Sentences with phrase «dollars building fossil»

So - called dispatchable solar farms would in theory allow utilities to avoid spending billions of dollars building fossil fuel power plants that are fired up only a few times a year when electricity demand spikes, like on a hot day.

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And if that's the case it makes little economic or ecological sense to spend billions of dollars building new fossil fuel infrastructure and increasing capacity, particularly when that infrastructure has a working life span and expected financial return that well exceeds thirty years.

They involve billions of dollars of subsidies of fossil fuel industries, of airport expansion and of road building, regulations which favour dirty technologies over clearn ones, granting planning permission for coal fire stations but refusing it for wind turbines, etc..

GM has decreased its manufacturing emissions by 60 percent since 1990, recycles 90 percent of its manufacturing waste, has made reductions in water and fossil fuel use, and invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build fuel - efficient vehicles like the Chevy Volt.

They know that a dollar invested in renewable energy generates three times as many jobs as one wasted on fossil fuel, but the union that builds pipelines has fought so tenaciously to avoid change that the AFL - CIO came out for building the Dakota Access Pipeline, even after guards sicced German shepherds on native protesters.

Meanwhile, infrastructure to produce biofuels - costing tens of billions of dollars - will have to be built, biofuel imports must become available, and fossil fuel use will have to decline dramatically.

Through taxing carbon and eliminating fossil subsidies, trillions of dollars can be freed for building the global clean energy infrastructure of tomorrow.