Sentences with phrase «by fuel substitution»

In fact, I would hazard the guess that historical improvements in decarbonization have been driven primarily by fuel substitution.

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According to the study, compiled by T2 & Associates for the American Petroleum Institute, «the U.S. - based oil and gas industry invested $ 165.4 billion... in end - use, fuel substitution, non-hydrocarbon, and enabling technologies» that helped reduce emissions.

A combination of these with other technologies, including materials substitution, reduced aerodynamic drag, reduced rolling resistance, reduced engine friction and pumping losses, has the potential to approximately double the fuel economy of «new» light - duty vehicles by 2030, thereby roughly halving carbon emissions per vehicle mile travelled (note that this is only for a new car and not the fleet average)(medium agreement, medium evidence)[5.3.1].

The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.

By 1990, changes in the regulatory structure and legislation affecting the electricity industry started providing more opportunities for substitution between petroleum and natural gas as a fuel for peaking generation.

This report analyzes the competition between coal, natural gas and petroleum used for electricity generation by estimating what is referred to by economists as the elasticity of substitution among the fuels.

These changes make the very costly policy changes pushed by the environmental left to force substitution of wind and solar power for fossil fuels even more ridiculous than they already were and doom their movement sooner or later.

The introduction of supply side technologies can not provide the emissions reductions required to avoid the climate Apocalypse; severe personal restrictions on fossil fuel use over and above the emissions reductions provided by the technology substitutions are required.

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.