Sentences with phrase «as renewable energy sources like»

However, with rising levels of pollution, the government is keen on developing cleaner coal technologies as well as renewable energy sources like solar, tidal, and biomass.

They have also increased their use of natural gas as well as renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

Not exact matches

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

We source energy as responsibly as we can, including operating our own renewable energy sources like wind turbines and biogas plants.

Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and wave just compound this unpredictability: changes in local cloud cover, wind speed and the like produce irregular peaks and troughs that do not necessarily correspond with spikes in demand.

As a bonus, the system would lead to more use of renewable energy sources like the wind and sun.

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My guess would be that's something like the current price for doing all the needed load balancing with contemporary lead - acid battery storage, counting ramping up the lead industry to satisfy the sourcing and management of that much lead and sulfuric acid — in other words, it's somebody saying «it would cost the Earth * to do that» as an argument that there will be no progress in energy storage, so it'd be a waste to build more renewables.

I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we can not drill our way to energy independence, but must fast - track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as president.»

Instead, Sierra Club Canada advocates a sensible mix of solutions, involving the highest possible level of energy efficiency by North American households and businesses alike, the deployment of renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and a widespread shift to new, innovative technologies like hybrid and fuel cells to move people and goods around.

And as they connect those dots, they are transitioning their resources to cleaner, renewable sources of energy like wind and solar.

Often times renewable energy sources like solar and wind are portrayed as free from local risk, and there is an element of truth to this.

The plan would have helped the nation move away from burning coal and toward «cleaner sources, like [natural] gas, and even really clean sources, like renewable energy, such as wind and solar,» Kimmell said.

For his summer project, Jemin has been comparing the mining, material use and waste impacts of different energy sources including renewables like solar and wind, which we tend to think of as having little to no environmental impact.

Japan needs to create a power system, like Europe already has, with the capacity to adjust for variable renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind.

Still an object of derision for the political right, Mr. Gore has seen support for his views rising within the business community: Investment in renewable energy sources like wind and solar is skyrocketing as their costs plummet.

As James Hansen and three other notable climate scientists urged in an open letter earlier this month: «Renewables like wind and solar and biomass will certainly play roles in a future energy economy, but those energy sources can not scale up fast enough to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale the global economy requires.

There are no doubt many other niche sources of biomass like this, as well as novel sources like algae, although there may also be competing uses (e.g. sewage gas is one of the cheapest renewable energy sources for electricity generation).

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

-LSB-...] * Ok, I know there are a lot of things to be worked out — for example, energy generated from renewable sources such as solar or wind can not be stored nearly as well as we would like, and the distribution of electricity in the grid can be a lot better.

And with solar being regularly cited in surveys as everybody's favorite energy source — regardless of political persuasion — what's not to like about a plan to harness the energy falling on our rooftops, parking lots and deserts to create clean renewable energy?