Sentences with phrase «about low carbon fuels»

And if it gets racing fans excited about low carbon fuels and high fuel economy, even better.

Not exact matches

Motivations include concerns about future demand for transport fuels, growth opportunities in low - carbon technologies, and diversifying into power generation to secure demand for natural gas.»

«Investors in fossil fuel companies are especially concerned about how their businesses can succeed in a low - carbon economy.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

With this, they could make a series of predictions about when low - carbon energy systems might catch up with traditional fossil - fuel systems.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has updated carbon intensities (CIs) and other information about registered biorefineries, and posted the information at the Low Carbon Fuel... Read more →

Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.

However, we're a long way from the energy end - game, and there's still plenty of room for more of us to wise up to the power of solar in all of its many guises, whether we're talking about delivering low - carbon cooking and water purification in the developing world or providing additional heat and zero - fuel options to modern America.

I talk to stakeholders all over the globe, from strategic partners in Europe and Asia Pacific to engineers in Omaha, about how to produce the lowest cost fuels and maximize carbon credits in the market.

We don't know whether what you claim are benefits of «cheap» fossil fuels can really be attributed to their low cost or not, as we can't go back and check on every case as its price impacts work their way through the economy, nor can we speculate about foregone benefits, or whether the benefits are due to the artificially reduced price of burning carbon or whether people would enjoy them (or even greater benefits) in a fair market, except by examining by Capitalist analysis.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry has used its influence to spread false or misleading information about climate change — a strong motivation for choosing low - carbon energy sources like wind or solar (in addition to the economic reasons).

The original excitement about fuel cell cars, many decades ago, came from the idea that we could electrolyze water with electricity from low carbon sources like nuclear, solar, and wind, to make pure hydrogen to burn in the fuel cells.

How about estimating the social benefit of carbon (i.e. of the access to a reliable low - cost source of energy through fossil fuels).

Make sure the temperatures in the transition from fossil fuel use to low carbon don't exceed prior Holocene of about 1 C. Given that we are already at about 0.8 C, with perhaps another degree or more built into the system from our prior commitments, that's about as serious as it gets.

Besides, even if ethanol were a low - carbon fuel, the scale up proposed — biomass plantations covering «an area equal to about one - sixth of the world's cropland» — would intensify the already perilous fuel vs. food tradeoff and decimate millions of acres of forest and other wildlife habitat.