Sentences with phrase «efforts on alternative energy»

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Other R&D efforts in alternative forms of power focus on developing fuel cells, alternative forms of combustion such as GDI and HCCI, and even the stored energy of compressed air.

While tapping the brakes on nuclear power research, the ruling Democratic Party has proposed $ 918 million in new programs to accelerate efforts on renewable and alternative energy schemes.

It is focusing its efforts on five areas aimed at reducing fuel consumption and emissions: vehicle energy use (weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance); engines; transmissions; axles and drivelines; and hybrid propulsion and alternative fuel technologies.

Their former Chairman gets $ 400 million upon his retirement, while the company spends $ 10 million a year on the program that it highlights most prominently when talking about its alternative energy efforts.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

The environmental threats and economic costs of continued reliance on fossil fuel technologies are sufficiently urgent to warrant substantially larger public support in the form of private - sector R&D incentives and a refocusing of effort by the national energy laboratories on the development and diffusion of alternative energy technologies.

While the success of state efforts to increase renewable or alternative energy production will depend in part on federal policies such as production tax credits, states have been effective in encouraging clean energy generation.

As operators of oil pipelines and refineries, the Kochs have opposed all efforts to encourage alternative sources of energy by imposing a tax on fossil fuels.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

In 2010, Breakthrough coauthored the influential Hartwell Paper, proposing an alternative international approach to climate change focused on efforts that would accelerate adaptation to climate change and technology innovation to make clean energy cheap and accessible around the planet.

The Indians have been one of the teams on the forefront of sustainability efforts in baseball, launching an ongoing recycling campaign in 2008 that now includes organic - waste composting and become the first American League ball club to use alternative energy with their 2007 installation of a solar - panel array.

With Presidential initiatives shining a light on several industries — among them healthcare, alternative energy, education and construction — Pongo has seen a trend of users focusing their resume - building efforts on those industries.

Strategies: Maintain effective representation in Aboriginal Housing Authority; promote employment / business development opportunities through established Indigenous building companies to manage Indigenous efforts; encourage private home ownership by removing constraints to housing finance on Aboriginal land; promoting use of alternative energy and rain water harvesting; develop committed plans to replace asbestos within housing occupied by Indigenous people.