Sentences with phrase «about nuclear energy policy»

Yet we now know about nuclear energy policy; shale gas exploration; grammar schools; housing plans; a race equality audit.

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Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.

Among those who care about cutting the chances that humans will propel sustained and disruptive changes in the climate and oceans, this reality still tends to result in two mindsets: Raise public will to accelerate deployment of today's relatively costly non-polluting energy choices (both renewable and nuclear) or press for intensified and sustained investments and policies that can spur energy innovation.

Cheap natural gas, stagnant power demand, and power prices that have fallen significantly since 2008 have jeopardized the economics of about two - thirds of the nation's 100 - GW nuclear capacity, according to a working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

German policy leaders have talked about a transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy — an Energiewende — since the 1980s.

The US President made a point about economic leadership in the second debate, one Mitt Romney did not oppose: America's environmental and energy policy is determined by the oil industry; it's future is in wind, solar and nuclear.

Someone could be policy neutral because they have no particular convictions about how addressing climate change should be done: nuclear energy, CO2 sequestration, drastic lifestyle changes, combinations of approaches, etc..

As arguments about climate change rage, it's becoming increasingly common for policy makers to tout «clean» nuclear energy as the only viable alternative to fossil fuels.

«We are deeply concerned about South Korea's future energy policy as well as its plan to phase out nuclear reactors.

The Obama Administration has been pretty upfront about its support for an energy policy that promotes both clean energy technologies and renewed investment in old technologies such as nuclear, coal and offshore drilling.