Sentences with phrase «existing fossil fuel technologies»

Often, the debate is presented as if the only question is how high, and how fast does the carbon price need to climb in order to substitute existing fossil fuel technologies with clean energy technologies, whilst also maintaining economic growth.

And the existing market size for clean energy technologies, including CCS, is small relative to that of the existing fossil fuel technologies.

Not exact matches

Undertaken by University of Adelaide in collaboration with CSIRO, the research could make viable a process that has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels and continue to use existing carbon - based fuel technologies without increasing atmospheric CO2.

It is also clear, Ban Ki - moon says, that the technologies already exist for the world to turn its back on fossil fuels and cut emissions of greenhouse gases to a safe level.

Our concentrating solar power (CSP) technology exists to produce clean energy, address climate change, improve air quality and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

Fortunately, the relative added costs of today's renewable technologies are quite reasonable, especially if one factors in the subsidies that exist for fossil fuels and if we price carbon commensurate with the costs of its environmental damage.

We need to do a «full court press» to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear (which also releases heat into water on a large scale, and supports nuclear military programs), using existing and near - commercialization battery, solar and wind technology, and design systems to cost - effectively convert the existing 600 - million - plus vehicle fleet rather than waiting for replacement.

Renewable technologies already exist (not hypothetically) that can produce electricity at rates that are competitive with the subsidized rates we pay for nuclear and fossil fuel generated electricity.

Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.

Technology policy can make clean energy cheaper, but not necessarily cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, particularly existing coal power plants whose capital costs are already sunk.

Most of the existing fossil fuel power technologies could operate quite well off «renewable» fuels, with minor adjustments:

Uh, I'm not claiming fossil fuels, or any existing technology will always be around while any newer energy technology is just a fad.

If these limits did not exist and there really could be a tipping point beyond which these green technologies would mercilessly sweep aside fossil fuels for good, I'd be all for it.

As the agencies acknowledge, no commercially - proven technologies exist to filter out or capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel - powered vehicles.

When it comes to providing new electricity to the developing world, Jigar Shah has been making the case that all the renewable technology we need already exists and can be deployed more cheaply than fossil fuels.

As a first step, we should dismantle the web of policies that overwhelmingly favors fossil - fuel production and use and actively discriminates against new technologies and practices that would reduce harmful emissions... The second step is to institute federal, state, and local policies that reverse the disincentives created by the existing policy structure and force users to pay the costs of extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels.

Nuclear, fossil fuel, and concentrated solar power plants require methods for cooling plant equipment and / or cooling steam; this is often accomplished by cycling through large quantities of water, although technologies for «dry cooling» exist as well.

Our concentrating solar power (CSP) technology exists to produce clean energy, address climate change, improve air quality and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

It's about technology and manufacturing making the extraction of Fossil Fuels economically not viable, and thereby reducing, perhaps to zero, the value of those FF resources «owned» or «leased» by existing powerful actors.

But if existing zero - carbon technologies can not affordably be scaled up to meet current and projected global energy needs, how likely is it that technologies either not yet invented or as yet prohibitively expensive can affordably replace the world's fossil - fuel infrastructure?