Sentences with phrase «carbon out of the energy»

Here are three reactions to my post about Machiavelli's view of the impediments to making big changes in societies — as in the asymmetrical nature of the battle to take the carbon out of energy systems in the face of both societal inertia and intensive efforts by entrenched interests to maintain the status quo.

Not exact matches

In a press release, MoMA says the tower will require almost no energy or carbon emissions during the creation process — «a building that grows out of nothing but earth and returns to nothing but earth.»

But coming out against the entire practice elicits a lack of understanding of its importance for lowering U.S. carbon emissions and transforming the energy industry.

A similar wells - to - wheels study released in September by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates out of Massachusetts found fuels derived from oilsands to be just 6 % more carbon intensive than the average of all oil sources consumed in the U.S.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Paris advocates assert that, despite President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the agreement, we face an inevitable transition to a multitude of new low - carbon energy technologies that will consign hydrocarbons — oil, natural gas, and coal — to history's dust heap.

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

It's falling coal prices not token carbon taxes that will snuff out Prime Minister Abbott's coal - fired dreams of becoming an energy superpower.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

She should speak out against the climate change denial rampant in opposition circles and talk about the benefits of the carbon tax, the transition to renewable energy and her government's investments in public services and infrastructure.

With the news out of the United States that they're energy industry is beginning to recover, it's clear that imposing additional costs to export industries drives investors to other jurisdictions that lack a carbon tax.

Using recycled glass in the manufacturing process allows glass container manufacturers to significantly reduce energy consumption, reduce their carbon footprint and helps keep glass out of landfills.»

To be clear, banning onshore wind farms means ruling out the cheapest form of renewable energy, which somewhat undermines their very next pledge - a commitment to cut carbon emissions «as cheaply as possible».

Energy - A commitment to take carbon emissions out of the economy by 2025 and through Green investment banks to allow communities to insulate 5 million homes over 10 years.

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

The administration has argued that preserving nuclear facilities for about a decade will allow New York to build out wind farms and solar arrays while maintaining the largest source of carbon - free energy in New York.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

On 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissions.

The project managers are proud to point out that the village already meets the carbon dioxide reduction goals of the European Union's Sustainable Energy Vision for the year 2050.

Not only can N. europaea convert ammonia into energy, but the bacterium sucks carbon out of the atmosphere in the process.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

You might expect the man in charge of United States energy security to be glum about the future, but despite his intense concerns regarding carbon emissions, Steven Chu is optimistic that science may yet bail us out.

Getting value out of carbon dioxide in the form of commodity chemicals or energy, without putting more energy in somewhere in the life cycle of the product, is extremely difficult.

At the bottom of an aquatic ecosystem are single - celled microbes that use energy from either sunlight or chemical sources to pluck molecules of carbon dioxide out of the water in order to grow.

And both ecosystems will likely turn out to be powered by the same source of energy: microbes oxidizing ammonium, iron, sulfur and possibly methane in order to fix carbon.

Schlesinger also pointed out that much of the wood raised and harvested in the United States for energy purposes is actually shipped to the European Union, where biomass is currently treated as a carbon - neutral energy source.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Every year, the company digs hundreds of million of tons of coal out of the ground and sells this carbon - intensive energy source throughout China.

The authors argue that cities need to step out of traditional roles in planning urban infrastructure and learn how to better understand the needs of residents in order to craft policies and programs that enable the adoption of energy and carbon - efficient technologies and practices.

Industry and environmental groups are also eager to find out whether the revised Green Guides will weigh in on the largely unregulated markets for carbon offsets, renewable energy credits and environmental certifications, all of which were addressed during public workshops in 2008.

But as Patz puts it, «Americans instinctually jump into their cars even for the shortest of trips, missing out on the large public health dividend that comes from daily exercise of active low - carbon transportation, let alone the 7 million lives that could be saved globally every year from low - carbon energy.»

«We have to figure out some way to get the carbon intensity of the energy system to go down.»

In the meantime, capturing carbon out of the air and sequestering it is the most direct way we know how to provide energy without CO2 emissions and without building another infrastructure.

Receding Himalayan glaciers Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single - topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University's Robert Socolow that set out a well - reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet - livable threshold of 560 ppm.

In fluorinated graphene, the fluorine atoms do stick up out of the plane of carbon atoms, but the physical changes in height paled in comparison to the changes of local energy each fluorine atom produced.

We were appointed in June 2014 to carry out the PPSS to inform the ETI's scenario modelling of the transition towards future UK low carbon energy systems.

The research comes out of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub established in 2010 to develop a cost - effective method of turning sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel.

The International Energy Agency identified the few existing greenhouse gas regulations as a key reason for the leveling out of carbon emissions.

You can donate money to initiatives that take carbon out of the environment — like tree plantings and renewable energy projects — to balance out the carbon you're putting into it with your daily routine.

«Maybe we'll find a way to draw carbon dioxide out of the air and use it for energy,» he says.

It takes so much energy to make them that the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

It takes so much energy to make batteries the Union of Concerned Scientists says BEVs with a 250 - mile (402 - km) range start out life with a carbon footprint 68 % higher than a piston - engine car.

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Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

Ambitious mitigation will require a range of actions, including investing in research, development, and technology transfer; phasing out subsidies on fossil energy; and pricing carbon.

In the interest of disclosure, I'll mention a few: One occurs if a new energy source puts carbon - based sources «out of business» and displaces them quickly, even without any cost assigned to carbon dioxide emissions: In other words, if the economic cost of the new energy source is so low that it completely and quickly beats even the lowest - cost carbon - based sources (even without a «carbon price») and justifies investments associated with replacing the associated infrastructure.

But along with the wedges, which we described as near - term, I added a second column denoting what would have to happen simultaneously to build the capacity to take the carbon out of a growing global energy menu.

This is a disincentive for alternative energy projects to honestly disclose their actual costs per ton of carbon offset, since they will price themselves out of the market.

In March 2001, a White House team used a single economic analysis by the Energy Department to build a case that Mr. Bush quickly used to back out of his campaign pledge to restrict power plant discharges of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping gas linked to global warming.