Sentences with phrase «carbon fuels»

Once the utilities get on board, and especially if they get low carbon fuel standard credits for participation, the build out will accelerate.

Oil use is declining, with more efficient vehicles using less gas, people driving less, and vehicles using lower carbon fuels.

Let's see: a few trillion dollars in profits to carbon fuels industry over the last 10 years - funds that would otherwise had gone to clean energy.

Until the governments properly price carbon pollution it is left to climate concerned citizens to try anything they can to impose pollution pricing on carbon fuels.

This is a relatively large CO2 reduction for the amount of energy saved because electric power generation is an inefficient process that makes use of a lot of high carbon fuel (coal).

The natural incentive is for individuals or sectors to choose low - or zero - carbon fuels like solar and wind whenever possible.

The risks of burning carbon fuels are at least: A 10 % chance of serious climate harm.

And magically, as more electricity comes from lower - carbon fuel sources, our cars will get cleaner as they get older!

Not in my lifetime — carbon fuel consumption increases annually.

If carbon fuels cost more, coal - based power plants operators would be replaced more quickly with cleaner energy sources, the two agreed.

The fight for a stable enough weather system for humans to remain prosperous under requires we stop all coal and unconventional carbon fuels from leaving the ground everywhere we can.

The solution to climate change is to require carbon fuels to pay for the social costs caused by their carbon pollution.

The exemption encourages use of renewable sources of energy over traditional carbon fuels.

We may find that once the process has begun, the world loses its addiction to carbon fuels surprisingly quickly.

A carbon tax is a way — the only way — to make users of carbon fuels pay for the climate damage caused by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

ALL of you have the same agenda, to promote carbon fuels and nuclear power, against our advance into renewables.

They have at least tried to prevent their low - carbon fuel standards from impacting food supply.

And if it gets racing fans excited about low carbon fuels and high fuel economy, even better.

For instance, he said, gas could provide a «transition» away from high - carbon fuels for countries struggling to build new renewable energy capacity.

Going forward, we must continue and extend this momentum as we strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 per cent, moving away from the use of carbon fuels in transportation, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes and replacing them with clean electricity.

I wish I had seen the play on its opening night, when Jim Hansen saw his career re-enacted and then gave a valuable talk on his view of the problem and his longstanding vision of a solution centering on a rising fee on carbon fuels with funds returned to taxpayers, along with a fresh push on innovative new approaches to nuclear power.

The implication for expensive, high risk and high carbon fuels such as Canadian tar sands is that over the long haul, in a world that is responding to climate change, neither price nor demand will support the rapid growth that is currently planned for by industry and the Canadian government.

AvantiRenewables provides customers with flexible and tailored lower carbon fuel choices and one of its first offerings uses biomass technology to deliver heating and hot water for businesses.

Ramping up the tax by $ 5 a year would shrink the use of carbon fuels so drastically that, by my calculations, US carbon emissions in 2030 would be 40 percent less than they were in 2005 (a standard baseline year).

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to replace fossil fuels with ethanol and other low - carbon fuels through a «clean fuel standard» — expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes a year by 2030 — faces mounting opposition, especially from a powerful lobby south of the border.

A carbon tax would allow energy efficiencies to become cost effective faster, a carbon tax would cause the utilities to use less carbon fuels in the electrical grid and a carbon tax would promote fuel switching faster.

``... to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels...» And how do you propose to do this with fossil fuels representing more than 80 % of the energy budget?

You can not promote a clean energy system and then make it ineffective with a dirty system, because people will have to continue the use of carbon fuels which will create more of a need for Geoengineering.

To do so will mean massive investment in renewable and nuclear power, with a commensurate closing of carbon fuelled power stations.

If the oil recovered through a BECCS+EOR or DAC+EOR can also get credit for low carbon fuel production (like the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in CA), BECCS and / or DAC installations could begin to get developed, which would provide a number of benefits for the CDR industry.

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

Row over ranking low - carbon fuels Brazil has curbed its deforestation rate while growing the sugar - cane industry, said Kutas.

On one hand, the downturn may give policymakers the incentive to obscure the costs of climate regulation, leading to the adoption of a patchwork of regulatory requirements, a low carbon fuel mandate, a renewable portfolio standard, and other measures that would be significantly more costly than a simple price on carbon.

All one must do is remove the CO2 and water from the air, phase shift the CO2 and water to a blend of carbon compounds which depends on the process, and then reform the (selected) carbon compounds to liquid carbon fuels such as synthetic diesel or gasoline.

Our system (late stage carbon fuelled capitalism) will go extinct.