Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel availability»

Our understanding in 1979 may not by itself have implied a call to action at that point, but we'd already suffered through the 1973 oil embargo, knew that U.S. strategic and economic fortunes were tied to a resource we could not necessarily control, knew of other reasons to switch (pollution, ultimate limits to fossil fuel availability, etc.), and knew that other technologies were seemingly within our grasp.

Fossil fuel availability affects how much CO2 will be emitted, which might or might not affect climate much.

Assuming that human CO2 emissions are going to continue at the same exponential rate we have seen in the past would get us to 1040 ppmv (Vaughan Pratt's Figure 7), a level that is most likely not even possible to reach because of the constraint in total fossil fuel availability).

Not exact matches

Some countries have been able to reduce their emissions steadily over a 10 - year period, often by a combination of government policies and market reaction to the availability of fossil fuels and other natural resources.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Right now we have ramped up our economies to match the availability of energy in the form of fossil fuels — hydrocarbons — and, hence, CO2 emissions.

So the work volume that we are used to is based on the energy availability of fossil fuels.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Climate change, global economic instability, overpopulation, erosion of community, declining biodiversity, and resource wars, have all stemmed from the availability of cheap, non-renewable fossil fuels.

Seeker, it's quite possible to produce biodiesel on the scale needed to replace fossil fuel use, only in most countries (even the USA, but not Australia) that would displace food production too much (see Nassau Senior's introductory remarks on machinery not affecting food availability in his classic work on «Wages»).

This means that the availability of fossil fuels does not limit the potential application of CO2 capture and storage; CCS would provide a way of limiting the environmental impact of the continued use of fossil fuels.

The real problem is that despite the marketing on display in Stern's book and elsewhere, clean energy simply hasn't yet matched fossil fuels on cost, availability, or scalability in all contexts.

As ships emit more particulate matter and black carbon per unit of fuel consumed than other fossil fuel combustion sources due to the quality of fuel used, it introduces measurement and data availability, in order to provide abatement options.

As Kammen points out, once you build a fossil fuel plant you are tying all who use its power to unpredictable fluctuations in fossil fuel prices and availability for at least 35 or so years.

And added CO2 concentration from human emissions is constrained by the availability of fossil fuels to an absolute maximum level of a bit over 1000 ppmv, when they are all gone.

If Romney was elected and if his policies were enacted, there could be a substantial increase in the development of US fossil fuels and a substantial intermediate positive impact on domestic employment and the availability of domestic capital.

While they demonize fossil fuel use and promise to rid us of this vital energy, the truth is that the availability of reliable, affordable power thanks to fossil fuels is directly correlated with greatly improved health and longevity here in the USA, as Alex Epstein explains in his book, The Moral Case for Fossil fossil fuel use and promise to rid us of this vital energy, the truth is that the availability of reliable, affordable power thanks to fossil fuels is directly correlated with greatly improved health and longevity here in the USA, as Alex Epstein explains in his book, The Moral Case for Fossil fossil fuels is directly correlated with greatly improved health and longevity here in the USA, as Alex Epstein explains in his book, The Moral Case for Fossil Ffuels is directly correlated with greatly improved health and longevity here in the USA, as Alex Epstein explains in his book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fossil FuelsFuels.

Is there a way to calculate the value of the long term availability of nuclear, it's fuel availability, fuel price stability relative to fossil fuels, low carbon emissions, and steady supply of power?

The current set, SRES, is biased toward exaggerated resource availability and unrealistic expectations on future production outputs from fossil fuels....

2.3 Future energy choices will primarily depend on the price of fossil fuels, on the availability of alternatives and on political priorities such as mitigating climate change or reducing dependence on fuel imports.

And while theoretically an increase of a few hundred ppmv of CO2 (and smaller quantities of other trace GHGs) might «exert a steady, constant upward forcing on temperature», this upward forcing is constrained by the amount of GHGs emitted by humans based on the C availability in the remaining fossil fuels.

The terrific availability of fossil fuels is driven by new drilling and extraction techniques, such as fracking, and high success rates for wells.

Biofuel use is increasing in most of the G8 + 5 countries, which consume the largest amounts of energy in the world, with the notable exception of the Russian Federation where the availability of fossil fuels is increasing.

In other words, since resource pessimism is a fantasy in the real world, the CIC is trying to get governments to create limits to growth through government fiat, thus restricting the availability and use of fossil fuels to meet human needs.

CO2 saturation is almost impossible within any CO2 concentration range compatible with the availability of fossil fuels.

Consistent with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution and the availability of the Homestead Act for freed slaves, fossil fuels have been our economic friend.»

The most celebrated architecture of the 20th century belongs firmly to the oil age, a heady mix of glass and steel and no need to have regard to comfort, given the availability of cheap fossil energy to fuel heating & cooling systems.

The limits on the availability of fossil fuels require a similar change and the change is going to come given enough time.

A 2012 Carbon Tracker report asserted that 80 percent of fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, including more intense and frequent extreme weather events, changes in water availability and the spread of vector and waterborne diseases.

Better mining and manufacturing techniques will have expanded the availability of fossil fuels and other technologies will have sharply reduced their noxious side effects.

IOW, we have reduced our flexibility and the potential availability of fossil fuels (as Brian H writes), at the same time that political pressures (following Fukushima) are working in the direction of shutting down the nuclear option, as well.

Nothing to Fear, Chapter 18, Remarkable Availability of Life Saving Fossil Fuels, explains why the United States has a huge potential supply of natural gas from methane hydrates.

What they do not tell us is the immense benefit humanity has enjoyed as a result of a reliable source of inexpensive energy resulting from the availability of fossil fuels.

When an oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to offshore oil rig disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.

The enormous benefit humanity has seen to date as a result of the ready availability of a reliable source of low cost energy based on fossil fuels must be included in the overall evaluation of the social cost / benefit of carbon.

Because slowly increasing temperatures don't seem alarming, the «availability entrepreneurs» push extreme weather events and public health impacts as being caused by human - caused climate change, more of which is in store if we don't quickly act to cool the planet by reducing fossil fuel emissions.

A «decline in the availability of cheap energy» — i.e. peak oil, and more generally peak fossil fuels, could — if we handle it very stupidly — cause some very serious economic and social disruptions to human society.

What about the impending increase in power cost due to the cost and availability of fossil fuels?

The main effect of these climate alarmist «environmental» efforts, if successfully carried out, will be to greatly increase energy costs and reduce the availability and reliability of fossil fuel energy so crucial to the development of modern civilization.

The basic problems with using wind energy to replace fossil fuels are the following: — Low and erratic availability (22 - 26 %)-- No practical means of storing the energy on the scale required if wind energy becomes more than the minute portion of our energy production it is now.