Sentences with phrase «constant fossil fuel production»

A constant fossil fuel production rate requires increasing energy input, but also use of more land, water, and diluents, with the production of more waste [142].

A constant fossil fuel production rate requires increasing energy input, but also use of more land, water, and diluents, with the production of more waste [142].

Not exact matches

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

According to the World Bank, fossil fuel energy supplies about 80 % of the world's energy production — a value which has been pretty much constant for the past 40 years.

The oil sands, even in the worst case (assuming constant production rates of coal, gas and conventional oil, with accelerated bitumen production), will only contribute a small proportion, about 3 %, to fossil - fuel emissions over this century.