Sentences with phrase «wood energy as»

First Climate assists businesses and the public sector with expert consulting on biomass and wood energy as well as environmentally friendly heating in general.

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A team of scientists and Ph.D's, known as the Rate Group, gathered fossilized wood samples (some specimens previously aged at 250 million years) and coal, from the Department of Energy Coal Sample Bank.

Touching as much wood as I can lay my hands on it looks like Andy could be on a decent injury free streak and he certainly looks to be full of energy and commitment at the moment.

The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three - week hunt for his jailbreak partner as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the upstate New York prison that...

This research gap will not be filled as long as wood - fuel use remains ignored because the assumption is being made that a 21st - century economy must move up the energy ladder, the researchers concluded.

In several decades, the forests could be sustainably harvested as a source of fuel for wood - burning power plants, making them a nearly carbon - neutral energy source, Ornstein argues.

Schlesinger also pointed out that much of the wood raised and harvested in the United States for energy purposes is actually shipped to the European Union, where biomass is currently treated as a carbon - neutral energy source.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syEnergy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating syenergy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

Environmental problems of generating electricity could be tackled by switching to bio-fuels such as elephant grass, straw and wood from poplar trees, claims the Dutch energy and environment organisation Novem.

As a result, wood pellet exports from the United States nearly doubled in 2013, the Energy Information Administration reports.

The latest battle comes as power producers in some European countries are embracing wood as a source of renewable energy that would also help them meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Federal legislation promoting wood - burning power plants as a «carbon neutral» way to make energy is drawing criticism from some scientists.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Moreover, since used wood is already in short supply today, it seems only sensible to fully exploit any remaining usable potential and, as a contribution to the energy revolution, enable the generation of higher value added in Switzerland by making use of used wood.

Use of wood - based material will lower energy consumption at the production stage, as well as reducing the products» carbon footprint.

As McClain put it, «Without these wood - boring bivalves, the carbon energy in the wood would not be available to other species.»

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

The only problem is that too many carbohydrates being consumed on a regular basis, means that they will readily be broken down and converted in fat, which the body then stockpiles as energy to be used as fuel at a later date, much like people with open fires or wood burners stock up on firewood to be used for the winter.

Two Washington schools will use wood pellets as a primary heat source to test energy efficient boiler systems.

Lack of fuel wood and use of poor biomass materials as alternative energy sources has aggravated forest destruction.

Keeping with its aim of promoting a new generation of Asian artists, Galerie Paris - Beijing celebrates the creative energy of the Land of the Calm Morning with works that combine the use of traditional materials such as wood, metal or charcoal, and the exploration of highly innovative techniques.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

It is for this reason that the artist relies on a collage of several types of wood, obtaining, as a result, entities of singular beauty containing diverse energies and fragments of history.

He collects raw materials such as wood and stone to create organic forms which possess the warmth and energy of living things.

Instead of describing our matchstick as just a piece of wood, we can at least say there's a region whose response we can't accurately quantify, but we do know that it's self - feeding and has a huge amount of stored energy.

In some countries, such as Poland and Finland, wood meets more than 80 % of renewable - energy demand.

As the third story in our series will discuss, there are certainly times when wood energy can be beneficial — but those scenarios tend to play out at much more local scales, in which true waste wood is used for heat and power.

Energy use in buildings in the United States and Canada, including the use of natural gas, wood, and other fuels as well as electricity, has increased by 30 percent since 1990, corresponding to an annual growth rate of 2.1 percent.

That loophole treats electricity generated by burning wood as a «carbon neutral» or «zero emissions» energy source — the same as solar panels or wind turbines.

After five months of reporting, John Upton and others at Climate Central have put together a compelling and infuriating package on the growing flow of wood pellets from the Southeast, many from hardwood forests, to European power plants, where the result is touted as carbon - neutral energy and helps country's meet emissions targets — at least on paper.

According to the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), between the months of July and September last year, 50 per cent of the country's electricity was produced primarily by wind and solar farms, as well as wood and nuclear power plants.

Local materials, such as glass and wood, were used to further lower the carbon footprint of the building and on - site photovoltaics and a large - scale biodiesel generator produce more energy than the building consumes.

«[A] lthough wood has approximately the same carbon intensity as coal (0.027 vs. 0.025 tC GJ − 1 of primary energy -LSB-...]-RRB-, combustion efficiency of wood and wood pellets is lower (Netherlands Enterprise Agency; IEA 2016).

The large majority of rural households in India still depend on fi re wood as their main energy source for cooking and to treat drinking water.

The findings come at a time when coal is on track to surpass oil as the world's top energy source and 2.8 billion people rely on wood, crop waste, dung, and other biomass to cook and heat their homes.

Burning wood instead of coal therefore creates a carbon debt — an immediate increase in atmospheric CO2 compared to fossil energy — that can be repaid over time only as — and if — NPP [net primary production] rises above the flux of carbon from biomass and soils to the atmosphere on the harvested lands.»

But the reverse may be true: wind energy and the use of wood as fuel are in fact much older, and were largely abandoned by today's politician's wiser predecessors.

Around 95 % of Ugandan households use wood fuel as a primary energy source for cooking.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

Advanced biofuels can be derived from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane bagasse), forestry and wood processing waste, the paper portion of municipal solid waste, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass.

As recently as January 2018 the European parliament failed to support genuine renewable energy initiatives when it had an opportunity to reverse the European Union's (EU) disastrous Renewable Energy Directive which, since 2009, has encouraged Member States to burn wood for «renewable energy»As recently as January 2018 the European parliament failed to support genuine renewable energy initiatives when it had an opportunity to reverse the European Union's (EU) disastrous Renewable Energy Directive which, since 2009, has encouraged Member States to burn wood for «renewable energy»as January 2018 the European parliament failed to support genuine renewable energy initiatives when it had an opportunity to reverse the European Union's (EU) disastrous Renewable Energy Directive which, since 2009, has encouraged Member States to burn wood for «renewable energy&renergy initiatives when it had an opportunity to reverse the European Union's (EU) disastrous Renewable Energy Directive which, since 2009, has encouraged Member States to burn wood for «renewable energy&rEnergy Directive which, since 2009, has encouraged Member States to burn wood for «renewable energy&renergy».

The energy poverty numbers are as staggering as they are heartbreaking — 1.3 billion people lacking electricity, and 2.7 billion people using wood, charcoal, or dung for cooking fuel.

It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned.

Manomet's interest, as study leader, is to advance society's understanding of using wood biomass energy, and not to promote or discourage forest biomass energy.

However, the efficiency of wood as an energy source varies depending on how it is processed.

Women within the community are among those being trained as masons to install biogas digesters in Kereita area, providing households with cheap, clean energy and helping to slow climate change by replacing wood, gas, or kerosene.

Faced with the need to find an energy source sufficiently dense to fit on site, developers have turned en masse to wood (or biomass as they prefer to call it).