The spike probably came from a burst of high-energy radiation striking the upper atmosphere, increasing the rate at
which will examine high-energy X-rays produced at the thresholds of black holes (see Nature 483,255;
The uncertainties have been as large as 20%3. Guan s study is the first close, systematic look that is based on official energy figures.
The researchers arrived at their estimates by converting energy consumption data into emissions. For national figures
Most of the gap comes from differences in reported energy loss during coal washing and in reported consumption by manufacturing.
so use high estimates of energy use that inflate gross domestic product figures, and central government officials who want lower figures that look more environmentally friendly on the international stage."
and other energy-intensive products. Small firms that lack any kind of bookkeeping experience or statistical expertise are popping up to meet that demand."
For example, they are recalculating energy-to-emission conversion factors to take into account the quality of coal used in different regions.
and food security, adapting to climate change, energy, water, nutrition, and food safety. Â Â Â Luckily for us, in the past couple of years NIFA has received actually a little bit more funding, especially in the competitive-grants arena.
Europe s Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which was introduced in 2009, requires that, until 2017, greenhouse-gas emissions from the production
and a shift in focus to experiments involving neutrinos and high-intensity (rather than high-energy) collisions.
Dark Energy Survey Collaboration/FERMILABFIRST light for dark-energy lens A camera designed to hunt for signs of dark energy
The images from the Dark Energy Survey camera (Nature 489,190-191; 2012), which is mounted on the 4-metre Blanco telescope in Chile,
And I believe the federal government must significantly streamline the regulatory framework for the deployment of new energy technologies
Through the Recovery Act, my Administration committed over $100 billion to support groundbreaking innovation with investments in energy, basic research, education and training, advanced vehicle technology, health IT and health research
Of these funds, we made a $90 billion investment in clean energy that will produce as much as $150 billion in clean energy projects.
the Recovery Act made the largest single investment in clean energy in American history. And our investments in energy not only focus on research,
but on the deployment of these new technologies. We have invested highly in important research being done to improve the health
and scientists say energy security and sustainability are major problems facing the United states this century.
What policies would you support to meet the demand for energy while ensuring an economically and environmentally sustainable future?
renewable energy will lead the global economy in the 21st century. That s why I have made the largest investment in clean energy
and energy efficiency in American history and proposed an ambitious Clean Energy Standard to generate 80 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources like wind, solar, clean coal,
and natural gas by 2035. Since taking office, electricity production from wind and solar sources has doubled already more than in the United states. We are boosting our use of cleaner fuels,
Because of these actions, we are positioning ourselves to have cleaner and cheaper sources of fuel that make us more energy secure
and position the U s as a world leader in the clean energy economy. The goal of energy independence has long proved elusive,
but analysts across the spectrum energy experts, investment firms, even academics at Harvard university now recognize that surging U s. energy production,
combined with the resources of America s neighbors, can meet all of the continent s energy needs within a decade.
The key is to embrace these resources and open access to them. A successful national energy strategy will have a fundamental influence on the well-being of the nation.
An expansion in the affordable, reliable supply of domestically produced energy can bolster the competitiveness of virtually every industry within the country,
creating millions of new jobs from coast to coast. With fewer energy imports and more exports of manufactured goods
America s trade deficit will decline and the dollar will strengthen. The benefits even extend beyond immediate economic growth.
The lease payments, royalties, and taxes paid to the American people in return for the development of the nation s resources can yield literally trillions of dollars in new government revenue.
Lower energy prices can ease the burdens on household budgets. And all Americans can rest assured that the nation s security is no longer beholden to unstable but oil-rich regions half way around the world.
I will empower states to control onshore energy development, including on federal lands within their borders.
Third, I will pursue a North american Energy Partnership so that America can benefit from the resources of its neighbors.
Fourth, I will ensure accurate assessment of the nation s energy resources by updating decades-old surveys that do not reflect modern technological capabilities.
I will facilitate private-sector-led development of new energy technologies. Throughout this agenda, I remain committed to implementing
and enforcing strong environmental protections that ensure all energy development activity is conducted in a safe and responsible manner.
I will pursue a course that designs regulation not to stifle energy production but instead to facilitate responsible use of all energy sources from oil and coal and natural gas, to nuclear and hydropower and biofuels, to wind and Solar energy development, economic growth,
and environmental protection can go hand-in-hand if the government focuses on transparency and fairness instead of seeking to pick winners
A full white paper describing my plan for energy independence is available at Mittromney. com. Thanks to science and technology
Massachusetts, had been backed by a US$249-million grant from the US Department of energy. Founded in 2001, it was a spin-off from work at the Massachusetts institute of technology in Cambridge.
who studies energy policy at the University of S £o Paulo and is a former director of the state oil giant Petrobras.
when climate and energy planning clash with economic decision-making. It began with the 2008 economic crisis,
%says Andrã Ferreira, head of the Institute for Energy and the Environment, a think-tank in S £o Paulo.
(which provide energy and signals), according to the BMC Ecology research. Perhaps counterintuitively, when the infected ant bites onto the leaf vein in it's so-called death grip this atrophy causes it to have lockjaw,
including the production of energy and food, that will guide public spending on research during 2013-16.
Turning to the atmosphere to verify emissions estimates which are typically based on industry reports of energy consumption is far from trivial.
Gurney s model incorporates real data about energy use: industrial activities at the level of individual buildings together with traffic patterns.
or projects to make existing buildings more energy efficient.""I ve had mayors calling me, and they all pretty much say the same thing:
from cracking down on shipping emissions and ramping up renewable energy to installing more-efficient streetlights and synchronizing traffic lights."
The data will be used to probe dark matter and dark energy. Under the agreement, 40 NASA scientists will join the project
Chu (pictured) restructured research at the energy agency, garnering political support for the high-risk, high-reward Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy,
as well as for five Energy Innovation Hubs for integrated and applied research. The stimulus funding came under intense criticism from conservatives,
especially the $535 million that went to now-defunct solar-cell manufacturer Solyndra of Fremont, California.
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
He served as the energy agency s assistant secretary for efficiency and renewable energy under former president Bill clinton and was a staff member on then-president Jimmy carter s commission to investigate the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania.
Kevin Wolf/APENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYDEPARTING: Lisa Jackson On entering office in 2009, Jackson (pictured) laid the groundwork for climate regulations by formally declaring carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
She has also been floated as a candidate to lead the Department of the interior and the energy department. Perciasepe, currently deputy administrator at the environment agency, developed a watershed-protection programme while previously at the agency under Bill clinton.
and the introduction by more than half of the states of significant energy and climate initiatives that could deliver further reductions  perhaps even the 17%cut by 2020 that Obama promised at the United nations climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009.
whether the president can build support for a broad programme of energy research and development that could drive down the cost of large-scale, low-carbon energy,
and ultimately make a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade agreement politically palatable. The President s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has recommended increasing spending on energy research and development from around US$4 billion per year to $16 billion,
and some organizations have advocated even more. Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task force in Boston, Massachusetts, argues that Obama could attract conservative support for a strategic research programme focused on large-scale energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage
methods and advanced nuclear reactors. Such a programme might look like the energy department s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
itself inspired by a similar defence-department programme, says Cohen. Once technologies are developed, government agencies could use their buying power to expand production
Energy tax credits The US alternative-energy industry received a bundle of tax incentives in the budget deal that was passed by Congress on 1 january to avert sweeping cuts in government spending.
California. 15-17 january The nexus between water and energy comes under tighter focus at Abu dhabi s annual World Future Energy Summit,
helps them to use their energy more efficiently. It has long been known that bumblebees build up a positive electrical charge as they rapidly flap their wings;
but they burn a lot of energy while hovering around looking for pollen or nectar. So it would make sense for them to attend to such cues
19 25 april 2013us energy secretary In a vote on 18 april, the US Senate energy committee approved President Barack Obama s choice for energy secretary:
Moniz, who served as an undersecretary for energy under former president Bill clinton, has backed the use of a mixture of conventional and renewable energy sources to meet demand (see Nature 494,409-410;
2013). ) The full Senate is expected to confirm the nomination. Nobel laureate dies Fran §ois Jacob, a Nobel-prizewinning French biologist, died on 19 april aged 92.
Energy spending Investment in renewable energy technologies still falls short of the level needed to clean up the global energy system
says a report from the International Energy Agency in Paris. In 2012, global markets in solar photovoltaic technology and wind energy grew by 42%and 19%,respectively,
says the 17 april report. But the continued growth in energy produced by coal-fired power stations is offsetting progress,
it says. Venture declines US venture-capital investments shrank 12%to US$5. 9 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with the life sciences and clean technology particularly affected, according to a report by accountancy firm Pricewaterhousecoopers
This means that the market is unlikely to spur investment in low-carbon energy, one of the scheme s key goals when it was launched in 2005.
Shale-gas exit Two energy firms Talisman Energy, headquartered in Calgary, Canada, and Marathon Oil, based in Houston, Texas decided last week to cease shale-gas exploration activities in Poland.
In a 2011 review, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that Poland had 5. 3 Â trillion cubic metres of shale gas,
and his colleagues fired a high-energy proton beam at a piece of uranium carbide in the ISOLDE isotope mass separator facility at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland."
and start spinning with extra energy that it then lost as a à Â-ray.
when a higher energy and intensity facility called HIE-ISOLDE opens at CERN in 2015.
But the 2010 emission total is slightly higher than that recorded for 2009 an increase that Brazil s government attributes mostly to rising emissions from the energy sector."
The fastest emissions growth last year occurred in Brazil s energy sector, although it is still eco-friendly compared with the energy sectors of most other major economies.
Brazil boasts the world s most advanced bioethanol industry, and produced roughly 85%of its electricity from hydropower in 2010.
Emissions from the energy sector increased 21.4%between 2005 and 2010, translating to an increase of 399 million tonnes of CO2.
San diego, who specializes in energy policy. Victor says that Brazil could capitalize on its success by making its targets more realistic,
but pressure from industry, farming and energy lobbies threatens to limit the reversal. Tensions are rising over how much of the emerging science on biofuel emissions will be included in EU policy ahead of a vote on 10 Â July by the key European parliament committee dealing with the legislation.
which time renewable energy must fuel 10%of the transport sector. Biofuel counts towards that requirement if it produces a 35%emissions saving over fossil fuels,
The effect wipes out more than two-thirds of the carbon emissions that Europe s renewable-energy policy was supposed to save by 2020,
But the European commission has ducked the issue in the face of strong resistance from the biofuels industry and Europe s energy and agricultural sectors.
On 20 Â June, its energy committee voted to push the cap on food-crop fuels up slightly,
argues Clare Wenner, head of renewable transport policy at the UK Renewable Energy Association in London.
and energy committees recommend. Then Europe s energy ministers will have to reach a compromise on the legislation.
Some countries such as the United kingdom, The netherlands and Denmark want land-use factors to be included, whereas others, including central and eastern European countries with strong biofuel lobbies,
and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, a green bank that was due to invest Aus$10 Â billion (US$9. 4 Â billion) over the next five years in renewable-energy projects.
and designing the kind of low-energy network that would be needed where there is limited availability of power,
Franklin Orrus energy nominees Chemical engineer Franklin Orr (pictured) has been tapped by US President Barack Obama to serve as the undersecretary for science at the Department of energy.
Orr, a researcher at Stanford university in California, would replace Steven Koonin as chief scientific adviser to US energy secretary Ernest Moniz,
PLC/BPENERGY nomination US President Barack Obama has nominated physicist Ellen Williams (pictured) to head the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
a branch of the Department of energy that funds high-risk, high-payoff research. Currently on leave from the University of Maryland in College Park, Williams has been chief scientist for oil-and-gas giant BP since 2010.
the International Energy Agency holds its biennial meeting to set new strategic priorities. go. nature. com/qrjmcg
and can help scientists to understand human impact on energy consumption and resource strength. Calorie for calorie
24-30 january 2014eu climate package The European commission unveiled a package of climate and energy proposals on 22 Â January, with targets for 2030.
depriving grizzlies of energy-rich pine nuts. Moreover, say conservationists, invasive fish have crowded out native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake at the heart of the park,
Claire Curry, a bioenergy analyst at the information firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance, expects that some 50 million to 60 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced commercially worldwide this year up from just a few
adds Thomas Foust, director of the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
and energy eating a less nutritious food that s available now, or to ignore it because a better alternative might become available in a moment?
See page 269 for more. go. nature. com/ivxmmo22 January The European union is set to unveil a package of long-term climate and energy goals and proposals
Georgia Power/PRNEWSFOTOREACTOR construction gets funding boost The US Department of energy has approved US$6. 5 Â billion in loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors at the $14-billion Vogtle Electric
Competition from natural gas and renewable energy as well as safety concerns have prompted several US nuclear plants to shut in the past year.
Nuclear leak The US Department of energy confirmed on 20 Â February that radiation has escaped from a facility storing nuclear waste.
Energy-department officials say radiation levels have dropped now and they expect plant staff to be able to re-enter the WIPP within two weeks.
energy or clean technologies all fell in 2013, with biotechnology rising slightly (see chart). 4 march US President Barack Obama unveils his proposed 2015 budget.
Power out The US Energy Information Administration predicted on 14 Â February that the energy generated by coal-fired power plants in the United states will shrink by 20%(the equivalent of 60 gigawatts by 2020.
19 february NASA announces findings from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (Nustar.
says Zia Haq, a chemical engineer and senior analyst at the US Department of energy, which has helped to fund the plants.
or six years ago to close to $2 today, says Thomas Foust, director of the National Bioenergy Center, part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Last year, an energy-department project to supply the US NAVY with advanced biofuels provided funding for four facilities that will all use thermochemical methods to make drop in fuels.
The technique could prevent children from inheriting diseases that affect mitochondria, the cell s energy producers, by transplanting nuclear genetic material to a donor cell with healthy mitochondria.
Radiation leak The US Department of energy reported on 26 february that 13 employees had tested positive for low-level radiation exposure following a leak at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New mexico.
Energy department officials said the health and environmental impacts of the leak seem to be minor,
Even its body shape has adjusted to use less energy. Conclusion: The pandas are further unable to adapt to any changes
They even avoid steep hills just to save a bit of energy. However if they were to move off of their poor diet they could get more energy
and move around more. This would let them find better sources of food and adapt to more changes in their local environment.
and more known for covering space robots green energy and futuristic gadgets you might mistake for props in a science fiction movie.
#Green Energy Scheme To Burn Beetle-Infested Trees For Electricityaldo Leopold described the burning of wood as re-releasing the sunshine the tree depended upon to grow.
Plants pack in plenty of energy about half as much as coal. People don t often think of burning trees to make electricity
The Eagle Valley Clean Energy plant will burn 250 tons of wood daily for the next 50 years Greenwire reports creating electricity for the residents of the small town of Gypsum.
Red LEDS that illuminate the birdhouse meanwhile get energy from a 250-watt computer power supply.
what they were told was a new energy conservation campaign. One poster showed a lightbulb with a sad crying face
probably have lots of energy as well. I'm 98%sure the moon landings were faked. They could not get there in the 60's
It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy. Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans
and regain the energy typically lost from stopping. Hybrid systems are good for improving efficiency
Its very probable that most of our warming is due to Solar and cosmic energy forcing.
That same pound of hamburger requires more than 4000 Btus of fossil-fuel energy to get to the dinner table;
The primary reason for the change according to a seminal 1995 study by evolutionary anthropologist Leslie Aiello then of the University college London is that our ancestors started eating meat a compact high-energy source of calories.
With meat hominids did need not to maintain a large energy-intense digestive system. Instead they could divert energy elsewhere namely to power big energy-hungry brains.
And with those brains they changed the world. As time progressed meat became culturally important too.
and sit there wringing our hands over all these energy issues and then we d go to dinner
The energy values of fruits are pretty high so consumption could be for a nutritional benefit.
This mainstream view may have led to the ignorance that feeding on fruits could help their diet and energy balances.
#Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks? Step away from the Jà ¤gerbomb.
Peter Miller a psychologist from Austrialia's Deakin University has taken to BMJ (formerly The british Medical Journal) to air his view that energy drink titans like Red Bull are meddling in research that explores the harms of mixing energy drinks
The company dominates about 40 percent of the energy drink market and in a 2007 study 73 percent of U s. college students said they had mixed energy drinks with booze in the past month According to that study from Nutrition Journal most energy drinks pack a caffeine punch of 80 to 141
milligrams per 8 ounces about the same as two cans of soda plus various energy boosters like caffeine ginseng and taurine.
Some studies have found energy drinks and alcohol together to be associated with riskier behavior including aggressive sexual behavior and drinking and driving.
Still the research is slim. Red Bull has only been around since 1997 and in lab settings researchers can't just get people wasted
and give them tons of energy drinks. Because you know ethics. So according to Miller most lab research has been restricted to looking at people with low levels of intoxication who consume only one energy drink.
Many of the researchers who have declared mixing alcohol and Red Bull to be completely safe have been funded by Red Bull.
but his main point is that researchers who study energy drinks should have to declare any conflicts of interest in their work
and tell people that energy drinks are safe. And that's a pretty easy argument to get behind.
It takes a lot of energy to cut down trees process them into pulp strain them press them heat them print them
Near-zero and not zero because operating the servers that wirelessly deliver the ebooks uses a little bit of energy.
because they do not get assembled they get stamped like information is stamped on mass produced DVD's. The only problem with this cheap technology is that is going to have the same issues as with free energy there will be no money in it
So can free energy but there are forces out there that won't allow that. So good luck with that.
which waste their energy supporting more and more flamboyent displays to compete for mates exist in the first place. How is the waste of energy not hurting their survival chances enough to extinguish the species?
Food production technology continues to improve worldwide as does energy production. We feed more produce more energy
and use it more efficiently than at anytime in the history of humankind and the trend will continue toward more efficiency and thus sustainability.
what scientists and engineers can do to continue food and energy for a massive population.
Because they have a vested interest in seeing technology based on the idea of getting rid of fossil fuels flourish such as windmills
Windmills for example take the energy from moving air. But when energy is taken from moving air there is less moving and less swiftly.
And this is crucial. Wind helps distribute dust and disperse seeds and it's essential to the dissipating of temperature.
Their goal is to compel countries around the world to curtail CO2 emissions by limiting energy use and production.
That ratio also turns out to be of the order of the ratio between the energy of the disturbance and the magnetic energy of the core outside the surface of Earth (theorem of Dessler Parker and Sckopke.
Thus the internal energy is still much larger even in a large disturbance. You write what would happen
but theory suggests (at least considering just the resistive nature of the fluid) that the magnetic energy of the core can only change very slowly.
and the sum-total of their energy is roughly constant. So during a reversal complex magnetic fields are expected to persist
and contain most of the energy. Since these fields are much more intense than anything created by electric currents in space (certainly in the core but even on the surface)
âÂ# The sun provides the energy that warms the earth. And yet according to the NOAA National Climatic Data center http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climate/globalwarming. html âÂ#Âoeour understanding of the indirect effects of changes
Although the sun exhibits varies types of energy related events (sunspots solar flares coronal mass ejections) sunspots have been observed
Since the laws of physics in particular the conservation of matter/energy states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed matter cannot be increasing at least not without a commensurate decrease in energy
(which is being converted to matter). So if you test the age of a rock and say it was created 3. 9 billion years ago then grind it up (dust storms plate tectonics water erosion whatever) you end up with a pile of dirt 3. 9 billion years old.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011