Sentences with phrase «even conventional sources»

Not exact matches

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.

His own website admits such and it may even come from conventional cows - it doesn't give specific sourcing info.

If you have been suffering through the mountain of bills, barely paying the minimum repayments, or not even that, paying late or missing payments altogether, you may be considered a credit risk and not eligible for a personal loan for debt consolidation from any conventional source.

The introduction of legislation to reduce the use of our resources and the steep rise in energy prices (wind and solar in need of conventional sources for back - up will double or even triple the electricity price compared to coal) will undermine our economies further.

Yet the combined result in no way even approximates the consistent dependable performance of our primary conventional sources.

Like the airline bringing in a truck with a more powerful engine to tow that plane, the global economy is upping the ante from conventional sources of fossil fuels to even dirtier and more dangerous versions — bitumen from the Alberta tar sands, oil from deepwater drilling, gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), coal from detonated mountains, and so on.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

So the advantage renewables have over conventional sources is even larger in the rapidly growing electricity markets like India and China.

We expect that as our nation moves towards the recognition that there should be a price placed on carbon, wind energy will become even more competitive with conventional generation sources.»

According to the 2017 - 2018 Vic government budget papers, Victoria expects to receive only $ 95 million in royalties from ALL sources (including minerals) in that year, so even if new onshore conventional gas extraction projects were approved the potential royalties are not likely to be huge.

Nuclear power is already fully competitive with conventional coal electrical power today, and more difficult and expensive to extract sources of coal will make nuclear even more advantageous.

And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.

No explanation is provided for why they did not use EIA's more recent 2015 and 2014 data, which show that wind energy imposes no net cost relative to conventional sources of energy even after removing the impact of federal incentives.

Read the original article for more detailed reasons why fracking emissions are so much higher than conventional sources of natural gas — which otherwise compared to coal is a far cleaner - burning source of energy, even if a long way from being carbon - neutral or renewable.

As animal welfare becomes an ever more pressing issue, even if bugs ended up being no more sustainable than conventional protein sources, the fact that they're not suffering in the way that a cow or pig or chicken does will convince many people to eat them.