Sentences with phrase «decarbonize transportation»

Critically, however, clean electricity also «helps to decarbonize transportation, heating, and industry,» says Jenkins.

The incoming president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, says he is going to decarbonize the transportation sector, making electric cars and trucks standard in the country.

Regulation of carbon emissions from power plants will accelerate the shift from coal to gas and new fuel economy standards on heavy trucks will help further decarbonize the transportation fleet.

Coupled with public education and interstate planning, these corridors are a good use of these funds to decarbonize transportation, the author argues.

«At the end of the day, what's going to truly decarbonize the transportation system is when we move to low - carbon fuel or completely battery - powered vehicles,» which will take decades to see widespread adoption, said Stepp.

Thirty years of alternative fuel hype have failed to deliver sales; Public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next since the 1980s; To decarbonize transportation, policymakers need better ways to assess technologies.

Policymakers who want to decarbonize the transportation sector will need to move beyond hype and find better ways to assess and sustain promising technologies and fuels, suggests a study from Simon Fraser University, Canadian consulting firm Navius Research, and the University of California, Davis.

Not exact matches

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.

The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.

If we are to decarbonize the economy, immense new loads — transportation, home heating, industrial process heat — must be shifted to low - carbon grid power.