He postulates that the United States will become a net energy exporter at some point.
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This results in an energy efficiency of more than 100 percent a net energy gain.
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We are still far from having sufficient density in the tiny hot regions to get net energy, but that is our next goal.
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Those worried about the U.S. trade deficit should thank George Mitchell as our net energy balance improves by hundreds of billions of dollars.
The problem with that is that Jamaica (not picking on them, just an example), like the rest of the Caribbean, is a net energy importer.
Factory output is rising, consumer spending has been surprisingly strong, and for the first time in decades, the US is a net energy exporter of refined oil products.
By most accounts, the former exceeds the latter, so in the long term installing solar cells wastes energy that is, their lifetime net energy is a loss.
A. can become a net energy exporter to the E.
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The paper notes the success of numerous policies California has implemented to promote distributed generation, including the California Solar Initiative (CSI), net energy metering (NEM), the renewable auction mechanism (RAM), and the Self-Generation Incentive Program.
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However, he added that as there were no large-scale biorefineries in operation, the team did have to estimate how much bioethanol such a plant would be able to produce in order to calculate the net energy gain.
Israel, which had no natural energy production of its own 15 years ago, is on the verge of becoming a net energy exporter on the way to emerging as the next great Middle East energy superpower, eclipsing the desert oil empires by mid-century.
The gap between the concept and the reality of net zero energy buildings seems largely a result of the shortcomings of most net-zero energy strategies.
By focusing on renewable energy technologies rather than low carbon energy technologies, the net zero energy building agenda seems more like an exercise in futility than a serious challenge the risk of catastrophic climate change.
When completed, it will be one of the first net-zero energy and net-zero water-waste buildings in the country.
Several previous efforts to achieve net zero energy status have fallen short of doing so.
Ohio, was built to be a net zero energy building, but it still needed to pull energy from the grid for 11 years.
Net zero energy buildings, which produce as much or more energy as they consume over a given period of time, are all the rage in green buildings these days.
Analyses vary, with some even figuring the process is a net loss of energy ( see a variety of sources here).
But an unlikely ally has come along to help Taiwan, an increasingly impatient net importer of energy, in its normally dry search for natural gas.
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Instead, it is argued, he will tinker with the deficits but cares much more about leaving a progressive legacy -- health care reform, a stronger safety net, green energy, and the like.
Like the first book, the new book surveys the hot spots in the clean tech space, which include net-zero energy green buildings, advanced waste heat technologies for combined heat and power and several other technologies.
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On the green front, all steel-framed Connect:Homes are designed to attain LEED Silver certification out the door, with Gold and Platinum certification and net-zero energy status a possibility depending on additional bells and whistles added at the installation site.
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Net oil exporters, like Iran, will meanwhile have much bigger populations consuming energy resources, which could lead to an energy famine for net oil importers like the U.K. "There just aren't enough big projects in the pipeline to keep up with demand, " said John Miles, chairman of Arup, who coordinated research into oil-extraction projects currently under way.
Electricity provided 90 percent of all net increase in delivered energy to the electric-and-information-centric U.S. economy over the past two decades.
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Each component of the energy balance net radiation, turbulent heat fluxes, heat transfer into the ice and heat supplied by precipitation is derived separately from the measurements, and the variability throughout the year is evaluated.
These efforts have failed miserably--at least in terms of meeting a goal of net reductions in societal building energy use.
Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the Consumer Price Index stood at 2.9% at the end of September, net of the volatile food and energy markets.
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