Sentences with phrase «about fossil fuel supplies»

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One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

THE DEBATE about taxes on fossil fuels has focussed attention on a range of options for energy supply and use.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

I mean: what am I supposed to say to my thirteen - year - old daughter about the ever - growing supply of fossil fuels?

So, when we talk about «more expensive energy» like wind and solar, what we are actually saying is that far more energy is consumed in making that energy to the supplier than for fossil fuels.

I talk about how when we burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas for our energy, it releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into our air supply.

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

We'll need all the solar, wind, oceanic, biomass, hydro, and geothermal energy we can get, but renewable energy (now about 13 percent of global energy use) simply can not be scaled up at the pace needed to supplant our fossil fuel use — certainly not before the predicted down - curve in available oil and gas supplies.

However pesonally I worry about energy security (we do nt have enough of it here) and in the other sense I don't like the idea of being in thrall to fossil fuel suppliers who basically don't like us.

As I'm sure you know Fran, fossil fuels provide the cheapest power in most places in the world and in many places they're many times as cheap as alternatives, why else would about 85 per cent of the world's power be supplied in that way?

«Exclusionary indexes don't allow investors who are concerned about fossil fuel volatility to protect against downstream or supply chain impacts of oil fluctuations or policy changes,» stated the report.

According to the World Bank, fossil fuel energy supplies about 80 % of the world's energy production — a value which has been pretty much constant for the past 40 years.

FACT CHECK: wind power contributes about 6 % of Ontario's electricity supply, at four times the cost of other power sources; wind power is not the «lowest - cost» option — the turbines are cheap to build but there are many other costs associated with wind power and its intermittency; wind power can not replace hydro and nuclear — the fact is, coal was replaced by nuclear and natural gas, a fossil - fuel - based power source.

Fossil fuels supplied about 81 % of the primary energy consumed in the United States and were responsible for about 93 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from human activity in 2015.

Long before they supplied millions of dollars to conservative think - tanks who misinformed the public about climate science, Exxon's own scientists informed them of the scientific consensus that fossil fuel burning would cause disruptive climate change.

It shows fuel shares of total world energy supply, including the contribution of fossil sources (oil, coal and gas), nuclear power (providing for about 16 % of global electricity demand and 6.5 % of all energy use) and renewables (13 % of total energy).

About the only thing most here have in common is that they feel that the Hubbert hypothesis is correct and that fossil fuels are in limited supply, specifically because they are formed from biological sources under particular and limited conditions.

You know, with the dwindling supplies of fossil fuels, I may have to think about replacing lumps of coal next year.