Sentences with phrase «costly than fossil fuels»

England, for example, is rethinking wind farms because they are much more costly than fossil fuels, and even created something they call «fuel poverty» — people who can't afford their power bills.

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As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

A fast move away from cheap abundant fossil fuels will be much costlier than a slow one, but a slow shift means the long - lived gases will have accumulated to higher levels in the atmosphere mid-century, requiring much steeper cuts later.

Fossil fuel sources remain much less costly than the infrastructure necessary for capturing the sun's energy.

Coal is substantially less costly than other fossil fuels such as natural gas and oil.

For decades the climate alarm movement has been pushing «solutions» that would handicap fossil fuels rather than make alternative energy more competitive — that is, cheaper without costly subsidies.

New fossil - fuelled and nuclear power plants already are more costly than older ones, mainly because they have to be compliant with higher environmental and safety standards.

Fossil fuels are already more costly than renewable energy, and that includes coal.

These changes make the very costly policy changes pushed by the environmental left to force substitution of wind and solar power for fossil fuels even more ridiculous than they already were and doom their movement sooner or later.

Since much RE now costs the same or less than coal, oil their real cost is Zero or even profitable and far less costly as fossil fuel costs rise..

Witness the failure of past fuel - tax efforts, the resistance to fossil - fuel - displacing wind farms in some areas, and the persistence of costly tax entitlements like the deductibility of home mortgage interest payments from federal taxes — each, in its own way, testament to the dictum that «losers cry louder than winners sing,» in the words of University of Michigan tax policy expert Joel Slemrod.

Perhaps he has discovered that it is much less costly to operate than heating and cooling with fossil fuels and electricity?