Sentences with phrase «demand for fossil fuels as»

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

Not exact matches

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

This offers some hope for future generations who will have to consider carefully the means by which energy is supplied as fossil fuels begin to diminish but the demands for energy increase.

But batteries for grid storage will have to be very cheap to compete with fossil fuels as an on - demand energy source.

Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

As negotiators discuss the «rule book» for implementation of the Paris Agreement Friends of the Earth Europe will be demanding the urgent transformation of Europe's energy system away from fossil fuels.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

For the first time in our history, and just as demand is exploding across the globe, humanity will soon no longer be able to increase fossil - fuel production year - on - year.

While the ensuing fame increased demand for Solomon as a speaker and «expert» panelist within the fossil - fuel funded skeptic community, two things jump out as particularly strange about the book.

The majority of the world's fossil fuel suppliers appear to be betting on demand for their product continuing to grow as per business as usual (BAU).

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

Perhaps in a year or two they may have some appreciation of the impact of photovoltaics upon peak demand, an impact the fossil fuel electricity generators are well aware of and are trying to limit; for what they see as their commercial gain.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

And since those jobs aren't always going to be in the same places as the fossil fuel ones they replace, renewable advocates must also demand a just transition for displaced workers.

The simultaneous surge in energy demand, especially from developing countries, means that fossil fuels — such as coal and oil — will still account for 77 percent of world energy use through 2040.

Shareholders have filed resolutions asking for ExxonMobil, Chevron and other US energy companies to undertake stress tests to ensure they maximise value and don't just pursue a BAU strategy in the face of stronger regulation and weakening fossil fuel demand as economies transition.

Instead of rapidly reducing emissions as the Paris Agreement demands, TAP would lock Europe into fossil fuels for decades.

On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.

A wave of legal challenges that is washing over the oil and gas industry, demanding accountability for climate change, started as a ripple after revelations that ExxonMobil had long recognized the threat fossil fuels pose to the world.

As grid ruinable electricity sources, like wind and solar, can not be regulated for demand but they have priority in supplying the grid, they added a new level of control to the grid, a control that throttles the simplicity and efficiency gains of fossil fuel generation whilst adding considerable complexity to grid control.

So what we are really saying as scientists and technologists is that, how can we expect to have all the technological solutions in place — every single component — when there simply isn't a market demand for it; when the government is funding subsidies 10 to 1 in terms of fossil fuels to renewables.

If high fossil fuel prices cease to exist as an incentive for biofuel development, only where policy is effectively implemented will demand increase.

If we truly move out of fossil fuel fast and furiously, demand for substitutes — for instance forests as a fuel source — could place tremendous new pressures on our planet if not managed well.

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chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damafuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damafuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.

As the world has developed and demand for energy has grown, we've burned more fossil fuels, causing more greenhouse gases to be trapped in the atmosphere and air temperatures to rise.

If enacted, backers say the bills would drive growth for renewables, battery storage and demand management, as well as help the state reduce the need for fossil fuel peaker plants.

Global demand for wooden pellets, used to replace coal in the generation of electricity, has risen considerably in recent years as governments seek ways in which to cut carbon emissions and reduce fossil fuel reliance.

As for how to meet increasing demand for electricity without using more fossil fuels, I think nuclear fission is the only currently viable option.

All that is required is for world energy demand to grow at 2 % to 3 % (as it has for the the last 100 years) and for the fossil fuel companies to meet that demand; as they will.

Refueling and maintenance outages for nuclear units (as well as fossil - fueled units) typically occur in the spring and fall «shoulder» seasons when demand for electricity is generally lower.

In 2017, the Energy Sector Carbon Intensity Index (ESCII) increased for the first time in three years as fossil fuels met over 70 % of the growth in energy demand.

As we mobilize to stop new fossil fuel projects and demand 100 % renewable energy for all, we must stand in solidarity and take action across our movements.

I'm not claiming to be a paragon of virtue, merely pointing out that there is a whole lot that individuals can do to reduce their own demand for fossil fuels, besides, as you suggest, «nothing».

Neither does it follow — as the fossil fuel interests would have us believe — that reducing the demand for energy requires reducing the demand for the goods and services that energy provides.

It does not, however, follow — as the fossil fuel interests would have us believe — that reducing the demand for fossil fuels requires reducing the demand for «energy».

Although KPMG found that 75 percent of companies have yet to provide investors an analysis of the business value at risk from environmental impacts, as companies become more aware of their exposure to climate - related risks, the demand for fossil fuel declines and cheap renewable energy technologies emerge, they will need to prepare.

Worldwide, the coal industry is suffering as the demand for its product weakens in the face of a surge in clean, renewable energy options and a world that can no longer afford to continue to consume this dirty fossil fuel.

However, as clean energy growth rates take off and demand growth for fossil fuels flatlines, it is probable that divesting fossil fuels in favour of a clean energy future does not have to come at a sacrifice to long - term investment returns.

The continuing installation of solar power on the roofs of Australian homes as well as the increasing number of utility - scale solar power stations (like the one in the photo on the right) is also reducing demand for new fossil fuel power.

I agree that for drugs, as for fossil fuels, limiting demand (or overcoming addiction) is more effective than limiting supply and I said as much in my final paragraph.

A strategy to reduce demand for fossil fuels by pricing carbon and letting the market sort it out means oil will continue to flow through pipelines as long as there is demand for it, Gillian Steward writes.