Sentences with phrase «without modern energy»

Think about energy's role this way: Without modern energy supplied by oil and natural gas, the event would bear a strong resemblance to the GOP's 1860 convention, when Abraham Lincoln was nominated at the Wigwam in Chicago.

Health — Without modern energy, our world would be harsher and less healthy — an existence far removed from what we often take for granted living in the 21st century.

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

Not exact matches

Are there discernible principles and ideals which can supply modern man's needs for personal and corporate energy and guidance, without surrender to arbitrary authority or retreat into the past?

We live in a society today that is in constant overdrive fight or flight mode without a means of release and reset; we are storing more and more stress energy in our bodies, and this one of the main causes of modern chronic physical and psychological illnesses.

The main industry trade group, the Nuclear Energy Institute, commissioned studies that showed U.S. plants could sustain a direct hit from a modern airliner without any radiation release.

The problem: Pre-industrial concentrations were about 287 ppm, and we're already at 400 ppm, with hundreds of millions of people in the developing world still without electricity or modern energy.

As in the case of motor vehicle engines, they transform thermal energy into mechanical force, and our modern lifestyle would be impossible without them.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

The adoption of these controls alone can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50 per cent without taking into consideration the fact that modern LED lighting is already considerably more efficient that previous technologies and lasts much longer thereby reducing replacement and maintenance costs.

The entire property makes use of old and modern alternative technology incorporating re-cycled water systems, advanced LED lighting powered by batteries and inverters, and other unique energy systems designed specifically to meet our base criteria... use minimal power without sacrificing the luxury experience, significantly reduce our consumption of fuel, reduce water usage and recover and re-use the water we use.

Even without clean energy, the electric car is more efficient overall because of the higher conversion efficiency of modern power plants compared to the internal combustion engine.

Global warming and energy supply isn't really that big a problem if we just let a few billion people die off and the rest live without most of their modern conveniences.

No energy system will be sustainable without global access to modern energy services, reliable and affordable supplies, and reduction of environmental impact.

Hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for coEnergy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for coenergy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for coenergy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.

A moral imperative exists — for policymakers as well as large energy companies — and it is to seek economic ways to expand the use of modern energy sources to the billions of people around the world currently living without them, and to do so in a manner that safeguards our environment.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

There is nothing wrong with alternative energy as long as it is developed privately and without subsidies As to the hazard of petroleum products the good far outweigh the bad, if you do not believe that why don't you try living without the products of the modern energy.

Business as usual scenarios are projecting that by 2030, over 600 million people across sub-saharan Africa will remain without access to modern forms of energy.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

Energy is fundamental to modern life, but 1.3 billion people around the world live without «access to modern electricity.»

Women in households without access to modern energy dedicate on average 1.4 hours a day collecting wood and women also spend several hours each day cooking using traditional stoves, and are thereby the most impact by household air pollution.

It knows it can not move forward without energy — the Master Resource, the lifeblood of modern industrialized societies.

Millions of people globally live without the benefit of modern energy services.

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant pEnergy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant penergy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

But the issues of relevance here are: (a) whether you can have enough of it to avoid building more coal (current situation in Germany says «no»); (b) whether you can have enough of it to displace current coal; (c) whether you can have, store, and distribute, enough of it to meet future energy growth (especially in the developing world) and the conversion to an all - electric society; (d) whether you can run a modern society without baseload generation [answer: perhaps, perhaps not, but if yes, it requires a complete reconfiguration of the way we manage electricity].

This house has the classic charm of an Eichler home, with all the natural light and air and open - ness that are the trademark of the midcentury modern classics, without the energy bill.

Living simply, without all the accoutrements of modern energy - intensive technology.

I'm dreaming of a tree lined family neighborhood street and a new charming home with leaded glass doors that can open without scraping the floor, wide baseboard moldings, gables and front porches, reasonably sized rooms with sweeping views of open space, pocket doors, restored vintage hardware, solid walls, wood and stone floors, large kitchen with vintage details and modern conveniences, working bathrooms with old fashioned charm, real wood window trim, iron gates, solid staircases and railings, beautiful windows that open and close without a hammer or screwdriver... old house details and exceptional quality, new house energy efficiency and condition.