Sentences with phrase «as a transition fuel»

However, natural gas is kept as a transition fuel for difficult - to - manage sectors, such as heat and transport.

Hopefully the political economics will allow use of the gas resource as a transition fuel to renewables and nuclear power, fusion or advanced reactors.

Not exact matches

Survey also shows most Canadians support a transition from fossil fuel reliance as quickly as possible, including half in Alberta

Canada is a Petro State that would be wise to gradually manage a decline in fossil fuel extraction, as other countries should also be doing, and many are, as we transition to a post-carbon economy (in some countries, even the US, this economy is booming.)

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

The results add weight to warnings from analysts that fossil fuel assets are at risk of losing their value and becoming «stranded» as the world transitions to cleaner energy sources.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

Progressives once hailed natural gas as a «transition fuel» to renewables like solar and wind, but now they are waging a campaign to «keep it in the ground.»

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

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter how much we want to use natural gas as a new fuel, or even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently poisoning our water and ourselves.

Officials said robust efforts reducing reliance on fossil fuels by expanding public transit, including electric buses and rail service, as well as conservation and a transition to renewables can help further lower the community's figure.

Now, as the world faces the daunting challenge of trying to curb climate change by weaning itself from fossil fuels, Smil's work on energy transitions is getting more attention than ever.

«The challenge is to fashion policies and strategies that acknowledge and harness hype as we transition to low - carbon fuels and vehicles.»

Most of the needed policies will occur within countries, but some cooperative international efforts will be essential as well, such as new schemes to share technology or fund transitions to less carbon - intensive fuels.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

Such a transition would require the development of advanced battery and fuel - cell technologies as well as modernization of the electrical grid to manage the increased demand for electricity.

However, as Congress and the Trump administration take deliberate steps to slow our transition to renewable, non-fossil fuel energy, this task is about to become much more difficult.

Transition to a post-fossil fuel world of clean energies will not occur as long as fossil fuels appear to the investor and consumer to be the cheapest energy.

Even if you take the right precautions like optimizing electrolytes, keto flu as you transition into utilizing ketones for fuel can be intense enough to turn some people off keto diets.

Is there a transition period that should be expected as my body adjusts to the new fuel source?

As my life has transitioned into the health and fitness space I have acquired so much knowledge about the way food is used as fuel in your bodAs my life has transitioned into the health and fitness space I have acquired so much knowledge about the way food is used as fuel in your bodas fuel in your body.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one - quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.

Basically engine shuts off when the vehicle is not moving to save fuel and as soon as the driver touches the throttle pedal, depending upon the load demand (aka throttle position etc.) fuel and spark timing is calculated by the computer and combustion begins to keep the vehicle transition smooth.

That process is continuing in 2008 as Chevrolet's factory road racing team develops new components and materials for its transition to E85 ethanol racing fuel.

When you accelerate, the engine RPM increases, and as you let off the gas, the RPM slowly returns to the normal idling speed with the help of the idle air control valve making the transition from a higher RPM back down to idle speed while adjusting the air / fuel ratio constantly to allow this to happen smoothly.

With this transition, the 5 Series lost some weight (as much as 137 pounds) and came complete with some updated engine options that deliver better fuel economy and performance.

With Trump and the Republicans running the Government, look for the transition to clean energy and EVs to be delayed as long as they can make it happen and as long as the fossil fuel corporation can bribe them to act in their interests and not the people's best interest.

As here, refuting Jon Kirwan's concern (# 150): «the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.»

In the unlikely case of an abrupt fuel burning cessation, we could add aerosols at a decreasing rate, both to smooth the transition, but also because atmospheric CO2 would drop significantly during the first few years after a cessation, as the shorter term reservoirs have not yet come to equilibrium and would still be absorbing CO2 at a decent clip for several years.

The transition from deeply rooted energy systems based on burning fossil fuels to new norms emitting ever less of this gas — here and in China — is seen by many as requiring a sustained energy quest including much greater direct government investment on the frontiers of relevant technologies (batteries, photovoltaics, superconductivity, photosynthesis).]

All forms of conservation are very important, as is making maximal practical use of solar, wind, geothermal, falling water, and tide differentials as sources of energy, but all these factors taken together will not allow us to fully transition away from fossil fuels for our growing energy needs.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

Since we will continue to derive grid power from coal, we should make every effort to produce it as cleanly and efficiently as possible, to minimize its impact as we transition to other technologies and fuels.

This idea among others should be taken seriously as unintentional geo - engineering in the form of fossil fuel burning has gotten us to where we are now with respect to AGW and purposeful geo - engineering may be necessary to avoid a meltdown during our transition to a sustainable relationship with the Earth's climate.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

For years, it has often seemed that those most passionately pressing for a rapid transition from still - abundant fossil fuels to non-polluting energy sources have been as focused on attacking each others» arguments as they have on fighting powerful interests defending the status quo (as well as perhaps the biggest foe — inertia, both in society and infrastructure).

Which is exactly why the fossil fuel interests are doing everything they possibly can to delay and obstruct the transition for as long as they can get away with it.

A carbon fee + dividend scheme such as suggested by James Hansen would not only go a long way to «curb massively the fossil fuel use», but it would also have the added beneficial effects of slightly redistributing income, improving public health, stimulating the economy and greatly accelerating the inevitable transition to renewable energy.

However, analogously to what I said in the last paragraph, * if * the energy transition does indeed occur as I hope, and * if * we manage to Muddle Through sufficiently well to preserve a technical civilization, then I think it's reasonable to assume that reversion to fossil fuel use is unlikely for several reasons.

Now, increased domestic oil exploration certainly has its place as we make our economy more fuel - efficient and transition to other, renewable, American - made sources of energy.

Realistically, this means planning to deal with inevitable climate trajectories is just as important as transitioning to renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels.

If we are going to make a transition, for example, from fossil fuels to nuclear energy or to solar energy or to wind energy, if you think about that as a major source of energy during the next 50 years from now, you better start right now.

Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker Founder and Executive Director, said: «These disclosure principles go to the very core of the energy transition that is underway — they show investors and markets the extent to which individual fossil fuel companies may be at risk, as well as management's plans for addressing the looming issue.

That's how Energy Secretary Steven Chu described shale gas at a conference this week, adding that «gas will be the transition fuel as we go to renewables.»

For instance, prescriptive policies, such as state renewable portfolio standards, can expose existing fossil fuel plants to carbon transition risk.

Were cost - effective CDR solutions available at large scale, however, developing countries could continue to rely on fossil fuel energy sources until the business case for renewable energy improved, so long as CDR were deployed to offset fossil emissions associated with this transition.

There were scattered examples of progress on clean cooking, particularly in Indonesia which achieved promising gains by rolling out strategies using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a clean cooking «transition» fuel in place of high - polluting fuels like charcoal.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

It must use the incredible wealth it has generated to ensure workers, communities, and economies are protected as they transition away from a dependency on fossil fuels.