Sentences with phrase «as a bridge fuel as»

«While we know that gas can play a small part as a bridging fuel as to move to greener sources, the government's decision to sign off upwards of 30GW of new gas simply flies in the face of warnings about the consequences of a «dash for gas» on both consumer bills and legally binding climate targets»

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

Not exact matches

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And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

Its only hope for salvation is the new Cuomo administration policy that would effectively use nuclear as a bridge fuel while the state expands its renewable industry.

Draft State Energy Master plans made oblique references to the implementation of hydrofracking here, and prominently factored fracked gas in the state's future energy portfolio as a «bridge fuel».

It's not just the locals who have expressed reservations about using the Peace Bridge as a shipping route for spent nuclear fuel.

«This is about «bridge energy»,» Fahy said, referring to the transitional or intermittent use of fossil fuels such as natural gas to reach renewable energy goals.

The fracking ban demand convinced the many environmentalists to support a ban rather than their positions at that time of promoting fracked gas as the «bridge fuel» to renewable energy or calling for a moratorium while fracking was studied.

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

«We're going to continue to try to work very aggressively for six months here, and if Entergy wants to join as part of that, we'll give them that fuel bridge.»

Optimists see the new resource as a cheap, clean «bridging fuel» to a low - carbon future.

Natural gas's impact as a bridge fuel to a cleaner energy future has been oversold, new research suggests

It's being touted in the US as the ultimate bridging fuel to a low - carbon future.

By 2014, he highlighted natural gas as as «the bridge fuel that can -LSB-...]

«This investigation helped in bridging the gap between hydrochar being considered as a potential energy source toward the development of an alternative renewable fuel,» Gross explains.

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The issue was well known but little studied: methane does not hang around in the atmosphere for long, so scientists had assumed that the odd leak would not undermine its use as a bridge fuel.

Natural gas as a means to produce electricity is being hailed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the fuel that can act as a «bridge» between carbon - heavy coal and zero - carbon renewables, helping to reduce humans» impact on the climate.

In a warming world, natural gas is often touted as a «bridge fuel» between carbon - laden coal and a full embrace of renewables for electric power generation.

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Some scientists, including Cornell University environmental biologist Robert Howarth, have questioned natural gas's use as a «bridge fuel» because producing the gas, most of which is released from underground shale formations through hydraulic fracturing, often emits a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Last, please choose a song for your next speech that does not invite parochialisms and dangerous forms of patriotism, but that fuels our internal drive to build bridges of solidarity, to reach out to others beyond geo - political borders, to expect and act towards a bright prospect for ALL children (and elderly people, and adults) EVERYWHERE (regardless of place of birth, faith, biological differences, inherited circumstances or life choices), a song that may remind us of the power and indispensability of plurality as an integral part of the collective future we share — together in one finite and fragile planet.

In addition to its eco-credibility, the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid also offers a full ensemble of high end features, such as HID headlights, heated and cooled «Bridge of Weir» leather seats, the SYNC vehicle interface and the SmartGauge with EcoGuide feature that is designed to train drivers to alter their habits behind the wheel to encourage more efficient fuel consumption.

He's a quirky, sometimes prickly, thinker who, for example, sees a fossil fuel, methane, as a keystone — and greatly neglected — resource serving as a bridge to a climate - friendly energy future.

Our study does not address how the magnitude of the source types that we present translate into an overall climate impact for natural gas vs. other fuel types, nor does it address implications for natural gas as a bridge fuel.

This ship probably carried the same fuel to the bottom of the sea as that other ship recently dumped into San Francisco harbor after hitting the Bay Bridge.

Using this new information as well as other independent studies on methane emissions published since 2011, and the latest information on the climate influence of methane compared to carbon dioxide from the latest synthesis report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September of this year, it is clear that natural gas is no bridge fuel.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

But none of this, in my view, undercuts the importance of natural gas as a bridge fuel on the path to a lower - carbon, and more secure, energy menu as humanity sprints toward 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

In addition, the popularity of natural gas relies, in part, on its reputation as a «bridge fuel» — the fossil fuel that will lead to a renewable energy future because it's cleaner burning, emits less greenhouse gas and uses water less intensively in certain steps of the process.

Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil fuels.

The coal industry acknowledges that developing carbon capture and storage technology is imperative for the survival of their industry as a bridge fuel, but many major players continue to duck behind these trumped up charges while avoiding serious discussion of the environmental impacts of burning coal.

I would look at this as a potential bridge plan to CO2 free energy production sources as most of it appears to be relevant to fossil fuel usage.

For years, environmentalists talked about gas as a «bridge fuel» that could carry us from a fossil fuel past to a future powered by renewable energy.

Natural gas has been promoted as a «bridge fuel» even by some environmentalists because it emits half as much CO2 as coal to produce a given amount of electricity.

A strong ethical case can be made that any political support for natural gas as a short - term bridge fuel should be conditioned on the natural gas industry promising to stop lobbying against rapid scale up of renewable energy programs.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equitas a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of EquitAs the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

The Hobson's Choice of Shale Gas Kurt Cobb reveals the shortcomings of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to renewable energy.

What do these leakage rates mean for the viability of natural gas as a bridge fuel?

So, although methane leakage reduces the short - term emissions benefit of switching from coal to gas — and should be addressed for that reason — it does not limit natural gas's potential as a bridge fuel to a low - carbon future.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

Gas's success as a bridge fuel crucially hinges on the degree to which it is recognized as such by policy makers, energy planners and industry.

Even worse, gas is often wrongly extolled as a solution or a «bridge fuel» in the transition to renewables.

Around the same time Sierra Club's Executive Director, Michael McCloskey, referred to coal as a «bridge fuel» away from nuclear and to renewables.

And the methane issues with natural gas completely preclude talking about natural gas as a bridge fuel.