Sentences with phrase «eliminate use of fossil fuels»

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said efforts to address climate change should focus on engineering methods to adapt to shifting weather patterns and rising sea levels rather than trying to eliminate use of fossil fuels.

Coupled with other low - tech solutions such as thermal underwear, heated clothing and tile stoves, passive solar design could all but eliminate the use of fossil fuels and biomass for heating buildings throughout large parts of the world.

March 13, 12:43 p.m. Relevant tweets appended A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a path under which New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power — including for transportation — by 2050.

Bristol Community College John J. Sbrega Health and Science Building takes a holistic approach to eliminating the use of fossil fuels and increasing efficiency (Credit: Edward Caruso Photography)

More to the point: a carbon tax is the core policy for reducing and eventually eliminating the use of fossil fuels whose combustion is destabilizing and destroying our climate.

Further, there is no reason to eliminate the use of fossil fuel, and it is just asinine and perverse to replace fossil fuel with expensive land - wasting undependable pollution - generating grid - upgrade - requiring renewables.

Not exact matches

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute.

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

The promise of fusion eliminates the need to burn fossil fuels, accumulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, warm the Earth, and worry about nuclear waste — instead, providing clean energy that uses ordinary seawater as a fuel.

As an example, the University of California system has committed to eliminating fossil fuel use by 2025 — a major task given our transportation footprint.

Thus countries that have been reducing their reliance on fossil fuels for some time will probably have eliminated the least efficient uses of fossil fuels first.

Projects being delivered for the University of Hawaii will allow various campus buildings to eliminate 70 % to 100 % of fossil fuel use as the state races towards its 100 % renewables by 2045 target.

If it's 0.8 degC warmer in 2030 and we are 30 years away from possible catastrophe, the carbon tax should have risen to levels that eliminate the rule out the use of fossil fuels for electricity and most transportation.

Rather than divest personally, in terms of eliminating one's own use of fossil fuels, many divestment proponents urge others to make the sacrifice.

Part I: Planning Introduction In his book Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins realistically shows how the U.S. could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels by 2050 using the technologies that are available today.

In his book Reinventing Fire, Amory Lovins realistically shows how the U.S. could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels by 2050 using the technologies that are available today.

The use of solar thermal power to produce electricity at Nevada Solar One rather than fossil fuels is equivalent to eliminating the CO2 emissions from approximately 20,000 cars on America's roads.

The amount generally credited for land use changes looks closer to the amount of carbon sinking eliminated than actual emissions which are 30 + % of fossil fuel emissions.

Ten years ago, Kristianstad, Sweden made a pledge to wean itself from its use of fossil fuels, and currently the city can claim to have eliminated oil, natural gas, and coal in heating homes.

The report recommends a balanced portfolio that uses some of each of these sources - renewables, nuclear and fossil fuel with carbon capture and storage - and a strong commitment to eliminating emissions from load balancing.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

Again, pretty much everyone who has seriously considered the issue has understood for years (some of us for decades) that any solution must be built on the foundations of (1) eliminating fossil fuel use ASAP, necessarily focusing on the largest sources first (e.g. coal - fired electricity generation and oil - fueled ground transport) and (2) drawing down the already dangerous excess of CO2 with organic agriculture and reforestation.

The first step would be the issuance of mandates to eliminate ALL non-essential uses of fossil fuel.

In other words, I personally believe that the chances of humanity building selfcontained biospheres and existing somewhere (on or off this planet) is slightly greater than the chances you'll get the vast majority of the people in the world to agree to eliminate nonessential uses of fossil fuels before it's too late.