Sentences with phrase «cleanest fossil fuel»

If we want to build and maintain that coalition we must recognise that cleaner fossil fuel technologies play a role alongside renewables.

But less in the spotlight is its widely claimed role as a relatively clean fossil fuel - one that can ease the path from the old - energy to the clean - energy economy.

Over all, Obama's choices reflect his longstanding pattern of charting a pragmatic path reflecting the need for strong regulation, including of greenhouse gases (embodied in McCarthy), and the simultaneous need to advance responsible use of cleaner fossil fuels while also using policies and investments to advance non-polluting energy technologies for the long haul.

«My idea of a carbon tax would be to help fund clean fossil fuel research and development, not to fund the government, not to punish fossil fuel generation, not to manipulate fuel choice,» Cramer said.

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.

Washington is already working to launch an international alliance that is set to include a host of other countries committed to introducing clean fossil fuel technologies — including a number of Association of Southeast Asian Nation states.

The government said putting in place a balanced mix of renewable energy, new nuclear energy and cleaner fossil fuels was at the heart of its energy policy.

Put a flame next to them and they'll ignite, burning what may be the cleanest fossil fuel currently known.

Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel.

But Calera is starting with the cleanest fossil fuel — natural gas.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

The energy sources parsed in his equations include solar, clean fossil fuel, geothermal, nuclear, and wind.

At the 2009 Summit of the Americas, President Obama invited all countries of the Western Hemisphere to participate in the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA)-- a voluntary and flexible framework for advancing cooperation in seven pillars: renewable energy, energy efficiency, cleaner fossil fuels, energy poverty, infrastructure, sustainable landscapes, and adaptation.

The final strategy appears to broaden this focus to include «clean fossil fuel and the world's safest nuclear generation».

The Anglo - Dutch group said the BG takeover would expand its presence in controversial deep - water activities — many of the planet's untapped fossil fuel resources are now in ocean regions that are difficult to access — but said it would also increase its presence in liquefied natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel than oil.

They subsidized wood pellets (one of the dirtiest fossil fuels) to get people to switch from natural gas (the cleanest fossil fuel).

Saying gas is a clean fossil fuel is like saying filter cigarettes will prevent lung cancer.»

Gas has been perceived as the cleanest fossil fuel and huge investment has poured into developing new gas supplies.

After years of basking in a green glow as the cleanest fossil fuel and a favorite short - term choice to replace cheap - but - dirty coal, gas now finds itself under attack from environmentalists, filmmakers and congressional Democrats — and even from some scientists who raise doubts about whether its total emissions are as climate - friendly as commonly believed.

This takes into account improvements in efficiency and the fact that natural gas is a cleaner fossil fuel than coal.

Natural gas is described as the cleanest fossil fuel, and with U.S. President Barack Obama's call during his 2008 presidential campaign for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, its use is expected to grow even more in the future.

BP Magazine looks at some of the numbers behind the story of the world's strongest - growing and cleanest fossil fuel.