Sentences with phrase «cost of fossil fuels»

And you are not considering the true costs of fossil fuels when you compare them with wind etc..

Right now the «free market» doesn't take into account the full costs of fossil fuel energy.

And neither are they reluctant to address the multiple social and environmental costs of fossil fuels, such as coal.

A geothermal heat pump will save money on utility bills, especially with the rising costs of fossil fuels.

A leading economist says the world should reject lies about carbon emissions, pricing them to show the real cost of fossil fuel.

But the market does not incorporate the indirect costs of fossil fuels in prices, such as the costs to society of global warming.

This is largely due to eliminating the health and climate costs of fossil fuels.

They simply «correct» the market by forcing it to reflect the true cost of fossil fuels.

But the rising cost of fossil fuels is much more significant.

Financial incentives for installing such electrical generating capacity in mills have not been sufficient due to the historically low cost of fossil fuels and have often been passed over in favor of systems powered by historically inexpensive fossil fuels.

Point # 1 is that WHATEVER the effects on our curent population, steep continuing rise in cost of fossil fuels is WONDERFUL.

This paper, for example, estimates the health costs of fossil fuel burning at around $ 50 per ton of CO2 released:

Leading off a June 12, 2012 Senate Finance Committee hearing on energy taxation, Dr. Jorgenson proposed internalizing the health and environmental costs of fossil fuel burning by eliminating fossil fuel «tax expenditures» (i.e., indirect subsidies) and taxing emissions of the six Clean Air Act «criteria» pollutants.

«None of us are paying the full cost of our fossil fuel energy in terms of health and environmental impacts,» said Erica Zweifel, a Northfield City Council member trying to develop community solar there.

They calculated the cost of renewable electricity generation without subsidies from either state or federal government, and when they made comparisons with fossil power, they factored in the external health and other costs of fossil fuel pollution.

My surprise was because I'd just read «The missing maths: the human cost of fossil fuels» on Skeptical Science last week, which included this: «The EPA estimates that the U.S. Clean Air Amendments cost $ 65bn to implement, but will have yielded a benefit of almost $ 2tn by 2020 in avoided health costs.»

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.

Given the stasis in the Senate, even with the «external» costs of fossil fuels on glaring display in the Gulf of Mexico, it may be time to start listening more to those proposing this more stepwise route forward.

With skyrocketing costs of fossil fuels, savings potential will only increase.

But these direct cost related factors don't even begin to count in the terrible external costs of fossil fuels ranging from ramping damages due to climate change and direct health impacts by adding toxic particles to the air and water.

That's also why it gags politicians: it incorporates the true cost of fossil fuel consumption in prices.

The credits are derived from the avoided cost of fossil fuel during peak generation hours measured from July 2014 to June 2015.

At the same time, many studies have found that the economic and environmental costs of fossil fuel subsidies far outweighs any of its perceived social benefits, which can be achieved by other more effective means.

Already, the high cost of these fossil fuel imports has contributed to Japan's newfound trade deficit of $ 32 billion, the country's first in over 30 years.

30 May, 2017 — A leading economist says the world should reject lies about carbon emissions, pricing them to show the real cost of fossil fuel.

Due to the increasing cost of fossil fuels we are no longer able to provide coal on a per transgression basis.

The major industrialized countries should commission a study to calculate the government subsidies and direct environmental and health costs of fossil fuel use.

The goal of restructuring taxes is to lower income taxes and raise carbon taxes so that the cost of climate change and other indirect costs of fossil fuel use are incorporated in market prices.

Partly because of the dominance of the oil, gas, and coal industries, which have been providing cheap fuel by omitting the indirect costs of fossil fuel burning, relatively little has been invested in developing the earth's geothermal heat resources.

But just as many people advocate for considering the full cost of fossil fuels in the price of electricity (the cost of the pollution, mining, etc), so too must the full cost and impact of renewable energy be accounted for.

Anywho, the grist for restating this fact — I've discussed the true cost of fossil fuels in various posts here, as well as on certain cable TV shows — is a study from German researchers highlighted by Deutsche Welle that concludes that wind is the cheapest power source in the world.

Wind energy is competitive with new coal and new nuclear capacity, even before any environmental costs of fossil fuel and nuclear generation8 are taken into account.

Given the rising costs of fossil fuels, this would be a PR nightmare for the generation industry, but UBS raises the possibility, echoing our story last year about how electricity business models and markets are effectively broken.

The most important point the report makes, with the rise in costs of fossil fuels, and possibly their unavailability due to depletion, renewables also make economic sense, though they admit that this transition will have a lot of challenges.

Such a plan could enable businesses to make their own plans knowing what the relative costs of fossil fuels, solar energy, and human labor are likely to be over time.

This page shows the cost of fossil fuels to be reasonable, whereas nuclear has a high capitalization that must be amortized in some fashion.

For clean energy, «Nuclear power is one of the options and will continue to be so, but how important an option depends on many elements,» including the cost of fossil fuel and social acceptance.

Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy.

If you're unsure of what fossil fuel subsidies are, they're basically measures that lower the cost of fossil fuel energy production, raise the price collected by energy contractors, or lower the price paid by the consumers.