Sentences with phrase «conventional use of fossil fuels»

Is the climate challenge — which would require moving away from conventional use of fossil fuels even as the world's energy appetite grows threefold or more in the next few decades — fundamentally a bad fit for Washington?

In theory, change can come through a mix of a) increasing public will to shift behavior and priorities for the sake of cutting a long - term risk and b) lowering the cost difference between non-polluting energy choices and conventional use of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: I'm pretty sure they've changed over to using all ethanol fuel, which is a step in the right direction ONLY if the fuel is from crops grown and harvested without using a lot of conventional fossil fuel.]

Increased recovery of these materials into fuel could significantly reduce the nation's dependence on landfill disposal while also decreasing the use of fossil or other types of conventional fuels.»

So one monitors the decline in the conventional forms of fossil fuel and then predicts the trends in use of alternative forms of energy.

As Jennifer Marohasy quotes the abstract on her blog: «THE conventional representation of the impact on the atmosphere of the use of fossil fuels -LSB-...]

What the world needs is not decreased fossil fuel use but increased use with careful control of conventional pollutants using conventional controls where needed and justified.

I would like to add that Conventional transportation technologies usually involve the use of fossil fuels for vehicle propulsion.

THE conventional representation of the impact on the atmosphere of the use of fossil fuels is to state that the annual increases in concentration of CO2 come from fossil fuels and the balance of some 50 % of fossil fuel CO2 is absorbed in the oceans or on land by physical and chemical processes.

After all, assuming substantial use of unconventional fossil fuels (UFFs) in the BAU scenario, suggests a certain amount of insensitivity to price (assuming UFFs are significantly more expensive than conventional fossil fuels).

-- Alan Caruba -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- «What the world needs is not decreased fossil fuel use but increased use with careful control of conventional pollutants using conventional controls where needed and justified.