Not exact matches
And most energy markets, regulatory frameworks and business models are still designed
for fossil fuel generation, and
remain ill - adapted to the special characteristics of renewables and energy
demand reduction.
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.
While prices
for biomass
fuels are lower than
fossil fuel prices and have generally
remained stable, rapidly increasing
demand may push prices up in the future.
Attributing allegedly unnatural warming to the use of
fossil fuels to obtain energy essential
for human flourishing, these voices
demand that people surrender their God - given dominium, even if doing so means
remaining in or returning to poverty.
While global
demand for fossil fuels grows, gasoline prices
remain volatile.
«The overall share of
fossil fuels in global energy
demand in 2017
remained at 81 %, a level that has
remained stable
for more than three decades despite strong growth in renewables.»
It
remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace
fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing
demand for energy.