, 2006), possibly even higher (Fisher, 2006), assuming modest energy - efficiency improvements are made to technologies currently in use.

No one has shown that implementation of low carbon technologies and energy efficiency improvement technologies can rescue us from the climate Apocalypse; in fact, Kevin Anderson has done the computations for a 50/50 chance of staying within 2 C, and has shown that transition to low carbon technologies can't do the job without some serious additional fossil demand reduction.