Sentences with phrase «dependent upon fossil fuel»
He decided to begin with the Caribbean, a region heavily dependent upon fossil fuel imports, where highly - polluting diesel generators dominate the electricity sector.
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Ideally, the solar irradiance is adequate, but until we come up with some technological breakthroughs in optical and / or thermal energy conversion, we are many many orders of magnitude away from anything even remotely qualified as sustainable, and thus still utterly dependent upon fossil fuels.]-RSB-
Ideally, the solar irradiance is adequate, but until we come up with some technological breakthroughs in optical and / or thermal energy conversion, we are many many orders of magnitude away from anything even remotely qualified as sustainable, and thus still utterly dependent upon fossil fuels.
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The Soviets, as the Russians are today, were wholly dependent upon revenue from the fossil fuel industry to fund the government.
In addition to biological resources discussed above, the life of human society is at present dependent upon non-renewable resources, notably fossil fuels and minerals.
At this point, the population of the planet is dependent upon the use of fossil fuels.
Supporters from both industry and environmental groups say the technology offers one of the best chances to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the global economy is still too heavily dependent upon coal to stop using the fossil fuel altogether.
«Currently, diesel power plants generate approximately 60 percent of Samoa's electricity, making the country dependent upon imported fossil fuels,» Rapa J. Young, solar project team leader for EPC, noted in a statement.