Sentences with phrase «cheaper fuel produced»

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Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

On the blackboard, fusing hydrogen atoms produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil fuels or consume non-renewable resources.

While it is becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce and use solar energy, the cost of transitioning from fossil fuels is still very real.

«Coal was a cheap fuel for producing steam when we began treating our wastewater in the 1990s, so the need to supplement coal with biogas wasn't there.

UNSW Sydney chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently produce clean hydrogen fuel.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

The difference between engineering microbes to produce drugs versus fuel is that, ounce for ounce, drugs are much more valuable: a fuel end product has to be cheap enough to burn.

Launched in July 2010, JCAP aims to develop an efficient, cheap, and durable system for producing fuels using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as inputs.

Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today, used widely to heat homes as well as in manufacturing and to produce electricity.

If MOXIE can produce oxygen on Mars, that oxygen could then be used as fuel to get a spacecraft back to Earth — a much, much cheaper and safer option than trying to land a spacecraft that's still loaded with enough fuel for the return journey.

BAU will achieve this goal as alternative energy sources are made more reliable, more robust (i.e. PV panels that maintain 80 % for 80 years or so), and cheaper to mass produce; and as fossil fuels become harder to extract and more expensive.

Fossil fuel is a cheap method to produce energy, and it will be used unless another technology is able to produce energy cheaper.

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

«With our innovative toilet system, we can use simpler and cheaper methods of harvesting the useful chemicals and even produce fuel and energy from waste.

In more than 30 countries, electricity produced through solar and wind energy is the same price or cheaper than any new fossil fuel capacity, the report, released last Wednesday, noted.

Cheap electricity provides water and produces liquid fuels for energy carriers for transport fuels.

What happened in the fifties and sixties is that instead of pursuing a cheap safe nuclear option we chose to pursue dirty inefficient light water reactors because the uranium fuel cycle produces bomb grade materials

• nuclear power will be substantially cheaper than fossil fuel electricity generation • cheap electricity substitutes for some gas for heating and oil for land transport (as in electric vehicles and low - cost electricity producing energy carriers).

Some experts believe that algae is set to eclipse all other biofuel feedstocks as the cheapest, easiest, and most environmentally friendly way to produce liquid fuel.

A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a clean, cheap and widely - available fuel.

it seems a waste of a resource to bury it in the Antarctic when it could be combined with hydrogen to produce an endless supply of cheap liquid fuels.

Carbon capture from air seems simple and industrially scalable — see for instance http://www.carbonengineering.com/ — but it seems a waste of a resource to bury it in the Antarctic when it could be combined with hydrogen to produce an endless supply of cheap liquid fuels.

«Why isn't Russia tripping all over itself producing and selling cheap synthetic fuels?»

I agree with Bjorn Lomborg and many others that the only viable answer is technologic innovation which produces a cheaper alternative to fossil fuel.

A project of that size could help bring down the cost of producing solar power to be competitive with the price of cheap fossil fuel - based electricity.

Before much longer the cheapest fuel will be made by synthetic organisms with metabolisms re-designed to produce paraffins as the primary metabolic product.

Wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels in producing electricity in Australia, the world's biggest coal exporter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

These sources of energy and efficiency technologies are in many cases cheaper than fossils, have steep cost curves, produce a positive ROI for businesses and consumers, are anti-inflationary because they don't use a commodity fuel or consume less fuel, have the ability to decentralize and stabilize energy supply.

I'm willing to make the following wager — that it is far easier to prove the benefits of cheap energy, of whatever fuel source, to the Earth's population than it is to prove the harm that will derive from producing that energy.

Get an up - close look at how Mary Njenga's briquette formula can produce cheap, clean fuel and a sustainable business for women in Kenya for about two cents each.

How do you propose getting those developments to take place, given that the «free market» situation we have now had not produced results sufficient to provide energy cheap enough for much of the planet, and given that future acquisition of fossil fuels is likely to be more costly environmentally as well as economically?

The paper notes that poor people are most likely to be affected, as they typically lack access to electricity and have to resort to cheaper fuels that produce more indoor smoke.

The AVE AERO mimics nature producing renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuelled plants by extracting energy from rising warm air.

The earth's climate sensitivity is the most important climate factor in determining how much global warming will result from our greenhouse gas emissions (primarily from burning of fossil fuels to produce, reliable, cheap energy).

Cheap and plentiful uranium, together with the plutonium produced by uranium use, could fuel nuclear plants for the foreseeable future.

Once we have cheap nuclear power, we'll be in a much better position to get low emissions transport fuels — fuels produced by cheap electricity, and electricity replacing gas for heating and oil for some transport.

Another thing is that, global production of goods mostly happens in those «cheap» countries, so they can hardly be criticised for having fuel pollution issues can they as they produce probably 80 % of the worlds goods.

It's also important to point out why fossil fuel electricity is relatively cheap in the United States: The behind - the - scenes costs of burning fuel that produces carbon dioxide and noxious pollutants — health care costs, environmental cleanup, and the current and future expenses of adapting to a warmer world — are not included in the US electric bill.

Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

Currently fossil - fuel generation is cheaper than most non-CO2 producing types, largely because the plant operators don't have to pay to dispose of their waste products.

What I foresee is a more efficient engine which produces more power with less fuel, and that fuel, whatever it is, is plentiful, cheap to refine and safe to use.

The real clean energy race is thus to invent, commercialize, progressively improve, and mass - produce cheap and reliable clean energy technologies that can compete on cost not just with international competitors but also with fossil fuels.

The state's Columbia River - fueled dams are famous for their hydroelectric power, which produces cheap energy rates and which is an attractive feature for people interested in the electricity - intensive process of creating more digital coins.