Sentences with phrase «clean fuel alternatives»

To dramatically cut emissions from this sector, a comprehensive solution must include improved vehicle fuel efficiency, smart growth policies that reduce vehicle miles traveled, and clean fuel alternatives.

More efficient cars and trucks and clean fuel alternatives can cut our oil use, with huge benefits for drivers, the economy, and the country.

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We are also investing in this field ourselves: one of our airlines, Virgin Australia, is working in partnership with Dynamotive Energy Systems and Renewable Oil to develop an alternative jet fuel that will enable our global aircraft fleet to transition to clean energy.

Just listen to the urgent speeches from world leaders, and you might think that most governments agree that while we have no sustainable, clean alternative to fossil fuels that we can implement on a large scale today, we need to find one and put it in place quickly.

Back in the petroleum - challenged 1970s, alternative energy of all sorts — solar, wind, geothermal, and anything cleaner and environmentally friendlier than fossil fuels — was the wave of the future and hence the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams.

He hopes that this will raise awareness about cleaner cars and alternative fuels.

Japan and Korea are global leaders in the use of fuel cells, an alternative low - emission clean energy source.

As their competitors at Honda and Toyota moved into the hybrid realm, Volkswagen spent years trying to convince consumers that their diesel engines were clean, powerful, fuel - sipping better alternatives.

But while we wait for B.C's LNG mega-project to cross the finish line, let's take this opportunity to showcase the gold standard that Canada can bring to the energy race through alternative and clean fuels and technologies.

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Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

Now serving communities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut, FreshDirect is being applauded for its aggressive actions to move its fleet to clean diesel and alternative fuel based vehicles.

The agreement provides further opportunities for SNG to promote gas as a more reliable, cleaner and cost - effective alternative to liquid fuels in Nigeria.

The $ 100 billion a year was supposed to help developing countries adapt to changes being wrought by climate change, and to help them bypass fossil fueled development in favor of cleaner alternatives.

We also need to explore alternative fuels with lower greenhouse gas emission profiles, integrate larger amounts or renewable into the electric grid and develop ways to use natural gas and coal in cleaner ways.

Spinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists: the ability to convert sunlight into a clean, efficient alternative fuel.

Driven by security and environmental concerns as well as skyrocketing oil prices — United Airlines more than doubled its fuel surcharge per ticket to $ 50 on January 12 — the aviation industry continues to cut back on fuel burn as it searches for cleaner, cheaper alternatives.

Electrochemical devices are crucial to a green energy revolution in which clean alternatives replace carbon - based fuels.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

To date, natural oil still serves as our primary source of fuel, even though a much cleaner alternative exists in the form of synthetic fuel.

Hydrogen fuel has long been touted as a clean alternative to gasoline.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

But it's unrealistic to reduce oil supply before alternative fuels or cleaner vehicles are ready for widespread use, he said.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

For its part, UPS was an early adopter of cleaner vehicles, and today operates upwards of 2,500 low - emission vehicles that run on alternative fuels and technologies.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

-- The Secretary shall carry out a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technologies.

The threat of climate change means that there is an urgent need to find cleaner, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels that do not contribute extensive amounts of greenhouse gases with potentially devastating consequences on our ecosystem.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

Clean electricity and cleaner alternative liquid fuels have to progressively replace coal and fossil liquid fuel.

Only with the extremely recent (on the evolutionary timeline) advent of civilization have we been stuffing our faces with carbs and snuffing out our magnificent ability to generate ketones as a clean - burning alternative fuel source to dietary carbohydrates.

A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based natural gas, Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced in Canada from biogas facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.

One task saw the pupils design and build their own racing car powered by clean energy, which got them thinking about alternative fuel sources and ways of reducing their carbon footprint.

Unless the current oil mega-corporations decide to leverage their monumental assets on wide - scale clean production of hydrogen, it's destined to remain a regional alternative fuel experiment.

Biodiesel is a clean burning, renewable alternative fuel that can be produced from a wide range of vegetable oils and animal fats.

Although ethanol, hydrogen and hybrids have been stealing all the headlines the past couple of years, nearly half (49 percent) of all respondents said they would be most likely to buy a clean diesel among all the current lineup of alternative fuel options.

R.L. Polk and Co. research says that almost 593,000 hybrid electric, ethanol - capable E-85 and clean - diesel autos were on Florida's roads in 2006, marking an increase of 22.1 percent from 2005 when there were almost 486,000 alternative - fuel autos on Florida's roads.

Akerson said that GM is committed to saving 45 billion litres of gasoline in its 2011 to 2017 model year vehicles with technologies that include lighter materials to reduce vehicle mass, alternative fuels, clean diesel and electrification.

In fact, it has such stringent pollution controls and the fuel - burning process is so complete, the exhaust produced can actually be cleaner than the air outside — and cleaner than some hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles.

Using the longer route outside the Channel Islands has saved shippers about $ 6,000 per round - trip, according to the air board, because bunker fuel is cheaper than cleaner alternatives.

forgiving the obvious clean air benefits, it's likely we'll see more advertising and market acceptance of alternative fuels as oil prices continue to rise.

And they will question why we did not move faster to employ technologies that were more energy - efficient, and alternative fuels that were cleaner, once we knew that they were available.»

Now, meeting the goal of cutting our oil dependence depends largely on two things: first, finding and producing more oil at home; second, reducing our overall dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency.

The point of the policy is to (1) make fossil fuels more expensive than clean alternatives and (2) provide incentives for eliminating emissions.

Bio Diesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources.

I also managed the Clean Fuel Bus Program for NY that funded over $ 100 million for alternative fueled vehicle buses.

Most climate experts contend the world must shift from fossil fuels to cleaner alternatives to meet emissions targets.

Dressed in a veneer of concern about climate change, in fact BP's outlook is a public relations exercise, designed to boost fossil fuels and undermine public faith in clean alternatives.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.