As pressure mounts to
cut fossil fuel consumption, and as punitive taxes on non-green power kick in over the next several years, micro nukes could reach a wider market.
Not exact matches
The GWE technology involved in the latest installation at CCN is represented in Australia and New Zealand by CST Wastewater Solutions, which installed similar technology at the Bluetongue Brewery in NSW, where it is saving
fossil fuel and
cutting the brewery's overall energy
consumption by about 15 per cent.
It helps very little to develop wind and hydroelectric power if we don't also
cut our
consumption of
fossil fuels.
Saudi Arabia gave a taste of the «carbon wars» to come if the world becomes serious about
cutting consumption of
fossil fuels.
Only if we spur those cost and performance breakthroughs do we have a chance of drastically
cutting emissions (and eliminating
fossil fuel consumption) IN ADDITION to incremental cost and performance improvements.
So if we don't know the answer as to whether we even have an «AGW» problem, or whether the AGW, if any, is on balance beneficial or detrimental to our society overall, don't you think that it is a bit premature to dictate massive
cuts in our
fossil fuel consumption absent cheap, reliable replacements for it?
Our representatives in Washington are certainly sharply divided in their views on which of these trends we should back and which ones we should try to stop — with a big block only excited about
fossil fuels and another wanting to bet pretty much everything on
cutting consumption and promoting new energy sources.
There are also many other benefits to
cutting energy
consumption, like saving money, creating jobs, and reducing our dependency on imports and
fossil fuels.
The package fails to tackle the over-supply of energy, or address the urgent need to
cut fossil fuel extraction and
consumption.
Eliminating all
fossil fuel consumption subsidies by 2020 would
cut global carbon emissions by nearly 5 percent while reducing government debt.
Forty years ago we might have had an easier time of it, as we were on a path to dramatically
cut back on CO2 production via what is still the only viable technology to massively replace
fossil fuel consumption — nuclear power.
As planned, Lieberman's bill would set the goal of
cutting motor vehicle
fossil fuel consumption in half over 20 years.