Sentences with phrase «even nuclear energy»

Because it is so easy to blame everything on it, however tenuously, and thereby attach your own agenda — even a nuclear energy or a trading paper agenda.

There is strictly no evidence (and actually rather a lot against) that 7 + billion people might ever live in a decent way on renewable or even nuclear energy.

These techniques include CCS as well as energy conservation, improved efficiency, and renewable or even nuclear energy sources.

Not exact matches

Each blast of particles — called a coronal mass ejection, or solar storm — can pack the explosive energy of thousands or even millions of nuclear bombs:

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«Even in a perfect world where energy companies didn't make mistakes, nuclear power is and always has been a dangerous idea because there is no good way to store nuclear waste.

The Obama administration is suggesting that the inspections in Iran are going to be unprecedentedly harsher that in any other country while they are under this agreement, but even after the agreement is over the International Atomic Energy agency would have regular access as they have in any other nuclear nation.

Every nation with nuclear capabilities, even with nuclear capability only to create electrical energy, as Iran claims its desire is, must be under the spell of the International Atomic Energy inspection prenergy, as Iran claims its desire is, must be under the spell of the International Atomic Energy inspection prEnergy inspection program.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

Officials have warned that taking away nuclear power altogether — without an alternate energy source to replace it — would give fossil fuel industrial companies the opportunity to move in, setting New York even farther back in carbon emissions.

Even with the caveat of building a new generation of nuclear plants in «limited» circumstances, this was a big policy U-turn for the party, which has long preferred to favour renewable energy resources.

The deal to provide a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point would have cost even more if George Osborne had had his way, the former energy secretary Ed Davey has said.

Theoretical studies suggest that nuclear clocks that make use of analogous changes in the energy states of atomic nuclei could provide even more accurate frequency standards for timekeeping purposes.

Furthermore, even as the industry struggles for survival, scientists and engineers who make it through the nation's few remaining nuclear energy programs draw top salaries and many job offers (see sidebar).

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Even if INL can persuade energy companies to sign on, long construction times guarantee that the nuclear renaissance will be gradual.

Even if renewable energy goes mainstream, INL researchers still believe nuclear will be essential for supporting the electrical grid's base load — that portion of the nation's electricity that must be supplied at a constant rate, in contrast to the variable supplies from the sun and wind.

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.

As energy demand grows, even alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and nuclear fusion could begin to affect the climate.

Other countries that are counting on kilowatt - hours to cut infant mortality aren't so picky, nuclear advocates note, and it would behoove wealthier parts of the world to help them gain access to energy, even if it's not the cleanest available.

Should the government impose a price on carbon emissions, whether it is a tax or cap - and - trade system, CO2 - free sources, such as nuclear energy, will become even more competitive.

Even though Illinois has more nuclear power plants than any other state, Obama is not gung ho on that type of energy.

In addition to trading greenhouse gases, Evolution helps broker deals for biofuels, natural gas, the uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, renewable energy credits, air pollution permits for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, even insurance against bad weather.

Energy dissipation is a key ingredient in understanding many physical phenomena in thermodynamics, photonics, chemical reactions, nuclear fission, photon emissions, or even electronic circuits, among others.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Large fears that because the Russian ministry for atomic energy can no longer effectively control nuclear material, the Iraqi fuel could find its way onto the international black market, and could even end up being sold back to the Iraqis.

«There will be deficiencies or defects that occur as you start new plants up, even though new plants are simpler and have fewer components,» says Adrian Heymer, senior director for strategic programs at the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.

Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.

You know, we've underwritten fossil fuel for very long time and continue to, you know; even the new energy bill is supposed to you know give unbelievable gifts to the nuclear industry; the «clean coal» industry, on and on and on.

But the climate argument — and subsequent policy — won't sway everyone, even if they already support nuclear energy.

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

Even though the Nuclear Waste Policy Act instructs the Energy Department to submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 90 days after Congress acts, Secretary Abraham has stated that his agency will not submit an application until December 2004 at the earliest.

Take a look at nuclear power, best safety record of any form of energy (even safer than wind), and even in the face of CO2 induced «climate change», they still are going to phase it out.

Constellation Energy has shelved its proposal to build a new reactor at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, Obama administration officials said Friday, even though the administration had decided to award the project a $ 7.5 billion loan guarantee.

But NuSTAR (short for Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) can see extremely high - energy X-rays, even though it's one - fifteenth the size of Chandra.

News for Nuclear Energy continually updated from thousands of sources on the web: VOX Attacks the Sierra Club for their Anti-Nuclear, Anti «Archaeology has the ability to open unimaginable vistas of thousands, even millions, of years of past human experience.»

But we're not going to «get there» on the back of nuclear energy, either; even if some drastic breakthrough should occur, the timescale is probably too short already.

But even this paper qualifies its predictions (whether or not aerosols would so increase was unknown) and speculates that nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production (thereby, presumably, removing the aerosol problem).

So, even if you are willing to accept the disposal issues, melt - down risk, eyesore factor, and thermal pollution to the water (and honestly I am not opposed to nuclear power — there are no ideal energy sources out there), it is only a very partial solution.

The answer is that although the DOE was set up in the 1970s to respond to the energy crisis, it never received any real funding to look into renewables (not even when the Democrats owned the Congress and Carter was President), and it was quickly converted into the center of the U.S. military / civilian nuclear program.

Two more important solutions that would obviate the need for his list are: switching to limitless energy sources (solar, tidal, geothermal, organic fuel, wind, and even nuclear fission or fusion once we have fusion power); and reducing humanity's growth.

(Keep in mind that even if you hate existing or planned nuclear plants, this energy source is still advancing in many countries, so discussing issues related to safety and security, as well as cost, would seem wise.)

«Even in the expected event that there are no important breakthroughs in the cost of nuclear power, the potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.

The summary, for example, barely mentions natural gas, even though it is hard to find an energy analyst these days who does not see low natural gas prices, now foreseen for decades to come, as deeply undercutting prospects for expanded deployment of renewable energy sources (let alone nuclear power).

Even after the amount of energy efficiency that we're talking about, California would still need to build [the equivalent of *] one and a half to two new nuclear plants every year through 2050.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Even if energy conservation were pursued more aggressively in the state (a perennial opportunity), scratching off New York natural gas and nuclear power would clearly lead to more reliance on coal - generated electricity (or gas extracted in other states unlikely to have the safeguards that are inevitable in environment - minded New York).

These people are very poor, it's very cruel to discriminate against them while we waste so much energy and don't even try to ratify Kyoto or make a dent in our greenhouse emissions by nuclear plant construction.