Sentences with phrase «energy as an alternative fuel source»

although it wasn't until 2006 that ethanol blend E85 was classified by the US Department of Energy as an alternative fuel source.

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Air Force energy director Dave King hopes that by 2016, 300 million gallons of that total will come from alternative sources such as biofuels, a move that he argues will increase the stability of the force's fuel supply and reduce its vulnerability to cost fluctuations.

«This investigation helped in bridging the gap between hydrochar being considered as a potential energy source toward the development of an alternative renewable fuel,» Gross explains.

This is known as a caloric deficit, and it forces the body to burn some alternative fuel source for energy instead.

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

BAU will achieve this goal as alternative energy sources are made more reliable, more robust (i.e. PV panels that maintain 80 % for 80 years or so), and cheaper to mass produce; and as fossil fuels become harder to extract and more expensive.

If fuel prices stay the way they've been (that is, expensive and becoming more so), we can expect to see more funding for magnificent developments in alternative fuels (sadly, one of which is coal) as they supplant oil as an industrial, commercial and transportation energy source.

Blessed will be the countries (such as Germany) that will use rising fuel prices as the impetus to switch to alternative, renewable energy sources, but don't get your hopes up because America, China, India, Brazil and Russia will not likely follow suit.

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.

But while poor countries should get priority when it comes to selling fossil fuels, when it comes to using them, they should be viewed as an energy source of last resort, after alternatives have been seriously explored.

We can't start to stop using fossil fuels as our primary energy source without a viable alternative.

As of now, there is no viable large scale alternative energy (especially transportation fuels) source, and the Chinese and Indians show no sign of getting on board.

As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources — a 15...

In addition, he believes that if we want to genuinely reduce our carbon footprint, the current renewable energy sources are too expensive and unreliable to work as genuine alternatives to fossil fuels.

But, there are also, of course, other options, there's energy efficiency, there are alternative sources of supply, such as solar and wind, and there are even switches to other sources of fuel, such as natural gas.

Public officials responsible for decisions made by Health Canada continue to espouse the now worn phrase: «This source of energy is viewed as a viable and environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels,» but it is now recognized that wind power always requires back up, including fossil fuels, and lots of it, and it does nothing at all to abate climate change or CO ₂ levels.

answer We can substantially reduce our consumption of fossil fuels by investing in alternative energy sources, such as solar power, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear power, tidal power, etc..

«Within the fossil fuel industry itself... some companies such as Enron, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell are already looking to the future, and beginning to invest in alternative energy sources.

«By investing in Bullfrog Power's green fuel, TD is investing in a new, cleaner energy source and helping to raise awareness of biofuel as a sound, low - carbon alternative to traditional, fossil fuel - based transportation fuel.»

As operators of oil pipelines and refineries, the Kochs have opposed all efforts to encourage alternative sources of energy by imposing a tax on fossil fuels.

We need a carbon tax, collected and returned to US citizens, to force the big fossil fuel producers to get serious about alternative energy sources and move away from coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.

I don't believe we'll burn enough fossil fuel to cause catastrophic warming before alternative energy sources make the Holy Hydrocarbon Bond more valuable as structure than for its inherent energy.

As I am aware, the alternatives under consideration are: a) either to cut anthropogenic CO2 emissions rapidly according to the Paris agreement in order to «transit away from fossile fuels», or b) to replace fossile fuels — in accordance with Eija - Riitta Korhola — by developing methods to replace energy from fossile fuels still available by using other energy sources available when that is profitable, or when fossile fuels are finishing.