Sentences with phrase «alternatives to fossil fuels for»

Most of us would choose clean affordable alternatives to fossil fuels for energy and transportation, but many of us can't because the fossil fuel industry systematically thwarts them.

We have had alternatives to fossil fuels for hundreds of years in some cases.

It is commonly accepted that there is an urgent need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace diesel and petrol.

Coming from an engineering background, I was pleased to see that the only realistic alternative to fossil fuel for transport,...

Coming from an engineering background, I was pleased to see that the only realistic alternative to fossil fuel for transport, namely biofuel from non-food crops, is at last attracting serious attention (8 December, p 34).

Brazil has recently launched a global campaign to promote biofuels as a viable alternative to fossil fuels for transport.

Both states now show a readiness for an alternative to fossil fuels for peaking, so Price evaluated a site near Phoenix (APS's highest need) close to the California border, that is also within CAISO (allowing for delivery into California), with a solar resource of 2,900 kW per square meter (7.9 kW / m2 - day).

Not exact matches

For the first time, home and business owners have a viable and cost - competitive alternative to fossil - fuel power utilities.

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.

What's the long - term outlook for crude oil as the global economy is slowly transitioning away from fossil fuels to alternative energy?

That pricing power seems to be becoming even stronger during the downturn as pipelines consolidate and expansion of alternatives for moving fossil fuels become more difficult due to capital constraints.

«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

Now Solarize Tompkins, the most successful program getting property owners to go solar, is looking ahead to other alternative energy sources for homeowners looking to break from fossil fuels.

An important reason for New York State to ban hydraulic fracturing was the need to move from a fossil fuel - based economy to one based on non-greenhouse gas - emitting alternative fuels.

The third report — due out in May — will discuss options for mitigation, such as alternatives to fossil fuels.

He was convinced early on that solar and wind power presented an alternative — not just to fossil fuels and nuclear power, but to wars over oil and to the potential for nuclear conflict.

Smil has forced climate advocates to reckon with the vast inertia sustaining the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels, and to question many of the rosy assumptions underlying scenarios for a rapid shift to alternatives.

The scientists have devised a new manufacturing technique that could boost the efficiency of an inexpensive type of solar cell by up to 50 %, making the technology an economically feasible alternative to fossil fuels in the search for sustainable energy.

The search for economically viable alternatives to fossil fuels has attracted attention among energy communities because of increasing energy prices and climate change.

Thanks to the organism's creation, synthetic biologists are learning more about customizing cells, such as for development of highly effective drugs and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

Recent spikes in the price of uranium — perhaps due to renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels as global warming makes its presence felt — have led to a surge in applications for new uranium mining permits on otherwise protected federal lands.

As England gets set to start paying for plastic bags, researchers at The Open University (OU) are making inroads into developing alternative biodegradable materials that could potentially replace fossil fuel derived polyethylene single - use carrier bags in the future.

Re # 31: You say, «About Kyoto: based on the effect (a few years delay before a CO2 doubling is reached) and the costs, I would prefer an enormous effort to search for and promote fossil fuel alternatives.»

About Kyoto: based on the effect (a few years delay before a CO2 doubling is reached) and the costs, I would prefer an enormous effort to search for and promote fossil fuel alternatives.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

Related research also focuses on engineering plants to produce more sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and petrochemicals — i.e., biodiesel and precursors for biodegradable plastics and resins.

These centers will mobilize the enormous talents and skills of our nation's scientific workforce in pursuit of the breakthroughs that are essential to make alternative and renewable energy truly viable as large - scale replacements for fossil fuels.»

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United StateTo be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United Stateto deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United Stateto readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United Stateto address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United Stateto maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United Stateto buy new Peugeots in the United States.

Its a political battle that have to take place in the USA so get your sleeves rolled up for so far not much alternative energy relative to fossil fuels based ones is getting done.

BAU will achieve this goal as alternative energy sources are made more reliable, more robust (i.e. PV panels that maintain 80 % for 80 years or so), and cheaper to mass produce; and as fossil fuels become harder to extract and more expensive.

The point of the policy is to (1) make fossil fuels more expensive than clean alternatives and (2) provide incentives for eliminating emissions.

What is needed, more than ever before, is administrative leadership that goes to instruct societies of humans to depend much less on fossil - fuels, and make way for renewable energy alternatives.

Solar power has lots of potential as an alternative to fossil fuels, but some of the things we use it for make more sense than others: From solar - powered food carts, airplanes, and vending machines to solar - powered dog sweaters and beehives, read on to see which innovations are truly bright ideas — and which ones are a little dim.

For example, Al Gore has proposed in a 2008 speech that it would be possible for the USA to make the transition away from fossil fuels in a short timespan, but not without an alternatiFor example, Al Gore has proposed in a 2008 speech that it would be possible for the USA to make the transition away from fossil fuels in a short timespan, but not without an alternatifor the USA to make the transition away from fossil fuels in a short timespan, but not without an alternative.

Nowhere in the Common Principles do we even see an alternatives test to measure whether support for non-greenhouse gas emitting renewable energy could be pursued instead of a slightly less dirty fossil fuel project.

Biofuels are often cast as a climate - friendly alternative to fossil fuels used for transportation.

If 50 % of the world population stopped using fossil fuels today, emissions would drop, fossil fuel companies would be deprived of finances, their employees wages would have to drop, driving them into other industries, and a vast and lucrative market for alternative energy would open up.

Here is my attempt to present the argument for reducing the regulation of nuclear so it can become cost competitive with fossil fuels — especially in the developing countries (which is where the emissions growth will occur over this century if there is not realistic alternative to fossil fuels):

· Countering the presumption that renewables are always the environmentally preferable alternative, this column suggests that serious consideration should be given to examining if for the short term, fossil fuel might be the «environmentally correct» near term alternative for Kauai.

This demonstrates that there is significant waste in the treatment of fossil fuels that will disappear when a price signal for wasting the resource is sent to consumers; further, we know there are significant and readily available alternatives for energy to energy derived from burning carbon, and when the price is made clear and fair, the preference for these alternatives is amply illustrated in the Market; from these two effects we see that the Law of Supply and Demand is relevant to the pricing of CO2E, and not monopolistic pricing.

With alternative energy technological development subsidized by the military, a political mitigation strategy may become less dependent on an approach that requires unpopular legislation or regulation for the civilian sector to transition from fossil fuels to alternatives over coming decades.

We need all possible liquid fossil fuels for transport as we transition to alternative transport fuels.

More broadly, a carbon tax would not just move shipping and aviation down the fossil fuel demand curve; it would create a new, lower demand curve by boosting every substitute for, and every alternative to, high - carbon activity.

Log in differently, make a benign comment that indicates - for example - that you think that we should consider alternatives to fossil fuels.

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Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.

On the point of the use of fossil fuels to produce alternatives, that's rather obvious, as that is the current fuel system, the current starting point for any future.

Manufacturers are developing greener aircraft, exploring alternatives to fossil fuels and looking for ways to recycle planes slated for retirement.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

A policy that delivers a «Cost competitive alternative to fossil fuels» (for everyone) is by far the best and cheapest way to cut global CO2 emission [2 -RCB-