Sentences with phrase «debate about energy»

It would be much harder to say that about wind energy, if there had been a public, democratic, transparent debate about our energy policy, and the values which inform it.

As the Guardian explains, the government of Uruguay was once gridlocked in a «seemingly endless and rancorous debate about energy policy.»

Like many long time observers of the debate about energy policy, I had a vague grasp of the fact that renewables on any large scale disrupt the grid, but you have filled in a lot of the blanks in admirably clear and concise prose for a lay audience.

What should have been a political debate about energy policy, environmental quality, and reducing vulnerability to weather and climate disasters, became a debate about the nuances of climate science, with climate scientists as the pawns and whipping boys.

Pandora's Promise attempts to expand the debate about our energy options by offering up a solution that until now has been obscured by myths, falsehoods, ideological dogma, and political polarization.

Robust debate about energy and climate issues is denounced and obstructed.

Instead, Goldston is saying that we should recognize that debate about energy policy, climate change, etc. is inherently political.

For the next 10 years, people from all walks of life join in the debate about energy and climate change.

The first serious game on facebook and great tool to start, stimulate and further the debate about energy consupmtion and population growth at all levels and for young people of all abilities.

Facts and anecdotes examine the historic, scientific, economic, political, cultural, and literary aspects of coal, as well as the current debates about energy consumption, developing nations, and global warming.

And by all means let's ask Walmart to be a louder voice in public policy debates about energy and climate change.

Not exact matches

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, who has debated the issue with Thiel at Oxford, wrote that «the vast majority of my scientist colleagues at top universities seem awfully excited about their projects in nanotechnology, neuroscience, and energy, among other cutting - edge fields.

The global community needs to have a vigorous, ongoing debate about the ethics of energy.

Tesla Energy's former head, Mateo Jaramillo, debated Schroeder about their respective energy storage strategies on stage at US Energy Storage Summit lastEnergy's former head, Mateo Jaramillo, debated Schroeder about their respective energy storage strategies on stage at US Energy Storage Summit lastenergy storage strategies on stage at US Energy Storage Summit lastEnergy Storage Summit last year.

Still, Lazarus said the debate about the climate impacts of energy projects would benefit from a closer look at their market effects.

The furious debate about the merits of current and future pipeline projects underscores the need for an evidence - based long - term energy strategy for our country, the conclusions of a new review of Canada's energy systems suggest.

I appreciate a mature, respectful debate, although I think face to face is a better way to go about it and frankly, I don't have the energy for one here.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

So much energy goes into the debate that few people take time to even talk about the moms who do both: breastfeed for a bit and then transition to formula feeding.

The ears of the Chartered Institute of Taxation were pricked by the debate this week about VAT on energy bills and the EU.

In his letter, which was drawn up jointly with Dutch premier Jan Peter Balkenende, Mr Blair notes the importance of energy security but says any debate on the subject must also be about climate change and its links to the European economy.

The communitywide debate about the South Fork Wind Farm, a proposed 15 - turbine installation approximately 36 miles from Montauk, continued on Oct. 4 when the East Hampton Town Trustees» harbor management committee and the town's energy...

But it's also raising alarms from critics who worry that key decisions about state energy policy are being rushed without enough public debate.

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

My debate team's topic is about the use of domestic nuclear energy in the United States.

Similar to the debate on fracking, public opposition to the gas port became part of a larger discussion about New York State's energy policy and how the state should respond to climate change.

Likewise, debate raged into the 1970s about whether general relativity really predicted gravity waves and, if so, whether the waves actually carried energy.

THE DEBATE about taxes on fossil fuels has focussed attention on a range of options for energy supply and use.

«We are in a global competition for the best scientists and engineers,» said Chu in comments to reporters about the 2011 continuing resolution being debated this week on the floor of the House after he defended the president's 2012 budget to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning.

«This is a major breakthrough since the study combines information about the timing and energy of X-ray photons to settle the 30 - year debate around the origin of QPOs.

«The findings address an ongoing debate about crystallization pathways,» said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington.

How about at the end of the day when your kids are full of life, questions, and energy and you're ready to SNAP at one more question or debate?

Carbohydrates are what our bodies use quickest for energy and, although there's debate about how much of this macronutrient each individual needs, Ward says ingesting carbohydrates in some form is essential.

The last third bogs down in wordy debates about truth and memory (fewer people translates into less energy).

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

Rather than expending energy and time debating what's horrific about this series, we should take full advantage of its popularity and the attention it is receiving and utilize it as a tool to open doors for difficult conversations.

Spending time and energy debating semantics about one of 22 sub-ratings does not serve this purpose.

Compiling never before seen footage into a thrilling and high - energy film, Jerry Rothwell's HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD chronicles the rise of Greenpeace, their dynamic personalities, and the internal ideological debates about the mission of the organization.

It was a heady time for young artists: Neo-Geo, German and Italian Neo-Expressionism, and homegrown talents like Julian Schnabel and David Salle were infusing new energy into the debate about the viability of emotionally charged subjects and surfaces.

Or will they become like we are in 30 - 40 years (as our work at EMBARQ suggests) and then have the debate we have had since 1973 about energy and now carbon?

Here we are in the 21st Century having our comfortable little debates about things here, while that has to be part of the energy challenge....

We can continue to talk and talk and talk about how to cope, adapt, adjust; provide formulas for energy solutions, debate nuclear verses solar, but the fact remains the world is warming.

That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could

reCaptcha is suggesting «phonying through» and that is what I see with the debates about «renewable energy» — the problem isn't the technology, it's the deployment of the technology (no massive deployment of power storage) that is the concern.

I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).

That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could potentially land the US a cap and trade system to cut nationwide carbon emissions.

Finally, David Roberts at Vox also wrote an article about our essay, remarking, «Here's a sign of a more constructive debate on clean energy innovation.»

But even as I push for an energy quest that limits climate risk, I'm not worried about the resilience of Arctic ecosystems and not worried about the system tipping into an irreversibly slushy state on time scales relevant to today's policy debates.

The first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama only passingly touched on issues that are a focus of this blog, in several references by the candidates to energy independence (an unattained goal of presidents since the Nixon era) and Romney's assertion about billions spent propping up «green energy» startups.