Sentences with phrase «emissions energy if»

Australia will need more sources of zero - emissions energy if it is to stay on track for carbon - neutrality by 2050.

Not exact matches

But if deployed across the entire US, they would also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean up our air, promote energy independence, and make energy distribution more cost - effective and convenient.

«Just to take one example,» Lusk writes, «Londoners would use less energy and emit fewer emissions if they bought lamb raised half a world away, in New Zealand, rather than locally.»

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

If the threat to natural gas supply and soaring carbon emissions aren't enough to get the Premier's attention on Energy East, then there's also the economy to consider.

So, if one does want to lower emissions, the choice is not between a carbon price and nothing, but between a carbon price and regulations, technology subsidies, higher - cost renewable energy, or the long list of other tools.

It's essential to extend and expand tax incentives for carbon capture, update state laws to include CCUS technology in clean energy standards, and fund continued carbon capture RD&D, among other things, if we are going to reach our emissions - cutting goals.

Reducing energy waste in manufacturing and improving production line efficiency is essential if manufacturers are to comply with mandatory greenhouse gas emissions regulations and EU targets - and it'll also help lower energy bills.

As those emissions come almost entirely from washing and drying, cloth could result in fewer emissions than disposable if residents used energy - saving techniques such as line - drying.

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

The NY Post: «Any energy plan that clearly recognizes the role nuclear energy has in reducing dangerous emissions should be welcomed by all New Yorkers — and would be if it wasn't clear that the state is picking and choosing which nuclear - power facilities should stay open at the expense of taxpayers, especially those in New York City.»

Paulin, a Democrat, also questioned how it would affect low - income energy customers and asked if the administration had considered whether offshore wind farms could account for some of the emissions - free energy sources the state hopes to cultivate.

«If the state is focused on reducing CO2 emissions, the clean energy standard should apply to Indian Point which is an essential generation resource critical to the state's goal of reducing CO2 emissions,» said Tammy Holden, speaking for Entergy.

The science says that industrial states like New York must get to 100 % clean energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if the planet is to avert runaway global warming and climate catastrophe,» Hawkins said.

If all those lamps were LED equivalents, enough power would be saved to light 17.4 million American households and cut carbon emissions by 5.6 million metric tons annually, according to the Energy Department.

When we mitigate greenhouse - gas emissions, we also create huge co-benefits in the nature of energy security, because if we continue to increase our consumption of fossil fuels, we're really going to put pressure on limited resources of these fossil fuels.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

If FutureGen can successfully sequester its emissions, it could be a model for clean energy in the future.

«If it is significant on a global scale, it might mean that the natural emissions of organics is also important in cloud formation,» says Bart Verheggen of the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands in Petten.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.&raquIf economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.&raquif they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

Adding a price on carbon emissions at even a «modest» level of $ 25 per ton would make new nuclear energy competitive with coal and natural gas even if the risk premium remains, the MIT study concludes.

Mooley and colleagues suggest that the rise in radio wave emissions could be explained if the jet slammed into a shell of neutron - rich material kicked out in the neutron star crash, transferring most of its energy to that debris and smothering the jet.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

If renewable energy is going to be a bigger player and have a significant impact in cutting the greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that are driving climate change, it's going to have to grow quickly.

With infinite energy, freshwater can be reached, but even if the public coffers were unlimited, policymakers are under pressure to limit carbon emissions.

Some want to emulate the success of the United States in bringing down energy prices via shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.

However, Kavanagh pointed out that electrolysis is only as clean as the grid that feeds it, so if the energy comes from a coal - fired power plant, there may not be any carbon emissions savings.

If the developers of these projects can show that these renewable energy sources would never have been built without offset money, then the carbon emissions saved by the new plants can be sold as offsets.

And coal disappears from the map if you add the environmental and public health costs associated with various energy sources (the third map), including a $ 62 per metric ton price on carbon dioxide emissions.

«We compared the efficiencies of [the port's] diesel engines versus fuel cells, studied the energy efficiencies at various power levels and estimated the savings and reductions in emissions that would be realized if they were to convert to a fuel cell - powered operation,» Pratt said.

And by 2020, its emissions could grow four times, if all the applied projects get the go - ahead from the government, said Tian Yajun, a researcher at Shenhua's National Institute of Clean and Low - Carbon Energy.

If all American air conditioners also used the device, the savings in energy would equal the emissions from eight large power stations burning fossil fuels.

So if we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon intensity of our fuel, energy grasses such as miscanthus and switchgrass are going to result in the biggest reductions, not corn stover.»

«If there are no further interventions by these governments, expect to see strong increases in urban car travel and urban energy and carbon dioxide emissions in China and India and elsewhere around the world,» said Lew Fulton, a co-author and co-director of the NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.

Yet if more used wood in Switzerland was re-used to produce heat or power, this would eliminate the need for numerous shipments of timber abroad, which would save energy, lower costs and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

Continuing to adopt energy efficient and renewable energy technology in aerospace and other sectors is essential if humanity is to succeed in combating climate change, according to Bertrand Piccard, Swiss doctor, explorer and pilot of the zero - emissions airplane Solar Impulse.

Sub-Saharan Africa, who in the worst - case over the next 40 years would be 4 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, you can give them a pass and say, «Hey, any way that you guys can get energy, if it's natural gas, coal, gasoline, you know, whatever you want.

«However, if electricity is generated from coal to charge an electric vehicle it produces 139g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions, compared with only 9g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions with electricity from renewable energy sources.»

«If what your concern is the greenhouse gas emissions or energy or water use of the entire system, I don't think you should leave out large chunks of it,» Fischbeck said.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

This is according to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who found that if Americans were to switch their diets to fall in line with the Agriculture Department's 2010 dietary recommendations, it would result in a 38 percent increase in energy use, 10 percent bump in water use and a 6 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

«The broader question is, should we spend some of our carbon budget to allow them to increase their incremental emissions if it translates into greater per capita energy use, both in the economy and really lifestyles that more mirror the developed world?»

If Congress passes laws imposing a limit on US greenhouse gas emissions, energy - intensive sectors such as steel - making and cement manufacture would almost certainly face increased costs.

If implemented, the proposed tax would likely reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2025, according to an analysis by two leading scholars on energy - related policy.

If this is the case, it would explain both the low value of the total bolometric flare energy (as the absolute luminosity of the superflare stars and thus the total bolometric flare energy would be larger) and the S index (as the light entering the fibre would likely be contaminated and the observed emission in the H and K lines would therefore be relatively small).

If deforestation played as great a role as fossil fuels in CO2 accumulation, then responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions would not fall entirely on the energy industry.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.