Sentences with phrase «alternative energy efforts»

Their former Chairman gets $ 400 million upon his retirement, while the company spends $ 10 million a year on the program that it highlights most prominently when talking about its alternative energy efforts.

He recently offered to rebuild the Puerto Rico power grid using solar panels, which prompted Governor Ricardo Rossello to give Musk a chance to talk about making the island the flagship project for Musk's alternative energy efforts.

Not exact matches

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

In the energy system lock - in to fossil fuels inhibits public and private efforts to introduce alternative energy technologies.

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

«In an effort to improve our air quality, my company is in the process of implementing a significant project to replace these carbon based diesel generators with solar - powered alternatives which will run off the sun's pure renewable energy.

I have and will double our efforts to employ alternative energy to protect the environment and save money.

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

While there is the development of new hydrocarbon sources, including deepwater / horizontal drilling and fracking, are contentiously underway, commitments to mitigate climate change are driving efforts to develop sources of alternative and renewable energy.

Obama plans to invest $ 150 billion dollars over the next decade to fund private efforts to develop alternative energies.

Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to «match» different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity, researchers say in a new report.

While tapping the brakes on nuclear power research, the ruling Democratic Party has proposed $ 918 million in new programs to accelerate efforts on renewable and alternative energy schemes.

Our efforts at developing alternative energy were definitely the targets of conspiracies.Policemen and others committed felonies while pursuing us, leading to the death of one woman.

NEA and its affiliates have been leaders in the fight to improve public schools - and oppose alternatives that divert attention, energy, and resources from efforts to reduce class size, enhance teacher quality, and provide every student with books, computers, and safe and orderly schools.

Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency: Schools have made efforts to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality and conservation, decrease hazardous waste production, and expand use of alternative transportation.

It is focusing its efforts on five areas aimed at reducing fuel consumption and emissions: vehicle energy use (weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance); engines; transmissions; axles and drivelines; and hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel technologies.

While many things are difficult to make in an Eco hotel in Morocco, Dar Rita makes an effort to reduce its ecological impact, using alternative energy sources.

Sustainable alternative energy should find something besides the globe's natural climate regulatory mechanisms, the sun, the winds, and the water, or else run into unacceptable unintended side effects as the scale of the sustainable efforts reach the magnitude necessary to replace fossil fuels.

But I do know how science works, and it doesn't work when christian libertarian scientists sit back in their armchairs, and by merely lifting a little finger, are able to pronounce that markets will accomplish the global implementation of alternative energy, and that no effort by christian libertarian scientists is necessary at all.

I agree, that a lot of work is needed to achieve sustainability, but starting now by serious conservation efforts, investment in alternative energy sources, etc. is a start and buys us the time we need to achieve this goal (hopefully, at least).

The State Energy Office, meanwhile, is expecting at least 12 times its typical federal allocation of less than $ 1 million a year, and perhaps as much as $ 77 million, for efforts to boost energy efficiency and alternative energy.&Energy Office, meanwhile, is expecting at least 12 times its typical federal allocation of less than $ 1 million a year, and perhaps as much as $ 77 million, for efforts to boost energy efficiency and alternative energy.&energy efficiency and alternative energy.&energy.»

Further, he seems to imply that we should limit our efforts to «no regrets» alternatives such as «accelerating the development of low - emissions technologies and in cost - effective energy - efficiency measures.»

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

To what extent conservation measures, investments in alternative energy production, and efforts to expand petroleum production from tar sands and shale would mitigate such a period of adjustment is difficult to predict.

The Jules Boykoff opinion piece is too slanted to qualify as journalism, but there may be some validity to its suggestion that the military are subtly engaged in circumventing political obstacles to carbon mitigation through their own efforts to develop cost / effective alternative energy resources.

We are conducting our own research efforts into alternative energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation energy, such as through sponsorship of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation Energy Project at Stanford University and research into liquid products from algae and biomass that can be further converted to transportation fuels.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

And no, that's not because the Environmentalists will have got their way, but because we will have found a new, improved alternatives for generating energy by then, despite the efforts of Environmentalists.

While the success of state efforts to increase renewable or alternative energy production will depend in part on federal policies such as production tax credits, states have been effective in encouraging clean energy generation.

You mean right before you lash out against actual «alternative energy» efforts such as wind power?

He spent about $ 50 million in an unsuccessful effort to pass Proposition 87, the November ballot initiative aimed at taxing oil companies to fund alternative energy initiatives.

The European Union is making a concerted effort to develop new CHP plants, but there are challenges as green - energy advocates clamor for cleaner alternatives.

While many propose to grow alternative energy resources, others work to impede them, creating a chaotic map of countervailing efforts.

As operators of oil pipelines and refineries, the Kochs have opposed all efforts to encourage alternative sources of energy by imposing a tax on fossil fuels.

Against this argument, in some parts of the world — notably the European Union and China — substantial efforts are being made to reduce emissions and accelerate the development of alternative energy technologies.

Inspired by the global Transition movement — and its concern about climate change and changing energy realities — we formed JP NET and projects such as Jamaica Plain Time Exchange, a bartering network, and the «Cancer Free Economy» effort to help businesses find alternatives to toxic chemicals.

From India's proposed 4000 megawatt solar power plant to China's efforts to curb smog, renewables, alternative fuel vehicles and energy efficiency are moving firmly into the mainstream.

Advocacy: Led by Richard Schorske of the Marin Climate and Energy Partnership this working group will lead an effort this spring to invest over $ 100M in available state funds annually for alternative vehicles in electric vehicles and not only biofuels.

Alternative, low energy concrete is available and it may well do its share, but the other 99 % + of the effort must come from elsewhere.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

In 2010, Breakthrough coauthored the influential Hartwell Paper, proposing an alternative international approach to climate change focused on efforts that would accelerate adaptation to climate change and technology innovation to make clean energy cheap and accessible around the planet.

3) In a big effort to boost alternative energy as viable source of power, Whole Foods is 100 % wind - powered in 2006 after purchasing credits equal to 100 % of its projected energy use for 2006.

The Indians have been one of the teams on the forefront of sustainability efforts in baseball, launching an ongoing recycling campaign in 2008 that now includes organic - waste composting and become the first American League ball club to use alternative energy with their 2007 installation of a solar - panel array.

A pity that scarce efforts were done in the past to construct a strong alternative energies platform.

That response, the panel concluded, ought to include not only a strong policy to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also a plan to begin adapting to climate change, some amount of which is already inevitable; more research into climate science and alternative energies; and active engagement in international efforts to control climate change.

According to the Department of Labor, green jobs generally involve efforts to conserve energy, develop alternative energy, or reduce pollution.

Accomplishments • Decreased costs of overheads by 30 % by coordinating efforts with the procurement team to introduce alternative energy solutions.

With Presidential initiatives shining a light on several industries — among them healthcare, alternative energy, education and construction — Pongo has seen a trend of users focusing their resume - building efforts on those industries.